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Beth Derderian, "Art Capital: Museum Politics and the Making of the Louvre Abu Dhabi" (Stanford UP, 2026)

31 mins; April 03, 2026

Amelia Frank-Vitale, "Leave If You Can: Migration and Violence in Bordered Worlds" (U California Press, 2026)

38 mins; April 02, 2026

Kristina Jonutytė, "Between the Buddha and the New Tsar: Urban Religion and Minority Politics at the Asian Borderlands of Russia" (Cornell UP, 2026)

62 hours 13 mins; April 01, 2026

Christina Schwenkel, "Sonic Socialism: Crisis and Care in Pandemic Hanoi" (U California Press, 2025)

69 hours 48 mins; March 31, 2026

Caste and Tech with Murali Shanmugavelan and Sareeta Amrute

66 hours 0 mins; March 30, 2026

Gregory Smits, "The Ryukyu Islands: A New History from the Stone Age to the Present" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

78 hours 4 mins; March 30, 2026

Nikita Kaur Simpson, "Tension: Mental Distress and Embodied Inequality in the Western Himalayas" (Duke UP, 2026)

49 mins; March 29, 2026

Nellie Chu, "Precarious Accumulation: Fast Fashion Bosses in Transnational Guangzhou" (Duke UP, 2026)

65 hours 18 mins; March 28, 2026

Tulasi Srinivas, "The Goddess in the Mirror: An Anthropology of Beauty" (Duke UP, 2025)

52 mins; March 26, 2026

The Criminal Record Complex: Risk, Race, and the Struggle for Work in America

54 mins; March 26, 2026

Decolonising Colonial Collections: Repatriation and Cultural Competence in Museums with guest Marika Duczynski

34 mins; March 26, 2026

Gabrielle Oliveira, "Now We Are Here: Family Migration, Children’s Education, and Dreams for a Better Life" (Stanford UP, 2025)

27 mins; March 20, 2026

Piergiorgio Di Giminiani et al. eds., "The Futures of Reparations in Latin America: Imagination, Translation, and Belonging" (Rutgers UP, 2026)

73 hours 39 mins; March 20, 2026

Miriam Ticktin, "Against Innocence: Undoing and Remaking the World" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

63 hours 58 mins; March 19, 2026

Kalpana Karunakaran, "A Woman of No Consequence: Memory, Letters and Resistance in Madras" (Context, 2026)

62 hours 56 mins; March 18, 2026

Joseph Weiss, "Irreconcilable: Indigeneity and the Violence of Colonial Erasure in Contemporary Canada" (UNC Press, 2026)

65 hours 34 mins; March 17, 2026

Upper Caste Liberalism with Ravikant Kisana

98 hours 51 mins; March 16, 2026

Yanshuo Zhang, "Creative Belonging: The Qiang and Multiethnic Imagination in Modern China" (U Michigan Press, 2026)

44 mins; March 14, 2026

Fatimah Williams, "Options for Success: A PhD's Guide to Navigating Career Transitions and Thriving in Your Next Professional Chapter" (Oxford UP, 2025)

49 mins; March 13, 2026

Mike Pitts, "Island at the Edge of the World: The Forgotten History of Easter Island" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

65 hours 48 mins; March 11, 2026

Biko Koenig, "Worker Centered: Allyship & Action in the Contemporary Labor Movement" (Oxford UP, 2024)

61 hours 21 mins; March 11, 2026

Mattie Armstrong-Price, "Respectability on the Line: Gender, Race, and Labor along British and Colonial Indian Railways" (U California Press, 2026)

43 mins; March 07, 2026

Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai

49 mins; March 06, 2026

Miles Kenney-Lazar, "Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos" (U Hawai’i Press, 2025)

61 hours 14 mins; March 04, 2026

Coming Out as Dalit with Yashica Dutt

57 mins; March 02, 2026

Maurice Rafael Magaña, "Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico" (U California Press, 2020)

64 hours 1 min; March 01, 2026

Alice Wiemers, "Village Work: Development and Rural Statecraft in Twentieth-Century Ghana" (Ohio UP, 2021)

55 mins; February 28, 2026

Elliot Dolan-Evans, "Making War Safe for Capitalism: The World Bank, IMF, and the Conflict in Ukraine" (Bristol UP, 2025)

54 mins; February 28, 2026

Ilana Gershon, "The Pandemic Workplace: How We Learned to Be Citizens in the Office" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

46 mins; February 25, 2026

Todd H. Weir and Lieke Wijnia, eds., "The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Heritage in Contemporary Europe" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

82 hours 37 mins; February 24, 2026

Aidan Seale-Feldman, "The Work of Disaster: Crisis and Care Along a Himalayan Fault Line" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

38 mins; February 23, 2026

Jason Cons, "Delta Futures: Time, Territory, and Capture on a Climate Frontier" (U California Press, 2025)

