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November, 2015
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Abramowitz, Sharon Alane. 2014. Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War. Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights. University of Pennsylvania Press. 280 pp. Hb.: $50.94. ISBN-13: 978-0812246261.
Aching, Gerard. 2015. Freedom from Liberation: Slavery, Sentiment, and Literature in Cuba. Indiana University Press. 272 pp. Hb.: $48.00. ISBN: 9780253016935
Adinkrah, Mensah 2015. Witchcraft, Witches and Violence in Ghana. Berghahn Books. 336 pp. Hb.: $110.00. ISBN: 9781782385608
Albahari, Maurizio. 2015. Crimes of Peace: Mediterranean Migrations at the World’s Deadliest Border. University of Pennsylvania Press. 288 pp. Hb.: $65.00. ISBN: 9780812247473
Aneesh, A. 2015. Neutral Accent: How Language, Labor, and Life Become Global. Duke University Press. 168 pp. Ppb.: $22.95. ISBN: 9780822358534
Arcangeli, Myriam. 2015. Sherds of History: Domestic LIfe in Colonial Guadeloupe. University Press of Florida. 226 pp. Hb.: $74.95. ISBN 13: 9780813060422
Ardren, Traci. 2015. Social Identities in the Classic Maya Northern Lowlands: Gender, Age, Memory, and Place. University of Texas Press. 224 pp. Hb.: $55.00. ISBN: 9780292768116
Auyero, Javier; Berti, Maria Fernanda. 2015. In Harm’s Way: The Dynamics of Urban Violence. Princeton University Press. 264 pp. Hb.: $35.00. ISBN: 9780691164779
Baker, Brenda J.; Tsuda, Takeyuki (eds.). 2015. Migration & Disruptions: Toward a Unifying Theory of Ancient and Contemporary Migrations. University Press of Florida. 352 pp. Hb. ISBN: 9780813060804
Bartmanski, Dominik. 2015. Vinyl. The Analogue Record in the Digital Age. Bloomsbury Academic. 240 pp. Ppb.: $24.70. ISBN-13: 978-0857856616.
Bear, Laura. 2015. Navigating Austerity: Currents of Dept Along a South Asian River. Stanford University Press. 272 pp. Ppb.: £19.99. ISBN: 9780804795531
Beck, Sam; Maida, Carl A. (eds.). 2015. Public Anthropology in a Borderless World. Berghahn Books. 388 pp. Hb.: $120.00. ISBN: 9781782387305
Beckmann, Nadine and Alessandro Gusman (eds.) 2014. Strings Attached: AIDS and the Rise of Transnational Connections in Africa (Proceedings of the British Academy). Oxford University Press. 330 pp. Hb.: $87.31, ISBN-13: 978-0197265680
Berg, Ulla D. 2015. Mobile Selves: Race, Migration, and Belonging in Peru and the U.S. NYU Press. 336 pp. Hb.: $49.00. ISBN: 9781479803460
Berti, Daniela; Good, Anthony; Tarabout, Gilles (eds.). 2015. Of Doubt and Proof: Ritual and Legal Practices of Judgement. Ashgate Publishing. 220 pp. Hb.: £70.00. ISBN: 9781472434517
Billaud, Julie. 2015. Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afganistan. University of Pennsylvania Press. 256 pp. Hb.: $55.00/£36.00. ISBN: 9780812246964
Braverman, Irus. 2015. Wild Life: The Institution of Nature. Stanford University Press. 344 pp. Ppb.: $24.95. ISBN: 9780804795685
Bubandt, Nils. 2014. The Empty Seashell: Witchcraft and Doubt on an Indonesian Island. Cornell University Press. 320 pp. Ppb.: $26.95. ISBN-13: 9780801479458
Bunescu, Iona. 2014. Roma in Europe. The Politics of Collective Identity Formation. Ashgate. 222 pp. Hb.: £62.62. ISBN-13: 978-1472420589.
