Volume 10 – Anthropology Book Forum

BARUA, MAAN. 2024. Plantation Worlds, Durham: Duke University Press, 312 pp., ISBN: 978-1478020868

BARUA, MAAN. 2024. Plantation Worlds, Durham: Duke University Press, 312 pp., ISBN: 978-1478020868 The plantation is alive and kicking. Large swatches of land in the Global South are being turned into monocultural plantations of oil palm, soybean, cut flowers, and the usual tropical commodities like bananas, sugar cane, coffee, and tea. No surprise then that […]

Eds. by Mark Micale and Hans Pols. Traumatic Pasts in Asia History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present. New York, NY: Berghahn Books, ISBN:9781800731844

Eds. by Mark Micale and Hans Pols. Traumatic Pasts in Asia History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present. New York, NY: Berghahn Books, ISBN:9781800731844 Traumatic Pasts in Asia focuses on how people reacted to horrific past events of wars, mass violence, and natural disasters across modern Asian history, covering the period from the mid-1930s […]

KASSABAUM, M.C., 2021, A History of Platform Mound Ceremonialism: Finding Meaning in Elevated Ground, Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 288 pp., ISBN: 978-1-68340-241-1

MATTHEW C. CANFIELD, 2022, Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance, Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 267 pp., ISBN 978150361344

MATTHEW C. CANFIELD, 2022, Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance, Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 267 pp., ISBN 978150361344 Introduction Translating Food Sovereignty is a compelling ethnography of transnational food sovereignty movements, grounded in the Pacific Northwest. At the heart of the book are questions of how food sovereignty […]

KRISTIN PETERSON and VALERIE OLSON, 2024, Palabras clave: Etnografía, diseño de investigación, metodología de investigación, métodos cualitativos, diseño multidimensional, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 338 pp., ISBN 978-1-4780-2590-0

KRISTIN PETERSON and VALERIE OLSON, 2024, The Ethnographer’s Way: A Handbook for Multidimensional Research Design, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 338 pp., ISBN 978-1-4780-2590-0

Elliott, Denielle, and Matthew Wolf-Meyer, eds. 2024, Naked Fieldnotes: A Rough Guide to Ethnographic Writing. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 320 pp., ISBN 978-1-5179-16145

Elliott, Denielle, and Matthew Wolf-Meyer, eds. 2024, Naked Fieldnotes: A Rough Guide to Ethnographic Writing. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 320 pp., ISBN 978-1-5179-16145 In Naked Fieldnotes: A Rough Guide to Ethnographic Writing, editors Denielle Elliott and Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer seek to fill a gap in ethnographic instruction and literature on how to record […]

AGATA MAZZEO, 2020, Dust Inside: Fighting and Living with Asbestos-Related Disasters in Brazil, New York: Berghahn Books. 202 pp., ISBN 978-1-78920-931-0

WILLIAM S. SAX, 2024, In the Valley of the Kauravas: A Divine Kingdom in the Western Himalaya, Oxford University Press, 320 pp., ISBN 978-0-19887-935-0

WILLIAM S. SAX, 2024, In the Valley of the Kauravas: A Divine Kingdom in the Western Himalaya, Oxford University Press, 320 pp., ISBN 978-0-19887-935-0 Keywords: Divine Kingship, Public Enactment, Cultural Solidarity, Local Deities, Ballad and Oral Tradition The Valley of the Kauravas by William Sax is a beautiful yet candid work, showcasing his […]

AIJAZI, OMER. Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024. 281pp. ISBN 9781512823622

Garrett, Andrew. 2023. The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall – Language, Memory, and Indigenous California. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press. 472 pp. ISBN: 9780262547093

Garrett, Andrew. 2023. The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall – Language, Memory, and Indigenous California. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press. 472 pp. ISBN: 9780262547093 Keywords: Settler Colonialism, Linguistics, Salvage Anthropology, Memory Contestation, Alfred Kroeber Andrew Garrett, professor in the department of linguistics at the University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley), , sets out in this […]

TARINI BEDI, 2022, Mumbai Taximen: Autobiographies and Automobilities in India, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 248 pp., ISBN 9780295749860

In Mumbai Taximen, Tarini Bedi holds open the door for readers to hop into a kaalipeeli taxi with her. Together, in the classic “black and yellow” Padmini taxis of Mumbai, India, Bedi and readers “follow how people make lives through driving work and how they participate in a city’s economic, bureaucratic, and political shifts amid […]

AIMÉE JOYCE, 2024, Spectral Borders: History, neighbourliness and discord on the Polish-Belarusian frontier. Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing, 207 pp, ISBN 9781912385522

AIMÉE JOYCE, 2024, Spectral Borders: History, neighbourliness and discord on the Polish-Belarusian frontier. Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing, 207 pp, ISBN 9781912385522 Keywords: neighbourliness, haunting, borderland, Poland, Belarus, history How to live comfortably in a place haunted by traumatic events? How are lives lived, day-to-day, in a place that entails more than […]

Ulf Hannerz, 2022, Afropolitan Horizons: Essays toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria, New York: Berghahn Books, 226 pp., ISBN 978-1-80073-250-6

TIMMER, ANDRIA D. and ELIZABETH WIRTZ, 2022, Gender, Power, and Non- Governance: Is Female to Male as NGO is to State? New York: Berghahn Books, 298 pp., ISBN 978-1-80073-460-9

MATTHEW LAUER, 2023, Sensing Disaster: Local Knowledge and Vulnerability in Oceania, California: University of California Press, 272 pp., ISBN 9780520392076

Howard Campbell, Downtown Juárez: Underworlds of Violence and Abuse. Austin, University of Texas Press, 2021. ISBN 1477323899. $35 paper.

