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Underwater Worlds: An Ethnography of Waste, Pollution, and Marine Life (2024): By Rasmus Rodineliussen
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RODINELIUSSEN, RASMUS. 2024, Underwater Worlds: An Ethnography of Waste, Pollution, and Marine Life, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 248 pp., ISBN 978-3-031-63372-
Mathews, Andrew S. 2022. Trees Are Shape Shifters: How Cultivation, Climate Change, and Disaster Create Landscapes. Yale Agrarian Studies Series. New Haven: Yale University Press, 320 pp., ISBN 978-0-300-26037-3
Full text linkIn the Monte Pisano, a mountain range in Tuscany, Italy, people have been living in human-altered landscapes for millennia. Here, histories of peasant cultivation of chestnut and the slow ongoing disasters of plant disease, state abandonment, and capitalism have left marks on the landscape. In Trees are Shape Shifters, Mathews walks the reader through the villages, hillsides, and forests of the Monte Pisano, teaching us how to read these long-term processes from the graft scars of individual trees and the shapes of ancient terraces. As diverse temporalities and overlapping histories are sown together, these past forms leave an echo that affects climate policy in Italy today
Mixing Medicines: Ecologies of Care in Buddhist Siberia (2021): By Tatiana Chudakova
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TATIANA CHUDAKOVA, 2021, Mixing Medicines: Ecologies of Care in Buddhist Siberia, New York: Fordham University Press, 333 pp. ISBN 978-0-8232-9431-
Nuclear Ghost Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima's Gray Zone
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Sideways Migration: Being French in London (2025): By Deborah Reed-Danahay
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DEBORAH REED-DANAHAY, 2025, Sideways Migration: Being French in London, New York: Routledge, 178 pp. ISBN 978-1-032-73283-1 (hbk), ISBN 978-1- 032-73434-7 (pbk), ISBN 978-1-003-46416-7 (ebk)
Dressing up: Menswear in the Age of Social Media (2022): By Joshua Bluteau
No full text"What does men's fashion say about contemporary masculinity? How do these notions operate in an increasingly digitized world? To answer these questions, author Joshua M. Bluteau combines theoretical analysis with vibrant narrative, exploring men's fashion in the online world of social media as well as the offline worlds of retail, production, and the catwalk. Is it time to reassess notions of masculinity? How do we construct ourselves in the online world, and what are the dangers of doing so? From the ateliers of London to the digital landscape of Instagram, Dressing Up re-examines the ways men dress, and the ways men post.
Shared Country, Different Stories: An Anthropologist’s Journey (2025): By David Trigger
No full textShared Country, Different Stories traces the 50-year career of Professor David Trigger, a leading member of Australia’s fourth generation of forensic and expert social anthropologists (FESAs)
The Mask: A History of Breathing Bad Air (2025): By Bruno J. Strasser & Thomas Schlich
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BRUNO J. STRASSER & THOMAS SCHLICH, 2025, The Mask: A History of Breathing Bad Air, New Haven: Yale University Press, 288 pp., ISBN 978030027603
The Children of Solaga: Indigenous Belonging across the U.S.-Mexico Border
Full text linkIn The Children of Solaga: Indigenous Belonging across the U.S.-Mexico Border (2024), Dr. Daina Sanchez offers an intimate and innovative ethnography exploring how Zapotec migrants from San Juan Solaga, Oaxaca, maintain Indigenous identity, communal practices, and a relational sense of belonging in diaspora. As the first book-length ethnography authored by a Native woman from the community studied, Sanchez’s work foregrounds Indigenous epistemologies and values such as comunalidad and convivencia, demonstrating how these practices are sustained across settler-state borders and through ongoing colonial violence. Through multisensory acts of refusal, including music, fiestas, and communal governance systems, diasporic Solagueños actively resist erasure and affirm Indigenous belonging beyond geographic and generational divides
