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New Books in Anthropology

This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

Episodes

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Ru Marshall, "American Trickster: The Hidden Lives of Carlos Castaneda" (OR Books, 2026)

23 Sep 2026
1h 6m
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Sandra Rozental, "The Absent Stone: Mexican Patrimony and the Aftershocks of State Theft" (Duke UP, 2026)

17 Sep 2026
41m
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John Charles Simon and Jennalee Donian, "Understanding Laughter and Humor: Why We Laugh, Why We Don’t, and Why It Matters" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2026)

12 Sep 2026
1h 7m
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Francesca Sbardella, "Inhabiting Silence: An Anthropologist in the Cloister" (Berghahn Books, 2025)

07 Sep 2026
38m
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Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer et al eds., "Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century" (Rutgers UP, 2026)

06 Sep 2026
57m
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Janaka Jayawickrama and Jerome Wright, "Under the Gaze of Global Mental Health: A Critical Reflection" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)

06 Sep 2026
1h 3m
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Relative Strangers: Romani Kinship and Palestinian Difference

05 Sep 2026
56m
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Chika Watanabe, "Play to Survive: Disaster Preparedness Along the Ring of Fire" (Stanford UP, 2026)

04 Sep 2026
55m
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Piergiorgio Di Giminiani, "Alterhumanism: Becoming Human on a Conservation Frontier" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

04 Sep 2026
58m
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Sarah M. Rios, "Diseases Have No Eyes: Valley Fever and Environmental Health Justice" (Temple UP, 2026)

03 Sep 2026
26m
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Elizabeth Anne Davis, "Artifactual: Forensic and Documentary Knowing" (Duke UP, 2023)

02 Sep 2026
1h 6m
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Linguistic Unease in Healthcare

02 Sep 2026
39m
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Karin Barber, "Much Matter in a Penny Paper: Early Yoruba Print Culture in Lagos, 1910–1930" (Ohio UP, 2026)

31 Aug 2026
43m
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An Honest Death: Life's End and Humanist Funerals with Matthew Engelke

28 Aug 2026
54m
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Ashanté M. Reese, "Gather: Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness" (W. W. Norton, 2026)

21 Aug 2026
38m
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A Cure for Loneliness: On Homecoming with Ian Marcus Corbin

19 Aug 2026
56m
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Ting Hui Lau, "Decolonial Endurance: Lisu Worldmaking Against Chinese Settler Colonialism" (Stanford UP, 2026)

17 Aug 2026
1h 3m
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Máximo Badaró, "Pedagogies of Value: Marketing Foreign Goods in China" (Berghahn, 2026)

16 Aug 2026
51m
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Sophie Chao, "Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger" (Duke UP, 2025)

15 Aug 2026
1h 2m
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Dalit Studies with Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana and Sanal Mohan

10 Aug 2026
1h 7m
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