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Roluah Puia, "Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and Politics of Peace in Northeast India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

46 mins; July 15, 2023

Jenna Grant, "Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh" (U Washington Press, 2022)

44 mins; July 15, 2023

Sarah Federman and Ronald Niezen, "Narratives of Mass Atrocity: Victims and Perpetrators in the Aftermath" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

40 mins; July 14, 2023

Jacqueline Kinghan, "Lawyers, Networks and Progressive Social Change: Lawyers Changing Lives" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

65 hours 34 mins; July 11, 2023

Jessica P. Cerdeña, "Pressing Onward: The Imperative Resilience of Latina Migrant Mothers" (U California Press, 2023)

58 mins; July 10, 2023

Stephen Davies, "Adornment: What Self-Decoration Tells Us About Who We Are" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

31 mins; July 10, 2023

Tina Shrestha, "Surviving the Sanctuary City: Asylum-Seeking Work in Nepali New York" (U Washington Press, 2023)

101 hours 0 mins; July 09, 2023

Linda J. Seligmann, "Quinoa: Food Politics and Agrarian Life in the Andean Highlands" (U Illinois Press, 2022)

44 mins; July 08, 2023

Dinah Hannaford, "Aid and the Help: International Development and the Transnational Extraction of Care" (Stanford UP, 2023)

52 mins; July 07, 2023

Apostolos Andrikopoulos, "Argonauts of West Africa: Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

47 mins; July 05, 2023

Sarah L. Hall, "Sown in the Stars: Planting by the Signs" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)

54 mins; July 03, 2023

Markus Virgil Höhne, "Between Somaliland and Puntland: Marginalization, Militarization and Conflicting Political Vision" (Rift Valley Institute, 2023)

68 hours 43 mins; June 28, 2023

Daniel R. Smith, "The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945" (Manchester UP, 2023)

48 mins; June 28, 2023

Tom Higham, "The World Before Us: The New Science Behind Our Human Origins" (Yale UP, 2021)

41 mins; June 24, 2023

Amy Tooth Murphy et al., "New Directions in Queer Oral History: Archives of Disruption" (Routledge, 2022)

52 mins; June 23, 2023

The Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable

7 mins; June 20, 2023

Prehension: The Hand and the Emergence of Humanity

20 mins; June 19, 2023

Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web

18 mins; June 19, 2023

Orit Avishai, "Queer Judaism: LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel" (NYU Press, 2023)

52 mins; June 18, 2023

Daniel E Agbiboa, "Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency: The Routes of Terror in an African Context" (U Michigan Press, 2022)

51 mins; June 17, 2023

Leela Fernandes, "Governing Water in India: Inequality, Reform, and the State" (U Washington Press, 2022)

37 mins; June 17, 2023

Marielle Risse, "Houseways in Southern Oman" (Routledge, 2022)

54 mins; June 15, 2023

Daniel E. Agbiboa, "They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria" (Oxford UP, 2023)

36 mins; June 14, 2023

Francis Cody, "The News Event: Popular Sovereignty in the Age of Deep Mediatization" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

45 mins; June 14, 2023

Malini Ranganathan et al., "Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City" (Cornell UP, 2023)

80 hours 17 mins; June 13, 2023

Maitrayee Chaudhuri and Manish Thakur, "Doing Theory: Locations, Hierarchies and Disjunctions" (Orient Blackswan, 2018)

45 mins; June 11, 2023

Osman Balkan, "Dying Abroad: The Political Afterlives of Migration in Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

65 hours 59 mins; June 10, 2023

Graham Harman and Christopher Witmore, "Objects Untimely: Object-Oriented Philosophy and Archaeology" (Polity Press, 2023)

64 hours 18 mins; June 10, 2023

Andrew Snyder, "Critical Brass: Street Carnival and Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro" (Wesleyan UP, 2022)

58 mins; June 09, 2023

Han Yu, "The Curious Human Knee" (Columbia UP, 2023)

57 mins; June 09, 2023

Marius Wamsiedel, "The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients: An Ethnography of Triage Work in Romania" (Lexington, 2023)

59 mins; June 08, 2023

Tessa Farmer, "Well Connected: Everyday Water Practices in Cairo" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

42 mins; June 08, 2023

Hiking Trails, Sustainable Tourism, and Bedouin Heritage

42 mins; June 07, 2023

Arseli Dokumaci, "Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds" (Duke UP, 2023)

