Book Review Copies

REVIEW COPIES OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL NOTEBOOKS 2026

This is a list of books offered for review in Anthropological Notebooks. If you are interested in reviewing any of the books, please send an email to Book Review Editors, nastja.slavec@zrc-sazu.si or luka.benedicic@zrc-sazu.si mentioning the postal address to where we could send you the book and the guidelines. The deadline for book reviews is usually set within 3 months from the dispatch of the book.

 

  1. Adams, Vincanne. 2023. Glyphosate and the Swir. An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 184 pp. Pb.: $24.95. ISBN: 9781478016755.
  2. Lamoreaux, Janelle. 2023. Infertile Environments. Epigenetic Toxicology and the Reproductive Health of Chinese Men. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 160 pp. Pb.: $23.95. ISBN: 9781478019336.
  3. Taylor, Timoty D.. 2023. Working Musicians. Labor and Creativity in Film and Television Production. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 264 pp. Pb.: $26.95. ISBN: 9781478019879.
  4. Christopher Pinney, PhotoDemos Collective, Naluwembe Binaisa, Vindhya Buthpitiya, Konstantinos Kalantzis, Ileana L. Selejan, and Sokphea Young (eds.). 2023. Citizens of Photography. The Camera and the Political Imagination. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 368 pp. Pb.: $29.95. ISBN: 9781478020769.
  5. Chalfin, Brenda. 2023. Waste Works. Vital Politics in Urban Ghana. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 376 pp. Pb.: $29.95. ISBN: 9781478019589.
  6. Fisher, Michael M. J.. 2023. At the Pivot of East and West. Ethnographic, Literary, and Filmic Arts. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 356 pp. Pb.: $29.95. ISBN: 9781478019893.
  7. Fortun, Mike. 2023. Genomics with Care: Minding the Double Binds of Science. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 342 pp. Pb.: $29.95. ISBN: 9781478020400.
  8. Kashani, Maryam. 2023. Medina by the Bay. Scenes of Muslim Study and Survival. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 305 pp. Pb.: $28.95. ISBN: 9781478025177.
  9. Hee Kwon, June. 2023. Borderland Dreams. The Transnational Lives of Korean Chinese Workers. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 241 pp. Pb.: $26.95. ISBN: 9781478025337.
  10. Davé, Naisargi N.. 2023. Indifference. On the Praxis of Interspecies Being. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 200 pp. Pb.: $25.95. ISBN: 9781478025139.
  11. Kasmani, Omar, ed. 2023. Pakistan Desires. Queer Futures Elsewhere. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 274 pp. Pb.: $27.95. ISBN: 9781478025238.
  12. Kowal, Emma. 2023. Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 248 pp. Pb.: $27.95. ISBN: 9781478025375.
  13. Vevaina, Leilah. 2023. Trust Matters: Parsi Endowments in Mumbai and the Horoscope of a City. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 210 pp. Pb.: $26.95. ISBN: 9781478025399.
  14. Iyer Siddiqi, Anooradha. 2023. Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 432 pp. Pb.: $31.95. ISBN: 9781478025245.
  15. Özden-Schilling, Tom. 2023. The Ends of Research: Indigenous and Settler Science after the War in the Woods. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 320 pp. Pb.: $28.95. ISBN: 9781478025535.
  16. Masco, Joseph and Lisa Wedeen (eds). 2024. Conspiracy/Theory. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 512 pp. Pb: $33.95. ISBN: 9781478025559.
  17. Bandak, Andreas and Daniel M. Knight (eds.). 2024. Porous Becoming. Anthropological Engagements with Michel Serres. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 344 pp. Pb.: $29.95. ISBN: 9781478030287.
  18. Taylor, Timoty D. 2024. Making Value. Music, Capital and the Social. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 240 pp. Pb.: $26.95. ISBN: 9781478030355.
  19. Weiss, Margot, ed. 2024. Unsettling Queer Anthropology. Foundations, Reorientations, and Departures. Durham and London: Durham University Press. 344 pp. Pb.: $29.95. ISBN: 9781478030386.
  20. Lomnitz, Claudio. 2024. Sovereignty and Extortion. A New State Form in Mexico. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 240 pp. Pb.: $26.95. ISBN: 9781478030737.
  21. Barua, Maan. 2024. Plantation Worlds. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 312 pp. Pb.: $28.95. ISBN: 9781478025610.
  22. Pearson, Heath. 2024. Life Beside Bars. Confinement and Capital in an American Prison Town. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 225 pp. Pb.: $26.95. ISBN: 9781478031147.
  23. Ramšak, Mojca. 2024. The Anthropology of Smell. Cham: Springer. 159 pp. Pb.: €124.79. ISBN: 9783031617614.
  24. Jaffe, Rivke. 2024. The Rule of Dons: Criminal Leaders and Political Authority in Urban Jamaica. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 216 pp. Pb.: $26.95. ISBN: 9781478031154.
