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October 2023
Alienating Labour
Workers on the Road from Socialism to Capitalism in East Germany and Hungary
Bartha, E.

August 2023
Birds of Passage
Hunting and Conservation in Malta
Falzon, M.-A.

October 2023
Vital Diplomacy
The Ritual Everyday on a Dammed River in Amazonia
Nahum-Claudel. C.

September 2023
Moral Economy at Work
Ethnographic Investigations in Eurasia
Yalçın-Heckmann, L. (ed)

July 2023
Outsiders
Memories of Migration to and from North Korea
Bell, M.

July 2023
Un-Settling Middle Eastern Refugees
Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion in the Middle East, Europe, and North America
Inhorn, M. C. & Volk, L. (eds)

October 2023
Lands of the Future
Anthropological Perspectives on Pastoralism, Land Deals and Tropes of Modernity in Eastern Africa
Gabbert, E. C., Gebresenbet, F., Galaty, J. G., & Schlee, G. (eds)

September 2023
Friendship without Borders
Women's Stories of Power, Politics, and Everyday Life across East and West Germany
Leask, P.

August 2023
Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America
Binford, L., Gill, L., & Striffler, S. (eds)

September 2023
Jaguars of the Dawn
Spirit Mediumship in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer
Pierini, E.

October 2023
Fierce Medicines, Fragile Socialities
Grounding Global HIV Treatment in Tanzania
Mattes, D.

September 2023
Crossing Histories and Ethnographies
Following Colonial Historicities in Timor-Leste
Roque, R. & Traube, E. G. (eds)

October 2023
How Materials Matter
Design, Innovation and Materiality in the Pacific
Were, G.

August 2023
Being Bedouin Around Petra
Life at a World Heritage Site in the Twenty-First Century
Bille, M.

July 2023
Military Politics
New Perspectives
Crosbie, T. (ed)

July 2023
Pure Food
Theoretical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Collinson, P. & Macbeth, H. (eds)

July 2023
Visions of Marriage
Politics and Family on Kinmen, 1920-2020
Chiu, H.-C.

July 2023
Innovation and Implementation
Critical Reflections on New Approaches to Historic Mortuary Data Collection, Analysis, and Dissemination
Mytum, H. & Veit, R. (eds)

July 2023
The Spirit of Matter
Modernity, Religion, and the Power of Objects
Pels, P.

July 2023
Cryptopolitics
Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media
Bernal, V., Pype, K., & Rodima-Taylor, D. (eds)

July 2023
Romani Chronicles of COVID-19
Testimonies of Harm and Resilience
Blasco, P. G. y & Fotta, M. (eds)

July 2023
Once Upon a Time is Now
A Kalahari Memoir
Biesele, M.

July 2023
Exceptional Experiences
Engaging with Jolting Events in Art and Fieldwork
Rethmann, P. & Wulff, H. (eds)

August 2023
That Sinking Feeling
On the Emotional Experience of Inferiority in Germany's Neoliberal Education System
Wellgraf, S.

August 2023
Silences and Divided Memories
The Exodus and its Legacy in Post-War Istrian Society
Virloget, K. H.

August 2023
Beyond the Social Contract
An Anthropology of Tax
Makovicky, N. & Smith, R. (eds)

August 2023
The Feeling of the Fall
An Ethnographic Writing Experiment between the Belize Barrier Reef and the Edges of Toronto, Ontario
Taccone, I.

August 2023
Broken Glass, Broken Class
Transformations of Work in Bulgaria
Kofti, D.

August 2023
Temple Tracks
Labour, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia
Sinha, V.

September 2023
An Anthropology of Disappearance
Politics, Intimacies and Alternative Ways of Knowing
Huttunen, L. & Perl, G. (eds)

September 2023
Between the Forest and the Road
The Waorani Struggle for Living Well in the Ecuadorian Oil Circuit
Bravo Díaz, A.

September 2023
Madness, Bureaucracy and Gender in Mumbai, India
Narratives from a Psychiatric Hospital
Strauss, A.

September 2023
Translocal Care across Kosovo’s Borders
Reconfiguring Kinship along Gender and Generational Lines
Leutloff-Grandits, C.

September 2023
Mary Douglas
Richards, P. & 6, P.

September 2023
An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange
Interactions, Transactions and Ethics in Asia and Beyond
Copeman, J., Long, N. J., Chau, L. M., Cook, J. & Marsden, M.(eds)

September 2023
These Were People Once
The Online Trade in Human Remains and Why It Matters
Huffer, D. & Graham, S.

September 2023
Urban Natures
Living the More-than-Human City
Edwards, F., PEttersen, I. N. & Popartan, L. (eds)

September 2023
Alfred Cort Haddon
A Very English Savage
Walsh, C.

September 2023
Love, Loyalty and Deceit
Rosemary Firth, a Life in the Shadow of Two Eminent Men
Firth, H. & Brown, L.

October 2023
Poverty Archaeology
Architecture, Material Culture and the Workhouse under the New Poor Law
Newman, C. & Fennelly, K.

October 2023
Of Hoarding and Housekeeping
Material Kinship and Domestic Space in Anthropological Perspective
Newell, S. (ed)

October 2023
Assembling Financialisation
Local Actors and the Making of Agricultural Investment
Langford, Z.

October 2023
Foreigners in Their Own Country
Identity and Rejection in France
Martin, L. M.

October 2023
The Amazonian Puzzle
Ethnic Positionings and Social Mobilizations
Boyer, V.

October 2023
The Subject of Sovereignty
Relationality and the Pivot Past Liberalism
Feldman, G.
Anthropology-Related Journals

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
(formerly: Anthropological Yearbook of European Cultures)
ISSN Print: 1755-2923
ISSN Online: 1755-2931

Anthropology in Action
Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice
ISSN Print: 0967-201X
ISSN Online: 1752-2285

Anthropology of the Middle East
ISSN Print: 1746-0719
ISSN Online: 1746-0727

Conflict and Society
Advances in Research
ISSN Print: 2164-4543
ISSN Online: 2164-4551

Environment and Society
Advances in Research
ISSN Print: 2150-6779
ISSN Online: 2150-6787

Focaal
Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology
ISSN Print: 0920-1297
ISSN Online: 1558-5263

Journal of Legal Anthropology
ISSN Print: 1758-9576
ISSN Online: 1758-9584

Learning and Teaching
The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences
ISSN Print: 1755-2273
ISSN Online: 1755-2281

Migration and Society
Advances in Research
ISSN Print: 2574-1306
ISSN Online: 2574-1314

Museum Worlds
Advances in Research
ISSN Print: 2049-6729
ISSN Online: 2049-6737

Religion and Society
Advances in Research
ISSN Print: 2150-9298
ISSN Online: 2150-9301

Sibirica
Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies
ISSN Print: 1361-7362
ISSN Online: 1476-6787

Social Analysis
The International Journal of Anthropology
ISSN Print: 0155-977X
ISSN Online: 1558-5727

Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
ISSN Print: 0964-0282
ISSN Online: 1469-8676

The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
ISSN Print: 0305-7674
ISSN Online: 2047-7716
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