Volume 10 – Anthropology Book Forum

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

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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