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 >By Graham Denyer Willis, author of Keep the Bones Alive: Missing People and the Search for Life in Brazil What does it mean to disappear, to vanish and never be seen again? …
Read More >UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are some of our recent award winners from March & April 2022. Please join us in celebrating these …
Read More >By Roberto J. González , author of War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future The time is a year after tomorrow. The place is the United States …
Read More >UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are some of our recent award winners from December 2021 – January 2022. Please join us in celebrating …
Read More >A new release in our Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics Series, Weighing the Future is an ethnographic exploration of how epigenetic thinking is changing the way pregnant women are seen as …
Read More >UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are some of our recent award winners from October and November 2021. Please join us in celebrating these …
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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 Jacob Doherty, author of Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala’s Infrastructures of Disposability As delegates gathered in Glasgow, Scotland for COP26, waste amasses on the city’s streets. Years of municipal austerity have stretched …
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