Burt, Ben and Bolton, Lissant (eds) 2014. The Things We Value. Culture and History in Solomon Islands. Sean Kingston Publishing. 156 pp. Hb.: $152.00. ISBN-13: 978-1907774218
Byrd, Samuel K. 2015. The Sounds of Latinidad: Immigrants Making Music and Creating Culture in a Southern City. NYU Press. 304 pp. Ppb.: $27.00. ISBN: 9781479860425
Cam Thai, Hung. 2014. Insufficient Funds: The Culture of Money in Low-Wage Transnational Families. Stanford University Press. 304 pp. Ppb.: $22.46. ISBN-13: 978-0804777322
Carrier, James G., Kalb, Don (eds.). 2015. Anthropologies of Class: Power, Practice and Inequality. Cambridge University Press. 248 pp. Hb.: £60.00. ISBN: 9781107087415
Casciarri, Barbara, Assal, Munzoul, Ireton, Francois (eds.). 2015. Multidimensional Change in Sudan (1989-2011): Reshaping Livelihoods, Conflicts and Identities. Berghahn Books. 392 pp. Hb.: $110.00. ISBN: 9781782386179
Chawla, Devika. 2014. Home, Uprooted. Oral Histories of India’s Partition. Fordham University Press. 288 pp. Ppb.: $24.23. ISBN-13: 978-0823256440
Coburn, Noah and Larson, Anna. Derailing Democracy in Afghanistan. Elections in an Unstable Political Landscape. Columbia University Press. 306 pp. Pb.: $45.00. ISBN-13: 978-0231166201
Collins, John F. 2015. Revolt of the Saints: Memory and Redemption in the Twilight of Brazilian Racial Democracy. Duke University Press. 480 pp. Ppb.: £20.99. ISBN: 9780822353201
Cox, Aimee Meredith. 2015. Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship. Duke University Press. 282 pp. Ppb.: £17.99. ISBN: 9780822359319
Curtis, Jennifer. 2014. Human Rights as War by Other Means. University of Pennsylvania Press. 296 pp. Hb.: $61.70. ISBN-13: 978-0812246193.
Dahl, Gudrun, Bartholdson, Örjan, Favero, Paolo, and Khosravi, Shahram. Modernitites on the Move. Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis. Ppb. 116pp. ISBN: 978-91-86071-98-1
Da Re, Maria Gabriella. 2015. Dialoghi Con la Natura in Sardegna: Per un’antropologia delle pratiche e dei saperi. Leo S. Olschki Editore. 350 pp. Ppb.: 35.00 EUR. ISBN: 9788822263575 (with DVD)
Dixon, R.M.W. 2015. Edible Gender, Mother-in-Law Style, & Other Grammatical Wonders: Studies in Dyirbal, Yidin, & Warrgamay. Oxford University Press. 416 pp. Hb.: $110.00. ISBN: 9780198702900
Dumouchel, Paul; Gotoh, Reiko (eds.). 2015. Social Bonds as Freedom: Revisiting the Dichotomy of the Universal and the Particular. Berghahn Books. 296 pp. Hb.: $95.00. ISBN: 9781782386933
Falls, Susan. 2014. Clarity, Cut and Culture. New York University Press. 224 pp. Ppb.: $15.23. ISBN: 978-1-4798-7990-8
Fairhead, James. 2015. The Captain & “The Cannibal”: An Epic Story of Exploration, Kidnapping, and the Broadway Stage. Yale University Press. 392 pp. Hb.: $40.00. ISBN: 9780300198775
Feldman, Gregory. 2015. We are all Migrants: Political Actions and the Ubiquituous Condition of Migrant-hood. Stanford University Press. 136 pp. Ppb: $12.99. ISBN: 9780804789332
Ferrandiz, Francisco; Robben, Antonius C.G.M. (eds.). 2015. Necropolitics: Mass Graves and Exhumations in the Age of Human Rights. University of Pennsylvania Press. 280 pp. Hb.: $59.95. ISBN: 9780812247206
Fontein, Joost. 2015. Remaking Mutirikwi: Landscape, Water & Belonging in Southern Zimbabwe. James Currey. 365 pp. Hb.: £45.00. ISBN: 9781847011121
Gaibazzi, Paolo. 2015. Bush Bound: Young Men and Rural Permanence in Migrant West Africa. Berghahn Books. 232 pp. Hb.: $90.00. ISBN: 9781782387794
Galanti, Geri-Ann. 2015. Caring for Patients from Different Cultures. University of Pennsylvania Press. 384 pp. Ppb.: $22.50/£15.00. ISBN: 9780812223118
Geissler, P. Wenzel (ed.). 2015. Para-States and Medical Science: Making African Global Health. Duke University Press. 375 pp. Ppb.: £19.99. ISBN: 9780822357490
Goodfellow, Aaron. 2015. Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship. Fordham University Press. 240 pp. Ppb.: £20.99. ISBN: 9780823266043
Gressier, Catie. 2015. At Home in the Okavango: White Batswana Narratives of Emplacement and Belonging. Berghahn Books. 244 pp. Hb.: $100.00. ISBN: 9781782387732
Grey, Minnie, Stenbaek, Marianne A. and Aatami, Pita. 2014. Voices and Images of Nunavimmiut, Volume 7: Economic Development, Part I. McGill-Queen’s University Press. 288 pp. Hb.: £19.99. ISBN: 9780982915578
Grey, Minnie, Stenbaek, Marianne A. and Gregg, Neil. 2014. Voices and Images of Nunavimmiut, Volume 8: Economic Development, Part II. McGill-Queen’s University Press. 288 pp. Hb.: £19.99. ISBN: 9780982915585
Gudeman, Stephen and Hann, Chris (eds.). 2015. Economy & Ritual: Studies of Postsocialist Transformations. Berghahn Books. 214 pp. Hb.: $95.00/£60.00. ISBN: 9781782385691
Gudeman, Stephen and Hann, Chris (eds.). 2015. Oikos & Market: Explorations in Self-Sufficiency after Socialism. 204 pp. Hb.: $95.00. ISBN: 9781782386957
Gulbrandsen, Ornulf. 2014. The State and the Social. State Formation in Botswana and Its Precolonial and Colonial Genealogies. Berghahn Books. 364 pp. Ppb.: $34.95. ISBN 978-1-78238-325-3.
