New Books in Anthropology
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2076
Emanuela Grama, "Socialist Heritage: The Politi...
Grama explores the socialist state's attempt to create its own heritage, as well as the legacy of that project...
54 min
2077
Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, "Migrant Women of Joha...
Kihato's book is about home and not-home, eloquently told about the hopes and dreams, fears and hardships of migrant women trying to make life and livelihoods in inner city Johannesburg....
42 min
2078
Mila Dragojević, "Amoral Communities: Collectiv...
How does violence against civilians become permissible in wartime?
41 min
2079
Angela Rudert, "Shakti's New Voice: Guru Devoti...
Gurumaa’s syncretic approach innovates Hindu religiosity, as does her progressive attitudes towards treatment of women...
78 min
2080
Adeline Masquelier, "Fada: Boredom and Belongin...
Masquelier offers a compelling ethnography of the possibilities of the fada, a space where young men gather, faced with the anxiety of being ‘good at being a man’...
86 min
2081
Mark Alizart, "Dogs" (Polity, 2019)
Alizart offers us a surprising new portrait of the dog as thinker―a thinker who may perhaps know the true secret of our humanity...
44 min
2082
Wendy Wickwire, "At The Bridge: James Teit and ...
The history of anthropology remembers James Teit as a field assistant and man-on-the spot for Franz Boas...
61 min
2083
Karine Gagné, "Caring for Glaciers: Land, Anima...
Gagné explores how relations of reciprocity between land, humans, animals, and glaciers foster an ethics of care in the Himalayan communities of Ladakh...
98 min
2084
Han F. Vermeulen, "Before Boas: The Genesis of ...
Where did ethnography come from?
100 min
2085
Quassim Cassam, "Conspiracy Theories" (Polity, ...
Cassam explains how conspiracy theories are different from ordinary theories about conspiracies...
56 min
2086
Serin D. Houston, "Imagining Seattle: Social Va...
Houston’s finds three major social values--social justice, sustainability, and creativity—pervade policy creation in the city and condition privileges and oppressions...
42 min
2087
Jonathan Rosa, "Looking like a Language, Soundi...
Rosa examines the emergence of linguistic and ethnoracial categories in the context of Latinidad..
61 min
2088
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
2089
Lynne Pettinger, "What’s Wrong with Work?" (Pol...
How should we understand work?
34 min
2090
Perla Guerrero, "Nuevo South: Asians, Latinas/o...
Nuevo South explores the history of an ever diversifying U.S. South...
51 min
2091
Gary J. Adler, Jr., "Empathy Beyond US Borders:...
Do immersion trips really transform those who participate and how so?
54 min
2092
Andreas Bernard, "Theory of the Hashtag" (Polit...
Bernard examines the hashtag’s role in changing how we define and discuss keywords...
38 min
2093
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
2094
Francesco Duina, "Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor...
Duina asks why impoverished Americans espouse such great and abiding love for their country even as they suffer and struggle to get by...
59 min
2095
Erik Harms, "Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Di...
What happens when market-oriented policy reforms butt heads with a single-party state’s strictly maintained limits on political freedoms?
49 min
2096
jimi adams, "Gathering Social Network Data" (Sa...
What is social network data and what are the issues associated with collecting it?
42 min
2097
Valerie Olson, "Into the Extreme: U.S. Environm...
Olson talks about why the idea of outer space as a “frontier” is giving way to one that frames it as a cosmic ecosystem...
33 min
2098
Rita Kesselring, "Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory,...
Kesselring seeks to understand the embodied and everyday effects of state-sponsored violence as well the limits of the law to produce social repair....
45 min
2099
Elizabeth Cullen Dunn, "No Path Home: Humanitar...
"No Path Home" is the engaging result of more than sixteen years of fieldwork in Georgian IDP camps.
36 min
2100
Ather Zia, "Resisting Disappearance: Military O...
Zia's urgent ethnography is centered on Kashmiri women of the APDP (Association of the Parents of the Disappeared Persons)...
77 min