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The Trauma of Helping Asylum-Seekers

U.S. asylum policies inflict deep pain, not only on those facing deportation but also on those who do the legal aid work to help them stay.

Article by Cornell Anthro Grad Student Erin Routon.  

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The “woman question” as symptomatic of imperialism

I want to bring the arguments of Farris and Scott into conversation with two other recent publications in order to highlight another set of points about geopolitics in relation to political and sexual forms.

Professor Lucinda Ramberg’s essay...

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In their important new books, Sara Farris and Joan Wallach Scott examine how and why gender equality has become the basis for claims that Europe and North America are distinct from—and superior to—the rest of the world, and especially the Islamic world. In In the Name of Women’s Rights (Duke Univers

An essay by Professor Lucinda Ramberg is part of this discussion.

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Col(Lab) on Food, Risk and Privilege

by Annie Sheng, Cornell University We experience the world and our food with all our senses, so why not get tactile as we discuss risk and privilege in relation to food? Princeton University’s Col(…

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Residences, Rentals and Redolent Delectables: Women entrepreneurs and the Japanese baking industry

By Annie Sheng, Cornell University In one baking school in Yokohama, I wait as my bread dough rises. The instructor serves me mochi (pounded rice cake) that she had placed atop an electric furnace …

Blog post by Anthropology PhD Candidate Annie Sheng.

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Hayden S. Kantor, Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Anthropology, published this article in American Anthropologist

"Building Beyond the Bypass Road: Urban Migration, Ritual Eating, and the Fate of the Joint Family in Patna, India"

https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/aman.12972

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