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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…
Untangling translocal urban textures of trash
Caroline Knowles discusses the analytic potential of trash as a lens onto city‐making and concludes that it is one…
Flip-flop: A Journey Through Globalisation’s Backroads
Caroline Knowles follows the global trail of one of the world’s most unremarkable and ubiquitous objects – flip-flops,…
The Political Biography of an Earthquake
Edward Simpson, Professor of Social Anthropology, as the new Director of the SOAS South Asia Institute. Professor Simpson…
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