Anthropologist Rebecca Lester recently won the 2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing for her book, Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America. As part of #AnthroDay 2021, we reached out …
Read More >Understanding the history and motives for the United States’s deeply embedded, systematic, and institutionalized racism against minorities and immigrants, and the acts of brutal violence that have ensued over and over again, …
Read More >Recently, Harvard University professor Ieva Jusionyte assumed leadership of the series. She spoke with UC Press anthropology editor Kate Marshall about the legacy and future of Public Anthropology at UC Press.
Read More >Medical anthropologist Philippe Bourgois and photographer and graduate student Jeff Schonberg spent 12 years among homeless heroin users on the streets of San Francisco, embedded in a world that is usually invisible …
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