‘Code’ by Bernard Geoghegan: A Roundtable
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‘Haunting Biology’ by Emma Kowal
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‘The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy’ by Robert P. Jones
Robert P. Jones The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future Simon and Schuster, 2023 387 pages, notes, bibliography, index, and appendix…
‘Harvard’s Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science’ by Patrick L. Schmidt
Editor’s note: This newest addition to HAR Reviews pairs a review essay with a brief author Q&A. Our reviewer, Karen Field, drafted the essay first and then brought…
Invidious Comparison
Graham M. Jones Magic’s Reason: An Anthropology of Analogy University of Chicago Press, 2017 240 pp., 25 halftones, notes, bibl., index Editor’s note: This essay was origin…
Towards a History of Philosophical Anthropology: A Review of Carroll (2018)
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‘A Social History of Anthropology in the United States’ (revised and updated ) by Thomas C. Patterson
Thomas C. Patterson. A Social History of Anthropology in the United States. 2nd ed. Routledge, 2021. 240 pp., bibl., index. Twenty years after its first release, Thomas Patterson,…
‘Lévi-Strauss: A Biography’ by Emmanuelle Loyer
Emmanuelle Loyer. Lévi-Strauss: A Biography. Translated by Ninon Vinsonneau and Jonathan Magidoff. New York: Polity Press, 2018. xi+744 pp., illus., notes, list of works, archives, index. There…
‘Saving the Nation through Culture’ by Jie Gao
Jie Gao. Saving the Nation through Culture: The Folklore Movement in Republican China. Contemporary Chinese Studies. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2019. 364 pp., 20 b/w photos,…
Beyond the End of Anthropology: Ethnography and its Discontents
Tobias Rees. After Ethnos. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2018. 192 pp., 3 illus., notes, bibl., index. In “Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture,” Clifford…
Comment on “Memoirs of Women and Harvard” by Alice B. Kehoe
Editor’s note: The following essay is a response to “Memoirs of Women and Harvard” by Alice B. Kehoe, published on 9 August 2021 in Reviews. You can find…
Memoirs of Women and Harvard
Victoria R. Bricker. Transformational Journeys: An Ethnologist’s Memoir. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 106, part 5. 344 pp., illus. Philadelphia: American Philosophical So…
Culture, Community, and Collaboration on the National Mall: A Review of ‘Curatorial Conversations’
Olivia Cadaval, Sojin Kim, and Diana Baird N’Diaye. Curatorial Conversations: Cultural Representation and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. 304 (hardcover) or 360 (paperback) pp., 71 b&w …
‘Darwinism, Democracy, and Race’ by John P. Jackson Jr. and David J. Depew
John P. Jackson Jr. and David J. Depew. Darwinism, Democracy, and Race: American Anthropology and Evolutionary Biology in the Twentieth Century. 240pp., index. New York: Routledge, 2017. Concurre…
Boas in the Age of BLM and Idle No More: Re-Evaluating the Boasian Legacy
This extended review is a collaboration between the Reviews and Field Notes sections of HAR. Regna Darnell, Michelle Hamilton, Robert L. A. Hancock, and Joshua Smith (editors). The…
The Boas Circle vs. White Supremacy
Charles King. Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century. 448pp., notes, bibl., index. New York:…
A Historiography of Belonging: Wendy Wickwire and the Anthropological Legacy of James Teit
Wendy Wickwire. At the Bridge: James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging. 400pp., 5 maps, 26 b/w illus., notes, index. Vancouver and Toronto: University of British Columbia Press,…
‘Writing the Past’ by Gavin Lucas
Gavin Lucas. Writing the Past: Knowledge and Literary Production in Archaeology. 188 pp., 1 b/w illus., 8 tables, bibl., index. London: Routledge, 2018. $39.95 (paper), $150 (hardback), eBook…
‘The Story Box’ Exhibition Review
The Story Box: Franz Boas, George Hunt and the Making of Anthropology. An exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York and the U’mista Cultural Centre…
‘The Pursuit of Ruins’ by Christina Bueno
Christina Bueno. The Pursuit of Ruins: Archaeology, History, and the Making of Modern Mexico. 280pp., 23 illus., 3 maps, notes, bibl., index. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico…
‘Early Inuit Studies: Themes and Transitions, 1850s-1980s’ edited by Igor Krupnik
Igor Krupnik (Editor). Early Inuit Studies: Themes and Transitions, 1850s-1980s. xviii + 452pp., illus., maps, bibl., index. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2016. Inuit stu…
‘Anthropologists and Their Traditions Across National Borders’ edited by Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach
Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach (Editors). Anthropologists and Their Traditions Across National Borders. Histories of Anthropology Annual Series 8. 296 pp., 8 photos, 1 illus. Lincoln: Universit…
‘A Brief History of Archaeology’ by Brian M. Fagan and Nadia Durrani
Brian M. Fagan and Nadia Durrani. A Brief History of Archaeology: Classical Times to the Twenty-First Century. 2nd edition. 271pp., 70 color images, glossary, bibl., index. London and…
‘Realizing the Witch’ by Baxstrom and Meyers
Richard Baxstrom and Todd Meyers. Realizing the Witch: Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible. 296pp., 64 b&w illus., filmography, bibl., index. New York: Fordham University Press,…