Anthropology

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?

Herlands Exploring the Women’s Land Movement in the United States Keridwen N. Luis 2018 Fall

How women-only communities provide spaces for new forms of culture, sociality, gender, and sexuality

The Denial of Antiblackness Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering João H. Costa Vargas 2018 Fall

An incisive new look at the black diaspora, examining the true roots of antiblackness and its destructive effects on all of society

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

Power and Progress on the Prairie Governing People on Rosebud Reservation Thomas Biolsi 2018 Spring

A critical exploration of how modernity and progress were imposed on the people and land of rural South Dakota

The Anti-Black City Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil Jaime Amparo Alves 2018 Spring

An important new ethnographic study of São Paulo’s favelas reveals the widespread use of race-based police repression in Brazil

Fictionalizing Anthropology Encounters and Fabulations at the Edges of the Human Stuart McLean 2017 Fall

On anthropology, creativity, and becoming other

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

The Construction of Equality Syriac Immigration and the Swedish City Jennifer Mack 2017 Fall

A compelling case study that traces the transformation of a Swedish city by an active and engaged immigrant community

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

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?

Compound Solutions Pharmaceutical Alternatives for Global Health Susan Craddock 2017 Spring

An unprecedented look at the possibilities and limitations of humanitarian drug development

The Nature of the Path Reading a West African Road Marcus Filippello 2017 Spring

Sometimes a road is more than just a road

Downed by Friendly Fire Black Girls, White Girls, and Suburban Schooling Signithia Fordham 2016 Fall

Rehabilitating the meaning of gender-specific violence

Life, Emergent The Social in the Afterlives of Violence Yasmeen Arif 2016 Fall

Understanding biopolitics anew, through life and not death, in the aftermath of mass violence

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