Göknar, Merve Demircioglu. 2015. Achieving Procreation: Childlessness and IVF in Turkey. Berghahn Books. 214 pp. Hb.: $80.00. ISBN: 9781782386346
Hage, Ghassan. 2015. Alter-Politics: Critical Anthropology and the Radical Imagination. Melbourne University Press. 245 pp. Ppb.: $59.99. ISBN: 9780522867381
Harris, Mark, Rapport, Nigel (eds.). 2015. Reflections on Imagination: Human Capacity and Ethnographic Method. Ashgate Publishing. 316 pp. Hb. £70.00. ISBN: 9781472417305
Hazan, Haim. 2015. Against Hybridity: Social Impasses in a Globalizing World. Polity Press. 200 pp. Ppb.: £15.99. ISBN: 9780745690704
Hermann, Elfriede and Kempf, Wolfgang. 2014. Belonging in Oceania. Movement, Place-Making and Multiple Identifications. Berghahn Books. 232 pp. Hb.: $86.52. ISBN-13: 978-1782384151.
Herrmans, Isabell. 2015. Ritual Retellings: Luangan Healing Performances through Practice. Berghahn books. 304 pp. Hb.: $95.00. ISBN: 9781782385646
Heyes, A. Scott & Helgen M. Kristofer. (eds.) 2014. Mammals of Ungava and Labrador: The 1882-1884 Fieldnotes of Lucien M. Turner together with Inuit and Innu Knowledge. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 384 pp. Hb.: $40.05. ISBN-13: 978-1935623212
Hirsch, Susan F. & Dukes, E. Franklin. 2014. Mountaintop Mining in Appalachia: Understanding Stakeholders and Change in Environmental Conflict. Ohio University Press. 160 pp. Ppb.: £14.99 ISBN: 9780821421109.
Ho, Tamara C. 2015. Romancing Human Rights: Gender, Intimacy, and Power between Burma and the West. University of Hawai’i Press. 216 pp. Hb.: $49.00. ISBN: 9780824839253
Hoem, Ingjerd. 2015. Languages of Governance in Conflict: Negotiating democracy in Tokelau. John Benjamins Publishing Company. 152 pp. Hb.: $143.00. ISBN: 9789027202963
Hviding, Edvard & Berg, Cato (eds.) 2014. The Ethnographic Experiment. A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908. Berghahn Books. 336 pp. Hb.: $84.22. ISBN-13: 978-1782383420.
Inhorn, Marcia C. 2015. Cosmopolitan Conceptions: IVF Sojourns in Global Dubai. Duke University Press. 408 pp. Ppb.: $27.95. ISBN: 9780822359333
Jackson, Michael; Piette, Albert (eds.). 2015. What is Existential Anthropology? Berghahn Books. 254 pp. Hb.: $95.00. ISBN: 9781782386360
Jansen, Stef. 2015. Yearnings in the Meantime: ‘Normal Lives’ and the State in a Sarajevo Apartment Complex. Berghahn Books. 262 pp. Hb.: $90.00. ISBN: 9781782386506
Jimeno, Myriam. 2014. Juan Gregario Palechor. The Story of My Life. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 248 pp. Ppb.: $19.86, ISBN-13: 978-0822355373
Joniak-Lüthi, Agnieszka. 2015. The Han: China’s Diverse Majority. University of Washington Press. 200 pp. Hb.: $50.00. ISBN: 9780295994673
Kantor, Loli. 2014. Beyond the Forest: Jewish Presence in Eastern Europe, 2004-2012 (Exploring Jewish Arts and Culture). University of Texas Press. 184 pp. Hb.: $47.19. ISBN-13: 978-0292761292.
