Book Report Entry #2: Beyond Informants
In continuation from our coverage of Luis A. Vivianco’s Field Notes: A Guided Journal for Doing Anthropology, he provides a practical appraisal of fieldwork in his second chapter.…
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Book Report Entry #2: Beyond Informants
In continuation from our coverage of Luis A. Vivianco’s Field Notes: A Guided Journal for Doing Anthropology, he provides a practical appraisal of fieldwork in his second chapter.…
Book Report Entry #1: Field notes: A Guided Journal for Doing Anthropology
This blog will feature a series of posts on a new (2017) resource for first-time and long-standing ethnographers – a ‘guided journal’ for doing anthropology by Luis A.…
#REVIEW: MORAL WAGES: THE EMOTIONAL DILEMMAS OF VICTIMS ADVOCACY AND COUNSELING
I was excited to dig into the book by the sociologist Kenneth A. Kolb. Why? I was keen to read something analytically powerful, critical and innovative about domestic…
#REVIEW: SEX AND UNISEX: FASHION, FEMINISM, AND THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION
Fashion is deeply expressive of social and individual identities, and thus, changes in fashion trends reveal much about changes in culture. This contention is a familiar one within…
#REVIEW: MASCULINITIES UNDER NEOLIBERALISM
Masculinities Under Neoliberalism (2016), edited by Andrea Cornwall, Frank G. Karioris and Nancy Lindisfarne is the successor of the groundbreaking work ‘Dislocating Masculinity’ (1994). Twenty years …
#REVIEW: GENDER AND GENETICS: SOCIOLOGY OF THE PRENATAL
Within the past several years, prenatal testing has significantly advanced, developing numerous methods of non-invasive prenatal testing such as examining fetal cell-free DNA in maternal blood. These …
#REVIEW: THE TROUBLE WITH MARRIAGE: FEMINISTS CONFRONT LAW AND VIOLENCE IN INDIA
Politics, law and global agendas all actively shape the kinship bonds that are formed and sometimes dissolved in marriage. To study marriage― what it is across cultures, how…
#REVIEW: TRANSRACHEL. UNSETTING ANALOGIES WITH ROGERS BRUBAKER
In early 2015, I followed the case of Rachel Dolezal, the Spokane woman who attempted to pass as black. She went to considerable length to affirm her blackness…
#REVIEW: PAPER TIGER: LAW, BUREAUCRACY AND THE DEVELOPMENTAL STATE IN HIMALAYAN INDIA
Nayanika Mathur’s Paper Tiger. Law, Bureaucracy and the Developmental State in Himalayan India is an ethnography of the everyday life of law and bureaucracy. It reveals the complexity of…
Happy New Year from Allegra!
After a well deserved break during the holiday season, Allegra is back and full of energy for yet another exciting year! We have lots of wonderful stuff –…
Review: Handbuch der Medienethnographie
Budka, P. (2017). [Review of the book Handbuch der Medienethnographie, by C. Bender & M. Zillinger]. Paideuma. Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde, 63, 303-307. Der Sammelband „Handbuch der Medienethnog…
#REVIEW: The Borderlands of Race – REDUX
Today we continue our revisitation of 2016 via a review that has – sadly – only grown more topical since it was first published in October 2016: ‘The Borderlands…
#REVIEW: Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human
Underlying the domain of human rights is the conception of the human on which we predicate, and advocate for, human rights’ recognition. But what are we actually lobbying…
#Reviews Week – and a Student-Led Research Project!
This week we have two new reviews for you, tackling the question of #race (see our #callforreviews here): Tomorrow, our frequent and much cherished reviewer Gabriela Radulescu explores…
#Review: Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War
When the picture of Alan Kurdi’s drowned body first hit the headlines, it was instantly iconic. For many, the simple horror of the image suddenly made the refugee…
#Review: What Kinship Is – And Is Not
While Western political leaders overtly inflame followers by ascribing innate difference to Others, the lucidity and coherence of Marshall Sahlins’ 2013 monograph What Kinship Is – And Is…
#Review: Women without Class: Girls, Race and Identity
The tile of the book itself informs its readers that it is an interrogation of women as class ‘subjects.’ Although studies of class are not new in Sociology,…
Call for #Reviews: Recent Publications on #Gender
While gender remains a mostly female domain of inquiry, our list of recent publications features not only male authors, but also discusses contemporary masculinities. In What Makes a…
#Review: On the State. Lectures at the Collège de France, 1989-1992.
As stated on its back cover, in this book the influential French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) investigates the state’s ‘extraordinary power of producing a socially ordered world without…
Review of Bourdieu’s (2014) On the State
Review of Bourdieu, P. (2014). On the State: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1989-1992. P. Champagne, R. Lenoir, F. Poupeau, & M. C. Rivière (Eds.). London: Polity.…
#Review: Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship
On 22 March 2016, the Belgian city of Brussels suffered three calculated and co-ordinated terrorist attacks in the name of the so-called Islamic State. As with the Paris…
#Review: What Kinship Is – And Is Not
To what degree can our biological, genetic and reproductive systems be considered the basis for family relationships? Marshall Sahlins divides his answer to this question into two sections…
#Review: Anthropology and Development: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century
The second book by Gardner and Lewis, Anthropology and Development: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century, is both an update and a rewrite of their 1996 publication, Anthropology, Development…