Anthropology Book Forum

Dust Inside: Fighting and Living with Asbestos-Related Disasters in Brazil (2020)

Ramsha Usman — 2024-09-02

Review of:

AGATA MAZZEO, 2020, Dust Inside: Fighting and Living with Asbestos-Related Disasters in Brazil, New York: Berghahn Books. 202 pp., ISBN 978-1-78920-931-0

Atmospheric Violence : Disaster and Repair in Kashmir

Akashleena Basu — 2024-08-19

Review of:

AIJAZI, OMER. Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024. 281pp. ISBN 9781512823622

Afropolitan Horizons: Essays toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria (2022)

Ibukun Filani — 2024-07-16

Review of:

ULF HANNERZ, 2022, Afropolitan Horizons: Essays toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria, New York: Berghahn Books, 226 pp., ISBN 978-1-80073-250-6

Plantation Worlds (2024)

Bengt Karlsson — 2024-11-10

Review of:

BARUA, MAAN. 2024. Plantation Worlds, Durham: Duke University Press, 312 pp., ISBN: 978-1478020868

A History of Platform Mound Ceremonialism: Finding Meaning in Elevated Ground (2021)

Irene Marti Gil — 2024-10-28

Review of:

KASSABAUM, M.C., 2021, A History of Platform Mound Ceremonialism: Finding Meaning in Elevated Ground, Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 288 pp., ISBN: 978-1-68340-241-1

Traumatic Pasts in Asia

Nouran El Hawary — 2024-11-04

The book is the first comparative trans-Asian examination of the history of psychological trauma in any language.

Book Review: In The Valley of Kauravas

Abhijeet Singh Dewari — 2024-08-26

The Valley of the Kauravas by William Sax is a beautiful yet candid work, showcasing his approach to data gathering (p. 17) by weaving his personal experiences into the narrative using "reflexive" ethnography. This method allows the book to convey deep emotions and messages, rather than simply recounting a series of stories. Sax opens the book with a dedication to Buli Das, the ‘Dhaki,’ whom he regards as both a teacher and guide, as well as a dear friend during his research in the Rawain Valley—a place where he spent over three decades working. The epigraph is particularly captivating, as Sax offers salutations to Karna, the son of the Sun God, in the local dialect, thereby connecting his presence to the local deities—Hari of Haridwar, Lord Badrinath, and Kedarnath—and the sacred Ganges River. The book is a seamless blend of both transliteration and translation, comprising nine chapters, including the Introduction. One of the book's most striking features is the interconnection between the chapters, each linking to the next in some way, creating a cohesive and engaging narrative.

Mumbai Taximen: Autobiographies and Automobilities in India (2022)

Andrew Kerr — 2024-07-29

Review of:

TARINI BEDI, 2022, Mumbai Taximen: Autobiographies and Automobilities in India, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 248 pp., ISBN 9780295749860

AIMÉE JOYCE, 2014, History, neighbourliness and discord on the Polish-Belarusian frontier. Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing, 207 pp, ISBN 9781912385522

Agnieszka Halemba — 2024-07-22

Keywords: neighbourliness, haunting, borderland, Poland, Belarus, history

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terese gagnon — 2024-10-21

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Gender, Power, and Non-Governance: Is Female to Male as NGO Is to State?

Emily Selby Smith — 2024-07-08

TIMMER, ANDRIA D. and ELIZABETH WIRTZ, 2022, Gender, Power, and Non-Governance: Is Female to Male as NGO is to State?, New York: Berghahn Books, 298 pp., ISBN 978-1-80073-460-9

naked field notes

Kirsten Luck — 2024-09-11

naked fieldnotes

Ethnographer's Way: A Handbook for Multidimensional Research Design (2024)

María Gabriela Durán-Valis — 2024-09-23

Review of:

KRISTIN PETERSON and VALERIE OLSON, 2024, The Ethnographer’s Way: A Handbook for Multidimensional Research Design, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 338 pp., ISBN 978-1-4780-2590-0

Sensing Disaster: Local Knowledge and Vulnerability in Oceania (2023)

Sohini Chakraborty — 2024-07-01

Review of:

Lauer, Matthew. 2023. Sensing Disaster: Local Knowledge and Vulnerability in Oceania.

Downtown Juárez: Underworlds of Violence and Abuse (2021)

Andrew Wood — 2024-06-24

Review of:

Howard Campbell, Downtown Juárez: Underworlds of Violence and Abuse. Austin, University of Texas Press, 2021. ISBN 1477323899. $35 paper.

Collaborative Happiness: Building the Good Life in Urban Cohousing Communities (2022)

Phuong Nguyen — 2024-06-14

Book review of:

Kingfisher, Catherine Pélissier. 2022. Collaborative Happiness: Building the Good Life in Urban Cohousing Communities. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 9781800732391 (hardback) | ISBN 9781800732407 (ebook). Series: Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations; volume 8. 242 pages including bibliography and indexes.

