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