51 mins; February 23, 2026

Wendy Wolford, "The Plantation Ideal: Landscapes of Extraction in Mozambique" (U California Press, 2025)

66 hours 59 mins; February 21, 2026

Darién J. Davis, "'Black Orpheus' and the Globalization of Afro-Brazilian Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2026)

55 mins; February 18, 2026

Alexis Lerner, "Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States" (U Toronto Press, 2025)

46 mins; February 16, 2026

Feminism and Critical Hindu Studies with Shreena Gandhi, Harshita Kamath, Sailaja Krishnamurt, and Shana Sippy

61 hours 13 mins; February 16, 2026

Hanna Garth, "Food Justice Undone: Lessons for Building a Better Movement" (U California Press, 2026)

46 mins; February 14, 2026

Claire Morelon, "Streetscapes of War and Revolution: Prague, 1914–1920" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

42 mins; February 13, 2026

Javiera Barandiaran, "Living Minerals: Nature, Trade, and Power in the Race for Lithium" (MIT Press, 2026)

54 mins; February 13, 2026

Peer Schouten, "Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

53 mins; February 08, 2026

Lisa Min et al. eds., "Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State" (punctum books, 2024)

85 hours 24 mins; February 03, 2026

Allison Caine, "Restless Ecologies: Climate Change and Socioecological Futures in the Peruvian Highlands" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

49 mins; February 02, 2026

Jason Roberts, "We Stay the Same: Subsistence, Logging, and Enduring Hopes for Development in Papua New Guinea" (U Arizona Press, 2024)

63 hours 5 mins; February 02, 2026

The Caste Question with Suraj Yengde and Anupama Rao

59 mins; February 01, 2026

Lesly-Marie Buer, "RX Appalachia: Stories of Treatment and Survival in Rural Kentucky" (Haymarket, 2020)

44 mins; January 26, 2026

Terry Williams, "Life Underground: Encounters with People Below the Streets of New York" (Columbia UP, 2024)

27 mins; January 26, 2026

Zainab Saleh, "Political Undesirables: Citizenship, Denaturalization, and Reclamation in Iraq" (Stanford UP, 2025)

44 mins; January 24, 2026

Emily Mendenhall, "Invisible Illness: A History, from Hysteria to Long COVID" (U California Press, 2026)

38 mins; January 24, 2026

Hanna Garth, "Food Justice Undone: Lessons for Building a Better Movement" (U California Press, 2026)

30 mins; January 23, 2026

Di Wu et. al, eds., "China As Context: Anthropology, Post-globalisation and the Neglect of China" (Manchester UP, 2025)

79 hours 15 mins; January 16, 2026

Sara Ann Swenson, "Near Light We Shine: Buddhist Charity in Urban Vietnam" (Oxford UP, 2025)

63 hours 50 mins; January 15, 2026

Leah Lowthorp, "Deep Cosmopolitanism: Kutiyattam, Dynamic Tradition, and Globalizing Heritage in Kerala, India" (Indiana UP, 2025)

57 mins; January 14, 2026

Julia H. Meszaros, "Economies of Gender: Masculinity, "Mail Order Brides," and Women’s Labor" (Rutgers UP, 2025)

40 mins; January 12, 2026

Anita Gonzalez, "Shipping Out: Race, Performance, and Labor at Sea" (U Michigan Press, 2025)

25 mins; January 09, 2026

Sarah Kunz, "Expatriate: Following a Migration Category" (Manchester UP, 2023)

64 hours 6 mins; January 09, 2026

Alexa Hagerty, "Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains" (Crown, 2023)

63 hours 54 mins; January 06, 2026

Lesley Nicole Braun, "Congo's Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)

47 mins; January 05, 2026

Julia Elyachar, "On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo" (Duke UP, 2025)

36 mins; January 04, 2026

Hans Van Eyghen, "The Epistemology of Spirit Beliefs" (Routledge, 2023)

37 mins; January 03, 2026

Andrea Gevurtz Arai ed., "Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Projects in Twenty-First-Century East Asia" (Rutgers UP, 2025)

82 hours 45 mins; December 27, 2025

Nicholas L. Caverly, "Demolishing Detroit: How Structural Racism Endures" (Stanford UP, 2025)

49 mins; December 26, 2025

Suvi Rautio, "The Invention of Tradition in China: Story of a Village and a Nation Remade" (Springer Nature, 2024)

78 hours 40 mins; December 25, 2025

Karma F. Frierson, "Local Color: Reckoning with Blackness in the Port City of Veracruz" (U California Press, 2025)

49 mins; December 23, 2025

Leila Hudson, "Lines of Flight, Assemblages of Home: Syrian Women Displaced" (Syracuse UP, 2025)

52 mins; December 19, 2025

Sharon Sliwinski, "An Alphabet for Dreamers: How to See the World with Eyes Closed" (MIT Press, 2025)