  25. Pasieka, Agnieszka. 2025. Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 304 pp. Pb: $35.00/£30.00. ISBN: 9780691258423.
  26. Lennon, Myles. 2025. Subjects of the Sun: Solar Energy in the Shadows of Racial Capitalism. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 336 pp. Pb.: $28.95. ISBN: 978-1-4780-3178-9.
  27. Ma, Zhiying. 2025. Between Families and Institutions: Mental Health and Biopolitical Paternalism in Contemporary China. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 224 pp. Pb.: $25.95. ISBN: 978-1-4780-3174-1.
  28. Elyachar, Julia. 2025. On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 248 pp. Pb.: $26.95. ISBN: 978-1-4780-3190-1.
  29. Blaser, Mario. 2025. For Emplacement: Political Ontology in Two Acts. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 256 pp. Pb.: $27.95. ISBN: 978-1-4780-3129-1. 
  30. Meyers, Todd. 2025. Gone Gone. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 176 pp. Pb.: $24.95. ISBN: 978-1-4780-3164-2.
  31. Berry, Maya J. 2025. Defending Rumba in Havana: The Sacred and the Black Corporeal Undercommons. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 336 pp. Pb.: $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-4780-3133-8.
  32. Mankekar, Purnima, and Akhil Gupta. 2025. The Future of Futurity: Affective Capitalism and Potentiality in a Global City. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 328 pp. Pb.: $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-4780-3153-6.
  33. Goshadze, Mariam. 2025. The Noise Silence Makes: Secularity and Ghana’s Drum Wars. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 216 pp. Pb.: $26.95. ISBN: 978-1-4780-3141-3. 
  34. Thomas, Deborah A. 2025. Exorbitance: A Speculative Ethnography of Inheritance. Duke University Press. 272 pp. Pb.: $28.95. ISBN: 978-1-4780-3259-5.
  35. Suzuki, Hideaki, and Minoru Mio (eds.). 2025. “Gyres”, Indian Ocean and Beyond: Discovering the Indian Ocean World. National Museum of Ethnology. 266 pp. Pb. ISBN: 978-4-910055-16-9 C3036.
  36. Kapchan, Deborah. 2025. Taking Leave. Duke University Press. 136 pp. Pb.: $19.95. ISBN: 978-1-4780-3282-3.
  37. Solomon, Marisa. 2025. The Elsewhere Is Black: Ecological Violence and Improvised Life. Duke University Press. 272 pp. Pb.: $28.95. ISBN: 978-1-4780-3246-5. 
  38. De Sá, Celina. 2025. Diaspora Without Displacement. Duke University Press. 280 pp. Pb.: $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-4780-3197-0.
  39. Chao, Sophie. 2025. Land of Famished Beings. Duke University Press. 272 pp. Pb.: $28.95. ISBN: 978-1-4780-3203-8. 
  40. More Worlds Collective, Joseph Masco, Tim Choy, Jake Kosek and M. Murphy. 2025. Fear of a Dead White Planet. Duke University Press. 200 pp. Pb.: $23.95. ISBN: 978-1-4780-3210-6. 
  41. Ceribašić, Naila, Dora Dunatov and Jelka Vukobratović (eds.). 2025. Rana domaća diskografska industrija: Edison Bell Penkala, Elektron i Jugoton. Založba Univerze v Ljubljani, Znanstvena založba Filozofske Fakultete. 769 pp. Pb.: 45.00€. ISBN: 9789538518041.
  42. Tošić, Jelena, Sabine Strasser, and Annika Lems (eds.). 2025. Re-Turns, Entanglements and Collaborations: Anthropological Experimentations. Berghahn. 340 pp. Hb. :$135.00/£104.00. ISBN: 9781836951087.
  43. Bruun, Mikkel Kenni and Rebecca Hutten (eds.). 2025. Towards an Anthropology of Psychology: Ethnographic Studies of Psychological Healthcare. Berghahn. 198 pp. Hb.: $120.00/£92.00. ISBN  9781836951568.
  44. Beliso-De Jesús, Aisha M., Jemima Pierre, and Junaid Rana (eds.). 2025. The Anthropology of White Supremacy: A Reader. Princeton University Press. 400 pp. Pb.: $29.95/£25.00. ISBN: 9780691258188.
  45. Gurven, Michael D.. 2025. Seven Decades: How We Evolved to Live Longer. Princeton University Press. 536 pp. Pb.: $35.00/£30.00. ISBN: 9780691231990.
  46. Randle, Sayd. 2025. Replumbing the City: Water Management as Climate Adaptation in Los Angeles. University of California Press. 250 pp. Pb.: $29.95. ISBN: 9780520394056.
  47. Handman, Courtney. 2025. Circulations: Modernist Imaginaries of Colonialism and Decolonization in Papua New Guinea. University of California Press. 234 pp. Pb.: $34.95 / £30.00. ISBN: 9780520416000.
  48. Rozental, Sandra. 2026. The Absent Stone: Mexican Patrimony and the Aftershocks of State Theft. Duke University Press. 306 pp. Pb.: $28.95. ISBN: 9781478033127.
  49. Brankamp, Hanno. 2026. Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya. Duke University Press. 280 pp. Pb.: $27.95. ISBN: 9781478033134. 
  50. Hollan, Douglas. 2026. Selfscapes, Selfhoods, and Subjectivities: Perspectives from Anthropology and Psychoanalysis. Routledge. 172 pp. Pb.: €33.59. ISBN: 9781032867748. 
  51. Sargent, Christine. 2026. Making Down Syndrome: Motherhood and Kinship Futures in Urban Jordan. Rutgers University Press. 190 pp. Pb.: $29.95. ISBN: 9781978841017.