Anthropology books: Literature
Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2022 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association.
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NEW IN INDIGENOUS STUDIES // RACE, THE BODY, AND ENVIRONMENT
HEALTH AND MEDICINE // EDUCATION // ENVIRONMENT
ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN // MEDIA // GEOGRAPHY
PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY // LITERATURE
SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS // RACE AND ETHNICITY
NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS // GENDER AND SEXUALITY
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Natives against Nativism Antiracism and Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial France Olivia C. Harrison 2023 Spring
- Examining the intersection of Palestine solidarity movements and antiracist activism in France from the 1970s to the present
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Opioid Reckoning Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State Amy C. Sullivan 2022 Fall
- Examines the complexity and the humanity of the opioid epidemic
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South American Journals January–July 1960 Allen Ginsberg 2022 Fall
- The great Beat poet’s observations, reflections, poetry, and mind-expanding explorations while traveling through South America
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The Horror of Police Travis Linnemann 2022 Spring
- Unmasks the horrors of a social order reproduced and maintained by the violence of police
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On the Wandering Paths Sylvain Tesson 2022 Spring
- A walking journey through France’s vast interior becomes a meditation on both personal recovery and the role of history in the present—more than 425,000 copies sold in France
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The Owls Are Not What They Seem Artist as Ethologist Arnaud Gerspacher 2022 Fall
- Toward a posthumanist art and ethology
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Animal Revolution Ron Broglio 2022 Spring
- Why our failure to consider the power of animals is to our deep detriment
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Earthworks Rising Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts Chadwick Allen 2022 Spring
- A necessary reexamination of Indigenous mounds, demonstrating their sustained vitality and vibrant futurity by centering Native voices
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Magical Realism for Non-Believers A Memoir of Finding Family Anika Fajardo 2021 Fall
- A young woman from Minnesota searches out the Colombian father she’s never known in this powerful exploration of what family really means
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The Three Sustainabilities Energy, Economy, Time Allan Stoekl 2021 Fall
- Bringing the word sustainability back from the brink of cliché—to a substantive, truly sustainable future
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Written by the Body Gender Expansiveness and Indigenous Non-Cis Masculinities Lisa Tatonetti 2021 Fall
- Examining the expansive nature of Indigenous gender representations in history, literature, and film
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Lemon Jail On the Road with the Replacements Bill Sullivan 2021 Fall
- A tour diary of life on the road with one of Minnesota’s greatest bands—with nearly 100 never-before-seen photographs
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Le Maya Q’atzij/Our Maya Word Poetics of Resistance in Guatemala Emil’ Keme 2021 Spring
- Bringing to the fore the voices of Maya authors and what their poetry tells us about resistance, sovereignty, trauma, and regeneration
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The Black Reproductive Unfree Labor and Insurgent Motherhood Sara Clarke Kaplan 2021 Spring
- How Black women’s reproduction became integral to white supremacy, capitalism, and heteropatriarchy—and remains key to their dismantling
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Outsiders Within Writing on Transracial Adoption Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah and Sun Yung Shin, Editors 2020 Fall
- Confronting trauma behind the transnational adoption system—now back in print
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Training for Catastrophe Fictions of National Security after 9/11 Lindsay Thomas 2021 Spring
- A timely, politically savvy examination of how impossible disasters shape the very real possibilities of our world
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An Archive of Taste Race and Eating in the Early United States Lauren F. Klein 2020 Spring
- A groundbreaking synthesis of food studies, archival theory, and early American literature
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The Alchemy of Meth A Decomposition Jason Pine 2019 Fall
- Meth cooks practice late industrial alchemy—transforming base materials, like lithium batteries and camping fuel, into gold
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What God Is Honored Here? Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color Shannon Gibney and Kao Kalia Yang, Editors 2019 Fall
- Native women and women of color poignantly share their pain, revelations, and hope after experiencing the traumas of miscarriage and infant loss
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The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjørnsen and Moe Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe 2019 Fall
- A new, definitive English translation of the celebrated story collection regarded as a landmark of Norwegian literature and culture
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This Wound Is a World Billy-Ray Belcourt 2019 Fall
- The new edition of a prize-winning memoir-in-poems, a meditation on life as a queer Indigenous man—available for the first time in the United States
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Glissant and the Middle Passage Philosophy, Beginning, Abyss John E. Drabinski 2019 Spring
- A reevaluation of Édouard Glissant that centers on the catastrophe of the Middle Passage and creates deep, original theories of trauma and Caribbeanness
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Translated Nation Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte Christopher Pexa 2019 Spring
- How authors rendered Dakhóta philosophy by literary means to encode ethical and political connectedness and sovereign life within a settler surveillance state
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The Right to Be Cold One Woman’s Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet from Climate Change Sheila Watt-Cloutier 2018 Spring
- A “courageous and revelatory memoir” (Naomi Klein) chronicling the life of the leading Indigenous climate change, cultural, and human rights advocate
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Zombie Theory A Reader Sarah Juliet Lauro, Editor 2017 Fall
- An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on zombies as the embodiment of anxieties, critiques, and desires
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Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan and Nils Bubandt, Editors 2017 Spring
- Can humans and other species continue to inhabit the earth together?
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Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings Mary Siisip Geniusz 2015 Spring
- The first complete resource for the practical use of plants in the Anishinaabe culture and the stories that surround them