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Plastic Matter
Full text linkReview of Davis, Heather M. 2022. Plastic Matter. Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 176, ISBN 978-1-4780-1775-
Ethical Approaches to Human Remains A Global Challenge in Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology
Full text linkCombines international perspectives on the current ethical considerations and challenges facing bioarchaeologists in the recovery, analysis, curation, and display of human remainsThe first up-to-date book to focus on the ethics in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology in the last 12 yearsThe only book that deals with the current state of play with regard to international ethical considerationsProvides new perspectives on ethical issues and new in-depth case studies from around the worl
The Omnipresence of Mobile Borders
Full text linkHubb Dijstelbloem, 2021, Borders as Infrastructure: The Technopolitics of Border Control, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 285pp., ISBN 9780262542883
MOORE, AMELIA. 2019. Destination Anthropocene: Science and Tourism in the Bahamas. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 216 pp.; ISBN: 978-0-52029-893-4
Full text linkThis book denaturalizes the understanding of Anthropocene, examines how it is constituted by global scientists, and critiques the racial and classed implications of the over-simplifications that emerge from their theories about anthropogenesis
Sacred Matter: Animacy and Authority in the Americas
Full text linkSacred Matter: Animacy and Authority in the America
How to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey
Full text linkHow to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turke
The Epistemology of North: Indigenous Re-orientations from Northern Fennoscandia
Full text link(Review) THOMAS HYLLAND ERIKSEN, SANNA VALKONEN, AND JARNO VALKONEN, eds. 2020. Knowing from the Indigenous North: Sámi Approaches to History, Politics and Belonging. London: Routledge,184 pp., ISBN 978036758577
Extreme Weight Loss: Life Before and After Bariatric Surgery
Full text linkThe review evaluates the text Extreme Weight Loss: Life Before and After Bariatric Surgery (2020) co-authored by Sarah Trainer, Alexandra Brewis, and Amber Wutich. It tries to emphasise the relevance of the the book an ethnographic documentation of a surgical weight loss program in the western USA, and a theoretical exploration of social norms associated with body-types. The major emperical as well as theoretical outcomes have been outlined. The book is a valuable addition to the rich body of literature on the status of fatness in human societies, and would be a useful read to academic or lay audience interested in the themes of social norms. 
