New Books in Anthropology
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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
Marielle Risse, "Ethnographic Reflections on Marriage in Dhofar, Oman" (Anthem Press, 2026)
Jun 15, 202636 min
Karl Whittington, "Queer Making: On Artists and Desire in Medieval Europe" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2025)
Jun 15, 20261h 26m
John Longhurst, "Can Robots Love God and Be Saved? A Journalist Reports on Faith" (CMU Press, 2024)
Jun 14, 202643 min
Patrick Brodie, "Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland" (Duke UP, 2026)
Jun 13, 20261h 15m
Jeffrey Hoelle, "Cultivated: Plants, Hair, and the Aesthetic of Control" (Yale UP, 2026)
Jun 13, 20261h 14m
Mardi Reardon-Smith, "Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Jun 10, 202659 min
Ladan Rahbari and Olga Burlyuk eds., "From the Margins: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity" (Open Book Publishers, 2026)
Jun 8, 20261h 0m
Eileen Otis, "Walmart: Made in China" (Stanford UP, 2026)
Jun 6, 20261h 23m
Romani Grassroots Language Learning
Jun 3, 202630 min
Dougald O’Reilly, "Empires of the Southern Ocean: Early Civilizations of Mainland and Insular Southeast Asia" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026)
Jun 1, 202645 min
Cultural Competence Isn’t One-Size-Fits-All: Talking culturally responsive teaching with Dr Remy Low
May 31, 2026
Christos Lynteris, "How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)
May 30, 202649 min
“You Sound So Australian”: From Being Read to Rewriting the Room with guest Zindzi Okenyo
May 30, 2026
Radio ReOrient 14:9: Racializing the Ummah, with Rhea Rahman, hosted by Saeed Khan and Claudia Radiven
May 29, 20261h 3m
Yiddish Ethnography and An-ski
May 29, 2026
Patrick S. D. McCartney, "Sanskrit-Speaking' Villages, Linguistic Utopias and the Metaphysics of Development" (Routledge, 2026)
May 28, 202635 min