New Books in Anthropology
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Jennifer Hubbert, "China in the World: An Anthr...
In recent years, Confucius Institutes—cultural and language programs funded by the Chinese government—have garnered attention in the United States due to a debate over whether they threaten free speech and academic freedom...
56 min
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John O'Brien, "States of Intoxication: The Plac...
Is alcohol a universal feature of human society? Why is problematic in some countries and not others? How was alcohol helped build the modern state?
44 min
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Joseph Hill, "Wrapping Authority: Women Islamic...
Hill provides life stories of various fascinating and powerful female muqaddamas (or Sufi leaders) in Dakar and explores how they navigate the complexity of their gendered authority in religious, familial, and public domains...
61 min
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Melanie A. Madeiros, "Marriage, Divorce, and Di...
Medeiros explores the women’s rich stories of desire, love, respect, suffering, strength, and transformation...
57 min
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PJ Capelotti, "Adventures in Archaeology: The W...
Capelotti discusses the role of exploration archaeology in understanding the Pacific voyage of Kon-Tiki, the Arctic airship expeditions of Walter Wellman, and the fate of Orca II, a fishing boat used in the film Jaws...
38 min
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Chandra Russo, "Solidarity in Practice: Moral P...
Russo explores how solidarity activists contest the practices of the US security state both within its borders and abroad. Russo follows three social movement organizations...
43 min
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Amira Mittermaier, "Giving to God: Islamic Char...
Mittermaier conducts a dazzling and at many times moving ethnography of an Islamic economy of giving and charity in Egypt..
53 min
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Thomas S. Mullaney, “The Chinese Deathscape: Gr...
Contributors combine narrative analysis, visualized data, and dynamic maps with exceptional ease to introduce readers to infant burial practices in late imperial China, grave and cemetery relocation in Shanghai from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and grave relocation during the contemporary period...
70 min
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Long T. Bui, "Returns of War: South Vietnam and...
Long T. Bui examines the complicated relationship between the Vietnamese diasporic community and its home country, the former South Vietnam...
48 min
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Safet HadžiMuhamedović, "Waiting for Elijah: Ti...
HadžiMuhamedović takes readers through intimate encounters and syncretic moments as he and his interlocutors wait for Elijah’s Day...
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Jeevan Sharma, "Crossing the Border to India: Y...
Sharma sheds light on the migration decisions and experiences of young Nepali men from the western district of Palpa who migrate to India to take up jobs as security guards, domestic workers, or restaurant and hotel workers...
60 min
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Anne Balay, "Semi Queer: Inside the World of Ga...
Among many topics, Balay details how racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia are a part, and not a part, of truck drivers’ interactions with customers, shippers, and receivers...
53 min
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Scott Wallace, "The Unconquered: In Search of t...
Wallace talks about a 2002 FUNAI expedition to find the Arrow People, one of the last uncontacted tribes in the world.,,
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Jennifer Fluri and Rachel Lehr, "The Carpetbagg...
For most people, geopolitics is something that happens out there, in boardrooms and on battlefields. But critical geographers, and feminist political geographers in particular, have in recent years shown how the geopolitical is something that comes into being in the intimate and the everyday...
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A. Harkins and M. McCarroll, "Appalachian Recko...
"Appalachian Reckoning" is a retort, at turn rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow J.D. Vance’s "Hillbilly Elegy" has cast over the region and its imagining.
49 min
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Dia Da Costa, "Politicizing Creative Economy: A...
In a world where heritage, culture, creativity, and the capacity to imagine are themselves commodified and sold under the banner of neoliberal freedom, (how) can art be harnessed for anti-capitalist agendas?
58 min
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Gökçe Günel, "Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, ...
Gökçe Günel explores the United Arab Emirates’s planned Masdar City, an experimental attempt at designing an emissions-free society.
41 min
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Gregory Smits, "Maritime Ryukyu, 1050–1650" (U ...
Gregory Smits makes extensive use of scholarship in archaeology and anthropology and leverages unconventional sources such as the Omoro sōshi(a collection of ancient songs) to present a fundamental rethinking of early Ryukyu...
65 min
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David Bissell, "Transit Life: How Commuting Is ...
What kind of time do we endure on our daily commutes? What kind of space do we occupy? What new sorts of urbanites do we thereby become?
61 min
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Kimberly Chong, "Best Practice: Management Cons...
What do management consultants do, and how do they do it?
43 min
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Rosalyn LaPier, "Invisible Reality: Storyteller...
Rather than “living in harmony with nature,” as stereotyped by the ecological Indian mythos, the Blackfeet people of the northern plains believed they could marshal supernatural forces to bend the nonhuman world to their will...
56 min
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Diane Tober, "Romancing the Sperm: Shifting Bio...
The development of a whole suite of new reproductive technologies in recent decades has contributed to broad cultural conversations and controversies over the meaning of family in the United States...
50 min
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Deonnie Moodie, "The Making of a Modern Temple ...
Moodie examines the history of the Kalighat temple of Kolkata...
57 min
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Kristin D. Phillips, "An Ethnography of Hunger:...
Families in parts of rural Tanzania regularly face periods when they cut back on their meals because their own food stocks are running short and they cannot afford to buy food...
69 min
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Karin Rosemblatt, "The Science and Politics of ...
Rosemblatt traces how U.S.- and Mexican-trained intellectuals, social and human scientists, and anthropologists applied their ethnographic field work on indigenous and Native American peoples on both sides of the Rio Grande to debates over race, national culture, and economic development...
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