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Angelique V. Nixon, “Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture” (U Press of Mississippi, 2015)
Angelique V. Nixon
Resisting Paradise
Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture
University Press of Mississippi, 2015

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network December 2, 2015 Alejandra Bronfman

It’s easy to conjure images of paradise when thinking of the Caribbean. The region is know for its lovely beaches, temperate weather, and gorgeous landscapes. For the people who live there, however, living in paradise means dealing with tourists, inequality, exploitation, and corruption. While many scholars have published critiques of... Read More
Philip Roscoe, “A Richer Life: How Economics Can Change the Way We Think and Feel” (Penguin, 2015)
Philip Roscoe
A Richer Life
How Economics can Change the Way We Think and Feel
Penguin, 2015

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Big IdeasNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in EconomicsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network November 19, 2015 Dave O'Brien

So many of our social questions are now the subject of analysis from economics. In A Richer Life: How Economics can Change the Way We Think and Feel (Penguin, 2015), Phillip Roscoe, a reader at the University of St Andrew’s School of Management, offers a critique of the long march... Read More
Anderson Blanton, “Hittin’ the Prayer Bones: Materiality of Spirit in the Pentecostal South” (UNC Press, 2015)
Anderson Blanton
Hittin' the Prayer Bones
Materiality of Spirit in the Pentecostal South
University of North Carolina Press, 2015

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network November 12, 2015 Hillary Kaell

Anderson Blanton‘s Hittin’ the Prayer Bones: Materiality of Spirit in the Pentecostal South (University of North Carolina Press, 2015), illuminates how prayer, faith, and healing are intertwined with technologies of sound reproduction and material culture in the charismatic Christian worship of southern Appalachia. Drawing on two years of field work... Read More
Adam Rosenblatt, “Digging for the Disappeared: Forensic Science After Atrocity” (Stanford UP, 2015)
Adam Rosenblatt
Digging for the Disappeared
Forensic Science After Atrocity
Stanford University Press, 2015

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network October 9, 2015 Kelly McFall

Do dead bodies have human rights? This is one of many fascinating questions Adam Rosenblatt asks in his compelling new book Digging for the Disappeared: Forensic Science After Atrocity (Stanford University Press, 2015) Rosenblatt, a faculty member at Haverford College, doesn’t try to recount the emergence of forensic science  in... Read More
Eric H. Cline, “1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed” (Princeton University Press, 2014)
Eric H. Cline
1177 B.C.
The Year Civilization Collapsed
Princeton University Press, 2014

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in ArchaeologyNew Books in Big IdeasNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network October 7, 2015 Robert Broadway

It quickly sold out in hardback, and then, within a matter of days, sold out in paperback. Available again as a 2nd edition hardback, and soon in the 10th edition paperback with a new Afterword by the author, Eric H. Cline‘s 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Princeton University Press,... Read More
Kate Pahl, “Materializing Literacies in Communities: The Uses of Literacy Revisited” (Bloomsbury, 2014)
Kate Pahl
Materializing Literacies in Communities
The Uses of Literacy Revisited
0567469611, 2014

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network October 6, 2015 Dave O'Brien

Literary practices are often associated with specific social groups in particular social settings. Kate Pahl‘s Materializing Literacies in Communities: The Uses of Literacy Revisited (Bloomsbury, 2014) challenges these assumptions by showing the varieties of literary practice in Rotherham, England. The book engages with the locally particular to draw out a... Read More
Sanjay Srivastava, “Entangled Urbanism: Slum, Gated Community and Shopping Mall in Delhi and Gurgaon” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Sanjay Srivastava
Entangled Urbanism
Slum, Gated Community and Shopping Mall in Delhi and Gurgaon
University Press, 2015

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books Network October 2, 2015 Ian Cook

Entangled Urbanism: Slum, Gated Community and Shopping Mall in Delhi and Gurgaon (Oxford University Press, 2015) is the latest book by Sanjay Srivastava. A wonderfully readable piece of urban anthropology, the book explores the ways spaces and processes are interconnected in the city. From temples that resemble shopping malls, through the... Read More
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