Kardulias, P. Nick (ed.). 2015. The Ecology of Pastoralism. University Press of Colorado. 272 pp. Hb.: $70.00. ISBN: 9781607323426
Kaufman, Sharon R. 2015. Ordinary Medicine: Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line. Duke University Press. 336 pp. Ppb.: £17.99. ISBN: 9780822358886
Kayaalp, Ebru. 2015. Remaking Politics, Markets and Citizens in Turkey: Governing Through Smoke. (Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought). Bloomsbury Publishing. 230 pp. Hb.: $106.40. ISBN: 9781472508737
Keller, Eva. 2015. Beyond the Lens of Conservation: Malagasy and Swiss Imaginations of One Another. Berghahn Books. 258 pp. Hb.: $95.00/£60.00. ISBN: 9781782385523
Keshodkar, Akbar. Tourism and Social Change in Post-Socialist Zanzibar. Struggles for Identity, Movement, and Civilization. Lexington Books. 202 pp. Hb. $77.00. ISBN: 978-0-7391-7543-9
Kirshner, Ben. 2015. Youth Activism in an Era of Education Inequality. New York University Press. 240 pp. Ppb.: $27.00. ISBN: 9781479898053
Kistler, S. Ashley. 2014. Maya Market Women. Power and Tradition in San Juan Chamelco, Guatemala. University of Illinois Press. 176 pp. Ppb.: £16.99. ISBN-13: 978-0252079887.
Kjaerulff, Jens (ed.). 2015. Flexible Capitalism: Exchange and Ambiguity at Work. Berghahn Books. 296 pp. Hb.: $95.00. ISBN: 9781782386155
Klaufus, Christien; Ouweneel, Arij (eds.). 2015. Housing and Belonging in Latin America. Berghahn Books. 344 pp. Hb.: $120.00. ISBN: 9781782387404
Kleeman, Faye Yuan. 2014. In Transit. The Formation of the Colonial East Asian Cultural Sphere. University of Hawaii Press. 295 pp. Hb.: $46.80. ISBN-13: 978-0824838607
Knörr, Jacqueline. 2014. Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia. Berghahn Books. 236 pp. Ppb.: $84.02. ISBN-10: 1782382682.
Koensler, Alexander. 2015. Israeli-Palestinian Activism: Shifting Paradigms. Ashgate Publishing. 206 pp. Hb.: £60.00. ISBN: 9781472439475
Krautwurst, Udo. 2014. Culturing Bioscience. A Case Study in the Anthropology of Science. University of Toronto Press. 224 pp. Ppb.: $15.23. ISBN: 978-1-4426-0462-9
Kressel, M. Gideon. 2014. The Charm of Graves: Perceptions of Death and After-Death Among the Negev Bedouin. Sussex Academic Press. 256 pp. Hb.: $74.95 ISBN-13: 978-1845195847.
Kuntsman, Adi, Stein, Rebecca. 2015. Digital Militarism: Israel’s Occupation in the Social Media Age. Stanford University Press. 192 pp. Ppb.: £15.99. ISBN: 9780804794909
Kuppinger, Petra. 2015. Faithfully Urban: Pious Muslims in a German city. Berghahn Books. 296 pp. Hb.: $120.00. ISBN: 9781782386568
Langfur, Hal. 2014. Native Brazil: Beyond the Convert and the Cannibal, 1500-1900. University of New Mexico Press. 304 pp. Ppb.: $29.24. ISBN-13: 978-0826338419
Lankauskas, Gediminas. 2015. The Land of Weddings and Rain: Nation and Modernity in Post-Socialist Lithuania. University of Toronto Press. 352 pp. Ppb.: $36.95. ISBN: 9781442612563
Lavie, Smadar. 2014. Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture. Berghahn Books. 216 pp. Hb.: $37.95. ISBN-13: 978-1782382225.
Lee, Christopher J. 2014. Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa. Duke University Press. 368 pp. Ppb.: £18.99. ISBN: 9780822357254
Lehrer, Erica; Meng, Michael (eds.). 2015. Jewish Space in Contemporary Poland. Indiana University Press. 302 pp. Ppb.ISBN: 9780253015037
Leotar, Frederic. 2014. La Steppe Musicienne: Analyses et Modelisation du Patrimoine Musical Turcique. VRIN. 320 pp. Ppb.: 28.00 EUR. ISBN: 9782711625505
Lincoln, Bruce. 2014. Discourse and the Construction of Society. Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual and Classification. Oxford University Press. 304 pp. Ppb.: $33.25. ISBN-13: 978-0199372362.
