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  • Hope and Uncertainty in Contemporary African Migration reviews

    Hope and Uncertainty in Contemporary African Migration Book Reviews

    Nauja Kleist & Dorte Thorsen

    This volume examines the relationship between hope, mobility, and immobility in African migration. Through case studies set within and beyond the continent, it demonstrates that ho...

  • Settling for Less reviews

    Settling for Less Book Reviews

    Steven C. Dinero

    The resettlement of the Negev Bedouin (Israel) has been wrought with controversy since its inception in the 1960s. Presenting evidence from a twodecade period, the author addresses...

  • Slogans reviews

    Slogans Book Reviews

    Nicolette Makovicky, Anne-Christine Trémon & Sheyla S. Zandonai

    Focusing on contexts of accelerated economic and political reform, this volume critically examines the role of slogans in the contemporary projects of populist mobilization, neolib...

  • Bang Chan reviews

    Bang Chan Book Reviews

    Lauriston Sharp & Lucien M. Hanks

    Bang Chan traces the changing cultural characteristics of a small Siamese village during the century and a quarter from its founding as a wilderness settlement outside Bangkok to i...

  • Parola X parola reviews

    Parola X parola Book Reviews

    AA. VV.

    Questi brevi racconti sono stati raccolti durante i diversi incontri chesi sono tenuti nelle biblioteche che hanno aderito a "Shangrila Labiblioteca ideale".Nel corso di...

  • Meeting Ethnography reviews

    Meeting Ethnography Book Reviews

    Jen Sandler & Renita Thedvall

    This volume asks and addresses elusive ontological, epistemological, and methodological questions about meetings. What are meetings? What sort of knowledge, identities, and power r...

  • Distant Companions reviews

    Distant Companions Book Reviews

    Karen Tranberg Hansen

    Distant Companions tells the fascinating story of the lives and times of domestic servants and their employers in Zambia from the beginning of white settlement during the colonial ...

  • Arguing With Anthropology reviews

    Arguing With Anthropology Book Reviews

    Karen Sykes

    Arguing with Anthropology is a fresh and wholly original guide to key elements in anthropology, which teaches the ability to think, write and argue critically. Using the classic &#...

  • The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America reviews

    The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America Book Reviews

    Margit Ystanes & Iselin Åsedotter Strønen

    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during th...

  • Pentecostalism and Witchcraft reviews

    Pentecostalism and Witchcraft Book Reviews

    Knut Rio, Michelle MacCarthy & Ruy Blanes

    This open access book presents fresh ethnographic work from the regions of Africa and Melanesiawhere the popularity of charismatic Christianity can be linked to a revival ...

  • History and Power in the Study of Law reviews

    History and Power in the Study of Law Book Reviews

    June Starr & Jane F Collier

    Building on earlier work in the anthropology of law and taking a critical stance toward it, June Starr and Jane F. Collier ask, "Should social anthropologists continue to isol...

  • Negotiating the Pandemic reviews

    Negotiating the Pandemic Book Reviews

    Inayat Ali & Robbie Davis-Floyd

    This book centers on negotiations around cultural, governmental, and individual constructions of COVID19. It considers how the coronavirus pandemic has been negotiated in different...

  • The Nation Form in the Global Age reviews

    The Nation Form in the Global Age Book Reviews

    Irfan Ahmad & Jie Kang

    These incisive essays explore nationalist violence and ethnoreligious purification in Europe, South Africa, the Middle East, India, and China. Readers will encounter the extreme pr...

  • Ingenious Ape Ascending reviews

    Ingenious Ape Ascending Book Reviews

    Derek Hitchins

    The ascent of Man, from his earliest beginnings, through early civilizations and present social evolution, to his foreseeable future beyond Global Warming a fascinating journey…pa...

  • Chinatown No More reviews

    Chinatown No More Book Reviews

    Hsiang-Shui Chen

    By focusing on the social and cultural life of post1965 Taiwan immigrants in Queens, New York, this book shifts Chinese American studies from ethnic enclaves to the diverse multiet...

  • The Making of Islamic Heritage reviews

    The Making of Islamic Heritage Book Reviews

    Trinidad Rico

    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.  Offering key insights into critical debates on the construction, management and destruction of heritage in Muslim cont...

