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2019
Kan, Sergei. "Mainstream or Marginal Boasian? An Intellectual Biography of Robert H. Lowie." Edited by Christine Lauriére and Frederico Delgado Rosa. Bérose–Encyclopédie Internationale Des Histoires de l'Anthropologie. Paris, 2019.
Milam, Erika Lorraine. Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019.
Rupke, Nicolaas, and Gerhard Lauer, eds. Johann Friedrich Blumenbach: Race and Natural History, 1750–1850. Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2019.
Walsh, Jane MacLaren, and Brett Topping. The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls: the Adventures of Eugéne Boban. New York: Berghahn, 2019.
2018
Allais, Lucia. Designs of Destruction: The Making of Monuments in the Twentieth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Behnke, Marisol Palma. "Diario del Primer Viaje de Martín Gusinde a Tierra del Fuego (19181919): Introducción y Comentario a la Publicación del Documento Inédito." Anthropos 113, no. 1 (2018): 169–169.
Blackhawk, Ned, and Isaiah Lorado Wilner, eds. Indigenous Visions: Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.
Blustain, Malinda Stafford, and Ryan J. Wheeler. Glory, Trouble, and Renaissance at the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology. Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018.
Bruchac, Margaret. Savage Kin: Indigenous Informants and American Anthropologists. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2018.
Burton, Eric. "Auf der Suche nach den Grenzen der Zivilisation. Ordnung und Teleologie in der Anthropologie der Naturvölker (1859) von Theodor Waitz." Anthropos 113, no. 1 (2018): 1–20.
Carroll, Jerome. Anthropology's Interrogation of Philosophy from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2018.
Durston, Alan, and Bruce Mannheim. Indigenous Languages, Politics, and Authority in Latin America: Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2018.
Emily Varto. Brill's Companion to Classics and Early Anthropology. Leiden: Boston Brill, 2018.
Fagan, Brian. A Little History of Archaeology. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.
Fowler, Don D., and Nancy J. Parezo. "Nomenclature Wars: Ethnologists and Anthropologists Seeking to Be Scientists, 1840–1910." Journal of Anthropological Research 74, no. 3 (2018): 388–411.
Gately, Iain, and Jonathan Benjamin. "Archaeology Hijacked: Addressing the Historical Misappropriations of Maritime and Underwater Archaeology." Journal of Maritime Archaeology 13, no. 1 (2018): 15–35.
Glass, Aaron. "Drawing on Museums: Early Visual Fieldnotes by Franz Boas and the Indigenous Recuperation of the Archive: Drawing on Museums." American Anthropologist 120, no. 1 (2018): 72–88.
Golub, Alex. "This Anthropology Day, Let's Remember George Hunt." anthro{dendum}, February 15, 2018.
Gordon, Robert J. The Enigma of Max Gluckman: The Ethnographic Life of a "Luckyman" in Africa. Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018.
Jarvenpa, Robert. Declared Defective Native Americans, Eugenics, and the Myth of Nam Hollow. Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018.
Kao, Philip K. "Shelling from the Ivory Tower Project Camelot and the Post–World War II Operationalization of Social Science." Focaal 2018, no. 80 (2018): 105–19.
Katz, Wendy Jean, ed. The Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898-1899: Art, Anthropology, and Popular Culture at the Fin de Siècle. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018.
Kim, Linda. Race Experts: Sculpture, Anthropology, and the American Public in Malvina Hoffman's Races of Mankind. Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018.
Lamphere, Louise. "The Transformation of Ethnography: From Malinowki's Tent to the Practice of Collaborative/Activist Anthropology." Human Organization 77, no. 1 (2018): 64–76.
Nolte, Insa, Keith Shear, and Kevin A. Yelvington. "From Ethnographic Knowledge to Anthropological Intelligence: An Anthropologist in the Office of Strategic Services in Second World War Africa." History and Anthropology 29, no. 1 (2018): 52–82.
Rosemblatt, Karin Alejandra. The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2018.
Rosemblatt, Karin Alejandra, and Leandro Daniel Benmergui. "Japanese-American Confinement and Scientific Democracy: Colonialism, Social Engineering, and Government Administration." Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 54, no. 2 (2018): 117–39.
Ross, Tricia M. "Anthropologia: An (Almost) Forgotten Early Modern History." Journal of the History of Ideas 79, no. 1 (2018): 1–22.
Sera-Shriar, Efram, ed. Historicizing Humans: Deep Time, Evolution, and Race in Nineteenth-Century British Sciences. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018.
Sillitoe, Paul. "Durham Anthropology: A Provincial History of a Provisional Discipline." History and Anthropology 29, no. 2 (2018): 233–74.
