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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 AciksozMiddle East Studies (MES) Book Award 2021, Honorable Ment

By Jacob Doherty, author of Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of DisposabilityAs delegates gathered in Glasgow, Scotland for COP26, waste amasses on the city’s streets. Years of municipal austerity have stretched sanitation services thin in Glasgow, leaving litter, uncollected r

For the 2021 American Anthropological Association meeting, Ippolytos Kalofonos, author of All I Eat is Medicine: Going Hungry in Mozambique's AIDS Economy, joined us to discuss some of the key findings from his work.All I Eat Is Medicine charts the lives of individuals and the operation of i

By Robert Desjarlais and Khalil Habrih, co-authors of Traces of Violence: Writings on the Disaster in Paris, FranceOur new book, Traces of Violence: Writings on the Disaster in Paris, France, offers a unique collaborative inquiry into various forms and aftereffects of political violence in P

By Rashmi Sadana, author of The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of InfrastructureOne of the first people I interviewed for my new book, The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure, was a woman in her fifties who I call Vanit

by María Elena García, author of Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race: Stories of Capital, Culture, and Coloniality in PeruI never intended to write a book about food. And certainly, I never planned to write a book that critiqued the chefs credited for transforming Peru—the country of my birth

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 Dying in America, takes a close look at the rise of medical aid-in-dying, which is now legal