  • Violent Becomings reviews

    Violent Becomings Book Reviews

    Bjørn Enge Bertelsen

    Violent Becomings conceptualizes the Mozambican state not as the bureaucratically ordered polity of the nationstate, but as a continuously emergent and violently challenged mode of...

  • Indigenous Statistics reviews

    Indigenous Statistics Book Reviews

    Maggie Walter & Chris Andersen

    In the first book ever published on Indigenous quantitative methodologies, Maggie Walter and Chris Andersen open up a major new approach to research across the disciplines and appl...

  • Changes for A Learning Opportunity reviews

    Changes for A Learning Opportunity Book Reviews

    Jeremy P. Boggess

    “… There are a lot of different changes happening in our world right now and they are being experienced simultaneously. Environmental (some obviously caused by human actions and ot...

  • Beyond Global Food Supply Chains reviews

    Beyond Global Food Supply Chains Book Reviews

    Victoria Stead & Melinda Hinkson

    "Through a set of incisive essays, this incredibly timely book shows how much the COVID19 pandemic has exposed both vulnerabilities and opportunities for (racial) capitalism ...

  • New Horizons for Asian Museums and Museology reviews

    New Horizons for Asian Museums and Museology Book Reviews

    Naoko Sonoda

    This book presents uptodate information about museums and museology in presentday Asia, focusing on Japan, Mongolia, Myanmar, and Thailand. Asian countries today have developed or ...

  • Mistrust reviews

    Mistrust Book Reviews

    Florian Mühlfried

    Scholars have long seen trust as a foundational social good. We therefore have ample studies on building trust in free markets, on cultivating trust in the state, and on rebuilding...

  • Human Extinction and the Pandemic Imaginary reviews

    Human Extinction and the Pandemic Imaginary Book Reviews

    Christos Lynteris

    This book develops an examination and critique of human extinction as a result of the ‘next pandemic’ and turns attention towards the role of pandemic catastrophe in the renegotiat...

  • Enduring Uncertainty reviews

    Enduring Uncertainty Book Reviews

    Ines Hasselberg

    Focusing on the lived experience of immigration policy and processes, this volume provides fascinating insights into the deportation process as it is felt and understood by those s...

  • Contextualizing Disaster reviews

    Contextualizing Disaster Book Reviews

    Gregory V. Button & Mark Schuller

    Contextualizing Disaster offers a comparative analysis of six recent "highly visible" disasters and several slowburning, "hidden," crises that include typhoons,...

  • Martial Culture and Historical Martial Arts in Europe and Asia reviews

    Martial Culture and Historical Martial Arts in Europe and Asia Book Reviews

    Hing Chao, Daniel Jaquet & Loretta Kim

    This open access book is the first publication to provide a comparative framework for the study of martial culture and historical martial arts in Europe and Asia, in particular in ...

  • Togetherness - A new heritage deal for Europe reviews

    Togetherness - A new heritage deal for Europe Book Reviews

    Hermann Parzinger & European Investment Bank

    Europe's cultural heritage is a vast, multifaceted mosaic showing who we were, who we are and who we aspire to be. We are all responsible for this huge, precious and fragile l...

  • Museum Digitisations and Emerging Curatorial Agencies Online reviews

    Museum Digitisations and Emerging Curatorial Agencies Online Book Reviews

    Bodil Axelsson, Fiona R. Cameron, Katherine Hauptman & Sheenagh Pietrobruno

    This open access book explores the multiple forms of curatorial agencies that develop when museum collection digitisations, narratives and new research findings circulate online. F...

  • Bush Bound reviews

    Bush Bound Book Reviews

    Paolo Gaibazzi

    Whereas most studies of migration focus on movement, this book examines the experience of staying put. It looks at young men living in a Soninkespeaking village in Gambia who, alth...

  • On Inequality reviews

    On Inequality Book Reviews

    Tessa Bending & European Investment Bank

    Does Europe have an inequality problem? Amid the COVID19 pandemic, many Europeans are certainly struggling. The rise of populist movements is another signal that something is awry....

  • Queering Knowledge reviews

    Queering Knowledge Book Reviews

    Paul Boyce, EJ Gonzalez-Polledo & Silvia Posocco

    This volume draws on the significance of the work of Marilyn Strathern in respect of its potential to queer anthropological analysis and to foster the reimagining of the object of ...

