Anthropology and Sociology – December 2013 to July 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 19, 2015|Anthropology and Sociology|

Anthropomorphism

• Thinking with animals : new perspectives on anthropomorphism / edited by Lorraine Daston and Gregg Mitman.

Art & Artefacts

• Making and growing : anthropological studies of organisms and artefacts / by Elizabeth Hallam and Tim Ingold.

Australasia

• The Black pacific : anti-colonial struggles and oceanic connections / Robbie Shilliam.

Community

• Community, cosmopolitanism and the problem of human commonality / Vered Amit and Nigel Rapport.

East Asia

• Seeing transnationally : How Chinese migrants make their dreams come true / Li Minghuan.
• Taming Tibet : landscape transformation and the gift of Chinese development / Emily T. Yeh.

Economy

• The human economy : a citizen’s guide / edited by Keith Hart, Jean-Louis Laville and Antonio David Cattani.

Ethnicity & Race

• Critical race theory : the key writings that formed the movement / edited by Kimberlé Crenshaw … [et al.].
• Mixed race identities / by Peter Aspinall, Miri Song.

Ethnography

• ʼKwanim pa : the making of the Uduk people : an ethnographic study of survival in the Sudan-Ethiopian borderlands / by Wendy James.
• The urban ethnography reader / edited by Mitchell Duneier, Philip Kasinitz, and Alexandra K. Murphy.
• Violence : theory and ethnography / Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern.

Festivals & Dance

• Dance and the body politic in northern Greece / Jane K. Cowan.
• Dancing in the streets : a history of collective joy / Barbara Ehrenreich.

Food

• Eating her curries and kway : a cultural history of food in Singapore / Nicole Tarulevicz.
• Foodscapes : towards a Deleuzian ethics of consumption / Rick Dolphijn.
• Palatable worlds : sociocultural food studies / Elisabeth L. Fürst [and others], eds.

Gender & Sexuality

• Framing the rape victim : gender and agency reconsidered / Carine M. Mardorossian.
• Gender equality norms in regional governance : transnational dynamics in Europe, South America and Southern Africa / edited by Anna van der Vleuten, Anouka van Eerdewijk and Conny Roggeband
• Irigaray : towards a sexuate philosophy / Rachel Jones.
• Masculinities in a global era / Joseph Gelfer, editor.
• Routledge handbook of sexuality studies in East Asia / edited by Mark McLelland and Vera Mackie. [e-book from Dawsonera]

History

• Cultural encounters between East and West, 1453-1699 / edited by Matthew Birchwood and Matthew Dimmock.
• Nations and identities : classic readings / edited by Vincent P. Pecora.
• Oral history off the record : toward an ethnography of practice / edited by Anna Sheftel and Stacey Zembrzycki ; foreword by Steven High ; afterword by Alessandro Portelli.

Multiculturalism

• Worlding multiculturalisms : the politics of inter-Asian dwelling / edited by Daniel P.S. Goh.

Research methodology

• Beyond methodological nationalism : social science research methods in transition / edited by Anna Amelina … [et al.].

Slavery

• Monuments of the Black Atlantic : slavery and memory / Joanne M. Braxton, Maria I. Diedrich (eds.).

Social integration

• Strangers no more : immigration and the challenges of integration in North America and Western Europe / Richard Alba and Nancy Foner.

Social Movements

• Reimagining social movements : from collectives to individuals / edited by Antimo L. Farro, Henri Lustiger-Thaler.

South America

• Secrecy and insurgency : socialities and knowledge practices in Guatemala / Silvia Posocco.

Tourism

• Slavery, contested heritage, and thanatourism / Graham M.S. Dann, A.V. Seaton, editors.

Women

• Ain’t I a woman : black women and feminism / Bell Hooks.
• Asian women and intimate work / edited by Ochiai Emiko, Aoyama Kaoru.
• Beauty secrets : women and the politics of appearance / Wendy Chapkis ; photos, Gon Buurman.
• Secrecy and silence in the research process : feminist reflections / edited by Róisín Ryan-Flood and Rosalind Gill.
• Women fielding danger : negotiating ethnographic identities in field research / edited by Martha K. Huggins and Marie-Louise Glebbeek.

Youth

• Telling young lives : portraits in global youth / edited by Craig Jeffrey and Jane Dyson.