Didier Fassin

The prison is a recent invention, hardly more than two centuries old, yet it has become the universal system of punishment. How can we understand the …

How can we think of life in its dual expression, matter and experience, the living and the lived? Philosophers and, more recently, social scientists h…

A Companion to Moral Anthropology is the first collective consideration of the anthropological dimensions of morals, morality, and ethics. Original es…

It is a simple story. A 37-year-old man belonging to the Traveller community is shot dead by a special unit of the French police on the family farm wh…