KINGFISHER, CATHERINE PÉLISSIER. 2022. Collaborative Happiness: Building the Good Life in Urban Cohousing Communities. New York: Berghahn Books, 242 pp., ISBN 9781800732391

Brenda Chalfin. 2023. Waste Works: Vital Politics in Urban Ghana. Duke University Press.

Tom Özden-Schilling, The Ends of Research: Indigenous and Settler Science After the War in the Woods. Duke University Press, 2023. 320 p. IBSN 9781478027669.

Review of “Helmreich, Stefan. 2023. A Book of Waves. The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures. Durham: Duke University Press.”

JONAS TINIUS, 2023, State of the Arts: An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 290 pp., ISBN 978-1-009-32112-9

STEIN, REBECCA. L. (2021). Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine. Stanford University Press, 234 pp., ISBN 978-1-50362-803-8.

STEPHEN PAUL MUMME, 2023, Border Water: The Politics of U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Water Management, 1945-2015, New York: The University of Arizona Press, 414 pp., ISBN 978-0-8165-4830-9

COE, CATI. 2019. The New American Servitude: Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers, New York University Press: New York, Series: Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice, 304 pp., ISBN: 9781479808830

COE, CATI. 2019. The New American Servitude: Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers, New York University Press: New York, Series: Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice, 304 pp., ISBN: 9781479808830 Through the lens of African immigrant home care workers and their clients, Cati Coe’s The New American Servitude: Political Belonging among […]

Shore, C., and Wright, S. 2024. Audit Culture: How Indicators and Rankings are Reshaping the World. Pluto Press.

BOND, DAVID, 2022, Negative ecologies: Fossil fuels and the discovery of the environment, Univ of California Press, 262 pp., ISBN: 978-0-52038-678-5

LAZAR, SIAN, 2023, How We Struggle: A Political Anthropology of Labour. London: Pluto Press, 392 pp., ISBN 978 0 7453 4754 7 EPUB

Gaetano, Arianne M. 2015. Out to work: Migration, Gender, and the Changing Lives of Rural Women in Contemporary China. University of Hawai’i Press. 184 pp.

BRANDI SIMPSON MILLER, 2022, Food and Identity in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ghana: Food, Fights, and Regionalism. Cham: Springer International, 327 pp. ISBN: 978-3-030-88403-1

LATA MANI, 2022, Myriad Intimacies. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 104 pp, ISBN: 978-1-4780-1827-8.

KEYWORDS: Feminist anthropology; spirituality; activism; decolonial theory; South Asian Studies In a recent essay, Tanya Luhrmann (2023) described ethnography as a spiritual practice. Spiritual practices, writes Luhrmann, are “practices that are meant to transform your life.” Myriad Intimacies holds this potential: it does not merely describe but embodies and enacts what a spiritually-driven intellectual and […]

Davé, Naisargi. Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2023.

Davé, Naisargi. Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2023. Keywords: ethics, animals, care, relationality, queerness During the suicide epidemic of the Inuit in Nunavut, the RCMP cared for them by removing them from their families (Stevenson 2014). The Indian state, meanwhile, shows care for Kashmir by […]

KNIGHT, DANIEL, 2021, Vertiginous Life: An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen, New York: Berghahn Books, 163 pp., ISBN 978-1-80073-194-3

Svenja Schöneich, Living on a Time Bomb: Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2023.

Svenja Schöneich, Living on a Time Bomb: Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2023. 256 pp. Hardcover $135. ISBN 9781800736566 Like so many other small towns in the northern Veracruz San Andrés oilfield, residents of the predominately indigenous Mexican community of Emiliano Zapata find themselves […]

SIEFKES, C. (2022). Edible People: The Historical Consumption of Slaves and Foreigners and the Cannibalistic Trade in Human Flesh. New York: Berghahn Books. 332 pp., ISBN 978-1-80073-613-9

EDYTA ROSZKO, 2021, Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 260 pp., ISBN 978-0-8248-9055-1.

EDYTA ROSZKO, 2021, Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 260 pp., ISBN 978-0-8248-9055-1. At the beginning of Edyta Roszko’s ethnography, a group of fishers find something unusual in their net: a statue of a medieval Chinese dignitary, hands clasped in […]

Elizabeth Weiss and James W. Springer, 2020. Repatriation and Erasing the Past, Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 278 pp., ISBN: 9781683401575.

Keywords: NAGPRA, repatriation, reburial, human remains, heritage law. Repatriation and Erasing the Past is a forthright condemnation of the ideology behind, and the enforcement of, theNative American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). NAGPRA is the U.S. Federal law that was passed in 1990 to execute the return of Native American heritage and human remains […]

CATHARINA E. SANTASILIA, GUY DAVID HEPP, AND RICHARD A. DIEHL (EDS.)

2022, Identities, Experience, and Change in Early Mexican Villages. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 350 pp. ISBN 13: 9780813069296 CATHARINA E. SANTASILIA, GUY DAVID HEPP, AND RICHARD A. DIEHL (EDS.) 2022, Identities, Experience, and Change in Early Mexican Villages. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 350 pp. ISBN 13: 9780813069296 The Mesoamerican Formative period is divided […]

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