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In the Shadows of the Palm explores how the Marind […]

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Sophie Chao, 2022, In the Shadow of the Palms: More-than-Human Becomings in West Papua. Durham: Duke University …

Keywords: Politics, Revolution, Egypt, Emotions, Masculinity In Egypt’s football revolution: […]

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Carl Rommel, 2021, Egypt’s football revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics, University of Texas Press, 312pp., ISBN …

We began writing Year in Reviews in 2019 to take […]

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2022 Year in Review

SARAH TRAINER, ALEXANDRA BREWIS, AMBER WUTICH, 2020. Extreme Weight Loss: […]

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Extreme Weight Loss: Life Before and After Bariatric Surgery

Jennifer Mack and Michael Herzfeld. 2020. Life Among Urban Planners: […]

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Life Among Urban Planners: Practice, Professionalism, and Expertise in the Making of the City

ROBBIE ETHRIDGE AND ERIC E. BOWNE, 2020, The Historical Turn […]

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The Historical Turn in Southeastern Archaeology

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Interview with David Lancy about the 3rd. Edition of The Anthropology of Childhood.

Stone, Glenn, Davis. The Agricultural Dilemma. 1st edition. New York, […]

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The Agricultural Dilemma: How Not to Feed the World

Edited by Albert C. Goodyear and Christopher R. Moore. 2018. […]

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Early Human Life on the Southeastern Coastal Plain

Arturo Escobar, 2020, Durham: Duke University Press. Keywords: ontology, modernity, Latin […]

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Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the Possible

Edited by Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Sanna Valkonen, and Jarno Valkonen, […]

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Knowing from the Indigenous North: Sámi Approaches to History, Politics and Belonging

Edited by Anna J. Osterholtz, 2020, University Press of Colorado: Louisville. […]

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The Poetics of Processing: Memory formation, identity, and the handling of the dead.

ANNA I. CORWIN, 2021, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 180 […]

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Embracing Age: How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well

Hub Dijstelbloem, 2021, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 285pp., ISBN 9780262542883. […]

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Borders as Infrastructure: The Technopolitics of Border Control

Stephen, Lynn. Stories That Make History: Mexico through Elena Poniatowska’s […]

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Stories That Make History: Mexico through Elena Poniatowska’s Crónicas

Gustavo Barbosa, 2022, Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 329 […]

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The Best of Hard Times: Palestinian Refugee Masculinities in Lebanon

Marina Peterson, 2021, Durham and London: Duke University Press, pp. […]

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Atmospheric Noise: The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles

Cheikh Ahmed Tidiane Faye, 2021, l’Harmattan, pp. 315, ISBN 978-2-343-24980-3 […]

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Le sel, une roche sédimentaire cultivée au Sénégal: Focus sur les mutations socio-spatiales de l’axe …

Charles Cobb, 2019, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 286 pp. […]

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The Archaeology of Southeastern Native American Landscapes of the Colonial Era

Edited by Kirsty Squires, David Errickson and Nicholas Márquez-Grant, 2019, […]

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Ethical approaches to human remains: A global challenge in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology

Edited by Edward Swenson and Andrew Roddick, 2018, University Press of […]

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Constructions of Time and History in the Pre-Columbian Andes

Madilde Córdoba Azcárate, 2020, Oakland: University of California Press, 278 […]

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Stuck with Tourism: Space, Power and Labor in Contemporary Yucatán

Edited by Rachel Douglas-Jones, Antonia Alford, & Nick Seaver, 2021, Chichester: […]

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Towards an Anthropology of Data

JAFARI S. ALLEN, 2021, Durham and London: Duke University Press, […]

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There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life

JUAN M. DEL NIDO, 2022, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 238 […]

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Taxis vs. Uber: Courts, Markets, and Technology in Buenos Aires

Mattioli, Fabio. 2020, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. Keywords: financialization; European […]

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Dark Finance: Illiquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of Europe

Riley Augé, 2020, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 304 pp., […]

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The Archaeology of Magic: Gender and Domestic Protection in Seventeenth-Century New England

M. Liboiron, 2021, Durham and London: Duke University Press. So, I […]

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Pollution Is Colonialism

Karen Strassler, 2020, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Keywords: images; Indonesia; […]

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Demanding Images: Democracy, Mediation, and the Image-Event in Indonesia

KAREN BASSIE-SWEET, 2021, Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 340 pp., ISBN: […]

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Maya Gods of War