  • Forging the Ideal Educated Girl reviews

    Forging the Ideal Educated Girl Book Reviews

    Shenila Khoja-Moolji

    A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org&am...

  • Afrikaners and the Boundaries of Faith in Post-Apartheid South Africa reviews

    Afrikaners and the Boundaries of Faith in Post-Apartheid South Africa Book Reviews

    Annika Björnsdotter Teppo

    This book examines the shifting moral and spiritual lives of white Afrikaners in South Africa after apartheid. The end of South Africa’s apartheid system of racial and spatial segr...

  • Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory reviews

    Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory Book Reviews

    Eric Delson, Ian Tattersall, John Van Couvering & Alison S. Brooks

    Praise for the first edition: "The most uptodate and wideranging encyclopedia work on human evolution available."American Reference Books Annual "For studen...

  • Landscapes of Care reviews

    Landscapes of Care Book Reviews

    Thurka Sangaramoorthy

    This insightful work on rural health in the United States examines the ways immigrants, mainly from Latin America and the Caribbean, navigate the health care system in the United S...

  • Sensing the Everyday reviews

    Sensing the Everyday Book Reviews

    C. Nadia Seremetakis

    Sensing the Everyday is a multisited ethnographic inquiry based on fieldwork experiences and sharp everyday observations in the era of crisis. Blending sophisticated theoretical an...

  • Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation reviews

    Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation Book Reviews

    Yasmine Berriane, Annuska Derks, Aymon Kreil & Dorothea Lüddeckens

    Carefully contextualizing the ethnography by taking scale and time seriously, the book shows why fieldwork is both necessary and insufficient if the aim is to make sense o...

  • Dissonant Heritages and Memories in Contemporary Europe reviews

    Dissonant Heritages and Memories in Contemporary Europe Book Reviews

    Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Luisa Passerini, Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus & Iris van Huis

    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license This open access book discusses political, economic, social, and humanitarian challenges that influence both how people deal with...

  • India and the Patent Wars reviews

    India and the Patent Wars Book Reviews

    Murphy Halliburton

    India and the Patent War s contributes to an international debate over the costs of medicine and restrictions on access under stringent patent laws showing how activists and drug c...

  • The Anthropology of Epidemics reviews

    The Anthropology of Epidemics Book Reviews

    Ann H. Kelly, Frédéric Keck & Christos Lynteris

    Over the past decades, infectious disease epidemics have come to increasingly pose major global health challenges to humanity. The Anthropology of Epidemics approaches epidemics as...

  • Qualitative Research in Gambling reviews

    Qualitative Research in Gambling Book Reviews

    Rebecca Cassidy, Andrea Pisac & Claire Loussouarn

    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons AttributionNon CommercialNo Derivatives 3.0 license....

  • Afropolitan Horizons reviews

    Afropolitan Horizons Book Reviews

    Ulf Hannerz

    Nigeria is a country shaped by internal diversity and transnational connections, past and present. Leading Nigerian writers from Chinua Achebe, Amos Tutuola and Wole Soyinka to Chi...

  • Lesbian Mothers reviews

    Lesbian Mothers Book Reviews

    Ellen Lewin

    Within a society that long considered "lesbian motherhood" a contradiction in terms, what were the experiences of lesbian mothers at the end of the twentieth century? In ...

  • Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime reviews

    Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime Book Reviews

    Francesca Billiani & Laura Pennacchietti

    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license “Francesca Billiani and Laura Pennacchietti draw brilliantly and with precision the evolution of the new architecture and of the ...

  • The Democracy Development Machine reviews

    The Democracy Development Machine Book Reviews

    Nicholas Copeland

    Nicholas Copeland sheds new light on rural politics in Guatemala and across neoliberal and postconflict settings in The Democracy Development Machin e. This historical ethnography ...

  • La Tirana y San Lorenzo reviews

    La Tirana y San Lorenzo Book Reviews

    Bernardo Guerrero Jiménez & Francisca Basaure

    Este libro narra y analiza dos festividades religiosas al interior de la fiesta de La Tirana y de San Lorenzo. Una es la Romería de los Músicos que se desarrolla en forma paralela ...

  • Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism reviews

    Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism Book Reviews

    Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard & Juan Javier Rivera Andía

    Exploring indigenous life projects in encounters with extractivism, the present open access volume discusses how current turbulences actualise questions of indigeneity, difference ...

  • Refugees on the Move reviews

    Refugees on the Move Book Reviews

    Erol Balkan & Zümray Kutlu Tonak

    Refugees on the Move highlights and explores the profound complexities of the current refugee issue by focusing specifically on Syrian refugees in Turkey and other European countri...

  • Chemical Youth reviews

    Chemical Youth Book Reviews

    Anita Hardon

    This open access book explores how young people engage with chemical substances in their everyday lives. It builds upon and supplements a large body of literature on young people’s...

  • How Generations Remember reviews

    How Generations Remember Book Reviews

    Monika Palmberger

    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book provides a profound insight into postwar Mostar, and the memories of three generations of this BosnianHerzegovinian ci...

  • Narkomania reviews

    Narkomania Book Reviews

    Jennifer J. Carroll

    Against the backdrop of a postSoviet state set aflame by geopolitical conflict and violent revolution, Narkomania considers whether substance use disorders are everywhere the same ...

  • Anthropological Perspectives on Environmental Communication reviews

    Anthropological Perspectives on Environmental Communication Book Reviews

    Annelie Sjölander-Lindqvist, Ivan Murin & Michael E. Dove

    In the continuous search for sustainability, the exchange of diverse perspectives, assumptions, and values is indispensable to environmental protection. Through anthropological and...

  • Going to Pentecost reviews

    Going to Pentecost Book Reviews

    Annelin Eriksen, Ruy Llera Blanes & Michelle MacCarthy

    Coauthored by three anthropologists with long–term expertise studying Pentecostalism in Vanuatu, Angola, and Papua New Guinea/the Trobriand Islands respectively, Going to Pentecost...

  • A View to Understanding reviews

    A View to Understanding Book Reviews

    Bill Bisbee

    Describes two basic thought patterns of cultural development over time and the consequences of each. This is a personal perspective.

  • Design Ethnography reviews

    Design Ethnography Book Reviews

    Francis Müller

    This open access book describes methods for research on and research through design. It posits that ethnography is an appropriate method for design research because it constantly o...

  • Cultural Models of Nature reviews

    Cultural Models of Nature Book Reviews

    Giovanni Bennardo

    Drawing on the ethnographic experience of the contributors, this volume explores the Cultural Models of Nature found in a range of foodproducing communities located in climatechang...

  • The Return of Polyandry reviews

    The Return of Polyandry Book Reviews

    Heidi E. Fjeld

    Tibet is known for its broad range of marriage practices, particularly polyandry, where two or more brothers share one wife. With economic development and massive Chinese social an...

  • Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes reviews

    Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes Book Reviews

    Dwight F. Reynolds

    An astonishingly rich oral epic that chronicles the early history of a Bedouin tribe, the Sirat Bani Hilal has been performed for almost a thousand years. In this ethnography of a ...

  • Global Culture, Island Identity reviews

    Global Culture, Island Identity Book Reviews

    Karen Fog Olwig

    Looking at the development of cultural identity in the global context, this text uses the approach of historical anthropology. It examines the way in which the West Indian Communit...

  • Grazing Communities reviews

    Grazing Communities Book Reviews

    Letizia Bindi

    Pastoralism is a diffused and ancient form of human subsistence and probably one of the most studied by anthropologists at the crossroads between continuities and transformations. ...

Best Paid Anthropology Books of 2024

  • Hope and Uncertainty in Contemporary African Migration reviews

    Hope and Uncertainty in Contemporary African Migration Book Reviews

    Nauja Kleist & Dorte Thorsen

    This volume examines the relationship between hope, mobility, and immobility in African migration. Through case studies set within and beyond the continent, it demonstrates that ho...

  • Settling for Less reviews

    Settling for Less Book Reviews

    Steven C. Dinero

    The resettlement of the Negev Bedouin (Israel) has been wrought with controversy since its inception in the 1960s. Presenting evidence from a twodecade period, the author addresses...

  • Slogans reviews

    Slogans Book Reviews

    Nicolette Makovicky, Anne-Christine Trémon & Sheyla S. Zandonai

    Focusing on contexts of accelerated economic and political reform, this volume critically examines the role of slogans in the contemporary projects of populist mobilization, neolib...

