Best Anthropology Books
Best Free Anthropology Books of 2024
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Hope and Uncertainty in Contemporary African Migration Book Reviews
Nauja Kleist & Dorte ThorsenThis 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...
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Settling for Less Book Reviews
Steven C. DineroThe 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...
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Slogans Book Reviews
Nicolette Makovicky, Anne-Christine Trémon & Sheyla S. ZandonaiFocusing on contexts of accelerated economic and political reform, this volume critically examines the role of slogans in the contemporary projects of populist mobilization, neolib...
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Bang Chan Book Reviews
Lauriston Sharp & Lucien M. HanksBang 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...
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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...
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Meeting Ethnography Book Reviews
Jen Sandler & Renita ThedvallThis volume asks and addresses elusive ontological, epistemological, and methodological questions about meetings. What are meetings? What sort of knowledge, identities, and power r...
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Distant Companions Book Reviews
Karen Tranberg HansenDistant 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 ...
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Arguing With Anthropology Book Reviews
Karen SykesArguing 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 ...
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The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America Book Reviews
Margit Ystanes & Iselin Åsedotter StrønenThis 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...
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Pentecostalism and Witchcraft Book Reviews
Knut Rio, Michelle MacCarthy & Ruy BlanesThis 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 ...
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History and Power in the Study of Law Book Reviews
June Starr & Jane F CollierBuilding 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...
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Negotiating the Pandemic Book Reviews
Inayat Ali & Robbie Davis-FloydThis book centers on negotiations around cultural, governmental, and individual constructions of COVID19. It considers how the coronavirus pandemic has been negotiated in different...
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The Nation Form in the Global Age Book Reviews
Irfan Ahmad & Jie KangThese incisive essays explore nationalist violence and ethnoreligious purification in Europe, South Africa, the Middle East, India, and China. Readers will encounter the extreme pr...
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Ingenious Ape Ascending Book Reviews
Derek HitchinsThe 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...
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Chinatown No More Book Reviews
Hsiang-Shui ChenBy 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...
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The Making of Islamic Heritage Book Reviews
Trinidad RicoThis 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...
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Violent Becomings Book Reviews
Bjørn Enge BertelsenViolent Becomings conceptualizes the Mozambican state not as the bureaucratically ordered polity of the nationstate, but as a continuously emergent and violently challenged mode of...
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Indigenous Statistics Book Reviews
Maggie Walter & Chris AndersenIn 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...
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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...
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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 ...
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New Horizons for Asian Museums and Museology Book Reviews
Naoko SonodaThis book presents uptodate information about museums and museology in presentday Asia, focusing on Japan, Mongolia, Myanmar, and Thailand. Asian countries today have developed or ...
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Mistrust Book Reviews
Florian MühlfriedScholars 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...
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Human Extinction and the Pandemic Imaginary Book Reviews
Christos LynterisThis 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...
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Enduring Uncertainty Book Reviews
Ines HasselbergFocusing 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...
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Contextualizing Disaster Book Reviews
Gregory V. Button & Mark SchullerContextualizing Disaster offers a comparative analysis of six recent "highly visible" disasters and several slowburning, "hidden," crises that include typhoons,...
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Martial Culture and Historical Martial Arts in Europe and Asia Book Reviews
Hing Chao, Daniel Jaquet & Loretta KimThis 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 ...
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Togetherness - A new heritage deal for Europe Book Reviews
Hermann Parzinger & European Investment BankEurope'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...
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Museum Digitisations and Emerging Curatorial Agencies Online Book Reviews
Bodil Axelsson, Fiona R. Cameron, Katherine Hauptman & Sheenagh PietrobrunoThis open access book explores the multiple forms of curatorial agencies that develop when museum collection digitisations, narratives and new research findings circulate online. F...
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Bush Bound Book Reviews
Paolo GaibazziWhereas 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...
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On Inequality Book Reviews
Tessa Bending & European Investment BankDoes 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....
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Queering Knowledge Book Reviews
Paul Boyce, EJ Gonzalez-Polledo & Silvia PosoccoThis 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 ...
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Forging the Ideal Educated Girl Book Reviews
Shenila Khoja-MooljiA 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...
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Afrikaners and the Boundaries of Faith in Post-Apartheid South Africa Book Reviews
Annika Björnsdotter TeppoThis 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...
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Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory Book Reviews
Eric Delson, Ian Tattersall, John Van Couvering & Alison S. BrooksPraise for the first edition: "The most uptodate and wideranging encyclopedia work on human evolution available."American Reference Books Annual "For studen...
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Landscapes of Care Book Reviews
Thurka SangaramoorthyThis 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...
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Sensing the Everyday Book Reviews
C. Nadia SeremetakisSensing the Everyday is a multisited ethnographic inquiry based on fieldwork experiences and sharp everyday observations in the era of crisis. Blending sophisticated theoretical an...
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Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation Book Reviews
Yasmine Berriane, Annuska Derks, Aymon Kreil & Dorothea LüddeckensCarefully 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...
