By FT’s Gillian Tett: … in just a few years, sushi has colonised urban centres with startling speed. The first wave of sushi restaurants cropped up in California in the 1970s, partly to service the estimated one million Americans of Japanese descent. But now they are ubiquitous, serving Caucasians too: teenagers take sushi to school;… Read More »
Bars of soap, lipstick and pitta bread are out; hair straighteners, garlic bread and Blu-ray disc players are in. The latest shake-up of the shopping “basket” used to measure UK inflation shines a light on Britain’s changing spending habits. Check the article here. Anybody knows of any contemporary anthropological studies of changes in consumption/spending habits?
Mugabe “thanked the Chinese embassy for its painstaking preparations for the birthday celebration and … hoped to further expand friendly cooperative relations in every field between the two nations”, the foreign ministry said. The ministry’s website (www.mfa.gov.cn) showed pictures of Mugabe cutting a birthday cake in front of a large sign wishing him “Happy 86th… Read More »
was published a couple of weeks ago. It is here, but I have pasted the full text below. Thinking through kids Olumide Abimbola Act One A couple of days ago I joined one of my friends to pick up his daughter at the kindergarten. This was the first time I was seeing her in close… Read More »