Little C. Peter. 2014. Toxic Town: IBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks. NYU Press. 264 pp. Ppb.: $19.24. ISBN-13: 978-0814770924
Louie, Andrea. 2015. How Chinese Are You? Adopted Chinese Youth and Their Families Negotiate Identity and Culture. NYU Press. 304 pp. Ppb.: $25.00. ISBN: 9781479894635
Malkki, Liisa H. 2015. The Need to Help: The Domestic Arts of International Humanitarianism. Duke University Press. 272 pp. Ppb.: £16.99. ISBN: 9780822359326
Manickam, Sandra Khor. 2015. Taming the Wild: Aborigines and Racial Knowledge in Colonial Malaya. University of Hawai’i Press. 384 pp. Ppb.: $35.00. ISBN: 9789971698324
Markowitz, Fran, Sharot, Stephen and Shokeid, Moshe, eds. 2015. Toward an Anthropology of Nation Building and Unbuilding in Israel. University of Nebraska Press. 352 pp. Hb.: £42.00. ISBN: 9780803271944
Marty, Eric. 2015. Radical French Thought and the Return of the “Jewish Question”. Indiana University Press. 128 pp. Ppb.: $28.00. ISBN: 9780253016782
McFall, Liz. 2015. Devising Consumption: Cultural economies of insurance, credit and spending. Routledge. 203 pp. Hb.: $119.48. ISBN: 9780415694391
Meinert, Lotte; Kapferer, Bruce (eds.). 2015. In the Event: Toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments. Berghahn Books. 186 pp. Ppb.: $24.95. ISBN: 9781782388890
Merabet, Sofian. 2014. Queer Beirut. University of Texas Press. 304 pp. Hb: $51.62. ISBN 978-0-292-76096-7.
Morris, Jeremy; Polese, Abel (eds.). 2015. Informal Economies in Post-Socialist Spaces: Practices, Institutions and Networks. Palgrave macmillan. 320 pp. Hb.: £65.00. ISBN: 9781137483065
Mulla, Sameena. 2014. The Violence of Care. Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses, and Sexault Assault Intervention. New York University Press. 288 pp. Ppb. $16.79. ISBN: 978-1-4798-6721-9.
Najera, Jennifer R. 2015. The Borderlands of Race: Mexican Segregation in a South Texas Town. University of Texas Press. 200 pp. Hb.: $45.00. ISBN: 9780292767553
Naples, A. Nancy (Editor), Bickham, Jennifer Mendez. 2014. Border Politics: Social Movements, Collective Identities, and Globalization. NYU Press. 368 pp. Ppb.: $22.47. ISBN-13: 978-1479847761.
Naraindas, Harish, Johannes Quack, William S. Sax (eds.) 2014. Berghahn Books. 276 pp. Hb.: $82.59. ISBN-13: 978-1782383086
Nielsen, Gritt B. 2015. Figuration Work: Student Participation, Democracy and University Reform in a Global Knowledge Economy. Berghahn Books. 276 pp. Hb.: $100.00. ISBN: 9781782387718
“Nostalgie”. Terrain 65. 2015. Maison des sciences de l’homme. 245 pp.Ppb. ISBN: 9782735120444
Obarrio, Juan. 2014. The Spirit of the Laws in Mozambique. University of Chicago Press. 280 pp. Ppb.: £19.68. ISBN-13: 978-0226153865.
Oberdiek, Ulrich. 2013. Hierarchie und Gehorsam im Fach Ethnologie: Ihr Einfluss auf die Theorieproduktion in Deutchland seit 1950. Lit Verlag. 128 pp. Ppb.:19.90 EUR. ISBN: 9783643120533
O’Brien-Rothe, Linda. 2015. Songs that Make the Road Dance: Courtship and Fertility Music of the Tz’utujil Maya. University of Texas Press. 266 pp. Ppb.: $16.72. ISBN: 9781477305386
Oaks, Laury. 2015. Giving Up Baby: Safe Haven Laws, Motherhood, and Reproductive Justice. NYU Press. 288 pp. Ppb.: £18.99. ISBN: 9781479806362
Ortar, Nathalie. 2015. La vie en deux: Familles francaises et britanniques face a la mobilite geographique professionnelle. Editions Petra. 374 pp. Ppb.: 23.00 EUR. ISBN: 9782847431209
Paerregaard, Karsten. 2015. Return to Sender: The Moral Economy of Peru’s Migrant Remittances. University of California Press. 336 pp. Ppb.: $34.95. ISBN: 9780520284746
Pandian, Anand and Mariappan, M.P. 2014. Ayya’s Accounts: A Ledger of Hope in Modern India. Indiana University Press. 232 pp. Ppb.: $15.99. ISBN: 978-0-253-01250-0.
