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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

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

On anthropology, creativity, and becoming other

When the Hills Are Gone Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community 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 2017 Fall

A compelling case study of “urban design from below” that traces the transformation of a Swedish city by an active and engaged immigrant community.

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

The Slumbering Masses Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2016 Fall

An eye-opening look at why a “good night’s sleep” might be anything but

Last Project Standing Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago Catherine Fennell 2015 Fall

How the aftermath of public housing became an education in the rights and duties of belonging to the city

Tongzhi Living Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China Tiantian Zheng 2015 Fall

A revealing study of men attracted to men trying to create community in a modern Chinese city

Bamako Sounds The Afropolitan Ethics of Malian Music Ryan Thomas Skinner 2015 Spring

A rich ethnography of contemporary urban life in Mali and its world-renowned yet little understood popular music culture

Landscape of Discontent Urban Sustainability in Immigrant Paris Andrew Newman 2015 Spring

Understanding the interplay of urban green politics and neighborhood activism

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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