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Commons and Lords: a short anthropology of Parliament (2015)
Book
Crewe, E. (2015). Commons and Lords: a short anthropology of Parliament. Haus Publishing

The Westminster Parliament is worth closer scrutiny not just for the sake of democracy, but on intellectual grounds because the surprises it contains challenge our understanding of politics. Based on anthropological fieldwork between 1998-2000 in the... Read More about Commons and Lords: a short anthropology of Parliament.

The House of Commons: an anthropology of MPs' work (2015)
Book
Crewe, E. (2015). The House of Commons: an anthropology of MPs' work. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474234610.ch-003

The House of Commons is one of Britain's mysterious institutions: constantly in the news yet always opaque. In this ground-breaking anthropological study of the world's most famous parliament, Emma Crewe reveals the hidden mechanisms of parliamentary... Read More about The House of Commons: an anthropology of MPs' work.