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

47 mins; October 29, 2023

Sarah Mayorga, "Urban Specters: The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism" (UNC Press, 2023)

44 mins; October 29, 2023

Utsa Mukherjee, "Race, Class, Parenting and Children's Leisure: Children's Leisurescapes and Parenting Cultures in Middle-Class British Indian Families" (Policy Press, 2022)

37 mins; October 29, 2023

Arjun Shankar, "Brown Saviors and Their Others: Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Help in India" (Duke UP, 2023)

70 hours 4 mins; October 28, 2023

Marisel C. Moreno, "Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Art" (U Texas Press, 2022)

75 hours 37 mins; October 27, 2023

Trenton W. Holliday, "Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe" (Columbia UP, 2023)

42 mins; October 23, 2023

Özge Yaka, "Fighting for the River: Gender, Body, and Agency in Environmental Struggles" (U California Press, 2023)

54 mins; October 23, 2023

Maitrayee Deka, "Traders and Tinkers: Bazaars in the Global Economy" (Stanford UP, 2023)

51 mins; October 20, 2023

Katherine Mason, "The Reproduction of Inequality: How Class Shapes the Pregnant Body and Infant Health" (NYU Press, 2023)

48 mins; October 20, 2023

Sébastien Tutenges, "Intoxication: An Ethnography of Effervescent Revelry" (Rutgers UP, 2022)

49 mins; October 19, 2023

Katherine Jensen, "The Color of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

47 mins; October 18, 2023

Philipp Stelzel, "The Faculty Lounge: A Cocktail Guide for Academics" (Indiana UP, 2023)

47 mins; October 18, 2023

Margaret Hillenbrand, "On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China" (Columbia UP, 2023)

46 mins; October 14, 2023

Working Children: The Luxury and Complexity of Childhood in Lombok, Indonesia

26 mins; October 13, 2023

James J. A. Blair, "Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic" (Cornell UP, 2023)

46 mins; October 13, 2023

Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl, "If You Should Go at Midnight: Legends and Legend Tripping in America" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)

48 mins; October 13, 2023

Buddhist Healing in Contemporary Japan (with Rev. Nathan Jishin Michon)

64 hours 19 mins; October 10, 2023

Rhoda Kanaaneh, "The Right Kind of Suffering: Gender, Sexuality, and Arab Asylum Seekers in America" (U Texas Press, 2023)

44 mins; October 10, 2023

Stephanie Southworth and Sara Brallier, "Homelessness in the 21st Century: Living the Impossible American Dream" (Routledge, 2023)

66 hours 50 mins; October 08, 2023

Angie Lederach, "Feel the Grass Grow: Ecologies of Slow Peace in Colombia" (Stanford UP, 2023)

77 hours 48 mins; October 06, 2023

Zeynep K. Korkman, "Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey" (Duke UP, 2023)

45 mins; October 05, 2023

Anne Allison, "Being Dead Otherwise" (Duke UP, 2023)

71 hours 9 mins; October 04, 2023

Naisargi N. Davé, "Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being" (Duke UP, 2023)

72 hours 38 mins; October 02, 2023

Rik Peels, "Life without God: An Outsider's Look at Atheism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

43 mins; October 02, 2023

Daniel R. Reichman, "Progress in the Balance: Mythologies of Development in Santos, Brazil" (Cornell UP, 2023)

45 mins; September 30, 2023

Christian Krohn-Hansen, "Jobless Growth in the Dominican Republic: Disorganization, Precarity, and Livelihoods" (Stanford UP, 2022)

62 hours 11 mins; September 29, 2023

Naveeda Khan, "In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate from the Global South" (Fordham UP, 2023)

54 mins; September 26, 2023

Damani Partridge, "Blackness As a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin" (U California Press, 2022)

43 mins; September 24, 2023

Alba Griffin, "Reading the Walls of Bogota: Graffiti, Street Art, and the Urban Imaginary of Violence" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)

76 hours 44 mins; September 22, 2023

Jennifer D. Ortegren, "Middle-Class Dharma: Gender, Aspiration, and the Making of Contemporary Hinduism" (Oxford UP, 2023)

40 mins; September 21, 2023

Kathrin Eitel, "Recycling Infrastructures in Cambodia: Circularity, Waste, and Urban Life in Phnom Penh" (Routledge, 2022)

47 mins; September 21, 2023

C. J. Pascoe, "Nice Is Not Enough: Inequality and the Limits of Kindness at American High" (U California Press, 2023)

56 mins; September 21, 2023

Kevin Funk, "Rooted Globalism: Arab–Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries" (Indiana UP, 2022)

