‘The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy’ by Robert P. Jones
Robert P. Jones The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future Simon and Schuster, 2023 387 pages, notes, bibliography, index, and appendix…
Robert P. Jones The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future Simon and Schuster, 2023 387 pages, notes, bibliography, index, and appendix…
Food – Media – Senses: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Christina Bartz, Jens Ruchatz, and Eva Wattolik (editors). Transcript, 2023. 330 pps. ISBN: 978-3-8376-6479-9 Emily Contois (University of …
Jane preparing a cake with her son at home, Scotland (photo: Imogen Bevan) Bittersweet: Living with sugar and kin in contemporary Scotland. Imogen Bevan. PhD in Social Anthropology,…
In September 2014, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) laid siege to the town of Kobane in the Autonomous Administration of North-East Syria. For the next…
Alice Elliot’s monograph The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco skilfully uses ethnography to unsettle mainstream conceptualisations of migration by tracing its hold on everyday life in what…
Petroleum engineering may seem like an odd place to find metaphors for the field of border and borderlands studies. Yet, in her new book Border Porosities: Movement of…
Rexhepi’s White Enclosures is an insightful book exploring the co-construction of race and borders along the Balkan route. It puts racial exclusion in the Balkans in conversation with…
As you may have read in an earlier post, we are currently seeking book reviewers for our series on Mobilities and Migration. Several compelling new books remain available…
Don Watson The Passion of Private White Scribner, 2022 336 pages, 24 plates I found reading this book both a humbling and a deeply moving experience. It is…
Editor’s note: This newest addition to HAR Reviews pairs a review essay with a brief author Q&A. Our reviewer, Karen Field, drafted the essay first and then brought…
The past decade has been increasingly marked by the movement of bodies across political borders. Whether fleeing violence or working within new labor regimes, diasporic communities have sought…
How do poor people in the burgeoning cities of the Global South assert their right to housing and to the city? How do they constitute themselves, and demand…
Maria Beatrice Di Brizio Histoire du concept de couvade: Edward B. Tylor et l’ethnologie victorienne Histoire des sciences humaines (series) L’Harmattan, 2021 636 pages …
Graham M. Jones Magic’s Reason: An Anthropology of Analogy University of Chicago Press, 2017 240 pp., 25 halftones, notes, bibl., index Editor’s note: This essay was origin…
This book is a rich cultural analysis of how people live with big cats in India in times of the Anthropocene and climate change. As people are increasingly…
Falkof’s book discusses the everyday experiences of fear and moral anxiety in the city of Johannesburg in post-apartheid state South Africa. Drawing on narrative accounts from political protests,…
Falkof, Nicky (2022): Worrier State. Risk, anxiety and moral panic in South Africa. Manchester: Manchester University Press. South Africa 2022 is a troubled nation: a continuing energy crisis…
While a graduate student in social anthropology, Moisés Lino e Silva’s curiosity about the scarcity of freedom and lack of liberty in Brazilian favelas led him to Rocinha,…
Herbalist weighing spices. Photo: Katharina Graf Katharina Graf The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition is seeking recent PhD theses in the anthropology of food and…
In They Eat Our Sweat, Daniel Agbiboa engages the road transport sector in Lagos, Nigeria, to reveal how corruption operates through a dialectical “double capture” of state and…
Jerome CarrollAnthropology’s Interrogation of Philosophy from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth CenturyLexington Books, 2018256 pp., references, index Anthropology and philosophy are today well-e…
Keith Hart. Self in the World: Connecting Life’s Extremes. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2022. 314 pp., appendix, bibliography, index. Editor’s note: This response to Keith Hart’s new book was…
Thomas C. Patterson. A Social History of Anthropology in the United States. 2nd ed. Routledge, 2021. 240 pp., bibl., index. Twenty years after its first release, Thomas Patterson,…
Emilia Noel PtakThe University of Vermont The films El Cacao and No Place to Grow, directed by Michelle Aguilar, invite viewers to consider food as a nexus, where…