29 mins; December 18, 2025

Luis Felipe Murillo, "Common Circuits: Hacking Alternative Technological Futures" (Stanford UP, 2025)

41 mins; December 17, 2025

Megan Tobias Neely, "Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street" (U California Press, 2022)

61 hours 57 mins; December 16, 2025

Yasmin Cho, "Politics of Tranquility: The Material and Mundane Lives of Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao Tibet" (Cornell UP, 2025)

53 mins; December 15, 2025

Jerry Moore, "Cat Tales: A History" (Thames & Hudson, 2025)

38 mins; December 14, 2025

James Sears, "Queering Rehoboth Beach: Beyond the Boardwalk" (Temple UP, 2024)

56 mins; December 09, 2025

“Rurality 2.0”: How City Migrants are Reshaping Norway’s Rural Regions with Tom Bratrud

71 hours 7 mins; December 08, 2025

Shilla Lee , "Crafting Rural Japan: Traditional Potters and Rural Creativity in Regional Revitalization" (Routledge, 2024)

64 hours 36 mins; December 07, 2025

Anna Zhelnina, "Private Life, Public Action: How Housing Politics Mobilized Citizens in Moscow" (Temple UP, 2025)

52 mins; December 05, 2025

Anna Shadrina, "The Babushka Phenomenon: Older Women and the Political Sociology of Ageing in Russia" (UCL Press, 2025)

44 mins; December 04, 2025

Theresa Delgadillo, "Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas" (U Michigan Press, 2024)

55 mins; December 02, 2025

Is a River Alive?: A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane

34 mins; December 01, 2025

Marc Sommers, "We the Young Fighters: Pop Culture, Terror, and War in Sierra Leone" (U Georgia Press, 2023)

78 hours 50 mins; November 30, 2025

Paulette F. C. Steeves, "The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)

40 mins; November 30, 2025

Allison Christine Meier, "Grave" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

50 mins; November 27, 2025

Elizabeth Anne Davis, "The Time of the Cannibals: On Conspiracy Theory and Context" (Fordham UP, 2024)

90 hours 48 mins; November 25, 2025

Sarah Hoiland, "Righteous Sisterhood: The Politics and Power of an All-Women's Motorcycle Club" (Temple UP, 2025)

44 mins; November 23, 2025

Christina Jerne, "Opposition by Imitation: The Economics of Italian Anti-Mafia Activism" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)

56 mins; November 19, 2025

Heath Pearson, "Life Beside Bars: Confinement and Capital in an American Prison Town" (Duke UP, 2024)

65 hours 1 min; November 18, 2025

Nayma Qayum, "Village Ties: Women, NGOs, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

62 hours 46 mins; November 16, 2025

Karine Gagné, "Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas" (U Washington Press, 2019)

101 hours 53 mins; November 09, 2025

Vania Smith-Oka, "Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

49 mins; November 08, 2025

Birgit Abels and Patrick Eisenlohr, "Atmospheric Knowledge: Environmentality, Latency, and Sonic Multimodality" (U California Press, 2025)

46 mins; November 07, 2025

Russell T. McCutcheon, "Our Primary Expertise: A Future for the Study of Religion" (Rutgers UP, 2025)

53 mins; November 06, 2025

Christopher Nelson, "When the Bones Speak: The Living, the Dead, and the Sacrifice of Contemporary Okinawa" (Duke UP, 2025)

68 hours 0 mins; November 05, 2025

Patrick Brittenden, "Algerian and Christian: Christian Theological Formation, Identity and Mission in Contemporary Algeria" (Regnum Books, 2025)

70 hours 2 mins; November 02, 2025

Stephen Huard, "Calibrated Engagement: Chronicles of Local Politics in the Heartland of Myanmar" (‎Berghahn Books, 2024)

52 mins; November 01, 2025

Pablo Meninato and Gregory Marinic, "Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America" (Routledge, 2025)

77 hours 22 mins; October 31, 2025

Claudia Gastrow, "The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda" (UNC Press Books, 2024)

58 mins; October 31, 2025

Claudia Gastrow, "The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda" (UNC Press Books, 2024)

58 mins; October 31, 2025

Nora Kenworthy, "Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare" (MIT Press, 2024)

44 mins; October 30, 2025

Joe Watkins, "Indigenizing Japan: Ainu Past, Present, and Future" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

44 mins; October 26, 2025

Hindutva and Anti-Christian Violence in Contemporary India

19 mins; October 24, 2025

Oksana Sarkisova and Olga Shevchenko "In Visible Presence: Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos" (MIT Press, 2023)

59 mins; October 15, 2025

Chandra Chiara Ehm, "Queens Without a Kingdom Worth Ruling: Buddhist Nuns and the Process of Change in Tibetan Monastic Communities" (Vajra Books, 2024)

65 hours 34 mins; October 15, 2025

William Lempert, "Dreaming Down the Track: Awakenings in Aboriginal Cinema" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)

66 hours 11 mins; October 14, 2025

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