New Books in Anthropology

Chiara Calzana and Valentina Gamberi, "Haunting Ruins: Ethnographies of Ruination and Decay" (Berghahn Books, 2025)

In this episode of the New Books Network's Anthropology channel, host Yadong Li interviews Dr. Valentina Gamberi and Dr. Chiara Calzana, the editors of "Haunting Ruins, Ethnographies of Ruins and Decay." The discussion explores the book's central themes, including how ruins serve as dynamic spaces where history, memory...

Anna Maria Busse Berger and Henry Spiller, "Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Music in the Indonesian Archipelago" (U California Press, 2025)

Tuomas Tammisto, "Hard Work: Producing Places, Relations and Value on a Papua New Guinea Resource Frontier" (Helsinki UP, 2024)

Becky Yang Hsu, "The Extraordinary in the Mundane: Family and Forms of Community in China" (Columbia UP, 2024)

Martha S. Jones, "The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir" (Basic Books, 2025)

Hemangini Gupta, "Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India" (U California Press, 2024)

Azmeary Ferdoush, "Sovereign Atonement: Citizenship, Territory, and the State at the Bangladesh-India Border" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Syaifudin Zuhri, "Wali Pitu and Muslim Pilgrimage in Bali, Indonesia: Inventing a Sacred Tradition" (Leiden UP, 2022)

V. Chitra, "Drawing Coastlines: Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai's Shore" (Cornell UP, 2024)

Tracie Canada, "Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football" (U California Press, 2025)

Ben Bowles, "Boaters of London: Alternative Living on the Water" (Berghahn Books, 2024)

In this episode of the New Books Network's Anthropology channel, host Yadong Li interviews Dr. Ben Bowles, a social anthropology lecturer at SOAS, University of London, about his book "Boaters of London: Alternative Living on the Water." Bowles discusses his long-term ethnographic research on London's boater community,...

Mia Consalvo et al., "Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstreaming Videogames on Twitch" (MIT Press, 2025)

Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall, "Ain't I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

Brendan A. Galipeau, "Crafting a Tibetan Terroir: Winemaking in Shangri-La" (U Washington Press, 2025)

Vera Tiesler, "Ancient Maya Teeth: Dental Modification, Cosmology, and Social Identity in Mesoamerica" (U Texas Press, 2024)

John Boswell et al., "The Art and Craft of Comparison" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

Deborah Reed-Donahay, "Sideways Migration: Being French in London" (Routledge, 2025)

Webb Keane, "Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Asim Qureshi and Walaa Quisay, "When Only God Can See: The Faith of Muslim Political Prisoners" (Pluto Press, 2024)

Paul G. Keil, "The Presence of Elephants: Shared Lives and Landscapes in Assam" (Routledge, 2024)