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Dissonant Heritages and Memories in Contemporary Europe Book Reviews
Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Luisa Passerini, Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus & Iris van HuisThis 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...
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India and the Patent Wars Book Reviews
Murphy HalliburtonIndia 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...
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The Anthropology of Epidemics Book Reviews
Ann H. Kelly, Frédéric Keck & Christos LynterisOver the past decades, infectious disease epidemics have come to increasingly pose major global health challenges to humanity. The Anthropology of Epidemics approaches epidemics as...
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Qualitative Research in Gambling Book Reviews
Rebecca Cassidy, Andrea Pisac & Claire LoussouarnThe 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....
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Afropolitan Horizons Book Reviews
Ulf HannerzNigeria 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...
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Lesbian Mothers Book Reviews
Ellen LewinWithin 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 ...
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Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime Book Reviews
Francesca Billiani & Laura PennacchiettiThis 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 ...
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The Democracy Development Machine Book Reviews
Nicholas CopelandNicholas Copeland sheds new light on rural politics in Guatemala and across neoliberal and postconflict settings in The Democracy Development Machin e. This historical ethnography ...
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La Tirana y San Lorenzo Book Reviews
Bernardo Guerrero Jiménez & Francisca BasaureEste 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 ...
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Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism Book Reviews
Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard & Juan Javier Rivera AndíaExploring indigenous life projects in encounters with extractivism, the present open access volume discusses how current turbulences actualise questions of indigeneity, difference ...
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Refugees on the Move Book Reviews
Erol Balkan & Zümray Kutlu TonakRefugees 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...
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Chemical Youth Book Reviews
Anita HardonThis 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...
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How Generations Remember Book Reviews
Monika PalmbergerThis 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...
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Narkomania Book Reviews
Jennifer J. CarrollAgainst the backdrop of a postSoviet state set aflame by geopolitical conflict and violent revolution, Narkomania considers whether substance use disorders are everywhere the same ...
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Anthropological Perspectives on Environmental Communication Book Reviews
Annelie Sjölander-Lindqvist, Ivan Murin & Michael E. DoveIn the continuous search for sustainability, the exchange of diverse perspectives, assumptions, and values is indispensable to environmental protection. Through anthropological and...
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Going to Pentecost Book Reviews
Annelin Eriksen, Ruy Llera Blanes & Michelle MacCarthyCoauthored by three anthropologists with long–term expertise studying Pentecostalism in Vanuatu, Angola, and Papua New Guinea/the Trobriand Islands respectively, Going to Pentecost...
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A View to Understanding Book Reviews
Bill BisbeeDescribes two basic thought patterns of cultural development over time and the consequences of each. This is a personal perspective.
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Design Ethnography Book Reviews
Francis MüllerThis 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...
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Cultural Models of Nature Book Reviews
Giovanni BennardoDrawing 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...
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The Return of Polyandry Book Reviews
Heidi E. FjeldTibet 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...
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Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes Book Reviews
Dwight F. ReynoldsAn 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 ...
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Global Culture, Island Identity Book Reviews
Karen Fog OlwigLooking 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...
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Grazing Communities Book Reviews
Letizia BindiPastoralism 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
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Hope and Uncertainty in Contemporary African Migration Book Reviews
Nauja Kleist & Dorte ThorsenThis 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...
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Settling for Less Book Reviews
Steven C. DineroThe 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...
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Slogans Book Reviews
Nicolette Makovicky, Anne-Christine Trémon & Sheyla S. ZandonaiFocusing on contexts of accelerated economic and political reform, this volume critically examines the role of slogans in the contemporary projects of populist mobilization, neolib...
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Bang Chan Book Reviews
Lauriston Sharp & Lucien M. HanksBang 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...
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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...
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Meeting Ethnography Book Reviews
Jen Sandler & Renita ThedvallThis volume asks and addresses elusive ontological, epistemological, and methodological questions about meetings. What are meetings? What sort of knowledge, identities, and power r...
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Distant Companions Book Reviews
Karen Tranberg HansenDistant 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 ...
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Arguing With Anthropology Book Reviews
Karen SykesArguing 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 ...
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The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America Book Reviews
Margit Ystanes & Iselin Åsedotter StrønenThis 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...
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Pentecostalism and Witchcraft Book Reviews
Knut Rio, Michelle MacCarthy & Ruy BlanesThis 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 ...
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History and Power in the Study of Law Book Reviews
June Starr & Jane F CollierBuilding 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...
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Negotiating the Pandemic Book Reviews
Inayat Ali & Robbie Davis-FloydThis book centers on negotiations around cultural, governmental, and individual constructions of COVID19. It considers how the coronavirus pandemic has been negotiated in different...
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The Nation Form in the Global Age Book Reviews
Irfan Ahmad & Jie KangThese 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 Book Reviews
Derek HitchinsThe 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...
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Chinatown No More Book Reviews
Hsiang-Shui ChenBy 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...
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The Making of Islamic Heritage Book Reviews
Trinidad RicoThis 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...