74 hours 38 mins; June 07, 2023

Amanda Apgar, "The Disabled Child: Memoirs of a Normal Future" (U Michigan Press, 2023)

39 mins; June 06, 2023

Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour, "The Politics of Survival: Black Women Social Welfare Beneficiaries in Brazil and the United States" (Columbia UP, 2023)

90 hours 34 mins; June 04, 2023

César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero, "Health in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital" (Duke UP, 2022)

72 hours 54 mins; June 03, 2023

Elizabeth Reddy, "¡Alerta!: Engineering on Shaky Ground" (MIT Press, 2023)

71 hours 58 mins; June 02, 2023

Patrick Jory, "A History of Manners and Civility in Thailand" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

48 mins; June 02, 2023

Michael Jackson, "Friendship" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

29 mins; May 31, 2023

Tazeen M. Ali, "The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority and Community in US Islam" (NYU Press, 2022)

33 mins; May 28, 2023

Beatriz Dujovne, "'Don't Be Sad When I'm Gone': A Memoir of Loss and Healing in Buenos Aires" (Toplight Books, 2020)

52 mins; May 26, 2023

Party

17 mins; May 24, 2023

Cat Button and Gerald Taylor Aiken, "Over Researched Places: Towards a Critical and Reflexive Approach" (Routledge, 2022)

33 mins; May 24, 2023

Daniel Martin Varisco, "Seasonal Knowledge and the Almanac Tradition in the Arab Gulf" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

82 hours 20 mins; May 23, 2023

Samantha Nogueira Joyce, "Afro-Brazilians in Telenovelas: Social, Political, and Economic Realities" (Lexington Books, 2022)

76 hours 5 mins; May 22, 2023

Selcen Küçüküstel, "Embracing Landscape: Living with Reindeer and Hunting among Spirits in South Siberia" (Berghahn, 2021)

63 hours 58 mins; May 22, 2023

Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, "We Have Always Been Cyborgs: Digital Data, Gene Technologies, and an Ethics of Transhumanism" (Bristol UP, 2023)

45 mins; May 21, 2023

Waqas Butt, "Life Beyond Waste: Work and Infrastructure in Urban Pakistan" (Stanford UP, 2023)

55 mins; May 21, 2023

Sebanti Chatterjee, "Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

55 mins; May 14, 2023

Nerina Weiss et al., "The Entanglements of Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Violent World" (Routledge, 2022)

66 hours 56 mins; May 14, 2023

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

50 mins; May 14, 2023

Claudia Liebelt, "Istanbul Appearances: Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey" (Syracuse UP, 2023)

31 mins; May 13, 2023

Daniel Ruiz-Serna, "When Forests Run Amok: War and Its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories" (Duke UP, 2023)

75 hours 23 mins; May 13, 2023

Leyla Jagiella, "Among the Eunuchs: A Muslim Transgender Journey" (Hurst, 2022)

79 hours 57 mins; May 12, 2023

Colin Hoag, "The Fluvial Imagination: On Lesotho’s Water-Export Economy" (U California Press, 2022)

59 mins; May 10, 2023

Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, "Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia" (Fordham UP, 2022)

57 mins; May 08, 2023

Ami Harbin, "Fearing Together: Ethics for Insecurity" (Oxford UP, 2023)

40 mins; May 07, 2023

Brian Valente-Quinn, "Senegalese Stagecraft: Decolonizing Theater-Making in Francophone Africa" (Northwestern UP, 2021)

75 hours 29 mins; May 06, 2023

Rupal Oza, "Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India" (Duke UP, 2022)

49 mins; May 06, 2023

Shenila Khoja-Moolji, "Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality" (Oxford UP, 2023)

39 mins; May 05, 2023

Jan Ke-Schutte, "Angloscene: Compromised Personhood in Afro-Chinese Translations" (U California Press, 2023)

64 hours 46 mins; May 03, 2023

Susan Hartman, "City of Refugees: The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life into a Dying American Town" (Beacon Press, 2022)

43 mins; May 02, 2023

Mauro Porto, "Mirrors of Whiteness: Media, Middle-Class Resentment, and the Rise of the Far Right in Brazil" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)

55 mins; May 01, 2023

K. N. Sunandan, "Caste, Knowledge, and Power: Ways of Knowing in Twentieth Century Malabar" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

53 mins; April 30, 2023

Macs Smith, "Paris and the Parasite: Noise, Health, and Politics in the Media City" (MIT Press, 2021)

