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Making Better Coffee. How Maya Farmers and Third Wave Tastemakers Create Value (2022): By Edward F. Fischer
No full textAnthropology Professor Edward Fischer gives us an insight on twenty-first century global political economy by analyzing how economic gain is conceived and produced within processes of high-end coffee commercialization. The creation of value is the main topic of this ethnographic research, carried out between the United States and Guatemala’s highlands. Focusing on attempts to build social relationships through Third Wave coffee trade, the author goes beyond standard definitions of coffee as a commodity, by taking into consideration symbolic values and narrative connections among growers, traders and tastemakers. In this context, quality is not anymore just a matter of taste, instead, it reveals underlying inequalities, capable of determining subjective experiences as well as influencing broader social and cultural dynamics
In the Shadows of the Palm: More-than-Human Becomings in West Papua.
Full text linkIn the Shadows of the Palm: More-than-Human Becomings in West Papua. 
The Sámi in Urban Areas: Revitalizing and Reinventing Indigenous Identities in Times of Heightened Urbanization
No full textUrban living is one of the major features of 21st century societies. However, studies of urban Indigenous populations, the urban areas they occupy, and the historicity of these spaces is scarce. So too is literature about the complex dynamics of Indigenous identity formation vis á vis the majority cultures surrounding them and their responses to urbanization. This is partly because most Indigenous people are associated with rurality and an attachment to subsistence economies based on rural environments. These attributes of rurality continue to perpetuate a static version of Indigenous experiences and relegate them to rural experiences only. However, this book, An Urban Future for Sápmi? Indigenous Urbanization in the Nordic States and Russia, focuses on the Sámi Indigenous people and their long history of lived urban experiences. The book highlights that Indigenous people around the world are part of modern urban populations, and it presents insights about how Indigenous people continue to both struggle and succeed in practicing their indigeneity in urban areas. 
Deported to Death: How Drug Violence is Changing Migration on the U.S.-Mexico Border (2019): By Jeremy Slack
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Jeremy Slack, 2019, Deported to Death: How Drug Violence is Changing Migration on the U.S.-Mexico Border. Oakland: University of California Press, 256 pp., ISBN 978-052029733
Kapila, Kriti. 2022. Nullius: The Anthropology of Ownership, Sovereignty, and the Law in India.
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Kapila, Kriti. 2022. Nullius: The Anthropology of Ownership, Sovereignty, and the Law in India. Chicago: HAU Books
Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh
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DEWAN, CAMELIA. 2021. Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh. Seattle: University of Washington Press
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (2021): By Kate Crawford
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CRAWFORD, KATE 2021, Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence, New Haven: Yale University Press, 336 pp., ISBN 978-0-30026-463-
Nourishing the Nation: Food as National Identity in Catalonia (2022): By Venetia Johannes
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JOHANNES, VENETIA, 2020, Nourishing the Nation - Food as National Identity in Catalonia, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 278 pp., ISBN 978-1-78920-438-4
Dear Science And Other Stories
Full text linkThis is a book review for Katherine McKittrick's Dear Science and Other Stories. Her book beautifully, carefully, and humbly charts black life as always more than the abstractions produced through scientific knowledge