Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene
The New Nature
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei Zhou
Human ac�on has transformed our planet and ushered in a new geological epoch—the Anthropocene. This book takes stock of our current planetary crisis, leading readers through a series of sites, thought experiments, and genre-stretching descrip�ve prac�ces to nurture a revitalized natural history.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
May 2024 344pp
9781503637320 £25.99 now £18.19 HB
Naked Fieldnotes
A Rough Guide to Ethnographic Writing
Edited
by Denielle Elliott and Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
Ethnographic research has long been cloaked in mystery around what fieldwork is really like for researchers, how they collect data, and how it is analyzed within the social sciences. Naked Fieldnotes, a unique compendium of actual fieldnotes from contemporary ethnographic researchers from various modalities and research traditions, unpacks how this research works, its challenges and its possibilities.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
February 2024 384pp 72 B&W illus.
9781517916145 £24.99 now £17.49 PB
Inaccessible Access
Rethinking Disability Inclusion in Academic Knowledge Creation
Edited by Kelly Fagan Robinson, Mark T. Carew and Nora Ellen Groce
Focuses on the social, environmental, communica�ve, and epistemological barriers that people with disabili�es confront and embody throughout the course of their learning, living and in the specific context of their Higher Educa�on Ins�tu�ons and in research.
Contributions by Carol Rivas, Julia F. Sauma, Julia K. Modern, Valéria Aydos, Harshadha Balasubramanian, Rebekah Cupitt, Sara M. Acevedo, Sumi Colligan, Valerie Black, Nell A. Koneczny, Erin L. Durban, Krisjon Olson and Mark R. Bookman.
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
November 2024 190pp
9781978841451 £23.99 now £16.79 PB
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Beyond Description
Anthropologies of Explanation
Edited by Paolo Heywood and Matei Candea
By combining ethnographic studies of practices of explanation in a range of contemporary political, medical, artistic, religious, and bureaucratic settings, the essays in Beyond Description offer critical examinations of changing norms and forms of explanation in the world and within anthropology itself.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
December 2023 264pp 9781501771576
£27.99 now £19.59 PB
Citizens of Photography
The Camera and the Political Imagination
Edited by Christopher Pinney, Naluwembe Binaisa, Bindhya Buthpitiya, Konstantinos Kalantzis, Ileana L. Selejan and Sokphea Young
Through contemporary ethnographic investigations of photographic practice in Nicaragua, Nigeria, Greece, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Cambodia, Citizens of Photography explores how photography offers access to forms of citizenship beyond those available through ordinary politics.
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
September 2023 368pp 9781478020769
£25.99 now £18.19 PB
eFieldnotes
The Makings of Anthropology in the Digital World
Edited by Roger Sanjek and Susan W. Tratner
In this volume, distinguished scholars address the impact of digital technologies on how anthropologists do fieldwork and on what they study. With nearly three billion Internet users and more than four and a half billion mobile phone owners today, and with an ever-growing array of electronic devices and information sources, ethnographers confront a vastly different world from just decades ago, when fieldnotes produced by hand and typewriter were the professional norm.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Series: Haney Foundation Series
September 2015 312pp 9780812247787
£67.00 now £46.90 PB
Experimenting with Ethnography
A Companion to Analysis
Edited by Andrea Ballestero and Brit Ross Winthereik
Encompassing topics ranging from language and the body to technology and modes of collabora�on, the essays in this text invite readers to focus on the imagina�ve work that needs to be performed prior to comple�ng an argument. Whether exchanging objects, showing how to use drawn images as a way to analyze data, or working with smartphones, sound recordings, and social media as analy�c devices, the contributors explore the deliberate processes for pursuing experimental thinking through ethnography.
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
June 2021 320pp 9781478011996
£24.99 now £17.49 PB
Frontiers of Belonging
The Education of Unaccompanied Refugee Youth
Annika Lems
A captivating ethnography, Frontiers of Belonging allows readers into the Swiss classrooms where unspoken distinctions between self and other, guest and host, refugee and resident, were formed, policed, and challenged.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Worlds in Crisis: Refugees, Asylum, and Forced Migration
July 2022 244pp 9780253061799
£25.99 now £18.19 PB
History of Theory and Method in Anthropology
Regna Darnell
This volume emphasizes theory schools, institutional connections, social networks, and collaborative research with Indigenous communities in North Americanist anthropology. Regna Darnell’s fifty-year career brings unsurpassed interpretations, both historicist and presentist, of the discipline’s legacy in North America.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Series: Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
June 2022 348pp 9781496231307
£25.99 now £18.19 PB
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More-than-Human Aging
Animals, Robots, and Care in Later Life
Cristina Douglas and Andrew Whitehouse
Aging is not only reserved for humans. Similarly, how humans age is often a process in which other-than-humans – be it other species or technology – become entangled or carved out. The contributions to this edited volume open a conversation about how aging is always a hybrid, morethan-human process.
