New Books in Anthropology
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Philip Grant, "Chains of Finance: How Investmen...
The authors make points that professionals already know and that end-investors ought to know: that there are a lot of cooks in the investment kitchen...
46 min
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Nazia Kazi, "Islamophobia, Race, and Global Pol...
Kazi's book is a brilliant and powerful meditation on the intersection and interaction of Islamophobia, racism, and U.S. imperial state power...
43 min
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Harshita M. Kamath, "The Artifice of Brahmin Ma...
This book features an investigation of men donning a women’s guises to impersonate female characters...
47 min
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Alpa Shah, et al., "Ground Down by Growth: Trib...
Shah and her co-authors focuses on those left behind by, and indeed ground down by, India’s much touted growth...
62 min
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Jessica Starling, "Guardians of the Buddha’s Ho...
Starling invites us into the daily lives of the bōmori, the spouses of priests in the Japanese Jōdo Shinshū, or True Pure Land, tradition...
56 min
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Carl Hoffman, "The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A T...
Two modern adventurers sought a treasure possessed by the legendary “Wild Men of Borneo.”
30 min
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Krishnendu Ray, "The Ethnic Restaurateur" (Bloo...
Focusing on New York City, Ray examines the lived experience, work, memories, and aspirations of immigrants working in the food industry.
44 min
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Sarah Halpern-Meekin, "Social Poverty: Low-Inco...
Does a person’s well-being go well beyond how much money they have in their bank account?
41 min
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Christina Thompson, "Sea People: The Puzzle of ...
It's rare for a book of non-fiction to catch the interest of the reading public in the United States, much less a book on the history of science in the Pacific...
54 min
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Jennifer A. Jones, "The Browning of the New Sou...
Jones examines the evolution of race relations in the face of rapid demographic change as Mexican immigrants move into the traditionally biracial American South...
53 min
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Susan Ellison, "Domesticating Democracy: The Po...
Ellison explores the world of foreign-funded alternate dispute resolution (ADR) organizations working in El Alto, Bolivia...
59 min
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John D. Hawks, "Almost Human: The Astonishing T...
Hawks talks about new developments in paleoanthropology – the discovery of a new hominid species Homo Naledi in South Africa, the Neanderthal ancestry of many human populations, and the challenge of rethinking anthropological science’s relationship with indigenous peoples and the general public...
30 min
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Chika Watanabe, "Becoming One: Religion, Develo...
"Becoming One" is a rich ethnographic study of the work of a Japanese NGO called the Organization for Industrial, Spiritual and Cultural Advancement...
57 min
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Susan Brownell, "The Anthropology of Sport: Bod...
In The Anthropology of Sport, understandably, the authors enlighten us about what the subfield entails, how anthropology is well suited to dissect the nature of sport, and provide us with ample anecdotes and observations of the world of sport through an ‘anthropological gaze.’
51 min
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David Varel, "The Lost Black Scholar: Resurrect...
Allison Davis (1902-1983) was a pioneering anthropologist who did ground-breaking fieldwork in the Jim Crow south, challenged the racial bias of IQ tests, and became the first African American to be tenured at the University of Chicago...
63 min
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Chinyere K. Osuji, "Boundaries of Love: Interra...
The increasing presence of interracial relationships is often read as an antidote to racism or as an indicator of the decreasing significance of race...
52 min
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Diana Pasulka, "American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion...
More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life...
55 min
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Michael E. Kerr, "Bowen Theory’s Secrets: Revea...
A pivotal development in the history of psychology was the invention of family systems theory by psychiatrist Murray Bowen...
50 min
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M. D. Foster and J. A. Tolbert, "The Folkloresq...
This volume introduces a new concept to explore the dynamic relationship between folklore and popular culture: the "folkloresque."
49 min
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Carolina Alonso Bejarano, "Decolonizing Ethnogr...
The book explores ways in which ethnography, as practiced by people who have historically been objects of ethnographic study, can yield transformative and liberatory results.
57 min
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Jeremy F. Walton, "Muslim Civil Society and the...
Walton explores how members of three contemporary Muslim groups, the Nur community, the Gülen movement, and Alevis, articulate religiosity within the Turkish public sphere...
63 min
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Kristen Ghodsee, "Red Hangover: Legacies of Twe...
In this very personal book with essays and short stories, Ghodsee describes the post-socialist realities of the victims of the greedy neoliberalism that has dismantled their social safety nets and expresses her frustration about the continuing tendency to reduce the twentieth-century East European state socialisms to Stalinism and the Gulags...
73 min
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P. L. Caballero and A. Acevedo-Rodrigo, "Beyond...
"Beyond Alterity" is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that take such an approach to studying indigenous communities and the concept of indigeneity...
80 min
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Chris S. Duvall, "The African Roots of Marijuan...
Duvall helps us understand cannabis as a crop, commodity, and tool in African culture and in the history of slavery...
47 min
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Dorinne Kondo, "Worldmaking: Race, Performance,...
Kondo brings together critical race studies, affect theory, psychoanalysis and her critically keen awareness of the politics and potential of theatre production and reception to ask how theatre ‘makes, unmakes and remakes’ race...
45 min