For the 2021 American Anthropological Association meeting, we’re proud to share a list of recent award-winning Anthropology authors. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!
Salih Can Aciksoz
Middle East Studies (MES) Book Award 2021, Hon...
By Jacob Doherty, author of Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala’s Infrastructures of Disposability
As delegates gathered in Glasgow, Scotland for COP26, waste amasses on the city’s streets. Years of municipal austerity have stretched sanitation services thin in Glasgow, leaving litter, un...
For the 2021 American Anthropological Association meeting, Ippolytos Kalofonos, author of All I Eat is Medicine: Going Hungry in Mozambique’s AIDS Economy, joined us to discuss some of the key findings from his work.
All I Eat Is Medicine charts the lives of individuals and the ope...
By Robert Desjarlais and Khalil Habrih, co-authors of Traces of Violence: Writings on the Disaster in Paris, France
Our new book, Traces of Violence: Writings on the Disaster in Paris, France, offers a unique collaborative inquiry into various forms and aftereffects of political vi...
By Rashmi Sadana, author of The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure
One of the first people I interviewed for my new book, The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure, was a woman in her fifties who I ...
by María Elena García, author of Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race: Stories of Capital, Culture, and Coloniality in Peru
I never intended to write a book about food. And certainly, I never planned to write a book that critiqued the chefs credited for transforming Peru—the country ...
Mara Buchbinder is a medical anthropologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her new book, Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America, takes a close look at the rise of medical aid-in-dying, which i...