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December 2020
Waithood
Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage and Childbearing
Inhorn, M. C. & SMith-Hefner, N. J. (eds)
December 2020
The Sea Commands
Community and Perception of the Environment in a Portuguese Fishing Village
Mendes, P.
December 2020
Shamanism
Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing
Jakobsen, M.
January 2021
Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe
Representations, Transfers and Exchanges
Šístek, F. (ed)
January 2021
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)
January 2021
In the Shadow of the Great War
Physical Violence in East-Central Europe, 1917–1923
Böhler, J., Konrád, O., Kučera, R. (eds)
January 2021
Risk on the Table
Food Production, Health, and the Environment
Creager, A. N. H. & Gaudilière, J.-P. (eds)
January 2021
Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent
Reorienting Anthropology for the Future
Ahmad, I. (ed)
January 2021
Embodying Borders
A Migrant’s Right to Health, Universal Rights and Local Policies
Ferrero, L., Quagliariello, C., & Vargas, A. C. (eds)
February 2021
Religion and Pride
Hindus in Search of Recognition in La Réunion
Lang, N.
February 2021
Rhetoric and Social Relations
Dialectics of Bonding and Contestation
Abbink, J. & LaTosky, S. (eds)
February 2021
South Africa's Dreams
Ethnologists and Apartheid in Namibia
Gordon, R. J.
February 2021
Experiencing Materiality
Museum Perspectives
Gamberi, V.
March 2021
A Taste for Oppression
A Political Ethnography of Everyday Life in Belarus
Hervouet, R.
March 2021
Floating Economies
The Cultural Ecology of the Dal Lake in Kashmir, India
Casimir, M. J.
March 2021
The Struggle for the Past
How We Construct Social Memories
Jelin, E.
March 2021
Ethical Practice in Participatory Visual Research with Girls
Transnational Approaches
Moletsane, R., Wiebesiek, L.,Treffry-Goatley, A. & Mandrona, A. (eds)
March 2021
Agent of Change
The Deposition and Manipulation of Ash in the Past
Roth, B. J. & Adams, E. C. (eds)
March 2021
The Best We Share
Nation, Culture and World-Making in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena
Brumann, C.
April 2021
In-Betweenness in Greater Khartoum
Spaces, Temporalities, and Identities from Separation to Revolution
Franck, A., Casciarri, B., & Salim El-Hassan, I. (eds)
April 2021
Exchanging Objects
Nineteenth-Century Museum Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution
Nichols, C. A.
April 2021
Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters
New Lives of Old Imaginaries
Mageo, J. & Knauft, B. (eds)
April 2021
Ethnography in the Raw
Life in a Luzon Village
Moeran, B.
April 2021
Ethnographies of Power
A Political Anthropology of Energy
Loloum, T., Abram, S., & Ortar, N. (eds)
April 2021
Remaking the Human
Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping, and Replacement
Jarrín, A. & Pussetti, C. (eds)
April 2021
Merchant Kings
Corporate Governmentality in the Dutch Colonial Empire, 1815–1870
Schrauwers, A.
April 2021
Liminal Moves
Traveling along Places, Meanings, and Times
Cangià, F.
May 2021
Beyond the Veil
Reflexive Studies of Death and Dying
Thamann, A. & Christodoulaki, K. M. (eds)
May 2021
A Twisted Style
The Culture of Dreadlocks in “Western” Societies
Jerrentrup, M. T.
May 2021
Mattering the Invisible
Technologies, Bodies, and the Realm of the Spectral
Espírito Santo, D. & Hunter, J. (eds)
May 2021
To See a Moose
The History of Polish Sex Education
Kościańska, A.
June 2021
All Tomorrow's Cultures
Anthropological Engagements with the Future
Collins, S. G.
June 2021
In Memory of Times to Come
Ironies of History in Southeastern Papua New Guinea
Demian, M.
June 2021
The Age of Capitalism and Bureaucracy
Perspectives on the Political Sociology of Max Weber
Mommsen, W. J.
June 2021
The Moral Work of Anthropology
Ethnographic Studies of Anthropologists at Work
Mogensen, H. & Hansen, B. G. (eds)
June 2021
Embracing Landscape
Living with Reindeer and Hunting among Spirits in South Siberia
Küçüküstel, S.
June 2021
Evil Eye in Christian Orthodox Society
A Journey from Envy to Personhood
Souvlakis, N.
June 2021
NGOs and Lifeworlds in Africa
Transdisciplinary Perspectives
Kalfelis, M. C. & Knodel, K. (eds)
June 2021
Sovereign Forces
Everyday Challenges to Environmental Governance in Latin America
McNeish, J.-A.
