By Laurel Kendall, author of Mediums and Magical Things: Statues, Paintings, and Masks in Asian Places The paintings of bold-faced gods in the Korean shaman’s shrine had fallen to the floor and …
Read More >UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our recent award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news! …
Read More >By Aaron Jackson, author of Worlds of Care: The Emotional Lives of Fathers Caring for Children with Disabilities Why did he die?’ My youngest daughter, Winter, asks. I scoop her onto my …
Read More >This year’s JustFood21 conference, organized by ASFS, AFHVS, CAFS, and SAFN, centers on the theme of food justice, highlighting how food is ensconced in systems of exclusion, oppression, and power. We reached …
Read More >UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our recent award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news! …
Read More >As part of our ongoing Editor Spotlight Series, we interviewed UC Press Editor Kate Marshall about her approach to acquiring in the fields of Anthropology, Food Studies, and Latin American Studies, and what …
Read More >Among the things the past year has cast in relief is the fact that breathing is not something that simply happens — it is a skillful practice, not to say a political …
Read More >UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our recent award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news! …
Read More >Mara Buchbinder is a medical anthropologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her new book, Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted …
Read More >“What brings us together is our ongoing research and activist pursuits on how to design and deploy equitable, ethical, and empathetic technologies that center the voices and values of marginalized groups and cultures.”
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