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By Matilde Córdoba Azcárate, author of Stuck with Tourism: Space, Power, and Labor in Contemporary YucatánChances are that you have been a tourist, traveling to experience new things, learn from others, encounter new landscapes and emotions, and give back or rediscover your inner self. And c

Explore our groundbreaking books that facilitate teaching across disciplines. To request an exam copy, click on “Request an Exam or Desk Copy” on the book page, and this will take you to our distributor's site where you can order your copy.Connected: How a Mexican Village Built Its Own C

This post is part of our #RaisingOurVoices2020 blog series. Learn more at our American Anthropological Association virtual exhibit.By Janis H. Jenkins and Thomas J. Csordas, co-authors of Troubled in the Land of Enchantment: Adolescent Experience of Psychiatric TreatmentNew Mexico is a p

This post is part of our #RaisingOurVoices2020 blog series. Learn more at our American Anthropological Association virtual exhibit.UC Press author and anthropologist Rebecca Lester recently won the 2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing for her book Famished: Eating Disorders and F

This post is part of our #RaisingOurVoices2020 blog series. Learn more at our American Anthropological Association virtual exhibit.For this year’s virtual AAA conference, series editor Kevin Lewis O'Neill joined us to talk about Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century,

This blog is adapted from an original article published in CENTRO, with permission, and is part of our AAA #RaisingOurVoices2020 event blog series. Check out our virtual exhibit page for more.By Ismael García-Colón, author of Colonial Migrants at the Heart of EmpireColonial Migrants at t

The United States has been fighting wars constantly since invading Afghanistan in 2001. This nonstop warfare is far less exceptional than it might seem: the United States has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence. In his new book, The United States of Wa

by Maurice Rafael Magaña, author of Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in MexicoDespite the COVID-19 pandemic and global stay-at-home orders, 2020 has been a year of historic mass mobilizations. The most spectacular constellation of actions has emerged from the

This post is part of our #MESA2020 blog series. Learn more at our MESA virtual exhibit.We're thrilled to announce Salih Can Açiksöz has won MESA's 2020 Fatima Mernissi Book Award for Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey! This award is given to the

This post is part of our AAA #RaisingOurVoices2020 event blog series. Check out our virtual exhibit page for more.by Roberto J. González, author of Connected: How a Mexican Village Built Its Own Cell Phone NetworkRight now, many of us are reevaluating what it means to be connected. In th