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 >UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are some of our recent award winners from July 2022. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by …
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Read More >The editorial committee of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos is pleased to announce the award for best article by an early-career scholar published in 2020-2021. The award aims to recognize contributions of the highest …
Read More >Pacific Historical Review is delighted to share the news that its articles have recently been honored with awards from the Urban History Association and the Western Association of Women HIstorians. Hannah Kim’s “Death …
Read More >For Mother’s Day, author Natalia Molina remembers her grandmother Doña Natalia Barraza, the impressive woman who opened the Nayarit restaurant in Echo Park, Los Angeles in 1951. The restaurant became an urban …
Read More >UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors in Latin American Studies. Below are recent authors who have earned honors from the Latin American Studies Association. Please join us in celebrating these …
Read More >By Sebastián Ureta & Patricio Flores, co-authors of Worlds of Gray and Green: Mineral Extraction as Ecological Practice “We are walking, talking minerals” —V. I. Vernadsky[1] Mineral extraction has a bad reputation …
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