UC Press Blog

21

Nov

Labeling “Healthy” Food

Xaq Frohlich, author of FROM LABEL TO TABLE, explores what it means to label food “healthy”.

19

Nov

Award Winning UC Press Authors at AAA 2023

We’re thrilled to share the list of UC Press authors receiving awards at the 2023 American Anthropological Association conference! Please help us spread the news and visit our virtual exhibit page to …

17

Nov

Q&A with Divya Cherian, author of Merchants of Virtue

Winner of the 2022 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences, Merchants of Virtue explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya Cherian …

16

Nov

In pictures: how ancient rabbis upend “traditional” ideas of reproduction, gender, and humanity

Below, author Rafael Rachel Neis provides a comic on When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species, a provocative and trailblazing work in the study of …

16

Nov

Watch: New Books in Public Anthropology Virtual Café

The California Series in Public Anthropology is a groundbreaking collection of books that share a common goal: to emphasize the anthropologist’s role as an engaged intellectual. Books in the series affirm anthropology’s …

15

Nov

“Rehabilitated” Identities

Cesraéa Rumpf, author of RECOVERING IDENTITY, writes about criminalized women “rehabilitating” their identities.

14

Nov

Announcing the 2023 Atelier Series Cohort

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 …

14

Nov

Q&A with Anna Gjika, author of When Rape Goes Viral

Stories of teen sexting scandals, cyberbullying, and image-based sexual abuse have become commonplace fixtures of the digital age, with many adults struggling to identify ways to monitor young people’s digital engagement. In …

13

Nov

Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems

By Francine Banner, author of Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems What does it mean to be complicit? This question is at the heart of my book, Beyond …

13

Nov

Q&A with Rachel Ellis, author of In This Place Called Prison

In This Place Called Prison offers a vivid account of religious life within an institution designed to punish. Rachel Ellis conducted a year of ethnographic fieldwork inside a U.S. state women’s prison, …