New Books in Anthropology
Interviews with Anthropologists about their New Books
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- Interviews with Anthropologists about their New Books
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- last modified
- 2025-03-06 18:28
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- 2025-03-06 09:00
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Episodes
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| 2025-03-06 | Aiming to explore the Sino-Tibetan border region, which is renamed âShangri-Laâ by the Chinese government for tourism promotion, Crafting a Tibetan Terroir (U Washington Press, 2025) examines how the deployment of the French notion of terroir creates n... |
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| 2025-03-05 | Dental modification was common across ancient societies, but perhaps none were more avid practitioners than the Maya. They filed their teeth flat or pointy, polished and drilled them, and crafted decorative inlays of jade and pyrite. Unusually, Maya of... |
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| 2025-03-03 |
John Boswell et al., "The Art and Craft of Comparison" (Cambridge UP, 2019) There are many books giving advice about research methods on the market, but The Art and Craft of Comparison (Cambridge UP, 2019) is the first monographic marriage of comparative and interpretive methods. In this episode of the special series New Books... |
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| 2025-03-03 |
Webb Keane, "Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination" (Princeton UP, 2025) Revolutions in technology are fundamentally transforming what it means to be human. Or are they? As Webb Keane points out, before humans consulted ChatGPT, they propitiated oracles. Before they fell in love with robot boyfriends, they ventured into the... |
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| 2025-03-03 |
Deborah Reed-Donahay, "Sideways Migration: Being French in London" (Routledge, 2025) Sideways Migration: Being French in London (Routledge, 2025) examines the relationship between migration and socioeconomic status. In particular, it charts a set of middle-class aspirations that lead people to move to a nearby nation that is similar in... |
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| 2025-03-02 |
Paul G. Keil, "The Presence of Elephants: Shared Lives and Landscapes in Assam" (Routledge, 2024) How to dwell in a forest alongside giants, avoid disturbing a living god, assist an animal with their manners, and help an elephant cross the road. The Presence of Elephants: Sharing Lives and Landscapes in Assam (Routledge, 2024) is an anthropological... |
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| 2025-03-02 | When Only God Can See: The Faith of Muslim Political Prisoners (Pluto Press, 2024), uncovers the unique experiences of Muslim political prisoners held in Egypt and under US custody at Guantanamo Bay and other detention black sites. This groundbreaking ... |
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| 2025-02-26 | Of all the mental illnesses, schizophrenia eludes us the most. No matter the strides scientists have made in neurological research nor doctors have made in psychiatric treatment, schizophrenia remains misunderstood, almost complacently mythologized. Wi... |
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| 2025-02-25 | How do young people participate in democratic societies? Youth Participation and Democracy: Cultures of Doing Society (Bristol UP, 2024) introduces the concept of âdoing societyâ as a new theory of political action. Focused on Finnish youth, it innovat... |
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| 2025-02-21 |
Audun Kjus et al., "Adventures in the Play-Ritual Continuum" (Utah State UP, 2024) Audun Kjus joins Jana Byars to talk about Adventures in the Play-Ritual Continuum (Utah State Press, 2025), eds. Audun Kjus, Jakob Löfgren, Cliona OâCarroll, Simon Poole & Ida Tolgensbakk. Utah State Press, 2025). The junctions between play and rit... |
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