55 mins; September 20, 2023

Moisés Kopper, "Architectures of Hope: Infrastructural Citizenship and Class Mobility in Brazil's Public Housing" (U Michigan Press, 2022)

50 mins; September 19, 2023

Piers Kelly, "The Last Language on Earth: Linguistic Utopianism in the Philippines" (Oxford UP, 2021)

62 hours 15 mins; September 19, 2023

Hongwei Bao, "Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance" (Routledge, 2022)

38 mins; September 18, 2023

Bryan Rennie, "An Ethology of Religion and Art: Belief as Behavior" (Routledge, 2020)

68 hours 54 mins; September 16, 2023

Stefan Helmreich, "A Book of Waves" (Duke UP, 2023)

46 mins; September 16, 2023

Michèle Lamont, "Seeing Others: How Recognition Works-And How It Can Heal a Divided World" (Atria, 2023)

36 mins; September 13, 2023

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34 mins; September 12, 2023

Gilberto Rosas, "Unsettling: The El Paso Massacre, Resurgent White Nationalism, and the US-Mexico Border" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

44 mins; September 12, 2023

Isabel Machado, "Carnival in Alabama: Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)

71 hours 23 mins; September 10, 2023

Tiantian Zheng, "Violent Intimacy: Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Post-Socialist China" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

23 mins; September 10, 2023

Nicole Fabricant, "Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore" (U California Press, 2022)

36 mins; September 10, 2023

Zdenka Sokolickova, "The Paradox of Svalbard: Climate Change and Globalisation in the Arctic" (Pluto Press, 2023)

49 mins; September 09, 2023

Jeanne K. Firth, "Feeding New Orleans: Celebrity Chefs and Reimagining Food Justice" (UNC Press, 2023)

80 hours 58 mins; September 09, 2023

Shai M. Dromi and Samuel D. Stabler, "Moral Minefields: How Sociologists Debate Good Science" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

50 mins; September 08, 2023

Andrea Muehlebach, "A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in Europe" (Duke UP, 2023)

37 mins; September 08, 2023

Kerry P. C. San Chirico. "Between Hindu and Christian: Khrist Bhaktas, Catholics, and the Negotiation of Devotion in Banaras" (Oxford UP, 2022)

53 mins; September 07, 2023

Allan Punzalan Isaac, "Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor" (Fordham UP, 2021)

52 mins; September 03, 2023

Emilia Bachrach, "Religious Reading and Everyday Lives in Devotional Hinduism" (Oxford UP, 2022)

45 mins; August 30, 2023

Jenna N. Hanchey, "The Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO" (Duke UP, 2023)

62 hours 54 mins; August 29, 2023

Chuyun Oh, "K-pop Dance: Fandoming Yourself on Social Media" (Routledge, 2022)

38 mins; August 28, 2023

Asad L. Asad, "Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life" (Princeton UP, 2023)

75 hours 41 mins; August 27, 2023

Elly Fishman, "Refugee High: Coming of Age in America" (The New Press, 2021)

34 mins; August 26, 2023

Erica O. Turner, "Suddenly Diverse: How School Districts Manage Race and Inequality" (U Chicago Press, 2020)

45 mins; August 25, 2023

Kelzang T. Tashi, "World of Worldly Gods: The Persistence and Transformation of Shamanic Bon in Buddhist Bhutan" (Oxford UP, 2023)

46 mins; August 24, 2023

Romit Chowdhury, "City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport" (Rutgers UP, 2023)

41 mins; August 22, 2023

Ruchi Chaturvedi, "Violence of Democracy: Interparty Conflict in South India" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

57 mins; August 21, 2023

Jennifer Cearns, "Circulating Culture: Transnational Cuban Networks of Exchange" (UP of Florida, 2023)

58 mins; August 20, 2023

Jamila Rodrigues, "Sufi Women, Embodiment and the 'Self': Gender in Islamic Ritual" (Routledge, 2023)

58 mins; August 18, 2023

Renyi Hong, "Passionate Work: Endurance after the Good Life" (Duke UP, 2022)

51 mins; August 18, 2023

Whisper Networks: A Discussion with Carrie Ann Johnson

57 mins; August 17, 2023

Andrew Johnson, "If I Give My Soul: Faith Behind Bars in Rio de Janeiro" (Oxford UP, 2017)

48 mins; August 16, 2023

Edyta Roszko, "Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam" (NIAS/University of Hawaii Press 2021

52 mins; August 16, 2023

Sophie Bjork-James, "The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism's Politics of the Family" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

55 mins; August 12, 2023

Karen E. Rignall, "An Elusive Common: Land, Politics, and Agrarian Rurality in a Moroccan Oasis" (Cornell UP, 2021)

