New Books in Anthropology
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1901
Nathalie Peutz, "Islands of Heritage Conservati...
Soqotra, the largest island of Yemen's Soqotra Archipelago, is one of the most uniquely diverse places in the world...
76 min
1902
João Costa Vargas, "The Denial of Antiblackness...
An incisive new look at the black diaspora, examining the true roots of antiblackness and its destructive effects on all of society.
70 min
1903
Adam Rutherford, "How to Argue With a Racist" (...
Rutherford emphatically dismantles outdated notions of race by illuminating what modern genetics actually can and can’t tell us about human difference....
75 min
1904
Ellyn Lem, "Gray Matters: Finding Meaning in th...
Lem draws upon diverse cultural representation from movies, films, books, and art, and juxtaposes these narratives of aging with surveys from over 200 seniors aged 65 and over from around the United States to explore questions of meaning in older life...
49 min
1905
William G. Pooley, "Body and Tradition in 19th-...
Pooley explores how these changes were experienced and negotiated by the people who lived there, drawing on the immense ethnographic archive of Felix Arnaudin (1844-1921)....
54 min
1906
Kareem Khubchandani, "Ishtyle: Accenting Gay In...
Khubchandani follows queer South Asian men across borders into gay neighborhoods, nightclubs, bars, and house parties in Bangalore and Chicago...
47 min
1907
F. Henry and D. Plaza, "Carnival Is Woman: Femi...
Henry and Plaza examines the presence of women in contemporary Carnival by demonstrating not only their strength in numbers, but also the ways in which they participate in the festivities...
71 min
1908
Amelia Moore, "Destination Anthropocene: Scienc...
Moore offers a stellar example of the significance and role of humanistic – and specifically ethnographic – inquiry regarding how climate change has, is, and will change human and human-nonhuman relations....
43 min
1909
C. Besteman and H. Gusterson, "Life by Algorith...
How can we understand computerization as a social process?
46 min
1910
Lauren R. Kerby, "Saving History: How White Eva...
Kerby examines how white evangelicals perceive themselves and their role in American life through an analysis of the narratives told by Christian heritage tours...
57 min
1911
Pamila Gupta, "Portuguese Decolonization in the...
Gupta takes a unique approach to examining decolonization processes across Lusophone India and Southern Africa, focusing on Goa, Mozambique, Angola and South Africa, weaving together case studies using five interconnected themes....
64 min
1912
Ghassan Moussawi, "Disruptive Situations: Fract...
Moussawi challenges representations of contemporary Beirut as an exceptional space for LGBTQ people by highlighting everyday life in a city where violence is the norm...
54 min
1913
Maile Arvin, "Possessing Polynesians: The Scien...
From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans saw Polynesians as almost racially white...
62 min
1914
Jill A. Fisher, "Adverse Events: Race, Inequali...
Fischer explores the hidden world of pharmaceutical testing on healthy volunteers...
44 min
1915
Nadia Eghbal, "Working in Public: The Making an...
Most open-source code is not developed by big teams or equitable collaborations; it’s maintained by unseen individuals who work tirelessly to write and publish code that's consumed by millions....
64 min
1916
Charles Piot, "The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicl...
In the West African nation of Togo, applying for the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery is a national obsession...
57 min
1917
Mathangi Krishnamurthy, "1-800-Worlds: The Maki...
Kirshnamurthy chronicles the labour practices, life-worlds, and media atmospheres of Indian call centre workers, and locates them within the socio-political context of the new Indian middle classes...
51 min
1918
Jennifer Atkins, "New Orleans Carnival Balls: T...
Atkins draws back the curtain on the origin of the exclusive Mardi Gras balls, bringing to light unique traditions unseen by outsiders...
63 min
1919
Ananya Chakravarti, "The Empire of Apostles" (O...
Chakravarti recovers the religious roots of Europe's first global order, by tracing the evolution of a religious vision of empire through the lives of Jesuits working in the missions of early modern Brazil and India...
76 min
1920
David Tavárez, "Words and Worlds Turned Around:...
Tavarez and his colleagues tackle the big questions of the Christianization of Mexico after the Spanish Conquest and using sources in several indigenous languages...
86 min
1921
Kathleen Klaus, "Political Violence in Kenya: L...
Klaus draws on 15 months of survey and interview methods to center the politics of elites in crafting land narratives that lead—or not—to electoral violence...
51 min
1922
Leah Zani, "Bomb Children: Life in the Former B...
Zani examines the long-term effects of air warfare by looking at how the explosive remnants of war build themselves into people’s everyday lives, and how people embody the extreme uncertainty of a peace haunted by war...
48 min
1923
Greg Beckett, "There is No More Haiti: Between ...
Beckett offers an examination of “crisis” in Haiti, and pushes back against the widespread racist idea that Haiti is inherently lawless by showing the ongoing production of disorder, the scripting of crisis, and the concatenation of disaster...
59 min
1924
Lesly-Marie Buer, "RX Appalachia: Stories of Tr...
Buer explores the gendered inequalities that situate women’s encounters with substance abuse treatment as well as additional state interventions targeted at women who use drugs in one of the most impoverished regions in the US....
42 min
1925
Gabriel Dattatreyan, "The Globally Familiar: Di...
Dattatreyan focuses on non-elite, urban, lower caste/class embodiments of masculinity, in the context of globally familiar soundscpaes, images and aesthetics...
52 min