  • Bang Chan reviews

    Bang Chan Book Reviews

    Lauriston Sharp & Lucien M. Hanks

    Bang Chan traces the changing cultural characteristics of a small Siamese village during the century and a quarter from its founding as a wilderness settlement outside Bangkok to i...

  • Parola X parola reviews

    Parola X parola Book Reviews

    AA. VV.

    Questi brevi racconti sono stati raccolti durante i diversi incontri chesi sono tenuti nelle biblioteche che hanno aderito a "Shangrila Labiblioteca ideale".Nel corso di...

  • Meeting Ethnography reviews

    Meeting Ethnography Book Reviews

    Jen Sandler & Renita Thedvall

    This volume asks and addresses elusive ontological, epistemological, and methodological questions about meetings. What are meetings? What sort of knowledge, identities, and power r...

  • Distant Companions reviews

    Distant Companions Book Reviews

    Karen Tranberg Hansen

    Distant Companions tells the fascinating story of the lives and times of domestic servants and their employers in Zambia from the beginning of white settlement during the colonial ...

  • Arguing With Anthropology reviews

    Arguing With Anthropology Book Reviews

    Karen Sykes

    Arguing with Anthropology is a fresh and wholly original guide to key elements in anthropology, which teaches the ability to think, write and argue critically. Using the classic &#...

  • The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America reviews

    The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America Book Reviews

    Margit Ystanes & Iselin Åsedotter Strønen

    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during th...

  • Pentecostalism and Witchcraft reviews

    Pentecostalism and Witchcraft Book Reviews

    Knut Rio, Michelle MacCarthy & Ruy Blanes

    This open access book presents fresh ethnographic work from the regions of Africa and Melanesiawhere the popularity of charismatic Christianity can be linked to a revival ...

  • History and Power in the Study of Law reviews

    History and Power in the Study of Law Book Reviews

    June Starr & Jane F Collier

    Building on earlier work in the anthropology of law and taking a critical stance toward it, June Starr and Jane F. Collier ask, "Should social anthropologists continue to isol...

  • Negotiating the Pandemic reviews

    Negotiating the Pandemic Book Reviews

    Inayat Ali & Robbie Davis-Floyd

    This book centers on negotiations around cultural, governmental, and individual constructions of COVID19. It considers how the coronavirus pandemic has been negotiated in different...

  • The Nation Form in the Global Age reviews

    The Nation Form in the Global Age Book Reviews

    Irfan Ahmad & Jie Kang

    These incisive essays explore nationalist violence and ethnoreligious purification in Europe, South Africa, the Middle East, India, and China. Readers will encounter the extreme pr...

  • Ingenious Ape Ascending reviews

    Ingenious Ape Ascending Book Reviews

    Derek Hitchins

    The ascent of Man, from his earliest beginnings, through early civilizations and present social evolution, to his foreseeable future beyond Global Warming a fascinating journey…pa...

  • Chinatown No More reviews

    Chinatown No More Book Reviews

    Hsiang-Shui Chen

    By focusing on the social and cultural life of post1965 Taiwan immigrants in Queens, New York, this book shifts Chinese American studies from ethnic enclaves to the diverse multiet...

  • The Making of Islamic Heritage reviews

    The Making of Islamic Heritage Book Reviews

    Trinidad Rico

    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.  Offering key insights into critical debates on the construction, management and destruction of heritage in Muslim cont...

  • Violent Becomings reviews

    Violent Becomings Book Reviews

    Bjørn Enge Bertelsen

    Violent Becomings conceptualizes the Mozambican state not as the bureaucratically ordered polity of the nationstate, but as a continuously emergent and violently challenged mode of...

  • Indigenous Statistics reviews

    Indigenous Statistics Book Reviews

    Maggie Walter & Chris Andersen

    In the first book ever published on Indigenous quantitative methodologies, Maggie Walter and Chris Andersen open up a major new approach to research across the disciplines and appl...

  • Changes for A Learning Opportunity reviews

    Changes for A Learning Opportunity Book Reviews

    Jeremy P. Boggess

    “… There are a lot of different changes happening in our world right now and they are being experienced simultaneously. Environmental (some obviously caused by human actions and ot...

