‘Creatures of Cain’ by Erika Lorraine Milam
Erika Lorraine Milam. Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America. 408 pp., 33 b/w illus., app., notes, index. …
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 …
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: …
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) …
Thesis Review and Discussion: The Metamorphosis of Greek Cuisine
Kapari Deli in Athens city centre, Greece Photographs by Nafsika Papacharalampous If you have written a recent thesis in the Anthropology of …
Special Focus: Engaging ‘The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology’
Why have Black ancestors been largely excluded from anthropology’s intellectual history and canon? In this series of pieces, Tracie Canada engages the …
Red Power, Black Lives Matter, (Historians of) Anthropology and Other Friends: Thinking with Vine Deloria in 2021
David Martínez. Life of the Indigenous Mind: Vine Deloria Jr. and the Birth of the Red Power Movement. New Visions in Native …
‘A Pearl in Peril’ by Christina Luke
Christina Luke. A Pearl in Peril: Heritage and Diplomacy in Turkey. 288 pp., illus., tables, notes, bibl., index. New York: Oxford University Press, …
Thesis Review: Ethical Constellations of Muslim Food Practice in Mumbai
Photograph: coming soon I’m delighted to post this exciting PhD thesis review, which nicely complements the recently posted review of the book …
‘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., …
‘Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia’ by Paul Turnbull
Paul Turnbull. Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia. Palgrave Studies in Pacific History. 428 pp., 6 b/w illus., …
The Peripeteia of The Gift: Gift Exchange by Grégoire Mallard
Grégoire Mallard. Gift Exchange: The Transnational History of a Political Idea. xi + 293pp., notes, bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. …
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. …
‘Truth’s Fool: Derek Freeman and the War over Cultural Anthropology’ by Peter Hempenstall
Peter Hempenstall. Truth’s Fool: Derek Freeman and the War over Cultural Anthropology. xiv +321pp., 17 illus., 2 maps, bibl., index. Madison, Wisconsin: University …
Faustian Bargains: The Legends and Legacies of German “Liberal Ethnology”
This extended review is a collaboration between the Reviews and Field Notes sections of HAR. H. Glenn Penny. Im Schatten Humboldts. Eine …
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. …
Outlander: Books 1 & 2 Review
Conquering My Fear of Big Books and Outlander Books 1 & 2 Review Lockdown has filled my life with many things. Some …
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 …
Thesis Review: Tasting in Mundane Practices
Please note: As Associate Reviews Editor, I am soliciting reviews of recent dissertations in the Anthropology of Food. So if you have …
‘Savages, Romans, and Despots’ by Robert Launay
Robert Launay. Savages, Romans, and Despots: Thinking about Others from Montaigne to Herder. 272 pp., notes, bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago …
‘The Lost Black Scholar’ by David A. Varel
David A. Varel. The Lost Black Scholar: Resurrecting Allison Davis in American Social Thought. 304pp., 16 halftones, notes, index. University of Chicago …
UXPressia: our research ally
UXpressia is an online tool that helps you create great User Personas and Experience maps. The platform provides a large number of …
‘Savage Kin’ by Margaret Bruchac
Margaret M. Bruchac, Savage Kin: Indigenous Informants and American Anthropologists. With a foreword by Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel. Native Peoples of the Americas, …
‘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, …