42 mins; August 12, 2023

Satsuki Takahashi, "Fukushima Futures: Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape" (U Washington Press, 2023)

53 mins; August 12, 2023

Sarah Muir, "Routine Crisis: An Ethnography of Disillusion" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

45 mins; August 11, 2023

Xenia A. Cherkaev, "Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice" (Cornell UP, 2023)

72 hours 54 mins; August 10, 2023

Esra Özyürek, "Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany" (Stanford UP, 2023)

43 mins; August 10, 2023

Michael Roper, "Afterlives of War: A Descendants' History" (Manchester UP, 2023)

55 mins; August 09, 2023

Traditional Medicine in Laos (with Elizabeth Elliott and Ounkham Souksavanh)

49 mins; August 08, 2023

Bianca Vienni-Baptista et al., "Foundations of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research" (Bristol UP, 2023)

41 mins; August 05, 2023

Olga Fedorenko, "Flower of Capitalism: South Korean Advertising at a Crossroads" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)

78 hours 4 mins; August 05, 2023

Tamara J. Walker, "Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad" (Crown, 2023)

78 hours 9 mins; August 04, 2023

Elizabeth Carpenter-Song, "Families on the Edge: Experiences of Homelessness and Care in Rural New England" (MIT Press, 2023)

36 mins; August 04, 2023

Michael Baltutis, "The Festival of Indra: Innovation, Archaism, and Revival in a South Asian Performance" (SUNY Press, 2023)

51 mins; August 03, 2023

Thurka Sangaramoorthy, "Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America" (UNC Press, 2023)

57 mins; August 03, 2023

Courtney Adams Wooten, "Childfree and Happy: Transforming the Rhetoric of Women's Reproductive Choices" (Utah State UP, 2023)

43 mins; August 02, 2023

Jae DiBello Takeuchi, "Language Ideologies and L2 Speaker Legitimacy: Native Speaker Bias in Japan" (Mulitlingual Matters, 2023)

58 mins; August 01, 2023

Omolade Adunbi, "Enclaves of Exception: Special Economic Zones and Extractive Practices in Nigeria" (Indiana UP, 2022)

41 mins; July 31, 2023

Shaul Shenhav, "Analyzing Social Narratives" (Routledge, 2015)

52 mins; July 31, 2023

Mayur R. Suresh, "Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts" (Fordham UP, 2022)

49 mins; July 30, 2023

Irina Carlota Silber, "After Stories: Transnational Intimacies of Postwar El Salvador" (Stanford UP, 2022)

61 hours 37 mins; July 29, 2023

Sarah E. Vaughn, "Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation" (Duke UP, 2022)

64 hours 15 mins; July 29, 2023

Melissa Gatter, "Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-to-Five Emergency" (American University in Cairo Press, 2023)

57 mins; July 28, 2023

Brenda E. F. Beck, "Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Characters, and Plot Structures" (U Toronto Press, 2022)

47 mins; July 27, 2023

Rahil Roodsaz, "Sexual Self-Fashioning: Iranian Dutch Narratives of Sexuality and Belonging" (Berghahn Books, 2022)

36 mins; July 26, 2023

Syed Ali and Margaret M. Chin, "The Peer Effect: How Your Peers Shape Who You Are and Who You Will Become" (NYU Press, 2023)

53 mins; July 26, 2023

Anthony Russell Jerry, "Blackness in Mexico: Afro-Mexican Recognition and the Production of Citizenship in the Costa Chica" (UP of Florida, 2023)

47 mins; July 26, 2023

Vincanne Adams, "Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move" (Duke UP, 2023)

57 mins; July 25, 2023

Lisa Mitchell, "Hailing the State: Indian Democracy Between Elections" (Duke UP, 2023)

68 hours 7 mins; July 25, 2023

Lea Taragin-Zeller, "The State of Desire: Religion and Reproductive Politics in the Promised Land" (NYU Press, 2023)

64 hours 44 mins; July 24, 2023

Scott E. Simon, "Truly Human: Indigeneity and Indigenous Resurgence on Formosa" (U Toronto Press, 2023)

44 mins; July 20, 2023

Monica Liu, "Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides Under China's Global Rise" (Stanford UP, 2022)

48 mins; July 19, 2023

António Tomás, "In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda" (Duke UP, 2022)

42 mins; July 19, 2023

Margareta von Oswald and Jonas Tinius, "Awkward Archives: Ethnographic Drafts for a Modular Curriculum" (Archive Books, 2022)

50 mins; July 18, 2023

Victor Luckerson, "Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street" (Random House, 2023)

58 mins; July 17, 2023

Brianna Holt, "In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So 'Post-Racial' America" (Plume Books, 2023)

43 mins; July 16, 2023

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