One flesh: the prohibition of incest in the West
Anthropologist Maurice Godelier considers the Christian dogma of ‘una caro’ as a way to understand the incest taboo in the West.
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Socialist Strategy in Western Europe: Ernest Mandel Debate with Monty Johnstone (1977)
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The Palestinian Panopticon
Checkpoints on the border of Palestine and Israel as the architecture of occupation
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Understanding apartheid as a consequence of capitalist development
Antiracist thinkers of the 1970s looked to South Africa as a case study on how deeply intertwined racism was with capitalism. -
Conversations With Allende, 50 years after the 1973 coup
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Death of the breadwinner: how the male breadwinner/female homemaker model collapsed
The change in economic conditions that turned women from an intrafamilial reserve army of labour into a permanent active service between postwar settlement and neoliberalism. -
Ganjapreneurs and the Caucasian Cannabis Cartel
Business is now booming in the marijuana industry, despite it still being controlled at the federal level as a Schedule 1 drug.
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Pharmanomics: a Letter from the Editor
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Review of Chantal Jaquet, Transclasses: A Theory of Social Non-reproduction
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Tokens: a Letter from the Editor
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Marc Augé, anthropologist of contemporary ‘non-places’
French anthropologist Marc Augé died on 24 July, leaving behind an important legacy. -
English Cricket is racist, sexist and elitist – to change it must learn from the grassroots game
As the recently published Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket report confirmed, cricket in Britain is a deeply elitist, racist and sexist sport, dominated by a white, male establishment linked by the old school tie. Here, Sam Berkson powerfully analyses the history of the sport and says that the only way to save it is to learn from the sports' grassroots.
