4S: Anthropology
Web sale for those interested in science and technology studies and/or attendees of the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science. Books on sale, University of Minnesota Press information, and more.
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All books below qualify for 20% off and free domestic shipping using code MNSTS22. Code expires January 10, 2023.
BROWSE BOOKS:
PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY // ART AND MEDIA // ENVIRONMENT
POLITICS AND ACTIVISM // ANIMALS AND SOCIETY // ANTHROPOLOGY
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY // DIGITAL CULTURE // ETHNOGRAPHY
RACE // GENDER AND SEXUALITY // GEOGRAPHY
LITERATURE // LITERARY CRITICISM // DISABILITY STUDIES
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Sensory Futures Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India Michele Ilana Friedner 2022 Spring
- Revealing inequalities and sensory hierarchies embedded in the latest medical technologies and global biotechnical markets
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Viral Cultures Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS Marika Cifor 2022 Spring
- Delves deep into the archives that keep the history and work of AIDS activism alive
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Food Allergy Advocacy Parenting and the Politics of Care Danya Glabau 2022 Spring
- A detailed exploration of parents’ fight for a safe environment for their kids, interrogating how race, class, and gender shape health advocacy
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Building on Borrowed Time Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang Lukas Ley 2021 Fall
- A timely ethnography of how Indonesia’s coastal dwellers inhabit the “chronic present” of a slow-motion natural disaster
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Commodities of Care The Business of HIV Testing in China Elsa L. Fan 2021 Fall
- How global health practices can end up reorganizing practices of care for the people and communities they seek to serve
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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
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Batman Saves the Congo How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development Alexandra Cosima Budabin and Lisa Ann Richey 2021 Spring
- How celebrity strategic partnerships are disrupting humanitarian space
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Saving Animals Multispecies Ecologies of Rescue and Care Elan Abrell 2021 Spring
- A fascinating and unprecedented ethnography of animal sanctuaries in the United States
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Shaving the Beasts Wild Horses and Ritual in Spain John Hartigan Jr. 2020 Fall
- A vivid first-person study of a notorious equine ritual—from the perspective of the wild horses who are its targets
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Drawing the Sea Near Satoumi and Coral Reef Conservation in Okinawa C. Anne Claus 2020 Fall
- How Japanese coastal residents and transnational conservationists collaborated to foster relationships between humans and sea life
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Unraveling Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2020 Fall
- Developing a cybernetic model of subjectivity and personhood that honors disability experiences to reconceptualize the category of the human
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Red Gold The Managed Extinction of the Giant Bluefin Tuna Jennifer E. Telesca 2020 Spring
- Illuminating the conditions for global governance to have precipitated the devastating decline of one of the ocean’s most majestic creatures
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On Not Dying Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience Abou Farman 2020 Spring
- An ethnographic exploration of technoscientific immortality
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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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Theory for the World to Come Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2019 Spring
- Can social theories forge new paths into an uncertain future?
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The Alphonso Lingis Reader Alphonso Lingis Tom Sparrow, Editor 2018 Fall
- A selection of the writings of Alphonso Lingis, showcasing a unique blend of travelogue, cultural anthropology, and philosophy
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Into the Extreme U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics beyond Earth Valerie Olson 2018 Spring
- The first book-length, in-depth ethnography of U.S. human spaceflight
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When the Hills Are Gone Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community Thomas W. Pearson 2017 Fall
- An overlooked part of fracking’s environmental impact becomes a window into the activists and industrial interests fighting for the future of energy production—and the fate of rural communities
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Care of the Species Races of Corn and the Science of Plant Biodiversity John Hartigan Jr. 2017 Fall
- Darwin meets Foucault in this engrossing ethnography of plants, race, and biodiversity
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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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Compound Solutions Pharmaceutical Alternatives for Global Health Susan Craddock 2017 Spring
- An unprecedented look at the possibilities and limitations of humanitarian drug development
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Made to Hear Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children Laura Mauldin 2016 Spring
- The social consequences of the medicalization of deafness, as seen in the experiences of parents and professionals working with cochlear implants
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Genetic Geographies The Trouble with Ancestry Catherine Nash 2015 Spring
- Making sense of the science of ancestry and origins
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HIV Exceptionalism Development through Disease in Sierra Leone Adia Benton 2015 Spring
- Have HIV/AIDS-focused development programs ignored wider health crises in Africa?
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Savage Preservation The Ethnographic Origins of Modern Media Technology Brian Hochman 2014 Fall
- How ethnographic encounters shaped audiovisual media in late nineteenth and early twentieth century America
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A Thousand Plateaus Capitalism and Schizophrenia Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari 1987 Fall
- A positive exercise in the affirmative, “nomad” thought called for in its companion volume, Anti-Oedipus. This series of essays address war and death, territoriality and the anthropology of groups, model theory, and psychosis.