Drawing on interviews, art, documentaries, and her years of activism, Rosa-Linda Fregoso examines the contra feminicide movement in Mexico and other feminist... Læs mere
Arc of Interference revisits the vital and core insights of medical anthropology in light of contemporary planetary and social crises, showing how the field provides central practices for understanding, interfering in, and refashioning a world full of mounting dilemmas.
Drawing on black feminism, queer of color critique, and trans studies, Evans examines postwar and contemporary German history to broadly argue for a... Læs mere
Examines the legal and literary narratives of enslaved, indentured, and imprisoned individuals crossing the Indian Ocean to show how... Læs mere
Zeynep K. Korkman examines Turkey’s commercial fortune-telling cafes where secular Muslim women and LGBTIQ individuals can navigate the precarities of twenty-first-century life.
Focuses on the figure of the puta—the whore, that phantasmatic figure of Latinized feminine sexual excess—Rodríguez probes the ways that sexual labor and Latina... Læs mere
Chronicles the rise and fall of the avant-garde music and art scene in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn... Læs mere
Examines short form audiovisual media—from TikTok mashups to Beyoncé’s Lemonade—to offer techniques for understanding digital media. Forays into... Læs mere
Follows activists across Europe as they struggle to preserve water as a commons and public good in the face of privatization. Drawing on ethnographic... Læs mere
Fischer calls for a new anthropology of the arts that attends to the materialities and technologies of the world as it exists today. Fischer examines the work of... Læs mere
Cohen focuses on art activism after the turn of the twenty-first century that confronts the slow violence perpetuated... Læs mere
First published in Cuba in 1954 and appearing here in English for the first time, Lydia Cabrera’s El Monte is a foundational and iconic study of Afro-Cuban religious and cultural tradition that is essential for scholars, activists, and practitioners alike.