Papacostas, Savvas. 2015. Madness and Leadership: From Antiquity to the New Common Era. Edward Elgar Publishing. 256 pp. Hb.: $120.00. ISBN: 9781784719579
Parry, Bronwyn; Greenhough, Beth; Brown, Tim; Dyck, Isabel (eds.). 2015. Bodies Across Borders: The Global Circulation of Body Parts, Medical Tourists and Proffessionals. Ashgate Publishing. 248 pp. Hb.: £65.00. ISBN: 9781409457176
Peters, Alicia W. 2015. Responding to Human Trafficking: Sex, Gender, and Culture in the Law. University of Pennsylvania Press. 256 pp. Hb.: $59.95. ISBN: 9780812247336
Peterson , Kristin. 2014. Speculative Markets: Drug Circuits and Derivative Life in Nigeria. Duke University Press. 256 pp. Ppb.: $18.80. ISBN-13: 978-0822357025.
Piette, Albert. 2015. Existence in the Details: Theory and Methodology in Existential Anthropology. Duncker & Humblot. 121 pp. Ppb.: 64.90 EUR. ISBN: 9783428146772
Plancke, Carine. 2014. Flux, rencontres et émergences affectives. Pratiques chantées et dansées chez les Punu du Congo-Brazzaville. Presses Universitaires Du Mirail. 418 pp. Ppb.: €25.00. ISBN: 978-2-8107-0306-7.
Polanco, Mieka Brand, 2014. Historically Black. Imagining Community in a Black Historic District. New York University Press. 208 pp. Ppb.: $18.48. ISBN: 978-0-8147-6348-3.
Pozniak, Kinga. 2014. Nowa Huta. Generations of Change in a Model Socialist Town. University of Pittsburgh Press. 240 pp. Ppb.: $23.66. ISBN-13: 978-0822963189
Prearo Massimo, 2014. Moment politique de l homosexualite. P U De Lyon. 329 pp. Ppb.: $29.94. ISBN-13: 978-2729708757
Prendergast, David; Garattini, Chiara (eds.). 2015. Aging and the Digital Life Course. Berghahn Books. 300 pp. Hb.: $120.00. ISBN: 9781782386919
Prince, Sabiya. 2014. African Americans and Gentrification in Washington, D.C. (Urban Anthropology). Ashgate Pub. Co. 182 pp. Hb.: $99.70. ISBN-13: 978-1409446125
Quayson, Ato. 2014. Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism. Duke University Press. 312 pp. Ppb.: $25.95. ISBN: 9780822357476
Ralph, Michael. 2015. Forensics of Capital. The University of Chicago Press. 195 pp. Ppb.: $25.00. ISBN: 9780226198576
Ramberg, Lucinda. 2014. Given to the Goddess. Duke University Press. 296 pp. Ppb.: £15.99. ISBN: 9780822357247
Rasmussen, Mattias Borg. 2015. Andean Waterways: resource politics in highland Peru. University of Washington Press. 232 pp. Ppb.: $30.00. ISBN: 9780295994932
Razsa, Maple. 2015. Bastards of Utopia: Living Radical Politics after Socialism. Inidiana University Press. 312 pp. Ppb.: £21.99. ISBN: 9780253015860
Reinarz, Jonathan. 2014. Past Scents: Historical Perspectives on Smell (Studies in Sensory History) University of Illinois Press. 296 pp. Ppb.: $21.19. ISBN-13: 978-0252079795
Rice, Connie Park, Tedesco, Marie (eds.). 2015. Women of the Mountain South: Identity, Work, and Activism. Ohio University Press. 504 pp. Ppb.: £25.99. ISBN: 97808221421512
Rollason, Will (eds.) 2014. Pacific Futures. Projects, Politics and Interests. Berghahn Books. 248 pp. Hb.: $88.88. ISBN-13: 978-1782383505.