  • Beyond Global Food Supply Chains reviews

    Beyond Global Food Supply Chains Book Reviews

    Victoria Stead & Melinda Hinkson

    "Through a set of incisive essays, this incredibly timely book shows how much the COVID19 pandemic has exposed both vulnerabilities and opportunities for (racial) capitalism ...

  • New Horizons for Asian Museums and Museology reviews

    New Horizons for Asian Museums and Museology Book Reviews

    Naoko Sonoda

    This book presents uptodate information about museums and museology in presentday Asia, focusing on Japan, Mongolia, Myanmar, and Thailand. Asian countries today have developed or ...

  • Mistrust reviews

    Mistrust Book Reviews

    Florian Mühlfried

    Scholars have long seen trust as a foundational social good. We therefore have ample studies on building trust in free markets, on cultivating trust in the state, and on rebuilding...

  • Human Extinction and the Pandemic Imaginary reviews

    Human Extinction and the Pandemic Imaginary Book Reviews

    Christos Lynteris

    This book develops an examination and critique of human extinction as a result of the ‘next pandemic’ and turns attention towards the role of pandemic catastrophe in the renegotiat...

  • Enduring Uncertainty reviews

    Enduring Uncertainty Book Reviews

    Ines Hasselberg

    Focusing on the lived experience of immigration policy and processes, this volume provides fascinating insights into the deportation process as it is felt and understood by those s...

  • Contextualizing Disaster reviews

    Contextualizing Disaster Book Reviews

    Gregory V. Button & Mark Schuller

    Contextualizing Disaster offers a comparative analysis of six recent "highly visible" disasters and several slowburning, "hidden," crises that include typhoons,...

  • Martial Culture and Historical Martial Arts in Europe and Asia reviews

    Martial Culture and Historical Martial Arts in Europe and Asia Book Reviews

    Hing Chao, Daniel Jaquet & Loretta Kim

    This open access book is the first publication to provide a comparative framework for the study of martial culture and historical martial arts in Europe and Asia, in particular in ...

  • Togetherness - A new heritage deal for Europe reviews

    Togetherness - A new heritage deal for Europe Book Reviews

    Hermann Parzinger & European Investment Bank

    Europe's cultural heritage is a vast, multifaceted mosaic showing who we were, who we are and who we aspire to be. We are all responsible for this huge, precious and fragile l...

  • Museum Digitisations and Emerging Curatorial Agencies Online reviews

    Museum Digitisations and Emerging Curatorial Agencies Online Book Reviews

    Bodil Axelsson, Fiona R. Cameron, Katherine Hauptman & Sheenagh Pietrobruno

    This open access book explores the multiple forms of curatorial agencies that develop when museum collection digitisations, narratives and new research findings circulate online. F...

  • Bush Bound reviews

    Bush Bound Book Reviews

    Paolo Gaibazzi

    Whereas most studies of migration focus on movement, this book examines the experience of staying put. It looks at young men living in a Soninkespeaking village in Gambia who, alth...

  • On Inequality reviews

    On Inequality Book Reviews

    Tessa Bending & European Investment Bank

    Does Europe have an inequality problem? Amid the COVID19 pandemic, many Europeans are certainly struggling. The rise of populist movements is another signal that something is awry....

  • Queering Knowledge reviews

    Queering Knowledge Book Reviews

    Paul Boyce, EJ Gonzalez-Polledo & Silvia Posocco

    This volume draws on the significance of the work of Marilyn Strathern in respect of its potential to queer anthropological analysis and to foster the reimagining of the object of ...

  • Forging the Ideal Educated Girl reviews

    Forging the Ideal Educated Girl Book Reviews

    Shenila Khoja-Moolji

    A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org&am...

  • Afrikaners and the Boundaries of Faith in Post-Apartheid South Africa reviews

    Afrikaners and the Boundaries of Faith in Post-Apartheid South Africa Book Reviews

    Annika Björnsdotter Teppo

    This book examines the shifting moral and spiritual lives of white Afrikaners in South Africa after apartheid. The end of South Africa’s apartheid system of racial and spatial segr...

  • Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory reviews

    Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory Book Reviews

    Eric Delson, Ian Tattersall, John Van Couvering & Alison S. Brooks

    Praise for the first edition: "The most uptodate and wideranging encyclopedia work on human evolution available."American Reference Books Annual "For studen...

  • Landscapes of Care reviews

    Landscapes of Care Book Reviews

    Thurka Sangaramoorthy

    This insightful work on rural health in the United States examines the ways immigrants, mainly from Latin America and the Caribbean, navigate the health care system in the United S...

  • Sensing the Everyday reviews

    Sensing the Everyday Book Reviews

    C. Nadia Seremetakis

    Sensing the Everyday is a multisited ethnographic inquiry based on fieldwork experiences and sharp everyday observations in the era of crisis. Blending sophisticated theoretical an...

  • Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation reviews

    Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation Book Reviews

    Yasmine Berriane, Annuska Derks, Aymon Kreil & Dorothea Lüddeckens

    Carefully contextualizing the ethnography by taking scale and time seriously, the book shows why fieldwork is both necessary and insufficient if the aim is to make sense o...

  • Dissonant Heritages and Memories in Contemporary Europe reviews

    Dissonant Heritages and Memories in Contemporary Europe Book Reviews

    Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Luisa Passerini, Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus & Iris van Huis

    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license This open access book discusses political, economic, social, and humanitarian challenges that influence both how people deal with...

  • India and the Patent Wars reviews

    India and the Patent Wars Book Reviews

    Murphy Halliburton

    India and the Patent War s contributes to an international debate over the costs of medicine and restrictions on access under stringent patent laws showing how activists and drug c...

  • The Anthropology of Epidemics reviews

    The Anthropology of Epidemics Book Reviews

    Ann H. Kelly, Frédéric Keck & Christos Lynteris

    Over the past decades, infectious disease epidemics have come to increasingly pose major global health challenges to humanity. The Anthropology of Epidemics approaches epidemics as...

  • Qualitative Research in Gambling reviews

    Qualitative Research in Gambling Book Reviews

    Rebecca Cassidy, Andrea Pisac & Claire Loussouarn

    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons AttributionNon CommercialNo Derivatives 3.0 license....

  • Afropolitan Horizons reviews

    Afropolitan Horizons Book Reviews

    Ulf Hannerz

    Nigeria is a country shaped by internal diversity and transnational connections, past and present. Leading Nigerian writers from Chinua Achebe, Amos Tutuola and Wole Soyinka to Chi...

  • Lesbian Mothers reviews

    Lesbian Mothers Book Reviews

    Ellen Lewin

    Within a society that long considered "lesbian motherhood" a contradiction in terms, what were the experiences of lesbian mothers at the end of the twentieth century? In ...

  • Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime reviews

    Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime Book Reviews

    Francesca Billiani & Laura Pennacchietti

    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license “Francesca Billiani and Laura Pennacchietti draw brilliantly and with precision the evolution of the new architecture and of the ...

  • The Democracy Development Machine reviews

    The Democracy Development Machine Book Reviews

    Nicholas Copeland

    Nicholas Copeland sheds new light on rural politics in Guatemala and across neoliberal and postconflict settings in The Democracy Development Machin e. This historical ethnography ...

  • La Tirana y San Lorenzo reviews

    La Tirana y San Lorenzo Book Reviews

    Bernardo Guerrero Jiménez & Francisca Basaure

    Este libro narra y analiza dos festividades religiosas al interior de la fiesta de La Tirana y de San Lorenzo. Una es la Romería de los Músicos que se desarrolla en forma paralela ...

  • Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism reviews

    Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism Book Reviews

    Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard & Juan Javier Rivera Andía

    Exploring indigenous life projects in encounters with extractivism, the present open access volume discusses how current turbulences actualise questions of indigeneity, difference ...

  • Refugees on the Move reviews

    Refugees on the Move Book Reviews

    Erol Balkan & Zümray Kutlu Tonak

    Refugees on the Move highlights and explores the profound complexities of the current refugee issue by focusing specifically on Syrian refugees in Turkey and other European countri...

  • Chemical Youth reviews

    Chemical Youth Book Reviews

    Anita Hardon

    This open access book explores how young people engage with chemical substances in their everyday lives. It builds upon and supplements a large body of literature on young people’s...

  • How Generations Remember reviews

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