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Watch: New Books in Public Anthropology Virtual Café
Nov 16 2023
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 commitment to bearing ethnographic witness, to describing, through stories, how
Q&A with Ryo Morimoto, UC Press author and FirstGen scholar
Nov 10 2023
In one of the first in-depth ethnographic accounts of coastal Fukushima written in English, Nuclear Ghost tells the stories of a diverse group of residents who aspire to live and die well in their now irradiated homes. Their determination to recover their land, cultures, and histories for future gen
Did Margaret Mead Support Disability Rights?
Nov 07 2023
By Thomas W. Pearson, author of An Ordinary Future: Margaret Mead, the Problem of Disability, and a Child Born DifferentIn 1944, Margaret Mead helped banish a disabled child to a dismal existence in an institution.Mead was close friends with Erik Erikson, a psychoanalyst who would also becom
Q&A with Roger Lancaster, author ofThe Struggle to Be Gay-in Mexico, for Example
Nov 06 2023
Through a rigorous ethnographic inquiry into the material foundations of sexual identity, The Struggle to Be Gay—in Mexico, for Example makes a compelling argument for the centrality of social class in gay life. Known for his writings on the construction of sexual identities, anthropologist and cult