New Books in Anthropology
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2101
Don Kulick, "A Death in the Rainforest: How a L...
In this episode of the podcast Don and Alex talk about Papua New Guinea, where they have both done research...
52 min
2102
A Conversation with Acquisitions Editor Dawn Du...
For a book to exist, there must be a lot more than a writer...
42 min
2103
Erika Milam, "Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for H...
Milam talks about the scientific search for human nature, a project that captured the attention of paleontologists, anthropologists, and primatologists in the years after World War II...
38 min
2104
Grégoire Mallard, "Gift Exchange: The Transnati...
What is the relevance of Mauss' ideas on gift exchanges and international solidarity?
87 min
2105
Geoffrey Barstow, "Food of Sinful Demons: Meat,...
Barstow explores the tension between Buddhist ethics and Tibetan cultural norms to offer a novel perspective on the spiritual and social dimensions of meat eating...
62 min
2106
Rachel Werczberger, "Jews In The Age Of Authent...
Werczberger examined two Israeli communities of spiritual seekers in Israel..
47 min
2107
Benjamin Tausig, "Bangkok is Ringing: Sound, Pr...
The political protests of the “Red Shirts” movement in Thailand in April-May 2010 ended in tragedy...
39 min
2108
Dolly Kikon, "Living with Oil and Coal: Resourc...
Kikon offers a rich account of life in the midst of a landscape defined by multiple overlapping extractive industries and plantation economies...
54 min
2109
Tim Frandy, "Inari Sami Folklore: Stories from ...
First published in 1918 only in the Aanaar Sámi language and in Finnish, this anthology is now available in a centennial English-language edition...
60 min
2110
Ashanté M. Reese, "Black Food Geographies: Race...
Reese examines the ways in which residents of the Deanwood neighborhood navigate the surrounding area to acquire food...
50 min
2111
Alex Rosenblat, "Uberland: How Algorithms Are R...
What does uber tell us about work, labor management, and mobility in the post-financial crisis world?
26 min
2112
Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer, "Wind and Power ...
This is the third of three interviews with Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer about their duo-graph, Wind and Power in the Anthropocene...
37 min
2113
Mubbashir A. Rizvi, "The Ethics of Staying: Soc...
Rizvi presents an original framework for understanding this major social movement, called the Anjuman Mazarin Punjab (AMP)...
51 min
2114
Dominic Boyer, "Energopolitics: Wind and Power ...
Boyer examines the politics of wind development in Mexico to think through how the energy and environmental crises of global warming require new approaches to political theory....
42 min
2115
Alma Jeftić, "Social Aspects of Memory: Stories...
Jeftić presents the compelling results of an empirical psychological study on how ordinary people remember war...
54 min
2116
Cymene Howe, "Ecologics: Wind and Power in the ...
Howe examines the aborted Mareña Renovables wind park to understand the resistance of indigenous residents to renewable energy...
41 min
2117
Suzanne Scott, "Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender...
Scott provides an overview of the convergence culture industry and the world of fandom while examining the role that gender and misogyny has played in understanding who is and is not considered an “authentic” fan...
37 min
2118
Evgeny Finkel, "Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survi...
Can there be a political science of the Holocaust?
57 min
2119
William Elison, "The Neighborhood of Gods: The ...
Elison explores how slum residents, tribal people, and members of other marginalized groups use religious icons to mark urban spaces in Mumbai...
64 min
2120
Nancy Lough and Andrea N. Geurin, "Routledge Ha...
Lough and Guerin bring together forty different authors to survey the status of women's sports in 2019.
75 min
2121
Belinda Stillion Southard, "How to Belong: Wome...
Southard examines the discourse of international women leaders seeking agency for women, the traditional subjects of violence across the global south...
51 min
2122
Peregrine Schwartz-Shea and Dvora Yanow, "Inter...
This episode is the first in a new series, New Books in Interpretive Social Science...
53 min
2123
Lindsey Green-Simms, "Postcolonial Automobility...
Green-Simms examines the paradoxes and ambivalences of automobility through the lens of West African films, novels, plays, and poems...
57 min
2124
Julia Cassaniti, "Remembering the Present: Mind...
How do you understand mindfulness?
98 min
2125
Juan Javier Rivera Andía, "Non-Humans in Amerin...
Eleven researchers bring new ethnographies to bear on anthropological debates on ontology and the anthropocene.
57 min