Volume 11 – Anthropology Book Forum

JASSAL, AFTAB SINGH. 2024. Gods in the World: Placemaking and Healing in the Himalayas. Religion, Culture, and Public Life. New York: Columbia University Press. 244 pp., ISBN 978-0-231-21497-1 (paper).

JASSAL, AFTAB SINGH. 2024. Gods in the World: Placemaking and Healing in the Himalayas. Religion, Culture, and Public Life. New York: Columbia University Press. 244 pp., ISBN 978-0-231-21497-1 (paper). KEYWORDS: body, placemaking, relationality, non-human, India Aftab S. Jassal’s Gods in the World is a finely crafted ethnography of Uttarakhand at the juncture where […]

Being Everywhere and Dreaming about Possible Places: An Interview on Danya Fast’s The Best Place

Ryo Morimoto, 2023,Nuclear Ghost Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima’s Gray Zone, 1st Edition, California Series in Public Anthropology, University of California Press, 356 pp., ISBN: 9780520394117.

Ryo Morimoto, 2023, Nuclear Ghost Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima’s Gray Zone, 1st Edition, California Series in Public Anthropology, University of California Press, 356 pp., ISBN: 9780520394117. Ryo Morimoto’s Nuclear Ghost is a poignant and richly immersive ethnography that probes the interwoven lives, ongoing uncertainties, and contested landscapes of post-disaster Fukushima, over a decade after […]

Sampson, Christina Perry, Victor D. Thompson, and Scott M. Fitzpatrick, eds. 2023. Fisher-Hunter-Gatherer Complexity in North America. First Edition. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Keywords: prehistory, complex societies, historical processualism, subsistence, landscape.

DAIANA SANCHEZ, 2024, The Children of Solaga: Indigenous Belonging across the U.S.-Mexico Border: Stanford University Press, 202pp., ISBN 9781503641389

GIOVANNI BATZ, 2024, The Fourth Invasion: Decolonizing Histories, Extractivism, and Maya Resistance in Guatemala, Oakland: University of California Press, 248 pp., ISBN 978052040173

Keywords: Indigenous Resistance, Dispossession, Extractivism, Historical Memory, Violence Giovanni Batz’s The Fourth Invasion: Decolonizing Histories, Extractivism, and Maya Resistance in Guatemala is a poignant and unflinching account of the long, ongoing legacy of colonial dispossession in Guatemala, specifically in the Cotzal region. Batz masterfully situates local struggles and Indigenous resistance against contemporary economic megaprojects within […]

OMOLADE ADUNBI, 2022, Enclaves of exception: Special economic zones and extractive practices in Nigeria. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 256 pp., ISBN 9780253059567.

VAIBHAV SARIA, Hijras, Lovers, Brothers: Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India, Fordham University Press, 2021, 249pp., ISBN 9780192873767

VAIBHAV SARIA, Hijras, Lovers, Brothers: Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India, Fordham University Press, 2021, 249pp., ISBN 9780192873767 Keywords: Queer Ethnography, Sexuality and Desire, Asceticism and Eroticism, Temporalities of Desire, Hijra Identity “Why do men have sex with men?” …….The answers further link the anxieties of pleasure with the substratum economy of […]

Benazzo, Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo (Directors). The Wisdom of Trauma (Film). Science and Nonduality, 2021. 1hr., 27 min. https://vimeo.com/762456491

Benazzo, Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo (Directors). The Wisdom of Trauma (Film). Science and Nonduality, 2021. 1hr., 27 min. https://vimeo.com/762456491 Keywords: trauma-informed, addiction, compassionate inquiry, unconventional, generational trauma The documentary Wisdom of Trauma, directed and produced by Zaya Benazzo and Maurizio Benazzo, is immersed in the work and philosophy of Dr. Gabor Mate: an author, […]

HATIM A. RAHMAN, 2024, Inside the Invisible Cage: How Algorithms Control Workers,

Oakland: University of California Press, 276 pp., ISBN 9780520395541

Anthony Russell Jerry, Blackness in Mexico: Afro-Mexican Recognition and the Production of Citizenship in the Costa Chica. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2023.

Anthony Russell Jerry, Blackness in Mexico: Afro-Mexican Recognition and the Production of Citizenship in the Costa Chica. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2023. Since the Revolution, Mexican elites have privileged a racial ideology that promotes mestizaje–the mixture of indigenous and European peoples. Yet in more recent years, both international and domestic groups have called for […]

BLUTEAU, JOSHUA M. 2022. Dressing up: Menswear in the Age of Social Media. New York: Berghahn Books, 172 pp., ISBN 9781800732773

Bell, Kirsten. 2022. Silent But Deadly: The Underlying Cultural Patterns of Everyday Behaviour. Caw Press: London. Pages, pp208. ISBN: 978-1-3999-3632-3

Bell, Kirsten. 2022. Silent But Deadly: The Underlying Cultural Patterns of Everyday Behaviour. Caw Press: London. Pages, pp208. ISBN: 978-1-3999-3632-3 Kirsten Bell’s ‘Silent but Deadly’ offers a fresh perspective on the often-overlooked details of everyday life. It transforms the familiar into something fascinating and reveals the subtle patters that govern our behaviour. With a […]

RASMUS RODINELIUSSEN, 2024, Underwater Worlds: An Ethnography of Waste, Pollution, and Marine Life, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 248 pp., ISBN 978-3-031-63372-0

COLIN HOAG, 2022, The Fluvial Imagination: On Lesotho’s Water-Export Economy, Oakland: University of California Press, 224 pp., ISBN 978-0-52038-634-1.

COLIN HOAG, 2022, The Fluvial Imagination: On Lesotho’s Water-Export Economy, Oakland: University of California Press, 224 pp., ISBN 978-0-52038-634-1. In The Fluvial Imagination, Colin Hoag, a former U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Lesotho, examines rangeland and water conservation efforts associated with the Lesotho Highland Water Project, a crucial infrastructure initiative designed to cater to […]

GUPTA, RADHIKA. Freedom in Captivity: Negotiations of Belonging along Kashmir’s Frontier. Cambridge University Press, 2023. 232pp ISBN:9781009201629

BERRY, MAYA J. 2025. Defending Rumba in Havana: The Sacred and Black Corporeal Undercommons. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 311 pg., ISBN 9781478031338

Mathews, Andrew S. 2022. Trees Are Shape Shifters: How Cultivation, Climate Change, and Disaster Create Landscapes. Yale Agrarian Studies Series. New Haven: Yale University Press, 320 pp., ISBN 978-0-300-26037-3

Mathews, Andrew S. 2022. Trees Are Shape Shifters: How Cultivation, Climate Change, and Disaster Create Landscapes. Yale Agrarian Studies Series. New Haven: Yale University Press, 320 pp., ISBN 978-0-300-26037-3 Keywords: Italy, landscape politics, climate change, historical ecology, biomass energy, disasters, care In the Monte Pisano, a mountain range in Tuscany, Italy, people have been living […]

SHAILAJA PAIK. 2022. The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality and Humanity in Modern India, Stanford:Stanford University Press, 422 pp., ISBN 9781503634084

Call the Mothers: Searching for Mexico’s Disappeared in the War on Drugs,

Shaylih Muehlmann, 2024, Call the Mothers: Searching for Mexico’s Disappeared in the War on Drugs, Oakland, California: University of California Press, 264 pp., ISBN 9780520314573 “Call the Mothers: Searching for Mexico’s Disappeared in the War on Drugs” is a compelling multi-sited ethnography that begins with the author’s account of meeting Leticia in Mexico City, […]

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