Rosenblatt, Adam. 2015. Digging for the Disappeared: Forensic Science After Atrocity. Stanford University Press. 304 pp. Ppb.: $24.95. ISBN: 9780804794916
Ross, Kerry. 2015. Photography for Everyone. The Cultural Lives of Cameras and Consumers in Early Twentieth-Century Japan. Stanford University Press. 256 pp. Ppb.: $24.95. ISBN: 9780804795647
Rountree, Kathryn (ed). 2015. Contemporary Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Europe: Colonialist and Nationalist Impulses. Berghahn Books. 326 pp. Hb.: $95.00. ISBN: 9781782386469
Salazar, Carles and Bestard, Joan (eds.). 2015. Religion and Science as Forms of Life: Anthropological Insights into Reason and Unreason. Berghahn Books. 238 pp. Hb.: $90.00/£56.00. ISBN: 9781782384885
Salman, Ton and Marti I Puig, Salvador, Van der Haar, Gemma. (eds.) 2014. Dignity for the Voiceless: Willem Assies’ Anthropological Work in Context (Cedla Latin America Studies). Berghahn Books. 334 pp.Hb.: $83.78. ISBN-13: 978-1782382928
Sanjek, Roger; Tratner, Susan W. (eds.). 2015. eFieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology in the Digital World. University of Pennsylvania Press. 312 pp. Ppb.: $34.95. ISBN: 9780812247787
Satsuka, Shiho. 2015. Nature in Translation: Japanese Tourism Encounters the Canadian Rockies. Duke University Press. 280 pp. Ppb.: £16.99. ISBN: 9780822358800
Saxer, Martin. 2013. Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine: The Creation of an Industry and the Moral Economy of Tibetanness. Berghahn Books. 304 pp. Hb.: $95.00. ISBN: 9780857457721
Schmidgen, Henning. 2014. Bruno Latour in Pieces: An Intellectual Biography (Forms of Living. Fordham University Press. 194 pp. Ppb.: $17.60. ISBN-13: 978-0823263707.
Schneider, Arnd; Wright, Christopher (eds.). 2013. Anthropology and Art Practice. Bloomsbury Publishing. 184 pp. Ppb.: £35.00. ISBN: 9780857851802
Schäuble, Michaela. 2014. Narrating Victimhood: Gender, Religion and the Making of Place in Post-war Croatia. Berghahn Books. 392 pp. Hb.: $120.00. ISBN: 9781782382607
Sered, Susan Starr and Norton-Hawk, Maureen. Can’t Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility. University of California Press. 232 pp. Ppb.: $23.82. ISBN-13: 978-0520282797.
Shaul, David Leedom. 2014. A Prehistory of Western North America: The Impact of Uto-Aztecan Languages. University of New Mexico Press. 400 pp. Hb.: $61.75. ISBN-13: 978-0826354808
Shaw, Alison and Raz, Aviad (eds.). 2015. Cousin Marriages: Between Tradition, Genetic Risk and Cultural Change. Berghahn Books. 248 pp. Hb.: $90.00/£56.00. ISBN: 9781782384922
Shokeid, Moshe. 2014. Gay Voluntary Associations in New York: Public Sharing and Private Lives. University of Pennsylvania Press. 240 pp. Hb.: $42.08. ISBN-13: 978-0812246575.
Sieler, Roman. 2015. Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets: Medicine and Martial Arts in South India. Oxford University Press. 320 pp. Ppb.: £22.99. ISBN: 9780190243869
Simpson, Audra. 2014. Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States. Duke University Press Books. 280 pp. Ppb. $18.99, ISBN-13: 978-0822356554
Singh, Bhrigupati. 2015. Poverty and the Quest for Life: Spiritual and Material Striving in Rural India. The University of Chicago Press. 328 pp. Ppb.: $27.50. ISBN: 9780226194547
Sissons, Jeffrey. 2014. The Polynesian Iconoclasm: Religious Revolution and the Seasonality of Power (Asao Studies in Pacific Anthropology). Berghahn Books. 160 pp. Hb.: $72.50. ISBN-13: 978-1782384137.