Smith, Gavin. "Elusive Relations: Distant, Intimate, and Hostile." Current Anthropology 59, no. 3 (2018): 247–67.
Smith, Shelley L. "Single (Sub)Species Then and Now: An Examination of the Nonracial Perspective of C. Loring Brace." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 165, no. S65 (2018): 104–25.
Stratford, Dominic Justin. "The Sterkfontein Caves after Eighty Years of Paleoanthropological Research: The Journey Continues." American Anthropologist 120, no. 1 (2018): 39–54.
Thomas, Martin, and Amanda Harris, eds. Expeditionary Anthropology: Teamwork, Travel and the “Science of Man.” New York: Bergnann, 2018.
Thomas, Martin, and Amanda Harris. Expeditionary Anthropology: Teamwork, Travel and the "'Science of Man.'" New Yok: Berghahn Books, 2018.
Turnbull, Paul. Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Ubelaker, Douglas H. "A History of Forensic Anthropology." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 165, no. 4 (2018): 915–23.
Varel, David A. The Lost Black Scholar: Resurrecting Allison Davis in American Social Thought. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Wirth, Christa. "The Creation of a Postcolonial Subject: The Chicago and Ateneo de Manila schools and the Peace Corps in the Philippines, 1960-1970." Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 54, no. 1 (2018): 5–24.
2017
6, Perri, and Paul Richards. Mary Douglas: Understanding Social Thought and Conflict. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2017.
Achim, Miruna. From Idols to Antiquity: Forging the National Museum of Mexico. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017.
Arzyutov, Dmitry, and Sergei Kan. "The Concept of the 'Field' in Early Soviet Ethnography a Northern Perspective." Sibirica 16, no. 1 (2017): 31–74.
Barbash, Ilisa. Where the Roads All End: Photography and Anthropology in the Kalahari. Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum Press, 2017.
Bargheer, Stefan. "Anthropology at War: Robert H. Lowie and the Transformation of the Culture Concept, 1904 to 1954." Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 53, no. 2 (2017): 133–54.
Beckett, Greg. "The Abolition of All Privilege: Race, Equality, and Freedom in the Work of Anténor Firmin." Critique of Anthropology 37, no. 2 (2017): 160–78.
Berkowitz, Carin, and Bernard V. Lightman, eds. Science Museums in Transition Cultures of Display in Nineteenth–Century Britain and America. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017.
Blum, Deborah. Coming of Age: The Sexual Awakening of Margaret Mead. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2017.
Bonshek, Elizabeth. Tikopia Collected: Raymond Firth and the Creation of Solomon Islands Cultural Heritage. Canon Pyon, Herefordshire: Sean Kingston Publishing, 2017.
Brasseur de Bourbourg, abbé, and Katia Sainson. The Manuscript Hunter: Brasseur de Bourbourg's travels through Central America and Mexico, 1854-1859. Translated by Katia Sainson. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017.
Bricker, Victoria R. Transformational Journeys: An Ethnologist's Memoir. Philadelphia, PA: American Philosophical Society Press, 2017.
Brusius, Mirjam. "The Field in the Museum: Puzzling out Babylon in Berlin." Osiris 32, no. 1 (2017): 264–85.
Callan, Hilary. "Forty Years On: Biosocial Anthropology Revisited." In Human Origins: Contributions from Social Anthropology, edited by Camilla Power, Morna Finnegan, and Hilary Callan. Methodology and History in Anthropology, Volume 30. New York: Berghahn, 2017.
Chaney, Anthony. Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
Chi, Jennifer Y. Restoring the Minoans: Elizabeth Price and Sir Arthur Evans. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017.
Cline, Eric H. Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017.
Col, Giovanni da, Claudio Sopranzetti, Fred Myers, Anastasia Piliavsky, John L. Jackson, Yarimar Bonilla, Adia Benton, and Paul Stoller. "Why do we read the classics?" HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7, no. 3 (2017): 1–38.
Colwell, Chip. Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Cook, Scott. "Malinowski in Oaxaca: Implications of an Unfinished Project in Economic Anthropology, Part I." Critique of Anthropology 37, no. 2 (2017): 132–59.
Daston, Lorraine. Science in the Archives Aasts, Presents, Futures. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Dee Das, Joanna. Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Diner, Steven J. Universities and Their Cities: Urban Higher Education in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
García-Colón, Ismael. "Confronting the Present: Migration in Sidney Mintz's Journal for The People of Puerto Rico." American Ethnologist 44, no. 3 (2017): 403–13. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12517.
Gundelach, Peter. "Bringing Things Together: Developing the Sample Survey as Practice in the Late Nineteenth Century." Journal of the History Behavioral Sciences Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 53, no. 1 (2017): 71–89.