67 hours 12 mins; April 29, 2023

Aspired Communities, Contested Futures: Long-Term Recovery after the 3.11 Disaster in Japan

31 mins; April 28, 2023

David Shulman and Heike Oberlin, "Two Masterpieces of Kuttiyattam: Mantrankam and Anguliyankam" (Oxford UP, 2019)

56 mins; April 27, 2023

Lucien van Liere and Erik Meinema, "Material Perspectives on Religion, Conflict, and Violence: Things of Conflict" (Brill, 2022)

43 mins; April 25, 2023

Susan Stryker and Dylan McCarthy Blackston, "The Transgender Studies Reader Remix" (Routledge, 2022)

59 mins; April 24, 2023

Nicole Constable, "Passport Entanglements: Protection, Care, and Precarious Migrations" (U California Press, 2022)

58 mins; April 23, 2023

Mitul Baruah, "Slow Disaster: Political Ecology of Hazards and Everyday Life in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam" (Routledge, 2022)

49 mins; April 22, 2023

Sylvia Ang, "Contesting Chineseness: Nationality, Class, Gender and New Chinese Migrants" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)

42 mins; April 20, 2023

Joel E. Correia, "Disrupting the Patrón: Indigenous Land Rights and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Paraguay's Chaco" (U California Press, 2023)

55 mins; April 19, 2023

Barbara Sjoholm, "From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

58 mins; April 19, 2023

Zoha Waseem, "Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi" (Oxford UP, 2022)

52 mins; April 18, 2023

A. J. Faas, "In the Shadow of Tungurahua: Disaster Politics in Highland Ecuador" (Rutgers UP, 2023)

80 hours 40 mins; April 18, 2023

Mina Roces, "Gender in Southeast Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

31 mins; April 15, 2023

Freddy Foks, "Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain" (U California Press, 2023)

71 hours 15 mins; April 14, 2023

Slum Tourism and Affective Economy in Delhi, India

28 mins; April 14, 2023

Cinegogía: An Open Access Resource for Teaching and Studying Latin American Cinema

57 mins; April 14, 2023

David Baumeister, "Kant on the Human Animal: Anthropology, Ethics, Race" (Northwestern UP, 2022)

44 mins; April 12, 2023

Catherine Wanner, "Everyday Religiosity and the Politics of Belonging in Ukraine" (Cornell UP, 2022)

53 mins; April 11, 2023

Akiko Takeyama, "Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club" (Stanford UP, 2016)

67 hours 30 mins; April 11, 2023

Dimitris Xygalatas, "Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living" (Little, Brown Spark, 2022)

38 mins; April 10, 2023

Gwen Burnyeat, "The Face of Peace: Government Pedagogy Amid Disinformation in Colombia" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

76 hours 43 mins; April 09, 2023

Jennifer Lynn Kelly, "Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine" (Duke UP, 2023)

78 hours 2 mins; April 09, 2023

Frenchy Lunning, "Cosplay: The Fictional Mode of Existence" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)

55 mins; April 04, 2023

Brian Villmoare, "The Evolution of Everything: The Patterns and Causes of Big History" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

60 hours 36 mins; April 03, 2023

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

64 hours 54 mins; April 02, 2023

Eli Elinoff, "Citizen Designs: City-Making and Democracy in Northeastern Thailand" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)

43 mins; April 01, 2023

Ioannis Gaitanidis, "Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan: Beyond Religion?" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

50 mins; March 31, 2023

The Good Enough Life

70 hours 10 mins; March 30, 2023

Laurah E. Klepinger, "Transnational Yoga at Work: Spiritual Tourism and Its Blind Spots" (Lexington Books, 2022)

39 mins; March 30, 2023

Antonius C. G. M. Robben and Alex Hinton, "Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity's Dark Side" (Stanford UP, 2023)

83 hours 2 mins; March 29, 2023

Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, "The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games" (U California Press, 2023)

56 mins; March 28, 2023

Heidi J. Larson, "Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start--and Why They Don't Go Away" (Oxford UP, 2020)

51 mins; March 27, 2023

Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd, "Southern Beauty: Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South" (U Georgia Press, 2022)

64 hours 40 mins; March 27, 2023

Uddipana Goswami, "Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries: Marginality, Masculinity, and Feminist Agency" (Routledge, 2022)

57 mins; March 26, 2023

Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil, "Migrants and Machine Politics: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness" (Princeton UP, 2023)

62 hours 57 mins; March 24, 2023

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