Driscoll charts the development of the writer’s ethnocentric attitudes about Indians and savagery in relation to the various geographic and social milieus of communities he inhabited at key periods in his life...

Wiebe discusses environmental reproductive justice, political ethnography, her method of “sensing policy”...

Theobald delivers a long-overdue, comprehensive history of Native women’s reproductive health, rights, and practices...

In the 1800s, explorers and whalers returning home from the Arctic described a cold, desolate world,..

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

Silverman reveals the complex history surrounding the 1621 feast that every November many Americans associate with silver-buckled Pilgrim costumes, Squanto and Massasoit, and miraculous feats of friendship...

Shortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area’s indigenous peoples as slaves...

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

Bunyasi and Smith compile social science research and data to explain the current situation for white citizens, African-American citizens, Latinx citizens, and citizens of other races in the United States...

Musselwhite challenges the conventional view of the Chesapeake as a rural society of tobacco and slavery that prevented the development of towns and cities...

Lake Superior has experienced substantial environmental change—including today’s impressive but incomplete ecological recovery—in its existence, especially over the last 150 year...

Ostler’s book documents the resilience of Native people, showing how they survived genocide in the face of serious and diverse threats to their existence...

Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 years...

Memory Lands provides a much needed new account of King Philip’s War which centers the Natives of the Northeast,

Environmental racism is visible not only as cancer clusters or the location of grocery stores...

Newman analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives...

Saranillio offers a bold challenge to conventional understandings of Hawai‘i’s admission as a U.S. state...

Eleven researchers bring new ethnographies to bear on anthropological debates on ontology and the anthropocene.

Psychedelics are not terribly new. And the drug mescaline is certainly not new...

When the British explored the Atlantic coast of America in the 1580s, their relations with indigenous peoples were structured by food...

This book tells the remarkable story of a campesino and indigenous political activist whose career spanned much of Peru’s twentieth century and whose achievements at the local and national level transformed Peruvian peasant politics...

"Frontiers of Citizenship" is a beautifully written book that integrates quite seamlessly the history black and indigenous peoples in 19th century Brazil.

Nemser examines the long history of how Spanish imperial rule depended upon spatial concentration – the gathering of people and things into centralized spaces – to control populations and consolidate power...

An interview with Gregory D. Smithers

"Beyond Alterity" is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that take such an approach to studying indigenous communities and the concept of indigeneity...