#REVIEW – The Reappeared: Argentine Former Political Prisoners
States resort to disappearances to remove unwanted critics or minorities from society. The act of a disappearance often follows a pattern: a group of masked armed men take…
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#Review: Street Corner Secrets. Sex, Work, and Migration in the City of Mumbai
Albertin Sarrazin once wrote, “whether you’re on the lam or whether you’re out hustling, gold is worth nothing compared to silence” (p.149). Those marginalised into prostitution are exploited…
REDUX: #Review: Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World #postsocialism
Patterns of food provision and consumption have become objects of increasing concern among both scholars and activists. In the last few decades, the ways in which food is…
#Review: The Perils of Joy. Contesting Mulid Festivals in Contemporary Egypt
This book comes to life as a product of fifteen years of research in and about the festive culture of Mulids, Muslim festivals held in honour of the…
#Review: Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
Lila Abu-Lughod’s book, Do Muslim Women Need Saving?, expands on her thoughts from an earlier article similarly titled. As she explains, this book is “a long answer to the…
#Review: Money From Nothing, Part 2 of 2
This post represents the final part of our special review section on Money From Nothing: Indebtedness and Aspiration in South Africa. Check out the first installment here. The legacy…
#Review: Money from Nothing, Part 1 of 2
This post marks the first installment of our special review section on Money from Nothing. Deborah James’ Money From Nothing traces the evolution of credit and debt in post-apartheid South…
#Review: Sing the Rage. Listening to Anger after Mass Violence
Anger was abundant in South Africa during the 1990s. After the abolition of Apartheid in 1994, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established to investigate the human rights…
#REVIEW: Food Between the Country and the City
I welcomed the opportunity to see how scholars of food studies would make use of one of my take-to-the-desert-island favorite books, Raymond Williams’The Country and the City. Williams…
#Review: Every Twelve Seconds. Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight
Long-term vegetarian (and member of The Beatles) Paul McCartney famously observed that if slaughterhouses had glass walls, we would all become vegetarians. Part of the motivation behind Timothy…
Call for Reviews: Recent Publications on the #Anthrostate
The last two weeks here at Allegra have been dedicated to all things #Anthrostate. To continue the theme, we have handpicked some of our favourite new releases in the…
#REVIEW: Rice Talks: Food and Community in a Vietnamese Town
In his book Rice Talks: Food and Community in a Vietnamese Town, anthropologist Nir Avieli brings to light the importance of understanding the historical and socio-cultural elements that…
Review: Unmasking deep democracy: An anthropology of indigenous media in Canada
Budka, P. 2015. Review of Unmasking deep democracy: An anthropology of indigenous media in Canada, by S. B. Hafsteinsson. Aarhus: Intervention Press, 2013. Social Anthropology, 23/2: 240-242. In…
Review: Cyberidentities at war: The Moluccan conflict on the Internet
Budka, P. 2015. Review of Bräuchler, B. Cyberidentities at war: The Moluccan conflict on the Internet. New York & Oxford: Berghahn, 2013. American Anthropologist, 117/1: 179-180. Birgit Bräuchler’…
Review: Europäisch-ethnologisches Forschen. Neue Methoden und Konzepte.
Budka, P. 2014. Review of Hess, S., Moser, J. & M. Schwertl (eds.). Europäisch-ethnologisches Forschen. Neue Methoden und Konzepte. Berlin: Reimer Verlag, 2013; 332 pp. Anthropos, 109.2014/2: 694-…
eReader/Tablet Review: Barnes & Noble Nook HD 7"
Nook HD 7″ and a piece of toast, courtesy of barnesandnoble.com. I don’t know why. For the paperless academic on a budget Virtually every article about improving one’s…
Fetch Eyewear Review
About this review Fetch Eyewear is the latest in my review series of online eyeglass retailers focusing on predominately online stores that offer a limited range of designer…
Eyefly review: tinted sunglasses for fieldwork and photography
[Update 10 April 2013] My Eyefly sunglasses broke! Scroll down for more info. In my last post, I detailed why polarized sunglasses are great for everyday use and…
Anthro field gear review: Cocoons OveRx photochromic eyewear
A few months ago, I embarked on a series of posts reviewing online retailers of high index (read: strong) prescription eyeglasses. The result was an unexpectedly detailed 5-part…
Back to Anthropology
Product Reviews? Regular readers of this blog may have been wondering about my brief foray into eyeglass reviews, like what it had to do with anthropology or academia…
How to buy glasses online: A comparison review of Glasses.com, Warby Parker and DBVision.com (Part 5)
This is Part 5 of my multipart review How to buy glasses online. I have already posted my reviews of DB Vision, Warby Parker and Glasses.com. This recap…
How to buy glasses online (Part 4): DB Vision
This is Part 4 of my multipart review How to buy glasses online. I have already posted my review of Warby Parker and Glasses.com. This is the third…
How to buy glasses online (Part 2): Glasses.com
This is the second part of a multipart review series, How To Buy Glasses Online. If you haven’t read Part 1, you should start here. Glasses.com Glasses.com (1-800-Glasses)…