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New Books in Anthropology

New Books in Anthropology

Interviews with Anthropologists about their New Books

New Books Network

1,077 episodesEN

Show overview

New Books in Anthropology has been publishing since 2022, and across the 4 years since has built a catalogue of 1,077 episodes. That works out to roughly 980 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a near-daily cadence.

Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 44 min and 1h 4m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Science show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 2 days ago, with 136 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2023, with 371 episodes published. Published by New Books Network.

Episodes
1,077
Running
2022–2026 · 4y
Median length
54 min
Cadence
Near-daily

From the publisher

This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

Ashanté M. Reese, "Gather: Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness" (W. W. Norton, 2026)

Aug 21, 202638 min

A Cure for Loneliness: On Homecoming with Ian Marcus Corbin

Aug 19, 202656 min

Ting Hui Lau, "Decolonial Endurance: Lisu Worldmaking Against Chinese Settler Colonialism" (Stanford UP, 2026)

Aug 17, 20261h 3m

Máximo Badaró, "Pedagogies of Value: Marketing Foreign Goods in China" (Berghahn, 2026)

Aug 16, 202651 min

Sophie Chao, "Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger" (Duke UP, 2025)

Aug 15, 20261h 2m

Dalit Studies with Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana and Sanal Mohan

Aug 10, 20261h 7m

Margaret E. Farrar and Adam Kaul, "Becoming Utopia: History, Heritage, and Sustainability in the American Midwest" (U Nebraska Press, 2026)

Aug 10, 202636 min

Beyond Free Speech: Why AI Governance Demands Freedom of Thought

Aug 9, 202658 min

Ka-ming Wu, "Infrastructural Urbanism in Contemporary China: Volunteering, Infrastructures and Civic Imaginations" (Leiden UP, 2026)

Aug 9, 202652 min

Marisa Karyl Franz, "Near and Desired Things: Shamanism in Late Imperial Local Siberian Museums" (Cornell UP, 2026)

Aug 9, 202656 min

The Microbiopolitics of Novel Foods

Aug 7, 2026

Magdalena E. Stawkowski, "Atomic Collective: Radioactive Life in Kazakhstan" (U Toronto Press, 2025)

Aug 3, 202656 min

Katie Barclay, "The Kiss: A History of Passion and Power" (Reaktion Books, 2025)

Aug 1, 202631 min

Isabel Heger-Laube, "China’s Landless Peasants and the Role of State-led Rural Urbanization: Narratives, Meaning Making, and the Puzzle of Social Stability" (Würzberg UP, 2025)

Jul 31, 20261h 16m

David Zeitlyn and Chihab El Khachab eds., "Understanding Social Images: Essays on Visual Methods and Teaching Visual Anthropology" (Berghahn, 2025)

Jul 27, 20261h 4m

Victoria Donovan, "Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the Ukrainian East" (Daunt Books, 2025)

Jul 26, 20261h 4m

Michelle Bigenho and Henry Stobart, "Heritage Fever: Law and Cultural Politics in a Decolonizing State" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Jul 26, 20261h 0m

Andrew Flachs, "Feeding the World as If People Mattered: How Small Farms Produce Value Beyond Yields" (U Arizona Press, 2026)

Jul 24, 202649 min

Lily Kelting, "Against Heritage: The Reinvention of Traditional Foods" (UNC Press, 2026)

Jul 24, 20261h 3m

Caste as a Material Question with Rahul Sonpimple

Jul 20, 20261h 5m
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