Deep and Sheltered Waters: The History of Tod Inlet By David R. Gray, 2020, Royal BC Museum https://shop.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/product/deep-and-sheltered-waters/ This new book tells the fascinating story of the people and community of Tod Inlet, near Victoria, BC. The author draws from…
Creating Indigenous Property: Power, Rights, and Relationships Edited by Angela Cameron, Sari Graben, and Val Napoleon, University of Toronto Press, 2020 https://utorontopress.com/ca/creating-indigenous-property-2 While colonial imposition of the Canadian legal order has undermined Indigenous law, creating gaps and sometimes distortions, Indigenous…
The Social Life of Standards: Ethnographic Methods for Local Engagement Edited by Janice E. Graham, Christina Holmes, Fiona McDonald, and Regna Darnell, UBC Press, 2021 https://www.ubcpress.ca/the-social-life-of-standards Through twelve ethnographic case studies, The Social Life of Standards reveals how standards –…
Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains Kathleen Bolling Lowrey, University Press of Colorado, 2020 https://upcolorado.com/university-press-of-colorado/item/3887-shamanism-and-vulnerability-on-the-north-and-south-american-great-plains In Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains Kathleen Bolling Lowrey provides an innovative and expansive…
Sociocultural Anthropology: A Problem-based Approach (4th Canadian edition) By Richard H. Robbins, Rachel Dowty, Maggie Cummings, and Karen McGarry, Cengage, 2021 https://www.cengage.ca/c/sociocultural-anthropology-a-problem-based-approach-44-4th-edition-4e-robbins-dowty-cummings-mcgarry/9780176870997/ Taking a unique, problem-based approach, the fourth Canadian edition of this text encourages students to apply a critical…
Morality at the Margins: Youth, Language, and Islam in Coastal Kenya Sarah Hillewaert, Fordham University Press, 2019 https://fordham.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.5422/fordham/9780823286515.001.0001/upso-9780823286515-miscMatter-100 This book considers the day-to-day lives of young Muslims on Kenya’s island of Lamu, who live simultaneously on the edge and in…
Beyond Wild and Tame: Soiot Encounters in a Sentient Landscape By Alex C. Oehler, Berghahn Books, 2020 https://berghahnbooks.com/title/OehlerBeyond Responding to recent scholarship, this book examines animal domestication and offers a Soiot approach to animals and landscapes, which transcends the wild-tame…
Centering the Margins of Anthropology's History: Histories of Anthropology Annual, Volume 14 Edited by Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach, University of Nebraska Press, 2021 https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496225535/ About the Book The series Histories of Anthropology Annual presents diverse perspectives on the…
On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible ParadiseAffect, Tourism, Belize Kenneth Little, Berghahn Books, 2020 https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/LittleOn There are beastly forces in Belize. Forces that are actively involved in making paradise impossible. On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise is…
The Future Conditional: Building an English-Speaking Society in Northeast China By Eric S. Henry, Cornell University Press, 2021 cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501754906/the-future-conditional In The Future Conditional, Eric S. Henry brings twelve years of expertise and research to offer a nuanced discussion of the globalization…