John Borneman’s Cruel Attachments: The Ritual Rehab of Child Molesters […] medical anthropology psychological anthropology public health sexuality Transformation and Rehabilitation: Ethnographic Encounters with Sex Offenders
Introduction This review aims to offer readers a concise yet […] ecology globalization materiality philosophy theory The Subtle Arts of Ethnography and Lineology
In Transnational Teens, Tetreault’s most powerful claim is that in […] Africa diaspora identity immigration Islam post-colonialism Analyzing the Performance of Youth Identities in French Cités
Anthropologists who collaborate with communities and organizations to bring about […] aid development governmentality medical anthropology NGOs public health A Model for Involving Local Communities in Global Health Interventions
Religion and Science as Forms of Life: Anthropological insights into […] religion science theory An Inquiry into the Diverse Articulations of Science & Religion in Contemporary Life
Uncertain Futures is an emotional and ethnographic journey in the […] cancer childhood linguistic anthropology medical anthropology At the Intersection of Medical and Linguistic Anthropology: Ethnographic insight into a Catalan Paediatric Oncological …
Early in her preface to this first volume of the […] history of anthropology theory Engaging with the Expansive and Eclectic Work and Legacy of Franz Boas
This book begins with a lengthy prologue, a verbatim transcript […] fertility gender Inequality kinship medical anthropology sexuality Infertility: Invisible Disability
Hopes have histories – they may turn into yearnings. (p. […] Sarajevo state theory violence Grid Desires, or How to Tame a Three-Headed Dragon
It has been a while since anthropology gave center stage […] event philosophy ritual social change theory What an Event Does/Is (and What it Does/Is Not)
In a very readable and accessible format Dutta, Provost’s Chair […] Inequality medical anthropology neoliberalism Taking Control of Your Health: Communicating Neoliberalism’s Pseudoscientific Claims to Health
My mother is a psychiatrist, and I grew up in […] medical anthropology A Pill for Every Market, and a Market for Every Pill
As we begin the Anthropocene, an era characterized by humans’ […] climate change Historical Summary of Anthropological Thought on Climate Change
Physical objects have tremendous associative power embodying more than remembrance […] imagination materiality objects philosophy The Interconnectedness of Objects and Imagination
Aztec Philosophy is James Maffie’s attempt to reconstruct Aztec perceptions […] Aztec philosophy Weaving the Dynamic Cosmos
With the increase in food studies academic programs and food-centric […] food pedagogy theory Conversations about Teaching Food and Culture
Eva Keller’s Beyond the Lens of Conservation is an interesting […] Africa conservation heritage history Bridges through Conservation Development
As soon as I learned about the publication of Animals […] animals archaeology Inequality We Think With Animals, and Thereby We Are Human
How are anthropologists to understand households when markets and states […] economic anthropolology household kinship post-socialism Humans and their Households: Ideals of Self-Sufficiency in Changing Economies
The Porgera valley in Papua New Guinea is well-known as […] Christianity development landscapes mining Papua New Guinea Outside the Benefit Zone, Inside the Impact Zone: Jerry Jacka on Mining and Social Change …
Mols and Buitelaar’s edited volume places the Hajj within a […] Islam pilgrimage religion ritual Globalization and the Hajj Pilgrimage: From a Brief History to the Future Management of Mecca …
Secrecy and Insurgency is purportedly about the demobilization of guerrilla […] conflict governmentality Guatemala secrecy violence Demilitarized Guerrillas and the Cultural Legacies of State Sponsored Violence in Guatemala
Late in the 20th century, David Lowenthal (1996) famously wrote […] heritage history rhetoric social change Clarifying Heritage
Careful accounting has been used to implicate the vice president […] genocide governmentality Guatemala mathematics violence Who “Counts”?: How Numbering Defines Who Matters (and Who Decides)
Reclaiming the Forest, edited by Åshild Kolås and Yuanyuan Xie, […] ethnohistory Ewenki history Uncovering the Contemporary Lives of the Little Known Chinese Ewenki
Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany is an excellent volume that […] archaeology ecology theory New Outlooks in Paleoethnobotany
As stated in the introduction, there is a dearth of […] archaeology death ritual Re-evaluating the State of Mortuary Studies in the Near East
Health narratives are similar to ethnographies in that they address […] medical anthropology Details of Experience on Health and Culture
The Ecology of Pastoralism is an outstanding collection of papers […] archaeology ecology history landscapes Pastoralism and Pastoralists Since the Bonze Age till the Present: an Environmental Interpretation of Historical …
Toren and Pauwels frame the essays in Living Kinship in […] kinship Pacific Kinship as Continuity and Transformative Process in Pacific Island Societies