Gusterson, Hugh. "Homework: Toward a Critical Ethnography of the University." American Ethnologist 44, no. 3 (2017): 435–50. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12520.
Haddow, Eve. "Pacific Prehistory and Theories of Origins in the Work of Reverend William Ellis." Journal of Pacific Archaeology 8, no. 1 (2017): 1–11.
Hempenstall, Peter. Truth's Fool: Derek Freeman and the War Over Cultural Anthropology. Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017.
Hillermann, Hendrik. Victor Witter Turner: eine Biografie. Religionswissenschaft Heute, Band 12. Stuttgart: Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 2017.
Jackson, John P., and David J. Depew. Darwinism, Democracy, and Race: American Anthropology and Evolutionary Biology in the Twentieth Century. History and Philosophy of Biology. New York: Routledge, 2017.
Johnson, Rody. An Ice Age Mystery: Unearthing the Secrets of the Old Vero Site. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2017.
Josephson-Storm, Jason Ā. The myth of disenchantment: magic, modernity, and the birth of the human sciences. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Kerr, Ashley. "From Savagery to Sovereignty: Identity, Politics, and International Expositions of Argentine Anthropology (1878-1892)." Isis 108, no. 1 (2017): 62–81.
Leiris, Michel. Phantom Africa. Translated by Brent Hayes Edwards. Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2017.
Lemov, Rebecca. "Anthropology's Most Documented Man, Ca. 1947: A Prefiguration of Big Data from the Big Social Science Era." Osiris 32, no. 1 (2017): 21–42.
Lozny, Ludomir R., ed. Archaeology of the Communist Era: A Political History of Archaeology of the 20th Century. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017.
MacClancy, Jeremy. "Transcending the Academic/Public Divide in the Transmission of Theory: Raglan, Diffusionism, and Mid-Century Anthropology." History and Anthropology 28, no. 2 (2017): 235–53.
McGee, Jon, and Richard L. Warms, eds. Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History. 6th ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.
Meyers, Todd. The Ways We Stretch Toward One Another: Thoughts on Anthropology through the Work of Pamela Reynolds. Oxford, England: Distributed in and outside North America by African Books Collective. Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2017.
Mitchell, Joseph. "Man—with Variations": Interviews with Franz Boas and Colleagues, 1937. Edited by Robert Brightman. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2017.
Monteath, Peter, and Matthew P. Fitzpatrick. "German Missionaries and Australian Anthropology." Anthropological Forum 27, no. 3 (2017): 197–208.
Morgan, Mindy J. "Anthropologists in Unexpected Places: Tracing Anthropological Theory, Practice, and Policy in Indians at Work." American anthropologist. 119, no. 3 (2017): 435–47.
Niehaus, Isak. "Anthropology at the Dawn of Apartheid: Radcliffe-Brown and Malinowski's South African Engagements, 1919–1934." Focaal 2017, no. 77 (January 1, 2017).
Palerm, Juan V. "The Greatest Generation: Apropos of Sidney Mintz." American Ethnologist 44, no. 3 (2017): 414–24. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12518.
Peterson, Nicolas, and Anna Kenny, eds. German Ethnography in Australia. Acton: Australian National University Press, 2017.
Price, Richard, and Sally Price. Saamaka Dreaming. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017.
Radin, Joanna. Life on Ice: A History of New Uses for Cold Blood. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Rivett, Sarah. Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation. Oxford Studies in American Literary History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Sander, Sabine, Cyril Levitt, and Neil McMaughlin. "Beyond Fields, Networks, and Fame: Lawrence Krader as an 'Outsider' Intellectual." Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 53, no. 2 (2017): 155–75.
Schelling, Andrew. Tracks along the Left Coast: Jaime de Angulo & Pacific Coast culture. Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press, 2017.
Schiffer, Michael B. Archaeology's Footprints in the Modern World. Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2017.
2016
Adams, Matthew S. "Formulating an Anarchist Sociology: Peter Kropotkin's Reading of Herbert Spencer." Journal of the History of Ideas 77, no. 1 (2016): 49–74.
Adams, William Y. The Boasians: Founding Fathers and Mothers of American Anthropology. Lanham, MD: Hamilton Books, 2016.
Aiello, Leslie C. "The Wenner–Gren Foundation: Supporting Anthropology for 75 Years." Current Anthropology 57, no. Supplement 14 (2016): S211–S217.
Alberts, Thomas Karl. Shamanism, Discourse, Modernity. New York: Routledge, 2016.
Anderson, David G., and Dmitry V. Arzutov. "The Construction of Soviet Ethnography and 'The Peoples of Siberia''.'" History and Anthropology 27 (2016): 183–209.
