New Books in Anthropology

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Recent Episodes

Robert Garland, "What to Expect When You're Dead: An Ancient Tour of Death and the Afterlife" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Jun 3, 2025 – 53:49
Andrew Smith, "First People: The Lost History of the Khoisan" (Jonathan Ball, 2022)
Jun 3, 2025 – 01:18:34
Agustín Fuentes, "Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Jun 2, 2025 – 45:11
Katarina Kušic, "Beyond International Intervention: Politics of Improvement in Serbia" (University of Michigan Press, 2025)
Jun 1, 2025 – 01:03:37
Lina Pinto-García, "Maraña: War and Disease in the Jungles of Colombia" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
May 31, 2025 – 01:04:34
Maya Mayblin "Vote of Faith: Democracy, Desire, and the Turbulent Lives of Priest Politicians" (Fordham UP, 2024)
May 30, 2025 – 01:23:46
Dmitri N. Shalin, "Erving Manuel Goffman: Biographical Sources of Sociological Imagination" (Routledge, 2024)
May 26, 2025 – 02:44:13
Greta Lynn Uehling, "Decolonizing Ukraine: The Indigenous People of Crimea and Pathways to Freedom" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
May 25, 2025 – 53:32
Camilla Annerfeldt, "Clothing and Identity in Early Modern Rome" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
May 24, 2025 – 30:22
Toine van Teeffelen, "The Birthplace of Jesus Is in Palestine: A Memoir" (Wipf and Stock, 2024)
May 24, 2025 – 01:03:20
Michelle H. S. Ho, "Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies" (Duke UP, 2025)
May 23, 2025 – 41:28
Andrew Ofstehage, "Welcome to Soylandia: Transnational Farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado" (Cornell UP, 2025)
May 20, 2025 – 46:19
M. Myrta Leslie Santana, Transformismo: Performing Trans/Queer Cuba" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
May 20, 2025 – 58:47
Kai Shmushko, "Multiple Liminalities of Lay Buddhism in Contemporary China: Modalities, Material Culture, and Politics" (Leiden UP, 2024)
May 19, 2025 – 01:04:04
Maron E. Greenleaf, "Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon" (Duke UP, 2024)
May 10, 2025 – 49:46
Living Right: Far Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe
May 8, 2025 – 01:14:22
Deana Jovanović, "Staging the Promises: Everyday Future-Making in a Serbian Industrial Town" (Cornell UP, 2025)
May 6, 2025 – 01:23:24
Ipek A. Celik Rappas, "Filming in European Cities: The Labor of Location" (Cornell UP, 2025)
May 4, 2025 – 44:59
Diana Graizbord, "Indicators of Democracy: The Politics and Promise of Evaluation Expertise in Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2024)
May 3, 2025 – 52:44
Lian Sinclair, "Undermining Resistance: The Governance of Participation by Multinational Mining Corporations" (Manchester UP, 2024)
May 2, 2025 – 36:47
Tim Grady, "Burying the Enemy: The Story of Those who Cared for the Dead in Two World Wars" (Yale UP, 2025)
May 1, 2025 – 54:30
Chloe Ahmann, "Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Apr 30, 2025 – 36:32
Maliha Safri et al., "Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation" (U of Minnesota Press, 2025)
Apr 29, 2025 – 01:06:18
Amy Zhang, "Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Apr 28, 2025 – 01:07:52
Lorna Gibb, "Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Apr 27, 2025 – 39:47
Eleanor Paynter, "Emergency in Transit: Witnessing Migration in the Colonial Present" (U California Press, 2024)
Apr 26, 2025 – 54:38
Katie Rose Hejtmanek, "The Cult of CrossFit: Christianity and the American Exercise Phenomenon" (NYU Press, 2025)
Apr 20, 2025 – 01:08:28
Christof Lammer, "Performing State Boundaries: Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China" (Berghahn, 2024)
Apr 19, 2025 – 01:42:23
Political Mythmaking in Nepal
Apr 18, 2025 – 33:12
Agnieszka Pasieka, "Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Apr 17, 2025 – 46:29
Sarah Saddler, "Performing Corporate Bodies: Multinational Theatre in Global India" (Routledge, 2025)
Apr 16, 2025 – 01:10:32
Mingwei Huang, "Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the Chinese Century" (Duke UP, 2024)
Apr 15, 2025 – 01:05:34
Dána-Ain Davis and Christa Craven, "Feminist Ethnography: Thinking Through Methodologies, Challenges, and Possibilities" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
Apr 14, 2025 – 56:21
Engage and Evade in 2025: Asad L. Asad on Latino Immigrants in America
Apr 12, 2025 – 51:48
Chiara Calzana and Valentina Gamberi, "Haunting Ruins: Ethnographies of Ruination and Decay" (Berghahn Books, 2025)
Apr 8, 2025 – 47:19
Anna Maria Busse Berger and Henry Spiller, "Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Music in the Indonesian Archipelago" (U California Press, 2025)
Apr 7, 2025 – 01:09:04
Tuomas Tammisto, "Hard Work: Producing Places, Relations and Value on a Papua New Guinea Resource Frontier" (Helsinki UP, 2024)
Apr 5, 2025 – 02:05:32
Becky Yang Hsu, "The Extraordinary in the Mundane: Family and Forms of Community in China" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Apr 5, 2025 – 49:00
Martha S. Jones, "The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir" (Basic Books, 2025)
Apr 4, 2025 – 54:14
Hemangini Gupta, "Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India" (U California Press, 2024)
Mar 31, 2025 – 41:59
Azmeary Ferdoush, "Sovereign Atonement: Citizenship, Territory, and the State at the Bangladesh-India Border" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Mar 29, 2025 – 01:22:44
Syaifudin Zuhri, "Wali Pitu and Muslim Pilgrimage in Bali, Indonesia: Inventing a Sacred Tradition" (Leiden UP, 2022)
Mar 28, 2025 – 01:10:48
V. Chitra, "Drawing Coastlines: Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai's Shore" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Mar 23, 2025 – 01:04:16
Tracie Canada, "Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football" (U California Press, 2025)
Mar 22, 2025 – 01:14:16
Ben Bowles, "Boaters of London: Alternative Living on the Water" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
Mar 21, 2025 – 01:10:12
Mia Consalvo et al., "Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstreaming Videogames on Twitch" (MIT Press, 2025)
Mar 14, 2025 – 43:20
Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall, "Ain't I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Mar 11, 2025 – 01:15:43
Brendan A. Galipeau, "Crafting a Tibetan Terroir: Winemaking in Shangri-La" (U Washington Press, 2025)
Mar 6, 2025 – 01:19:20
Vera Tiesler, "Ancient Maya Teeth: Dental Modification, Cosmology, and Social Identity in Mesoamerica" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Mar 5, 2025 – 47:05
Deborah Reed-Donahay, "Sideways Migration: Being French in London" (Routledge, 2025)
Mar 3, 2025 – 32:10

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Beautiful and Soothing

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Engaging and informative

This podcast covers a wide range of books, and the conversations are really interesting.
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Mixed feelings

I like the range of books you cover in the series. However, I'd appreciate a much shorter show. To actually concentrate on an hour long not mindless show, I'm using time I should just be reading. A succinct 20 minutes would be better and allow listeners enough to either get the book and read or move on.
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The episode on Clovis Texhnology must have been mistkenly uploaded with a different episode. Please fix! The current episode is something completely different.
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Great podcast! Great info!

I love hearing about new books coming out in anthropology! Thank you for sharing!