UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our November 2023 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the …
Read More >Edited by Kevin Lewis O’Neill, Atelier is a book series in anthropology that takes a ground-up approach to the acquisition and publication of new ethnographic works. Curating a cohort of scholars committed to the idea …
Read More >In one of the first in-depth ethnographic accounts of coastal Fukushima written in English, Nuclear Ghost tells the stories of a diverse group of residents who aspire to live and die well …
Read More >By Thomas W. Pearson, author of An Ordinary Future: Margaret Mead, the Problem of Disability, and a Child Born Different In 1944, Margaret Mead helped banish a disabled child to a dismal …
Read More >Now updated with a new prologue and epilogue, Seth Holmes’ bestselling book Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, With a Foreword by Philippe Bourgois provides an intimate examination …
Read More >Pressing Onward: The Imperative Resilience of Latina Migrant Mothers centers the stories of mothers who migrated from Latin America, settled in New Haven, Connecticut, and overcame trauma and ongoing adversity to build futures …
Read More >By Mareike Winchell, author of After Servitude: Elusive Property and the Ethics of Kinship in Bolivia In 2010, I was just beginning an ethnographic study of Quechua water activists in Cochabamba. At …
Read More >An anthropologist uncovers how “great coffee” depends not just on taste, but also on a complex system of values worked out among farmers, roasters, and consumers. What justifies the steep prices commanded …
Read More >For the 2021 American Anthropological Association meeting, we’re proud to share a list of recent award-winning Anthropology authors. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news! Salih Can Aciksoz …
Read More >By Rashmi Sadana, author of The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure One of the first people I interviewed for my new book, The Moving …
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