Anthropology

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

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

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

Saving Animals Multispecies Ecologies of Rescue and Care Elan Abrell 2021 Spring

A fascinating and unprecedented ethnography of animal sanctuaries in the United States

Arc of the Journeyman Afghan Migrants in England Nichola Khan 2020 Fall

A monumental account of one migrant community’s everyday lives, struggles, and aspirations

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

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

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

Black Food Matters Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice Hanna Garth and Ashanté M. Reese, Editors 2020 Fall

An in-depth look at Black food and the challenges it faces today

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

On Not Dying Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience Abou Farman 2020 Spring

An ethnographic exploration of technoscientific immortality

Border Thinking Latinx Youth Decolonizing Citizenship Andrea Dyrness and Enrique Sepúlveda III 2020 Spring

Rich accounts of how Latinx migrant youth experience belonging across borders

From Montaigne to Montaigne Claude Lévi-Strauss Emmanuel Désveaux, Editor 2019 Fall

Two previously unpublished lectures charting the renowned anthropologist’s intellectual engagement with the sixteenth-century French essayist Michel de Montaigne

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

Breathtaking Asthma Care in a Time of Climate Change Alison Kenner 2018 Fall

People around the world are struggling to breathe. How do we care for asthma across environments that are increasingly unbreathable?

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