Anthropology Book Forum

Book Review

Edgar Valles — 2024-04-09

Book Review on:

STEPHEN PAUL MUMME, 2023, Border Water: The Politics of U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Water Management, 1945-2015, New York: The University of Arizona Press, 414 pp., ISBN 978-0-8165-4830-9

Negative ecologies: Fossil fuels and the discovery of the environment

Marianna Betti — 2024-03-18

Review of:

BOND, DAVID, 2022, Negative ecologies: Fossil fuels and the discovery of the environment, Univ of California Press, 262 pp., ISBN: 978-0-52038-678-5

Out to work: Migration, Gender, and the Changing Lives of Rural Women in Contemporary China (2016)

Tingting Hu — 2024-03-04

Review of:

Gaetano, Arianne M. 2015. Out to work: Migration, Gender, and the Changing Lives of Rural Women in Contemporary China. University of Hawai’i Press. 184 pp.

The New American Servitude: Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers (2019)

Serah Shani — 2024-04-01

Review of:

COE, CATI. 2019. The New American Servitude: Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers, New York University Press: New York, Series: Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice, 304 pp., ISBN: 9781479808830

audit culture

jason scott — 2024-03-27

audit culture

Reimagining Workplace Resistance

Amanda Tobin Ripley — 2024-03-11

This review of Sian Lazar's How We Struggle: A Political Anthropology of Labour highlights the author's major theoretical contributions to the study of workplace resistance and labor agency.

State of the Arts: An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration (2023)

Jenny Tang — 2024-04-22

Review of:

JONAS TINIUS, 2023, State of the Arts: An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 290 pp., ISBN 978-1-009-32112-9

Food and Identity in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ghana: Food, Fights, and Regionalism (2022)

Chiara Scheven — 2024-02-27

Review of:

BRANDI SIMPSON MILLER, 2022, Food and Identity in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ghana: Food, Fights, and Regionalism. Cham: Springer International, 327 pp. ISBN: 978-3-030-88403-1

Myriad Intimacies (2022)

Saiba Varma — 2024-02-19

Review of:

LATA MANI, 2022, Myriad Intimacies. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 104 pp, ISBN: 978-1-4780-1827-8.

Vertiginous Life: An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen (2021)

Venes Carmelo Banquiles — 2024-02-05

Review of:

Knight, Daniel M. 2021. Vertiginous Life: An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen. New Anthropologies of Europe. New York: Berghahn

Identities, Experience, and Change in Early Mexican Villages (2022)

Charles C. Kolb — 2024-01-01

Review of:

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

Edible People: The Historical Consumption of Slaves and Foreigners and the Cannibalistic Trade in Human Flesh (2022)

Julia Johnston — 2024-01-22

Review of

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

Repatriation and Erasing the Past (2020)

Irene Marti Gil — 2024-01-08

Review of:

Elizabeth Weiss and James W. Springer, 2020. Repatriation and Erasing the Past, Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 278 pp., ISBN: 9781683401575.

EDYTA 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.

Scott Erich — 2024-01-15

Edyta Roszko challenges received wisdom about Vietnamese culture, history, and geography in her new book, Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion, and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam.

Living on a Time Bomb: Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community (2023)

Andrew Wood — 2024-01-29

Review of: Svenja Schöneich, Living on a Time Bomb: Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2023.