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April 2026 Techno-Cultural Rivalry
Transatlantic Competition between the United States and Germany, 1890-1930
Trommler, F.
During the first decades of the twentieth century, the United States and Germany were perceived as rivals. Focusing on the 1880s-1930s, this study provides explanations for how the American approach to technology and culture differed from that of the Germans, and how these differences produced various expressions of transatlantic modernity.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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April 2026 The Afterlives of Tamil Tigers
Fighters’ Memories of War and Survival
Mantovan, G.
Through the testimonies of war, defeat, and survival from veterans of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) now exiled in France, Giacomo Mantovan sheds light on the production of self and subjectivity within a revolutionary and authoritarian organisation, and contributes to debates on compliance, resistance, and political agency under authoritarian regimes.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
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April 2026 Jewish Refugees in Shanghai
Experiences, Memories, Interviews, Histories
Hochstadt, S.
Between 1933-1942, around 20,000 refugees fled to Shanghai to escape Nazi-occupied Europe, most of them Jewish. Here they spent a decade preserving their culture and enduring Japanese occupation. Hochstadt, whose Viennese grandparents were among those who fled, compiles hundreds of sources and interviews to tell their story.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present Refugee and Migration Studies
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April 2026 Voices of the Dunera
Ernst Kitzinger, Exile and Essays on Internment
Spark, S., Garrett, K. & McNamara, A.
Ernst Kitzinger, a 20th-Century art historian, was one of 2,500 men arrested in 1940 as ‘enemy aliens’ and deported from Britain to Australia aboard the HMT Dunera. Incarcerated in Hay, Kitzinger and his fellow internees mused on their lot through powerful prose and poetry, published here for the first time.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II Genocide History Refugee and Migration Studies
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April 2026 Alterity and Human Evolution
Deep-Time and Multispecies Perspectives on Difference and Variation
Moro Abadía, O. & Porr, M. (eds)
Engaging critically with concepts of race, species, and otherness, Alterity and Human Evolution contributes to current debates on human evolution. Drawing on postcolonial and critical frameworks from the Humanities and Social Sciences, it interrogates key foundational concepts and assumptions underpinning evolutionary discourses.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Archaeology
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April 2026 The Jewish Maghreb
North African Experiences in Greater Paris since 1981
Everett, S.
From commercial networks in Paris to Algerian pilgrimage journeys, The Jewish Maghreb reveals communal North African Jewish navigation of plural sediments of self and history. The heuristic ‘maghrebinicité,’ works to illuminate ongoing negotiations of memory, citizenship, and cultural transmission in postcolonial France, offering fresh insights into diaspora, return, and the persistence of transnational connections.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Jewish Studies Urban Studies
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April 2026 Empire and Eduards Volters
The Ethnography of Lithuanians and Latvians, 1882-1941
Savoniakaitė, V.
Eduards Volters was a linguist, ethnographer, and archeologist with the Russian Imperial Geographical Society, and considered one of the founders of literate Lithuanian and Latvian communities. This study compares various historical and theoretical contexts in anthropology and decolonization to reveal how Volters reconciled his ethnographic work within the political goals of the empire.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
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April 2026 Between Anthropology and Psychiatry
Littlewood, R. & Dein, S.
Bridging Psychology and Anthropology, this volume critiques dominant models such as psychoanalysis and the biopsychosocial framework. Drawing on cross-cultural case studies –from Hasidic healing to jinn possession, it argues for plural approaches that integrate biological, psychodynamic and sociocultural perspectives to better understand human experience.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Theory and Methodology
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May 2026 God in the Machine
The Ganesh Yourself Experiment
Grimaud, E.
A teleoperated robot roaming in the streets of Mumbai enables anyone to put oneself in the place of the Hindu god Ganesha and have a conversation. God in the Machine explores the Ganesh Yourself experiment, a fascinating exercise in anthropology that leads to a radical deconstruction of religion, politics, and technology.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology Sociology
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May 2026 Water, Scale and Materiality
Anthropological Perspectives on Hydrosocial Relations
Strang, V. & Krause, F. (eds)
Anthropology plays a key role in articulating people’s engagement with water and showing how local relationships with waterways and marine areas translate into larger impacts on regional and global ecosystems. Traversing Scales in Material Relations with Water explores diverse relationships with waterbodies, and considers how these are expressed in art, material culture, and infrastructures.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals
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May 2026 Single Mother by Choice
A Story of Politics and Parenting in Twenty-first Century Middle America
Layne, L.
Single Mother by Choice chronicles the journey of Ann, a 41-year-old woman throughout her intensive mothering of three donor-conceived children from infancy to tween years. This analysis of one family’s life illuminates the complexities of twenty-first, middle-class American motherhood, whether single or not, and the synergies between 2nd wave feminism and neoliberalism.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
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May 2026 Practices of Care in an Italian Eating Disorder Clinic
Rethinking Food, Family and Ethics
Sciolli, G.
The relational complexities between food and kinship are highlighted in eating disorders. This book is an ethnographic account of a public treatment centre for eating disorders in Italy, examining how food and family emerge aligned in the production and treatment of these conditions.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Food & Nutrition Sociology
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May 2026 Decentering Anthropology by Way of Malinowski
Critical Perspectives on Power, Place and Colonialism
Mathur, C. & Zinn, D. L. (eds)
Through reference to one of its most canonical figures: Bronislaw Malinowski, this volume de-centres anthropology seemingly in a paradox. Featuring scholars across various locations, genders and generations, this book neither celebrates nor “cancels” Malinowski. Instead, it offers an eccentric space of reconsideration and a prism for reflecting on power configurations in anthropology today.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
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