June 2021
Emotion, Ethics, and the Cinematic Experience
New Phenomenological and Cognitivist Perspectives
Sinnerbrink, R. (ed)
June 2021
Un-Settling Middle Eastern Refugees
Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion in the Middle East, Europe, and North America
Inhorn, M. C. & Volk, L. (eds)
June 2021
Delta Life
Exploring Dynamic Environments where Rivers Meet the Sea
Krause, F. & Harris, M. (eds)
July 2021
Margaret Mead
Shankman, P.
July 2021
Textures of Belonging
Senses, Objects and Spaces of Romanian Roma
Racleş, A.
July 2021
Almost, but Not Quite Bored in Pula
An Anthropological Study of the Tapija Phenomenon in Northwest Croatia
Matošević, A.
July 2021
How Kinship Systems Change
On the Dialectics of Practice and Classification
Parkin, R.
July 2021
After Corporate Paternalism
Material Renovation and Social Change in Times of Ruination
Straube, C.
July 2021
Matsutake Worlds
Faier, L. & Hathaway, M. J. (eds)
August 2021
Tracing Slavery
The Politics of Atlantic Memory in The Netherlands
Balkenhol, M.
August 2021
Constructing Risk
Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment
Bender, S. O.
August 2021
Living Like a Girl
Agency, Social Vulnerability and Welfare Measures in Europe and Beyond
Vogel, M. & Arnell, L. (eds)
August 2021
Latin America and Refugee Protection
Regimes, Logics and Challenges
Jubilut, L. L., Espinoza, M. V., & Mezzanotti, G. (eds)
August 2021
Stories from an Ancient Land
Perspectives on Wa History and Culture
Fiskesjö, M.
August 2021
William Robertson Smith
Bošković, A.
September 2021
Traumatic Pasts in Asia
History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present
Micale, M. S. & Pols, H. (eds)
September 2021
Vertiginous Life
An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen
Knight, D. M.
September 2021
Work, Society and the Ethical Self
Chimeras of Freedom in the Neoliberal Era
Hann, C. (ed)
September 2021
Digital Archives and Collections
Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage
Müller, K.
September 2021
Bigger Fish to Fry
A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples
Sutton, D. E.
September 2021
Israel-Palestine
Lands and Peoples
Bartov, O. (ed)
September 2021
The Camino de Santiago
Curating the Pilgrimage as Heritage and Tourism
Murray, M.
September 2021
How is a Man Supposed to be a Man?
Male Childlessness – a Life Course Disrupted
Hadley, R. A.
September 2021
Hope and Insufficiency
Capacity Building in Ethnographic Comparison
Douglas-Jones, R. & Shaffner, J. (eds)
September 2021
Guido Goldman
Transatlantic Bridge Builder
Klingst, M.
September 2021
Cattle Poetics
How Aesthetics Shapes Politics in Mursiland, Ethiopia
Eczet, J.-B.
October 2021
Outsiders
Memories of Migration to and from North Korea
Bell, M.
October 2021
The Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate
Ethnographic Contributions to the Climate Change Debate
Sillitoe, P. (ed)
October 2021
Collaborative Happiness
Building the Good Life in Urban Cohousing Communities
Kingfisher, C.
October 2021
Crafting Chinese Memories
The Art and Materiality of Storytelling
Swancutt, K. (ed)
October 2021
Afropolitan Horizons
Essays toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria
Hannerz, U.
October 2021
Rethinking Internal Displacement
Geo-political Games, Fragile States and the Relief Industry
Laker, F.
October 2021
Moral Economy at Work
Ethnographic Investigations in Eurasia
Yalçın-Heckmann, L. (ed)
November 2021
Dressing Up
Menswear in the Age of Social Media
Bluteau, J. M.
November 2021
Entrepreneurs of Identity
The Islamic State’s Symbolic Repertoire
Günther, C.
November 2021
Cosmic Coherence
A Cognitive Anthropology Through Chinese Divination
Matthews, W.
November 2021
Cooling Down
Local Responses to Global Climate Change
Hoffman, S. M., Eriksen, T. H., & Mendes, P. (eds)
November 2021
Franz Baermann Steiner
A Stranger in the World
Adler, J. & Fardon, R.
November 2021
Tropological Thought and Action
Essays on the Poetics of Imagination
Živković, M., Pelkey, J. & Fernandez, J. W. (eds)
November 2021
Good Enough Mothers
Practicing Nurture and Motherhood in Chiapas, Mexico
López, JM
November 2021
The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work
Craftwork in Twenty-First Century England
Marchand, T. H. J.
November 2021
An Urban Future for Sápmi?
Indigenous Urbanization in the Nordic States and Russia
Berg-Nordlie, M., Dankertsen, A, & Winsvold, M. (eds)
November 2021
Nothing New in Europe?
Israelis Look at Antisemitism Today
Haviv-Horiner, A.
December 2021
Configuring Contagion
Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics
Meinert, L. & Seeberg, J. (eds)
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