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Anthropology
Virtuous Waters
Casey Walsh discusses shifting scientific, religious and political understandings of waters and a material history of social formations,…
Robert Kozinets on Netnography
Robert Kozinets provides the theoretical and methodological groundwork as well as the practical applications of Netnography.
The Children’s Country
Stephen Muecke discusses the Goolarabooloo’s knowledge of Country, their long history of struggle for survival, and the alliances that formed to support them.
Customary Land Rights and Politics, 25 Years On
Tania Li reviews the goals of the movement to protect customary land rights, and assess the reasons why…
Access to Alloparents
An alloparent is any individual who is not the biological parent, who helps to raise the child by…
Allomaternal Care and Child Outcomes
Due to the fact that human mothers often have multiple, vulnerable offspring with long periods of dependency, it…
Bureaucracy, Law and Dystopia in the United Kingdom’s Asylum System
Based on ethnographic research over a two year period, John Campbell analyzes asylum appeals in the British courts.…
Believing in Belonging: Belief and Social Identity in the Modern World
Abby Day draws on empirical research to explore mainstream religious belief and identity in Euro-American countries. Starting from a…
Male Wives and Female Husbands: Reconfiguring Gender in the Tablighi Jamaʻat in the Gambia
Marloes Janson research is at the intersection of anthropology and religion. West Africa (the Gambia, Senegal and Nigeria)…
Towards a Framework for the Study of Christian-Muslim Encounters in Africa
In research on religion in Africa, the study of both Christianity and Islam is thriving. Marloes Janson research…
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