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Thomas S. Mullaney, “The Chinese Deathscape: Grave Reform in Modern China” (Stanford UP, 2019)
Thomas S. Mullaney
The Chinese Deathscape
Grave Reform in Modern China
Stanford University Press, 2019

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network June 10, 2019 Kristian Petersen

The Chinese landscape is dramatically changing. Modernization has drastically altered Chinese infrastructure, urban zones, waterways, and even rural spaces. These changes have also affected Chinese burial practices and the resting places of the deceased. In The Chinese Deathscape: Grave Reform in Modern China (Stanford University Press, 2019), collaborators explore the various... Read More
Safet HadžiMuhamedović, “Waiting for Elijah: Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape” (Berghahn Books, 2018)
Safet HadžiMuhamedović
Waiting for Elijah
Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape
Berghahn Books, 2018

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Eastern European StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network June 5, 2019 Dino Kadich

Set in the beautiful, sprawling Field of Gacko in southeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, Safet HadžiMuhamedović’s book Waiting for Elijah: Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape (Berghahn Books, 2018) takes readers through intimate encounters and syncretic moments as he and his interlocutors wait for Elijah’s Day. An annual festival that... Read More
Scott Wallace, “The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon’s Last Uncontacted Tribes” (Broadway Books, 2012)
Scott Wallace
The Unconquered
In Search of the Amazon’s Last Uncontacted Tribes
Broadway Books, 2012

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network June 3, 2019 Michael F. Robinson

Journalist Scott Wallace talks about a 2002 FUNAI expedition to find the Arrow People, one of the last uncontacted tribes in the world. Wallace is a writer and photojournalist who covered the wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua in the 1980s for CBS and The Guardian. Since then he has... Read More
Jennifer Fluri and Rachel Lehr, “The Carpetbaggers of Kabul and Other American-Afghan Entanglements” (U Georgia Press, 2017)
Jennifer Fluri and Rachel Lehr
The Carpetbaggers of Kabul and Other American-Afghan Entanglements
Intimate Development, Geopolitics, and the Currency of Gender and Grief
University of Georgia Press, 2017

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network May 29, 2019 Dino Kadich

For most people, geopolitics is something that happens out there, in boardrooms and on battlefields. But critical geographers, and feminist political geographers in particular, have in recent years shown how the geopolitical is something that comes into being in the intimate and the everyday. Enter Jennifer Fluri and Rachel Lehr‘s... Read More
A. Harkins and M. McCarroll, “Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy” (West Virginia UP, 2019)
Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll, eds.
Appalachian Reckoning
A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
West Virginia University Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in AnthropologyNew Books in GeographyNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network May 27, 2019 Michael O. Johnston

Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy (West Virginia University Press, 2019) is a retort, at turn rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis has cast over the region and its imagining. Anthony Harkins... Read More
Gregory Smits, “Maritime Ryukyu, 1050–1650” (U Hawaii Press, 2018)
Gregory Smits
Maritime Ryukyu, 1050–1650

University of Hawaii Press, 2018

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in ArchaeologyNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network May 20, 2019 Victoria Lupascu

Conventional portrayals of early Ryukyu are based on official histories written between 1650 and 1750. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Gregory Smits makes extensive use of scholarship in archaeology and anthropology and leverages unconventional sources such as the Omoro sōshi (a collection of ancient songs) to present a fundamental rethinking of early... Read More
David Bissell, “Transit Life: How Commuting Is Transforming Our Cities” (MIT Press, 2018)
David Bissell
Transit Life
How Commuting Is Transforming Our Cities
MIT Press, 2018

New Books in Australian and New Zealand StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network May 20, 2019 Peter Ekman

What kind of time do we endure on our daily commutes? What kind of space do we occupy? What new sorts of urbanites do we thereby become? In Transit Life: How Commuting Is Transforming Our Cities (MIT Press, 2018), geographer David Bissell contends that to commute is to enter a... Read More