New Books in Anthropology

1454 Episodes

1. Todd McGowan, "Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets" (Columbia UP, 2016)

   Published: 3/23/2023
2. Andrea Acri and Paolo E. Rosati, "Tantra, Magic, and Vernacular Religions in Monsoon Asia: Texts, Practices, and Practitioners from the Margins" (Routledge, 2022)

   Published: 3/23/2023
3. Julia Kowalski, "Counseling Women: Kinship Against Violence in India" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

   Published: 3/22/2023
4. Juwen Zhang, "Oral Traditions in Contemporary China: Healing a Nation" (Lexington Books, 2022)

   Published: 3/22/2023
5. David Houston Jones, "Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics" (Routledge, 2022)

   Published: 3/22/2023
6. The Future of Genes and Equality: A Discussion with Kathryn Paige Harden

   Published: 3/22/2023
7. Gediminas Lesutis, "The Politics of Precarity: Spaces of Extractivism, Violence, and Suffering" (Routledge, 2021)

   Published: 3/21/2023
8. Melanie Heath, "Forbidden Intimacies: Polygamies at the Limits of Western Tolerance" (Stanford UP, 2023)

   Published: 3/21/2023
9. Erin Raffety, "Families We Need: Disability, Abandonment, and Foster Care's Resistance in Contemporary China" (Rutgers UP, 2022)

   Published: 3/21/2023
10. Patrick L. Schmidt, "Harvard's Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science: The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022)

    Published: 3/19/2023
11. Felicity Hwee-Hwa Chan, "Tensions in Diversity: Spaces for Collective Life in Los Angeles" (U Toronto Press, 2022)

    Published: 3/18/2023
12. Kate Sylvester, "Women and Martial Art in Japan" (Routledge, 2022)

    Published: 3/18/2023
13. Rethinking Community in Myanmar: Practices of We-Formation Among Muslims and Hindus in Urban Yangon

    Published: 3/18/2023
14. Academic Chat: Reflecting on Hu Tai-li’s Indigenous Ethnographic Work in Taiwan

    Published: 3/17/2023
15. Ian Rowen, "One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism" (Cornell UP, 2023)

    Published: 3/17/2023
16. John Miller, "The Philosophy of Tattoos" (British Library, 2021)

    Published: 3/17/2023
17. Ezra Rashkow, "The Nature of Endangerment in India: Tigers, 'Tribes', Extermination and Conservation, 1818-2020" (Oxford UP, 2023)

    Published: 3/16/2023
18. Rosalynn A. Vega, "Nested Ecologies: A Multilayered Ethnography of Functional Medicine" (U Texas Press, 2023)

    Published: 3/15/2023
19. Illuminations Episode 3: Divine Technology

    Published: 3/14/2023
20. Nomadic Pastoralism Among the Mongol Herders

    Published: 3/14/2023