Smith, Katherine, Staples, James and Rapport, Nigel (eds.). 2015. Extraordinary Encounters: Authenticity and the Interview. 212 pp. Hb.: $70.00/£43.00. ISBN: 9781782385899
Snook, Jennifer. 2015. American Heathens: The Politics of Identity in a Pagan Religious Movement. Temple University Press. 242 pp. Ppb.: $29.95. ISBN: 9781439910979
Sokolovsky, Jay. 2015. Indigenous Mexico Engages the 21st Century: A Multimedia-enabled Text. Left Coast Press. 192 pp. Ppb.: $26.95. ISBN: 9781629581750
Sorek, Tamir. 2015. Palestinian Commemoration in Israel: calendars, Monuments & Martyrs. Stanford University Press. 328 pp. Ppb.: $29.95. ISBN: 9780804795180
Spooner, Brian (ed.). 2015. Globalization: The Crucial Phase. University of Pennsylvania Press. 392 pp. Hb.: $69.95. ISBN: 9781934536780
Staples, James. 2014. Leprosy and a Life in South India: Journeys with a Tamil Brahmin. Lexington Books. 204 pp. Hb.: $80.00, ISBN-13: 978-0739187340
Stavrianakis, Anthony; Bennett, Gaymon; Fearnley, Lyle (eds.). 2015. Science, Reason, Modernity: Readings for an Anthropology of the Contemporary. Fordham University Press. 336 pp. Ppb.: $33.00. ISBN: 9780823265947
Street, Alice. 2014. Biomedicine in an Unstable Place. Infrastructure and Personhood in a Papua New Guinean Hospital. Duke University Press. 304 pp. Ppb.: $19.58. ISBN-13: 978-0822357780.
Syring, David. 2014. With the Saraguros. University of Texas Press. 182 pp. Hb.: $49.50. ISBN-13: 978-0292760936.
Tate, Winifred. 2015. Drugs, Thugs, and Diplomats: U.S. Policymaking in Colombia. Stanford University Press. 304 pp. Ppb.: £18.99. ISBN: 9780804795661
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Teaiwa, Katerina Martina. 2014. Consuming Ocean Island: Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba. Indiana University Press. 262 pp. Ppb: £17.99. ISBN: 9780253014528
Tomori, Cecilia. 2015. Nighttime Breastfeeding: An American Cultural Dilemma. Berghahn Books. 312 pp. Hb. $110.00/ £68.00. ISBN: 9781782384359
Trautmann, Thomas R. 2015. Elephants & Kings: An Environmental History. The University of Chicago Press. 376 pp. Ppb.: $30.00. ISBN: 9780226264363
Trundle, Catherine. 2014. Americans in Tuscany: Charity, Compassion and Belonging (New Directions in Anthropology). Berghahn Books. 222 pp. Hb.: $87.23. ISBN-13: 978-1782383697.
Turner, Sarah; Bonnin, Christine; Michaud, Jean. 2015. Frontier Livelihoods: Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands. University of Washington Press. 234 pp. Hb.: $50.00. ISBN: 9780295994666
Unnithan-Kumar, Maya and Khanna, Sunil K. (eds.). 2014. The Cultural Politics of Reproduction: Migration, Health and Family Making. Berghahn Books. 206 pp. Hb.: $95.00/£60.00. ISBN: 9781782385448
Urban, Greg (eds.) 2014. Corporations and Citizenship (Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism). University of Pennsylvania Press. 392 pp. $56.52. ISBN-13: 978-0812246025.
Vega, Sujey. 2015. Latino Heartland: Of Borders and Belonging in the Midwest. NYU Press. 304 pp. Ppb.: $27.00. ISBN: 9781479896042
Vigneswaran, Darshan; Quirk, Joel (eds.). 2015. Mobility Makes States: Migration and Power in Africa. University of Pennsylvania Press. 312 pp. Hb.: $59.95. ISBN: 9780812247114
Voell, Stephane; Kaliszewska, Iwona (eds.). 2015. State and Legal Practice in the Caucasus: Anthropological Perspectives on Law and Politics. Ashgate Publishing. 258 pp. Hb.: £63.00. ISBN: 9781472446909
Walsh, Susan. 2014. Trojan-Horse Aid: Seeds of Resistance and Resilience in the Bolivian Highlands and Beyond. McGill-Queen’s University Press. 336 pp. Ppb.: £21.99. ISBN: 9780773544345
Weeks Jeffrey, 2014. Sexualite. P U De Lyon. 303 pp. Ppb. $19.46, ISBN-13: 978-2729708641
Whittaker, Andrea. 2015. Thai in Vitro: Gender, Culture and Assisted Reproduction. Berghahn Books. 276 pp. Hb.: $110.00. ISBN: 9781782387329
Willford, Andrew C. 2014. Tamils and the Haunting of Justice: History and Recognition in Malaysia’s Plantations. NUS Press. 336 pp. Ppb.: US$32. ISBN: 9789971698393
Williams, Erica Lorraine. Sex Tourism in Bahia. Ambigious Entanglements. University of Illinois Press. 224 pp. Ppb.: $22.71. ISBN-13: 978-0252079443
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