https://journals.sfu.ca/abf/index.php/abf/issue/feedAnthropology Book Forum2024-04-16T15:55:57-07:00Emilia Grouppanthrobookforum@americananthro.orgOpen Journal SystemsAnthropology Book Forum, founded by the American Anthropological Association as an experimental prototype in digital publishing aimed at accelerating the scholarly book review process within anthropology through the implementation of a total digital workflow.https://journals.sfu.ca/abf/index.php/abf/article/view/735Book Review 2024-03-27T20:21:07-07:00Edgar Vallesvalles@wisc.edu<p>Book Review on:</p> <p><strong>STEPHEN PAUL MUMME,</strong> 2023,<em> Border Water: The Politics of U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Water Management, 1945-2015</em>, New York: The University of Arizona Press, 414 pp., ISBN 978-0-8165-4830-9</p>2024-04-09T00:00:00-07:00Copyright (c) 2024 Edgar Valleshttps://journals.sfu.ca/abf/index.php/abf/article/view/731Negative ecologies: Fossil fuels and the discovery of the environment2024-03-18T11:20:47-07:00Marianna BettiMarianna.Betti@uib.no<p>Review of:</p> <p>BOND, DAVID, 2022, <em>Negative ecologies: Fossil fuels and the discovery of the environment</em>, Univ of California Press, 262 pp., ISBN: 978-0-52038-678-5</p>2024-03-18T00:00:00-07:00Copyright (c) 2024 Marianna Bettihttps://journals.sfu.ca/abf/index.php/abf/article/view/727Out to work: Migration, Gender, and the Changing Lives of Rural Women in Contemporary China (2016)2024-03-04T04:13:30-08:00Tingting Huwriteriddle@163.com<p>Review of:</p> <p><strong>Gaetano, Arianne M.</strong> 2015. <em>Out to work: Migration, Gender, and the Changing Lives of Rural Women in Contemporary China. </em><em>University of Hawai’i Press. 184 pp.</em></p>2024-03-04T00:00:00-08:00Copyright (c) 2024 Tingting Huhttps://journals.sfu.ca/abf/index.php/abf/article/view/737The New American Servitude: Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers (2019)2024-04-01T09:29:09-07:00Serah Shanishaniserah@gmail.com<p>Review of:</p> <p>COE, CATI. 2019. <em>The New American Servitude: Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers</em>, New York University Press: New York, Series: Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice, 304 pp., ISBN: 9781479808830</p>2024-04-01T00:00:00-07:00Copyright (c) 2024 Serah Shanihttps://journals.sfu.ca/abf/index.php/abf/article/view/733audit culture2024-03-27T11:54:21-07:00jason scottjasonbartscott@yahoo.com<p>audit culture</p>2024-03-27T00:00:00-07:00Copyright (c) 2024 jason scotthttps://journals.sfu.ca/abf/index.php/abf/article/view/729Reimagining Workplace Resistance2024-03-05T10:01:21-08:00Amanda Tobin Ripleyamanda.tobin.ripley@gmail.com<p>This review of Sian Lazar's <em>How We Struggle: A Political Anthropology of Labour</em> highlights the author's major theoretical contributions to the study of workplace resistance and labor agency.</p>2024-03-11T00:00:00-07:00Copyright (c) 2024 Amanda Tobin Ripleyhttps://journals.sfu.ca/abf/index.php/abf/article/view/741State of the Arts: An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration (2023)2024-04-16T15:55:57-07:00Jenny Tangwyt28@cam.ac.uk<p style="font-weight: 400;">Review of:<br /></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>JONAS TINIUS</strong>, 2023, <em>State of the Arts: An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration</em>, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 290 pp., ISBN 978-1-009-32112-9</p>2024-04-22T00:00:00-07:00Copyright (c) 2024 Jenny Tanghttps://journals.sfu.ca/abf/index.php/abf/article/view/713Food and Identity in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ghana: