Wendy Wickwire, “At The Bridge: James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging” (UBC Press, 2019)
The history of anthropology remembers James Teit as a field assistant and man-on-the spot for Franz Boas. But in At The Bridge: …
Karine Gagné, “Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas” (U Washington Press, 2019)
In her new book, Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas (University of Washington Press, 2019), Karine Gagné explores how …
Quassim Cassam, “Conspiracy Theories” (Polity, 2019)
9/11 was an inside job. The Holocaust is a myth promoted to serve Jewish interests. The shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School …
Han F. Vermeulen, “Before Boas: The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment” (U Nebraska Press, 2015)
The history of anthropology has been written from multiple viewpoints, often from perspectives of gender, nationality, theory, or politics. Winner of the …
Serin D. Houston, “Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance” (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
In Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), the geographer Serin Houston complicates Seattle’s liberal and progressive …
Jonathan Rosa, “Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jonathan Rosa‘s new book Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad (Oxford University Press, …
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
As you may know, university presses publish a lot of good books. In fact, they publish thousands of them every year. They …
Perla Guerrero, “Nuevo South: Asians, Latinas/os, and the Remaking of Place” (U Texas Press, 2017)
Perla Guerrero is the author of Nuevo South: Asians, Latinas/os, and the Remaking of Place (University of Texas Press, 2017). Nuevo South …
Lynne Pettinger, “What’s Wrong with Work?” (Policy Press, 2019)
How should we understand work? In What’s Wrong with Work? (Policy Press, 2019), Lynn Pettinger, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University …
Gary J. Adler, Jr., “Empathy Beyond US Borders: The Challenges of Transnational Civic Engagement” (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Do immersion trips really transform those who participate and how so? In his new book Empathy Beyond US Borders: The Challenges of …
Andreas Bernard, “Theory of the Hashtag” (Polity, 2019)
In his short book, Theory of the Hashtag (Polity, 2019), Andreas Bernard traces the origins and career of the hashtag. Following the …
J. Neuhaus, “Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers” (West Virginia UP, 2019)
The things that make people academics — as deep fascination with some arcane subject, often bordering on obsession, and a comfort with …
Francesco Duina, “Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Country” (Stanford UP, 2018)
In his new book, Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Country (Stanford University Press 2018), Professor Francesco Duina asks why …
Erik Harms, “Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon” (U California Press, 2016)
What happens when market-oriented policy reforms butt heads with a single-party state’s strictly maintained limits on political freedoms? That question sets the …
jimi adams, “Gathering Social Network Data” (Sage, 2019)
What is social network data and what are the issues associated with collecting it? In his new book Gathering Social Network Data …
Valerie Olson, “Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth” (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
Valerie Olson talks about why the idea of outer space as a “frontier” is giving way to one that frames it as …
Rita Kesselring, “Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa” (Stanford UP, 2017)
Rita Kesselring’s important book Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Stanford University Press, 2017) seeks to understand …
Ather Zia, “Resisting Disappearance: Military Occupation and Women’s Activism” (U Washington Press, 2019)
Ather Zia’s Resisting Disappearance: Military Occupation and Women’s Activism (University of Washington Press, 2019) is a brilliant, bold, and urgent ethnography centered …
Elizabeth Cullen Dunn, “No Path Home: Humanitarian Camps and the Grief of Displacement” (Cornell UP, 2018)
In No Path Home: Humanitarian Camps and the Grief of Displacement (Cornell University Press, 2018), Elizabeth Cullen Dunn describes in a very …
Don Kulick, “A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea” (Algonquin Books, 2019)
Called “perhaps the finest and most profound account of ethnographic fieldwork and discovery that has ever entered the anthropological literature” by the …
A Conversation with Acquisitions Editor Dawn Durante about How Manuscripts Become Books
For a book to exist, there must be a lot more than a writer. Of course, the writer is the essential component. …
Erika Milam, “Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America” (Princeton UP, 2019)
Erika Milam talks about the scientific search for human nature, a project that captured the attention of paleontologists, anthropologists, and primatologists in …
Grégoire Mallard, “Gift Exchange: The Transnational History of a Political Idea” (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Since Marcel Mauss published his foundational essay “The Gift” in 1925, many anthropologists and specialists of international relations have seen in the …
Geoffrey Barstow, “Food of Sinful Demons: Meat, Vegetarianism, and the Limits of Buddhism in Tibet” (Columbia UP, 2018)
Tibetan Buddhism teaches compassion toward all beings, a category that explicitly includes animals. Slaughtering animals is morally problematic at best and, at …