New Books in Anthropology
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Sandra Rozental, "The Absent Stone: Mexican Patrimony and the Aftershocks of State Theft" (Duke UP, 2026)
Sep 17, 202641 min
Tom Hulme, "Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life Before Gay Liberation" (Cornell UP, 2026)
Sep 15, 202648 min
John Charles Simon and Jennalee Donian, "Understanding Laughter and Humor: Why We Laugh, Why We Don’t, and Why It Matters" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2026)
Sep 12, 20261h 6m
John Charles Simon and Jennalee Donian, "Understanding Laughter and Humor: Why We Laugh, Why We Don’t, and Why It Matters" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2026)
Sep 12, 20261h 7m
Francesca Sbardella, "Inhabiting Silence: An Anthropologist in the Cloister" (Berghahn Books, 2025)
Sep 7, 202638 min
Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer et al eds., "Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century" (Rutgers UP, 2026)
Sep 6, 202657 min
Janaka Jayawickrama and Jerome Wright, "Under the Gaze of Global Mental Health: A Critical Reflection" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)
Sep 6, 20261h 3m
Relative Strangers: Romani Kinship and Palestinian Difference
Sep 5, 202656 min
Chika Watanabe, "Play to Survive: Disaster Preparedness Along the Ring of Fire" (Stanford UP, 2026)
Sep 4, 202655 min
Piergiorgio Di Giminiani, "Alterhumanism: Becoming Human on a Conservation Frontier" (U Arizona Press, 2025)
Sep 4, 202658 min
Sarah M. Rios, "Diseases Have No Eyes: Valley Fever and Environmental Health Justice" (Temple UP, 2026)
Sep 3, 202626 min
Elizabeth Anne Davis, "Artifactual: Forensic and Documentary Knowing" (Duke UP, 2023)
Sep 2, 20261h 6m
Linguistic Unease in Healthcare
Sep 2, 202639 min
Karin Barber, "Much Matter in a Penny Paper: Early Yoruba Print Culture in Lagos, 1910–1930" (Ohio UP, 2026)
Aug 31, 202643 min
An Honest Death: Life's End and Humanist Funerals with Matthew Engelke
Aug 28, 202654 min
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
Margaret E. Farrar and Adam Kaul, "Becoming Utopia: History, Heritage, and Sustainability in the American Midwest" (U Nebraska Press, 2026)
Aug 10, 202636 min
Dalit Studies with Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana and Sanal Mohan
Aug 10, 20261h 7m
Beyond Free Speech: Why AI Governance Demands Freedom of Thought
Aug 9, 202658 min
Marisa Karyl Franz, "Near and Desired Things: Shamanism in Late Imperial Local Siberian Museums" (Cornell UP, 2026)
Aug 9, 202656 min
Ka-ming Wu, "Infrastructural Urbanism in Contemporary China: Volunteering, Infrastructures and Civic Imaginations" (Leiden UP, 2026)
Aug 9, 202652 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
Lily Kelting, "Against Heritage: The Reinvention of Traditional Foods" (UNC Press, 2026)
Jul 24, 20261h 3m
Andrew Flachs, "Feeding the World as If People Mattered: How Small Farms Produce Value Beyond Yields" (U Arizona Press, 2026)
Jul 24, 202649 min
Caste as a Material Question with Rahul Sonpimple
Jul 20, 20261h 5m
Elana Resnick, "Refusing Sustainability: Race and Environmentalism in a Changing Europe" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Jul 19, 202641 min
Recall This Book x The Caste Pod: a Crossover episode with Ajantha Subramanian
Jul 16, 20261h 0m
Cécile Bishop, "Forms of Blackness: Race and Visibility in the French-Speaking World" (Duke UP, 2026)
Jul 11, 202654 min
Meena Khandelwal, "Cookstove Chronicles: Social Life of a Women's Technology in India" (U Arizona Press, 2026)
Jul 8, 20261h 1m
Jay Szpilka, "BDSM Practices in Contemporary Poland: Barbed Wire Floggings, Rope Orgasms, and the Problem with Desire" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)
Jul 7, 20261h 8m
Arpan Roy, "Relative Strangers: Romani Kinship and Palestinian Difference" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
Jul 1, 202654 min
Chiara Formichi, "Domestic Nationalism: Muslim Women, Health, and Modernity in Indonesia" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Jun 30, 20261h 10m
Susannah Crockford, "A Perturbed System: Religion and Climate Change from the End of a World" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Jun 29, 202648 min
Caste and Music with T.M. Krishna
Jun 29, 20261h 9m
Gina M. Pérez, "Sanctuary People: Faith-Based Organizing in Latina/o Communities" (NYU Press, 2024)
Jun 26, 202648 min
Marta Dominguez Diaz, "Tunisia's Andalusians: The Cultural Identity of a North African Minority" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
Jun 25, 20261h 13m
Carola E. Lorea, "Communities of Sound: Religion, Displacement, and Caste in the Bay of Bengal" (Wesleyan UP, 2026)
Jun 25, 202635 min
Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age
Jun 20, 2026
Alena Ledeneva, "Russian Pendulum: Paradoxes, Practices and Patterns" (UCL Press, 2026)
Jun 20, 20261h 17m
Karl Whittington, "Queer Making: On Artists and Desire in Medieval Europe" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2025)
Jun 15, 20261h 26m