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Violent Becomings Book Reviews
Bjørn Enge BertelsenViolent Becomings conceptualizes the Mozambican state not as the bureaucratically ordered polity of the nationstate, but as a continuously emergent and violently challenged mode of...
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Indigenous Statistics Book Reviews
Maggie Walter & Chris AndersenIn 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...
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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...
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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 ...
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New Horizons for Asian Museums and Museology Book Reviews
Naoko SonodaThis book presents uptodate information about museums and museology in presentday Asia, focusing on Japan, Mongolia, Myanmar, and Thailand. Asian countries today have developed or ...
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Mistrust Book Reviews
Florian MühlfriedScholars 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 Book Reviews
Christos LynterisThis 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 Book Reviews
Ines HasselbergFocusing 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...
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Contextualizing Disaster Book Reviews
Gregory V. Button & Mark SchullerContextualizing Disaster offers a comparative analysis of six recent "highly visible" disasters and several slowburning, "hidden," crises that include typhoons,...
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Martial Culture and Historical Martial Arts in Europe and Asia Book Reviews
Hing Chao, Daniel Jaquet & Loretta KimThis 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 ...
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Togetherness - A new heritage deal for Europe Book Reviews
Hermann Parzinger & European Investment BankEurope'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 Book Reviews
Bodil Axelsson, Fiona R. Cameron, Katherine Hauptman & Sheenagh PietrobrunoThis open access book explores the multiple forms of curatorial agencies that develop when museum collection digitisations, narratives and new research findings circulate online. F...
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Bush Bound Book Reviews
Paolo GaibazziWhereas 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...
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On Inequality Book Reviews
Tessa Bending & European Investment BankDoes 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 Book Reviews
Paul Boyce, EJ Gonzalez-Polledo & Silvia PosoccoThis 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 ...
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Forging the Ideal Educated Girl Book Reviews
Shenila Khoja-MooljiA 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...
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Afrikaners and the Boundaries of Faith in Post-Apartheid South Africa Book Reviews
Annika Björnsdotter TeppoThis 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...
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Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory Book Reviews
Eric Delson, Ian Tattersall, John Van Couvering & Alison S. BrooksPraise for the first edition: "The most uptodate and wideranging encyclopedia work on human evolution available."American Reference Books Annual "For studen...
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Landscapes of Care Book Reviews
Thurka SangaramoorthyThis 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...
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Sensing the Everyday Book Reviews
C. Nadia SeremetakisSensing 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 Book Reviews
Yasmine Berriane, Annuska Derks, Aymon Kreil & Dorothea LüddeckensCarefully 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 Book Reviews
Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Luisa Passerini, Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus & Iris van HuisThis 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...
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India and the Patent Wars Book Reviews
Murphy HalliburtonIndia 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 Book Reviews
Ann H. Kelly, Frédéric Keck & Christos LynterisOver the past decades, infectious disease epidemics have come to increasingly pose major global health challenges to humanity. The Anthropology of Epidemics approaches epidemics as...
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Qualitative Research in Gambling Book Reviews
Rebecca Cassidy, Andrea Pisac & Claire LoussouarnThe 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....
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Afropolitan Horizons Book Reviews
Ulf HannerzNigeria 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 Book Reviews
Ellen LewinWithin 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 ...
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Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime Book Reviews
Francesca Billiani & Laura PennacchiettiThis 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 ...
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The Democracy Development Machine Book Reviews
Nicholas CopelandNicholas Copeland sheds new light on rural politics in Guatemala and across neoliberal and postconflict settings in The Democracy Development Machin e. This historical ethnography ...
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La Tirana y San Lorenzo Book Reviews
Bernardo Guerrero Jiménez & Francisca BasaureEste 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 ...
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Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism Book Reviews
Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard & Juan Javier Rivera AndíaExploring 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 Book Reviews
Erol Balkan & Zümray Kutlu TonakRefugees 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 Book Reviews
Anita HardonThis 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 Book Reviews
Monika PalmbergerThis 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...
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Narkomania Book Reviews
Jennifer J. CarrollAgainst the backdrop of a postSoviet state set aflame by geopolitical conflict and violent revolution, Narkomania considers whether substance use disorders are everywhere the same ...
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Anthropological Perspectives on Environmental Communication Book Reviews
Annelie Sjölander-Lindqvist, Ivan Murin & Michael E. DoveIn the continuous search for sustainability, the exchange of diverse perspectives, assumptions, and values is indispensable to environmental protection. Through anthropological and...
-
Going to Pentecost Book Reviews
Annelin Eriksen, Ruy Llera Blanes & Michelle MacCarthyCoauthored 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 Book Reviews
Bill BisbeeDescribes two basic thought patterns of cultural development over time and the consequences of each. This is a personal perspective.
-
Design Ethnography Book Reviews
Francis MüllerThis 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 Book Reviews
Giovanni BennardoDrawing 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 Book Reviews
Heidi E. FjeldTibet 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 Book Reviews
Dwight F. ReynoldsAn 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 Book Reviews
Karen Fog OlwigLooking 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 Book Reviews
Letizia BindiPastoralism 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. ...