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June 2026 Zora Neale Hurston
Böschemeier, A. & Gomes, P.
Exploring Zora Neale Hurston’s life and work through a decolonial lens, this book traces Hurston’s journey from her early life (1891–1919) and struggles at the margins (1920–1930) to her peak as a pioneering ethnographer and writer (1931–1956) and her later years (1957–1960).
Subject: Anthropology (General)
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June 2026 Occupied Istanbul
Urban Politics, Culture and Society, 1918-1923
Cora, Y., MacArthur-Seal, D. & Tongo, G. (eds)
British, French, and Italian forces arrived in Istanbul in 1918, marking the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War. An almost five-year-long occupation of the city followed, a period largely ignored in history writing and marginalised in Anatolia-centric narratives of the Turkish War of Independence. By bringing this tumultuous period back into focus, this book makes a significant contribution to First World War studies, research on European imperialism, and the modern history of Istanbul, Turkey, and the Middle East.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I
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June 2026 The Politics of Appointment
The Czech Minister and the Transformation of Habsburg Administration
Klečacký, M.
A unique study on the relationship between state administration and politics, examining how the office of the Czech Landsmannminister became the primary vehicle for the politicization of the Habsburg state.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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June 2026 Entangled Reactionaries
Nationalists, Conservatives, and Fascists in the Iberoamerican Atlantic (1900-1960)
Seixas, X. & Sanz Rozalén, V. (Eds.)
Between 1898 and 1939, Spain saw the emergence of political and social identities shaped by the concepts of Hispanidad, catholicism, race, tradition and the Spanish language. This collection explores how such identities were reshaped during Spain’s major political shifts and how they intersected with Latin American discourses.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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June 2026 The Hunted
The Holocaust through the Experiences of Twenty European Jews
Welch, S.
A ground-level history of the Holocaust, told through the voices of twenty European Jews. Drawing from diaries and memoirs, it reveals a multiplicity of experiences across countries, classes, and religious backgrounds. Each chapter traces a single year in the protagonists’ lives, placing personal decisions within the context shifting Nazi policies.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History History: World War II
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June 2026 Pedagogies of Value
Marketing Foreign Goods in China
Badaró, M.
Pedagogies of Value explores how China is reshaping global hierarchies of worth. This book investigates how value is taught, contested, and transformed in everyday encounters and reveals how foreign intermediary attempts to ‘educate’ Chinese consumers only confronts shifting power dynamics that challenge Western authority.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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June 2026 Terrorism in Question
Decolonizing Anthropology and the Study of Islam
Ahmad, I.
Terrorism in Question crafts a political anthropology of post-9/11 “new terrorism” by investigating who needs the category of terrorists and offering a global framework to understand anthropology, Islam and terrorism. Marshalling fieldwork, participant observation and encounters with terrorists, this book aims to exemplify knowledge decolonized.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology of Religion Peace and Conflict Studies
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June 2026 Pierre Fatumbi Verger
From Detached Look to Knowledge through Initiation
Souty, J.
With biographical undertones, Pierre Verger: From Detached Look to Knowledge through Initiation is an anthropological essay that offers a singular and nuanced reflection on the originality and scope of Pierre Verger’s experience as a photographer in search of otherness in the black cultures of Africa and Brazil and the transatlantic world of the Orisha Vodun deities.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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June 2026 Authoritarianism, Displacement and Syrian Family Life
Reckoning with the State
Holst, B.
Authoritarianism, Displacement and Syrian Family Life analyses how Syrians living in refuge in Lebanon and Turkey during the war in Syria continued to reckon with the Syrian State as a direct and indirect force in their lives. Through an ethnographic account of everyday life in Syrian families with a variety of political standpoints, the book demonstrates how the experience of displacement was shaped by ongoing deliberations and provides new perspectives on displacement in a Middle East context.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies
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June 2026 Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Formalization in Ghana
A Decolonial and Legal Pluralist Analysis
Mensah, L.
The historical emergence of centralised mineral resource governance in Ghana can be tied to its failed colonially transplanted legal system. This book offers a reflection of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) formalisation, with a focus on its complex operationalisation in formerly colonized societies, to consider environmental responsibility and accountability in the administration of access to mineral rights.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Colonial History Sustainable Development Goals
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June 2026 The Inequity of Caribbean Spaces and Designed Places
Race, Class and Gender
Bethell-Bennett, I. & Minnis, J. (Eds.)
Through interconnected perspectives on environment, gender inequality, identity and Caribbean spatial re-colonisation influences on social, cultural and environmental landscapes, The Inequity of Caribbean Spaces and Designed Places: Race, Class and Gender examines socio-spatial (in)justices beyond physical and geographical boundaries that Caribbean societies face.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Cultural Studies (General)
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July 2026 The Unsettled Clock
The Persistence of Time Pluralism
Birth, K.
The history of timekeeping is complex and ever progressing. The Unsettled Clock: The Persistence of Time Pluralism explores time pluralism by documenting historical cases and examining its persistence in present time, offering a political and historical analysis of how timekeeping has been shaped, challenged, and manipulated.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) History (General)
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July 2026 Culturing Money
Double Movements in the Marshall Islands
Berta, O.
The idea of culture has become a creative framework in Marshall Islanders’ quest to realise a community based on communality, meaningful work, and self-reliance. Culturing Money analyses what sort of conceptual and practical work that the dialectics of culture and economy can do for Marshall Islanders in their quest for a meaningful life where self-reliance is the ultimate goal.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General) Development Studies
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July 2026 Crafting as Worldmaking
Relationality, Language, and Knowledge Sharing
Rizvi, U. & Jackson, S. (eds)
Crafting as Worldmaking: Relationality, Language, and Knowledge Sharing intentionally opens up the limits of what crafting as a concept provides for anthropological theory. Through utilizing examples from various different time periods and across global landscapes, it reimagines questions of being and belonging, and other affective modalities related to how we articulate meaning, in text, image or speech. Importantly, it considers what it means to make, as a way to produce knowledge about the worlds we inhabit.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology Cultural Studies (General)
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July 2026 Archaeogaming as Scholarly Play
The Intersection of Archaeology and Gaming
Rhodes Victor, M. (Eds.)
Archaeogaming as Scholarly Play encourages readers to step into the intersection of archaeology and video games in order to critically examine how these games (re)present the past and those associated with exhuming it, be they archaeologists or adventurers.
Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) History (General)
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July 2026 In Search of Worldviews
What Anthropology Can Tell Us about the Middle East
Rugh, A.
In Search of Worldviews argues that in-depth anthropological studies are the best data-driven way to provide accurate information from local perspectives on everyday topics such as women’s roles, why Islam is overtaking other major religions, why democracy has difficulty taking hold, how minorities cope, and formal and informal methods of conflict resolution.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies History (General)
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July 2026 Cesare Lombroso’s Legacy in Latin America
How His Controversial Popularity as a Criminologist Remains
Sansone, L.
Cesare Lombroso’s Legacy in Latin America: How His Controversial Popularity as a Criminologist Remains argues that the study of ethnography in Latin America should give more attention to the Lombroso school and the academic exchange between relatively marginal national anthropologies, such as the Italian and the various Latin American schools.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology History (General) Sociology
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July 2026 Europe’s Disappearing Waste
Unanticipated Conflicts between Removal and Greening
Sosna, D.
Through ethnographic research conducted among landfill workers and waste pickers, Europe’s Disappearing Waste explores the inner workings of the Czech waste management system that is underpinned by the belief that waste should disappear.
Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
$24.95 / £19.95 (epub format)