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Review: ‘Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States’

by Ellie Plumb In Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, Seth M. Holmes seeks to uncover … More

Anthropology, book, Capitalism, Ethnography, farmworkers, Review

Review: ‘Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea’

by Connie Scott “Fish simply appear in supermarkets” (p.209), writes Penny McCall Howard. Most consumers have little or no awareness … More

Anthropology, Capitalism, Environment, Ethnography, fishing

Review: ‘Mosquito Trails: Ecology, Health, and the Politics of Entanglement’

By Jack Payne-Cook If I was asked by someone unfamiliar with anthropology to provide an example of the contemporary relevance … More

Recognising the Spirit of Ubuntu in Khayelitsha Community Response to the Covid-19 pandemic

by Megan Anderson In the second-largest peri-urban settlement in South Africa, Khayelitsha, the coronavirus has proliferated with recorded cases over … More

Afghanistan’s Global Entanglements

by Magnus Marsden For many viewers in the West, the horrific scenes at Kabul airport in August 2021 appeared to … More

Covid-19 in Tamil Nadu: Textile livelihoods under threat

by Geert De Neve **Reprinted by permission from the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme.** On the 24th of March 2020, India’s … More

Are slum tours doing more harm than good?

by Rachel Jackson Last year, I spent several months working in an NGO in Peru. Before travelling home, I decided … More

Going home. Going home? The anthropologist is coming along

by Hannah Schwemin Booking flights, getting train tickets, stuffing bags and guessing how much space we need for the food … More

We tend to forget – people on the other side of the world

by Hannah Schwemin One year. A couple of months more. It has been one year and a couple of months … More

Sex Sells: Female Athletes’ Use of Instagram

by Lucy Shepherd We have all seen it, female athletes being used as sex objects to sell products, pictured on … More

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