Anthropology books: Philosophy and Theory
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Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2023 Spring
- A cutting-edge view of the digital humanities at a time of global pandemic, catastrophe, and uncertainty
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Nonhuman Humanitarians Animal Interventions in Global Politics Benjamin Meiches 2023 Spring
- Examining the appearance of nonhuman animals laboring alongside humans in humanitarian operations
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Noah’s Arkive Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates 2023 Spring
- A timely rethinking of the archetypal story of Noah, the great flood, and who was left behind as the waters rose
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Operational Images From the Visual to the Invisual Jussi Parikka 2023 Spring
- An in-depth look into the transformation of visual culture and digital aesthetics
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Rough Metaphysics The Speculative Thought and Mediumship of Jane Roberts Peter Skafish 2023 Spring
- A powerful case for why anthropology should study outsiders of thought and their speculative ideas
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Making Sense in Common A Reading of Whitehead in Times of Collapse Isabelle Stengers 2023 Spring
- A leading philosopher seeks to recover “common sense” as a meeting place to reconcile science and philosophy
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The Lichen Museum A. Laurie Palmer 2023 Spring
- A radical proposal for how a tiny organism can transform our understanding of human relations
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Webbed Connectivities The Imperial Sociology of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Vrushali Patil 2022 Fall
- Constructing a new approach for centering empire in productions of racialized, gendered, and sexualized difference
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Endlings Fables for the Anthropocene Lydia Pyne 2023 Spring
- Amid the historical decimation of species around the globe, a new way into the language of loss
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Rescue Me On Dogs and Their Humans Margret Grebowicz 2023 Spring
- What exactly is it we want from dogs today?
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On Posthuman War Computation and Military Violence Mike Hill 2022 Spring
- Tracing war’s expansion beyond the battlefield to the concept of the human being itself
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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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Plant Life The Entangled Politics of Afforestation Rosetta S. Elkin 2022 Spring
- How afforestation reveals the often-concealed politics between humans and plants
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The Life Worth Living Disability, Pain, and Morality Joel Michael Reynolds 2022 Spring
- A philosophical challenge to the ableist conflation of disability and pain
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The Cyclist and His Shadow A Memoir Olivier Haralambon 2022 Spring
- A philosopher and former racing cyclist examines how competitive riders lose their sense of self as they pursue perfect motion and mastery over pain
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Side Affects On Being Trans and Feeling Bad Hil Malatino 2022 Spring
- How the “bad feelings” of trans experience inform trans survival and flourishing
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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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A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal Andrew Culp 2022 Spring
- A field guide to a nonfascist life at the end of the world as we know it
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Media and the Affective Life of Slavery Allison Page 2022 Spring
- How media shapes our actions and feelings about race
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Insecurity Richard Grusin, Editor 2022 Spring
- Investigating insecurity as the predominant logic of life in the present moment
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Art and Posthumanism Essays, Encounters, Conversations Cary Wolfe 2021 Fall
- A sustained engagement between contemporary art and philosophy relating to our place in, and responsibility to, the nonhuman world
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The Big No Kennan Ferguson, Editor 2021 Fall
- What it means to celebrate the potential and the power of no
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Only a Black Athlete Can Save Us Now 2022 Spring
- A call to arms exploring the protest movements of 2020 as they reverberated through the athletic world
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Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity Maurice Hamington and Michael Flower, Editors 2021 Fall
- How care can resist the stifling force of the neoliberal paradigm
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An Essay for Ezra Racial Terror in America Grant Farred 2021 Fall
- An intensely personal, and philosophical, account of why white America’s racial unconscious is not so unconscious
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Calamity Theory Three Critiques of Existential Risk Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods 2021 Fall
- What are the implications of how we talk about apocalypse?
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Remembering Our Intimacies Moʻolelo, Aloha ʻĀina, and Ea Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio 2021 Fall
- Recovering Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) relationality and belonging in the land, memory, and body of Native Hawai’i
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Our Grateful Dead Stories of Those Left Behind Vinciane Despret 2021 Fall
- An award-winning exploration of the presence of the dead in the lives of the living
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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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The Dance of the Arabian Babbler Birth of an Ethological Theory Vinciane Despret 2021 Spring
- A groundbreaking reflection on the process by which one arrives at an ethological theory