Food, Fights, and Regionalism (2022)2024-01-04T07:37:14-08:00Chiara Schevenc.scheven@uea.ac.uk<p>Review of:</p> <p><strong>BRANDI SIMPSON MILLER</strong>, 2022, <em>Food and Identity in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ghana: Food, Fights, and Regionalism</em>. Cham: Springer International, 327 pp. ISBN: 978-3-030-88403-1</p>2024-02-27T00:00:00-08:00Copyright (c) 2024 Chiara Schevenhttps://journals.sfu.ca/abf/index.php/abf/article/view/723Myriad Intimacies (2022)2024-02-19T09:49:31-08:00Saiba Varmas2varma@ucsd.edu<p>Review of:</p> <p>LATA MANI, 2022, <em>Myriad Intimacies</em>. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 104 pp, ISBN: 978-1-4780-1827-8.</p>2024-02-19T00:00:00-08:00Copyright (c) 2024 Saiba Varmahttps://journals.sfu.ca/abf/index.php/abf/article/view/693Vertiginous Life: An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen (2021)2023-11-29T07:15:31-08:00Venes Carmelo Banquilesvenes.new@gmail.com<p>Review of:</p> <p>Knight, Daniel M. 2021. Vertiginous Life: An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen. New Anthropologies of Europe. New York: Berghahn</p>2024-02-05T00:00:00-08:00Copyright (c) 2024 Venes Carmelo Banquileshttps://journals.sfu.ca/abf/index.php/abf/article/view/711Identities, Experience, and Change in Early Mexican Villages (2022)2024-01-01T12:17:06-08:00Charles C. KolbCCKolb.13@gmail.com<p>Review of:</p> <p>CATHARINA E. SANTASILIA, GUY DAVID HEPP, AND RICHARD A. DIEHL (EDS.) 2022, Identities, Experience, and Change in Early Mexican Villages. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 350 pp. ISBN 13: 9780813069296</p>2024-01-01T00:00:00-08:00Copyright (c) 2024 Charles C. Kolbhttps://journals.sfu.ca/abf/index.php/abf/article/view/703Edible People: The Historical Consumption of Slaves and Foreigners and the Cannibalistic Trade in Human Flesh (2022)2023-12-19T08:22:42-08:00Julia Johnstonjjoh779@lsu.edu<p>Review of</p> <p>SIEFKES, C. (2022). Edible People: The Historical Consumption of Slaves and Foreigners and the Cannibalistic Trade in Human Flesh. New York: Berghahn Books. 332 pp., ISBN 978-1-80073-613-9</p>2024-01-22T00:00:00-08:00Copyright (c) 2024 Julia Johnstonhttps://journals.sfu.ca/abf/index.php/abf/article/view/599Repatriation and Erasing the Past (2020)2023-03-09T17:22:05-08:00Irene Marti Gilimart23@lsu.edu<p>Review of:</p> <p><strong>Elizabeth Weiss and James W. Springer</strong><strong>, </strong>2020. <em>Repatriation and Erasing the Past, </em>Gainesville<em>: </em>University of Florida Press, 278 pp., ISBN: 9781683401575.</p>2024-01-08T00:00:00-08:00Copyright (c) 2024 Irene Marti Gilhttps://journals.sfu.ca/abf/index.php/abf/article/view/705EDYTA ROSZKO, 2021, Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 260 pp., ISBN 978-0-8248-9055-1.2023-12-19T10:05:58-08:00Scott Erichscott.erich@gmail.com<p>Edyta Roszko challenges received wisdom about Vietnamese culture, history, and geography in her new book, <em>Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion, and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam. </em></p>2024-01-15T00:00:00-08:00Copyright (c) 2024 Scott Erichhttps://journals.sfu.ca/abf/index.php/abf/article/view/717Living on a Time Bomb: Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community (2023) 2024-01-29T01:30:48-08:00Andrew Woodandrew-wood@utulsa.edu<div><span lang="EN-US">Review of: Svenja Schöneich, <em>Living on a Time Bomb: Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community</em>. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2023. </span></div>2024-01-29T00:00:00-08:00Copyright (c) 2024 Andrew Wood