https://abf.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/abf Anthropology Book Forum, founded by the American Anthropological Association as an experimental prototype in digital publishing aimed at accelerating the scholarly book review process within anthropology through the implementation of a total digital workflow. en-US Anthropology Book Forum 2380-7725 <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/" rel="license"><img style="border-width: 0;" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/4.0/88x31.png" alt="Creative Commons License" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>. https://abf.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/abf/article/view/883 <p>n/a</p> Helen Anne Curry Copyright (c) 2026 Helen Anne Curry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2026-01-19 2026-01-19 12 1 https://abf.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/abf/article/view/885 <p>Anne W. Johnson's, <em>Mexico in Space: From La Raza Cósmica to The Space Race</em>, released in 2026, is an extensive ethnographic study of Mexico's history with outer space. Relying on two main frameworks and Canguilhem's concept of milieux it produces an interpretation of Mexico’s relationship to space which emphasizes a story of globalization and “planetization”. The Mexican space milieux invokes a multidimensional, situated understanding of outer space with blurred and shifting boundaries.</p> Savannah Mandel Copyright (c) 2026 Savannah Mandel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2026-03-10 2026-03-10 12 1 https://abf.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/abf/article/view/889 <p>This article is a review of Prisca Gayles' <em>Pain into Purpose: Mobilizing Emotions in Argentina's Black Resistance Movement</em> (2024).</p> Reed Margolis Copyright (c) 2026 Reed Margolis http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2026-04-06 2026-04-06 12 1 https://abf.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/abf/article/view/891 <p>This ethnography’s investigation of the ways in which male reproductive health in contemporary China is problematised could be seen as an exemplary response to the call by Marcia C. Inhorn for more "masculine quests" (2020, 4), where further inquiry is desirable into the global decline of male fertility, counterintuitively at some distance from women, who remain the most biomedically problematised centre for monitoring and treatment. From Chapters One to Five, all titled after "the xxx environment", Janelle Lamoreaux weaves her fieldwork into a multiplicity of environments that are partially connected through the epigenetic toxicology conducted by Chinese scientists in Nanjing. This suggests one of the most prominent features of the book: the author moves against the oft-voiced critique by social scientists that laboratory science is "reductive" and "oversimplifying". Instead, Lamoreaux demonstrates how contexts and environments proliferate and come into being, from the laboratory in Nanjing to China more broadly and beyond.</p> Qingyun Copyright (c) 2026 Qingyun http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2026-06-25 2026-06-25 12 1 https://abf.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/abf/article/view/893 <p>review</p> Melanie Langgle Copyright (c) 2026 Melanie Langgle http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2026-03-30 2026-03-30 12 1 https://abf.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/abf/article/view/895 <p>Underbelly review</p> Levi Vonk Copyright (c) 2026 Levi Vonk http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2026-04-13 2026-04-13 12 1 https://abf.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/abf/article/view/897 <p>crossing the lines</p> faith vanvleet Copyright (c) 2026 faith vanvleet http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2026-04-22 2026-04-22 12 1 https://abf.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/abf/article/view/898 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In Objects Untimely: Object-Oriented Philosophy and Archaeology, Graham Harman and Christopher Witmore argue that objects actively generate time rather than merely existing within it. Drawing on Harman’s object-oriented ontology, the authors challenge both New Materialist celebrations of perpetual flux and archaeology’s linear chronologies. Through close readings of Mediterranean sites such as Corinth, Mycenae, and Troy, they show how objects exert persistent “surface tension,” producing retroactive, topological, cyclical, and generational temporalities that resist conventional historicism. The book offers a metaphysical re-foundation for archaeological theory while extending the ontological turn in anthropology. Objects Untimely is a field-advancing work that will reshape how scholars conceptualize materiality, temporality, and the discipline’s own foundations. It is essential reading for theoretically oriented archaeologists, anthropologists, and philosophers of material culture.</span></p> Haivyn LaSalle Copyright (c) 2026 Haivyn LaSalle http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2026-05-25 2026-05-25 12 1 https://abf.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/abf/article/view/899 <p>Book review. N/A.</p> Gregory Serrano Copyright (c) 2026 Gregory Serrano http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2026-06-15 2026-06-15 12 1 https://abf.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/abf/article/view/902 <p>review</p> David Lipset Copyright (c) 2026 David Lipset http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2026-06-10 2026-06-10 12 1 https://abf.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/abf/article/view/900 <p>review</p> Omar Kutty Copyright (c) 2026 Omar Kutty http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2026-06-01 2026-06-01 12 1