A Book of Waves (2023)

lukas ley — 2024-05-27

Review of:

A Book of Waves (2023)

Brenda Chalfin. 2023. Waste Works: Vital Politics in Urban Ghana. Duke University Press.

Patrick O'Hare — 2024-06-10

Brenda Chalfin. 2023. Waste Works: Vital Politics in Urban Ghana. Duke University Press.

The Ends of Research: Indigenous and Settler Science After the War in the Woods (2023)

Gabriel Lennon — 2024-06-03

Review of:

Tom Özden-Schilling, The Ends of Research: Indigenous and Settler Science After the War in the Woods. Duke University Press, 2023. 320 p. IBSN 9781478027669.

Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine (2021)

Neixé Castellano — 2024-05-19

Review of:

STEIN, REBECCA. L. (2021). Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine. Stanford University Press, 234 pp., ISBN 978-1-50362-803-8.

State of the Arts: An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration (2023)

Jenny Tang — 2024-04-22

Review of:

JONAS TINIUS, 2023, State of the Arts: An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 290 pp., ISBN 978-1-009-32112-9

Reimagining Workplace Resistance

Amanda Tobin Ripley — 2024-03-11

This review of Sian Lazar's How We Struggle: A Political Anthropology of Labour highlights the author's major theoretical contributions to the study of workplace resistance and labor agency.

Border Water: The Politics of U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Water Management (2023)

Edgar Valles — 2024-04-09

Book review of:

STEPHEN PAUL MUMME, 2023, Border Water: The Politics of U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Water Management, 1945-2015, New York: The University of Arizona Press, 414 pp., ISBN 978-0-8165-4830-9

Negative ecologies: Fossil fuels and the discovery of the environment

Marianna Betti — 2024-03-18

Review of:

BOND, DAVID, 2022, Negative ecologies: Fossil fuels and the discovery of the environment, Univ of California Press, 262 pp., ISBN: 978-0-52038-678-5

Out to work: Migration, Gender, and the Changing Lives of Rural Women in Contemporary China (2016)

Tingting Hu — 2024-03-04

Review of:

Gaetano, Arianne M. 2015. Out to work: Migration, Gender, and the Changing Lives of Rural Women in Contemporary China. University of Hawai’i Press. 184 pp.

The New American Servitude: Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers (2019)

Serah Shani — 2024-04-01

Review of:

COE, CATI. 2019. The New American Servitude: Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers, New York University Press: New York, Series: Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice, 304 pp., ISBN: 9781479808830

audit culture

jason scott — 2024-03-27

audit culture

Food and Identity in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ghana: Food, Fights, and Regionalism (2022)

Chiara Scheven — 2024-02-27

Review of:

BRANDI SIMPSON MILLER, 2022, Food and Identity in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ghana: Food, Fights, and Regionalism. Cham: Springer International, 327 pp. ISBN: 978-3-030-88403-1

Myriad Intimacies (2022)

Saiba Varma — 2024-02-19

Review of:

LATA MANI, 2022, Myriad Intimacies. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 104 pp, ISBN: 978-1-4780-1827-8.

Vertiginous Life: An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen (2021)

Venes Carmelo Banquiles — 2024-02-05

Review of:

Knight, Daniel M. 2021. Vertiginous Life: An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen. New Anthropologies of Europe. New York: Berghahn

Identities, Experience, and Change in Early Mexican Villages (2022)

Charles C. Kolb — 2024-01-01

Review of:

CATHARINA E. SANTASILIA, GUY DAVID HEPP, AND RICHARD A. DIEHL (EDS.) 2022, Identities, Experience, and Change in Early Mexican Villages. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 350 pp. ISBN 13: 9780813069296

Edible People: The Historical Consumption of Slaves and Foreigners and the Cannibalistic Trade in Human Flesh (2022)

Julia Johnston — 2024-01-22

Review of

SIEFKES, C. (2022). Edible People: The Historical Consumption of Slaves and Foreigners and the Cannibalistic Trade in Human Flesh. New York: Berghahn Books. 332 pp., ISBN 978-1-80073-613-9

Repatriation and Erasing the Past (2020)

Irene Marti Gil — 2024-01-08

Review of:

Elizabeth Weiss and James W. Springer, 2020. Repatriation and Erasing the Past, Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 278 pp., ISBN: 9781683401575.

EDYTA ROSZKO, 2021, Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 260 pp., ISBN 978-0-8248-9055-1.

Scott Erich — 2024-01-15

Edyta Roszko challenges received wisdom about Vietnamese culture, history, and geography in her new book, Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion, and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam.

The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall – Language, Memory, and Indigenous California.

Lærke Cecilie Anbert — 2024-08-08

The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall – Language, Memory, and Indigenous California.

Living on a Time Bomb: Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community (2023)

Andrew Wood — 2024-01-29

Review of: Svenja Schöneich, Living on a Time Bomb: Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2023.