Contributions by Vanessa Ashall, Katie Brittain, Ardra Cole, Cathrine Degnen, Cristina Douglas, Carrie Friese, Ruud Hendriks, Larissa Hjorth, Samantha Hurn, Ike Kamphof, Joanna Elizabeth Latimer, Daniel López Gómez, Susan MacLeod, Ingrid Richardson, Nete Schwennesen, Lesley Sharp and Andrew Whitehouse
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Global Perspectives on Aging October 2024 208pp 9781978840935
£36.00 now £25.20 PB
Pink Gold
Women, Shrimp, and Work in Mexico
María L. Cruz-Torres
A rich, long-term ethnography of women seafood traders in Mexico, Pink Gold documents the shrimp traders' resilience and resourcefulness, from their early conflicts with the city, state, and federal authorities and forming a union, to carving out a physical space for a seafood market, and even engaging in conflicts with the Mexican military.
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
December 2023 384pp 9781477328026
£29.99 now £20.99 PB
Schoolishness
Alienated Education and the Quest for Authentic, Joyful Learning
Susan D. Blum
Drawing on critical, progressive, and feminist pedagogy in conversation with the anthropology of learning, and building on the insights of her two previous books Blum proposes less-schoolish ways of learning.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
May 2024 426pp 9781501774744
£25.99 now £18.19 PB
The Ethnographer's Way
A Handbook for
Multidimensional
Research Design
Kristin Peterson and Valerie Olson
Kristin Peterson and Valerie Olson guide students and scholars through the process of turning an initial idea into an in-depth research project. The handbook’s ten modules walk readers step-by-step, from the initial lightbulb moment to constructing research descriptions, planning data gathering, writing grant and dissertation proposals, and preparing for fieldwork.
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
May 2024 376pp 9781478030157
£25.99 now £18.19 PB
Wisdom from the Edge Writing Ethnography in Turbulent Times
Paul Stoller
Wisdom From the Edge describes what anthropologists can do to contribute to the social and cultural changes that shape a social future of wellbeing and viability. Ul�mately, it underscores the importance of recognizing and applying indigenous wisdom to the social problems that threaten the future.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
August 2023 204pp 9781501770661
£18.99 now £13.29 PB
Worlds Within and Worlds Without
Field Guide to an Intellectual Journey
Michael Jackson
Anthropologist Michael Jackson predicates his intellectual autobiography, Worlds Within and Worlds Without, on the view that works and lives are intimately entangled. Through a skillful interweaving of personal and ethnographic descriptions, he focuses on the imaginative and practical ways human beings negotiate the space between worlds they call their own and worlds they regard as lying beyond their immediate purview.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
April 2023 288pp 9781501768491
£47.00 now £32.90 HB
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Anthropological Theory for the Twenty-First Century
A Critical Approach
A. Lynn Bolles, Ruth GombergMuñoz, Bernard C. Perley and Keri
Vacanti Brondo
Upda�ng the canon with late twen�ethcentury and early twenty-first-century scholarship, this reader includes discussions of contemporary theories such as queer theory, decolonial theory, ontology, and an�-racism. Each sec�on is framed by clear and concise editorial introduc�ons that place the readings in context and conversa�on with each other, as well as ques�ons and glossaries to guide reader comprehension. Adynamic companion website features addi�onal resources, including links to videos, podcasts, ar�cles,and more.
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
April 2022 472pp 9781487526375
£42.00 now £29.40 PB
Anthropology and Law
A Critical Introduction
Mark Goodale
Foreword by Sally Engle Merry
An introduc�on to the anthropology of law that explores the connec�ons between law, poli�cs, and technology. The book’s chapters cover a range of intersec�ng areas including language and law, history, regula�on, indigenous rights, and gender.
NYU PRESS
May 2017 320pp 9781479895519
£33.00 now £23.10 PB
Anthropology Matters, Third Edition
Shirley A. Fedorak
The third edi�on of this bestselling book introduces readers to anthropology, and the world around it, by connec�ng important concepts to current global issues. A ques�on-based approach encourages readers to understand specific issues in a broader cross-cultural context while building an apprecia�on for anthropology’s role in developing global ci�zenship.
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
April 2017 288pp 9781487593209
£37.00 now £25.90 PB
Research across Borders
An Introduction to Interdisciplinary, Cross-Cultural Methodology
Christina Clark-Kazak
Specifically designed for students studying interdisciplinary or interna�onal programs on topics such as human rights, conflict studies, interna�onal rela�ons, global development, and migra�on, Research across Borders provides the methodological, ethical, and epistemological founda�ons for understanding research across different disciplines.
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
May 2023 312pp 9781487524371
£27.99 now £19.59 PB
Through the Lens of Anthropology
An Introduction to Human Evolution and Culture, Third Edition
Bob Muckle, Laura Tubelle de González and Stacey L. Camp
This third edi�on remains a highly readable text that encourages students to think about current events and issues through an anthropological lens The new edi�on has been updated to reflect the most recent developments in anthropology and the contribu�ons of marginalized scholars, while the use of gender-neutral language makes for a more inclusive text
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
May 2022 3 464pp 9781487540159
£57.00 now £39.90 PB
Through the Lens of Cultural Anthropology
Second Edition
Laura Tubelle de González
The second edition of this beautifully illustrated textbook introduces students to the field of cultural anthropology and encourages them to think about current events and issues through an anthropological lens. This edition has been revised and updated throughout to reflect recent developments in the field and is supplemented by a full suite of updated instructor and student resources.
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
June 2024 368pp 9781487552084
£49.00 now £34.30 PB
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