International Day of Action for Women’s Health

May 28 is the International Day of Action for Women’s Health. For over 30 years, women’s rights advocates and allies in the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) movement worldwide have commemorated this day in diverse ways. Visit the campaign’s website for more information and ways to participate.

At a time when women’s human rights, particularly sexual and reproductive rights, continue to be systematically violated worldwide, our Fertility, Reproduction, and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives series remains an important resource for understanding the complex and multifaceted issue of human reproduction. View our latest and forthcoming titles in the series below.


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An Interview with Courtney Work

Courtney Work is Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnology, National Chengchi University (Taiwan). She studied at Cornell University, and has published multiple papers on the intersections of religion, traditional practices, and the politics of land, global development, and climate change. She is the author of the forthcoming title Tides of Empire: Religion, Development, and Environment in Cambodia, a new volume in our Asian Anthropologies series.


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WORLD ANTHROPOLOGY DAY 2019

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The 2019 Anthropology Day celebration is on Thursday, February 21st. According to the AAA website, Anthropology Day “is a day for anthropologists to celebrate our discipline while sharing it with the world around us.”
To join the celebration, we are delighted to showcase titles from across all strands of the subject and offer a limited time 25% discount on ALL Anthropology print titles ordered via our website, valid through February 28th, 2019. Simply enter the code WAD19 at checkout.
Featured below is just a selection of our newly published title, for a full listing of all anthropology titles, please visit our webpage.
We are also pleased to announce an expanding list of eBooks available for download directly via our site. Visit our Anthropology eBooks site.

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