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Rewild Your Inner Hunter-Gatherer: How an Idea about Our Ancestral Condition Is Recruited into Popular Debate in Britain and Ireland (2024)
Journal Article
Lavi, N., Rudge, A., & Warren, G. (2024). Rewild Your Inner Hunter-Gatherer: How an Idea about Our Ancestral Condition Is Recruited into Popular Debate in Britain and Ireland. Current Anthropology, 65(1), 72-99. https://doi.org/10.1086/728528

We examine how hunter-gatherers are imagined in popular debate in Britain and Ireland, demonstrating that aspects of hunter-gatherer lifestyles are presented as both the antithesis and antidote to perceived crises in contemporary society. We apply an... Read More about Rewild Your Inner Hunter-Gatherer: How an Idea about Our Ancestral Condition Is Recruited into Popular Debate in Britain and Ireland.

The Digital IRL: Influence as Resistance in Post-Pandemic Sri Lanka (2024)
Thesis
Ryder, C. E. The Digital IRL: Influence as Resistance in Post-Pandemic Sri Lanka. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This study is based on 18 months of fieldwork with Sri Lankans who use social media for resistance. On the one hand, the monograph considers the ethnographic tensions that emerge in the encounter between being a highly visible Sri Lankan activist on... Read More about The Digital IRL: Influence as Resistance in Post-Pandemic Sri Lanka.

Making local specialities: Food, place and value in Istria (2024)
Thesis
Colquhoun, A. Making local specialities: Food, place and value in Istria. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Since the wars of the 1990s and breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, tourism in the Croatian region of Istria has rebuilt with a quality turn towards cultural, rural and gastronomic tourism. This thesis considers the considerable... Read More about Making local specialities: Food, place and value in Istria.

Drawing, Writing, Buildings: An Ethnography of Yangon General Hospital (2024)
Thesis
Wuttke, N. Drawing, Writing, Buildings: An Ethnography of Yangon General Hospital. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

How to write about, represent in text, an institution like a public hospital? As with many anthropological subjects, the hospital is large and complex, and never usually seen or understood as a whole. This thesis takes up this challenge, proposing an... Read More about Drawing, Writing, Buildings: An Ethnography of Yangon General Hospital.

Complementary and Disparate: Conceptualising Female and Male Genital Cutting in Northern Tanzania (2024)
Thesis
Decatur, M.-A. V. Complementary and Disparate: Conceptualising Female and Male Genital Cutting in Northern Tanzania. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis traces the ways in which genital cutting practices historically seen as complementary become regarded as disparate. While most Maasai women and men I met during my fieldwork in northern Tanzania described female and male genital cutting a... Read More about Complementary and Disparate: Conceptualising Female and Male Genital Cutting in Northern Tanzania.

Food and Families in the Making: Knowledge Reproduction and Political Economy of Cooking in Morocco (2024)
Book
Graf, K. (2024). Food and Families in the Making: Knowledge Reproduction and Political Economy of Cooking in Morocco. Berghahn. https://doi.org/10.3167/9781805394679

Even in the context of rapid material and social change in urban Morocco, women, and especially those from low-income households, continue to invest a lot of work in preparing good food for their families. Through the lens of domestic food preparatio... Read More about Food and Families in the Making: Knowledge Reproduction and Political Economy of Cooking in Morocco.