Category Archives: Books

As a biocultural science, anthropology recognizes that whatever the biological traits held in common by all humanity are, such traits will be interpreted through the cultural context of a society and reacted to in a manner appropriate to that society. … Continue reading →

The health care system of the United States is heading towards disaster. As more americans lose find themselves without health insurance (and the difference in health between insured and uninsured increases), the economy is weakened. The unpaid bills of the … Continue reading →

Sweetness and Power is a book with a very broad scope. It attempts an anthropological social history of sucrose consumption (in the western world) beginning with the earliest periods of significant availability (after the founding of sugar plantations) through the … Continue reading →

The Politics of Irish Freedom is meant by its author to be an exploration of Irish republicanism through the thoughts and experiences of one member. It is not a formal statement of any Republican manifesto, but an explanation of the … Continue reading →

In 1845, the first signs of potato blight appeared in Ireland. Extensive enough to cause alarm but not starvation, the disease foreshadowed the disaster that followed in the next few years. The potato crops throughout Ireland (and the rest of … Continue reading →

Written after years of experience in the community of Bally Murphy, Bally Murphy and the Irish War was intended by De Baróid as an illustration of the Anglo-Irish conflict and its effect on a single nationalist community in Belfast. De … Continue reading →

When the United States Supreme Court ruled on the issue of racial segregation in public schools (Brown vs. Board of Education), it was in effect ordering a massive change in the culture of the american South. Few were willing to … Continue reading →