Arndt, Grant. "Settler Agnosia in the Field: Indigenous Action, Functional Ignorance, and the Origins of Ethnographic Entrapment." American Ethnologist 43, no. 3 (2016): 465–74.
Baca, George. "Sidney W. Mintz: From the Mundial Upheaval Society to a Dialectical Anthropology." Dialectical Anthropology 40, no. 1 (2016): 1–11.
Ballantyne, Tony. "Moving Texts and 'Humane Sentiment': Materiality, Mobility and the Emotions of Imperial Humanitarianism." Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 17, no. 1 (Spring 2016).
Bank, Andrew. Pioneers of the Field: South Africa's Women Anthropologists. International African Library 51. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Barnhart, Terry A. American Antiquities: Revisiting the Origins of American Archaeology. Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016.
Baxstrom, Richard, and Todd Meyers. Realizing the Witch: Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible. New York: Fordham University Press, 2016.
Bennett, Tony, Fiona Cameron, Nélia Dias, Ben Dibley, Rodney Harrison, Ira Jacknis, and Conal McCarthy. Collecting, Ordering, Governing: Anthropology, Museums, and Liberal Government. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016.
Brandel, Andrew. "The Art of Conviviality." HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 6, no. 2 (October 31, 2016): 323–43.
Brown, Ian. The School of Oriental and African Studies: Imperial Training and the Expansion of Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Bueno, Christina. The Pursuit of Ruins: Archaeology, History, and the Making of Modern Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2016.
Cadaval, Olivia, Sojin Kim, and Diana Baird N'Diaye, eds. Curatorial Conversations: Cultural Representation and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2016.
Custred, Glynn. A History of Anthropology as a Holistic Science. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2016.
Dale, Gareth. Reconstructing Karl Polanyi: Excavation and Critique. London: Pluto Press, 2016.
Darnell, Regna, and Frederic W. Gleach, eds. Local Knowledge, Global Stage. Histories of Anthropology Annual 10. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016.
Davies, Surekha. Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Dyck, Ian. The Life and Work of W. B. Nickerson (1865–1926): Scientific Archaeology in Central North America. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2016.
Ens, Gerhard J., and Joe Sawchuk. From New Peoples to New Nations: Aspects of Métis History and Identity from the Eighteenth to the Twenty–First Centuries. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016.
Fagan, Brian M., and Nadia Durrani. A Brief History of Archaeology: Classical Times to the Twenty-First Century. 2nd edition. New York, NY: Routledge, 2016.
Farooq, Nihad M. Undisciplined: Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940. New York: New York University Press, 2016.
Flandreau, Marc. Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange: A Financial History of Victorian Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Fletcher, Alice C. Dividing the Reservation: Alice C. Fletcher's Nez Perce Allotment Diaries and Letters, 1889–1892. Edited by Nicole Tonkovich. Pullman: Washington State University Press, 2016.
Frank, Stephanie. "The 'Force in the Thing': Mauss' Nonauthoritarian Sociality in The Gift." HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 6, no. 2 (October 31, 2016): 255–77.
Gaukroger, Stephen. The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Hazard Jr., Anthony Q. "Ashley Montagu, the 'Most Dangerous Myth,' and the 'Negro Question' during World War II." Journal of Anthropological Research 72, no. 3 (2016): 289–310.
Hinsley, Curtis M., and David R. Wilcox, eds. Coming of Age in Chicago: The 1893 World's Fair and the Coalescence of American Anthropology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016.
Ishikawa, Hideshi, Josef Kreiner, Ken'ichi Sasaki, and Takehiko Yoshimura, eds. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Origins of Oka Masao's Anthropological Scholarship: Meiji University, November 27, 2015. Bonn: Bier'sche Verlagsanstalt, 2016.
Kan, Sergei. "'To Study Our Past, Make Sense of Our Present and Develop Our National Consciousness': Lev Shternberg's Comprehensive Program for Jewish Ethnography in the USSR." In Going to the People: Jews and the Ethnographic Impulse, edited by Jeffrey Veidlinger. Bloomington ; Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2016.
Kelly, Isabel T. Isabel T. Kelly's Southern Paiute Ethnographic Field Notes, 1932-1934, Las Vegas. Edited by Catherine S. Fowler and Darla L. Garey-Sage. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2016.
Krebs, Edgardo C. "Jorge Luis Borges and Alfred Métraux: Disagreements, Affinities." HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 6, no. 2 (October 31, 2016): 297–321.
Krupnik, Igor, ed. Early Inuit Studies: Themes and Transitions, 1850s-1980s. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2016.
Kumar, Victor. "To Walk Alongside: Myth, Magic, and Mind in The Golden Bough." HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 6, no. 2 (October 31, 2016): 233–54.
Kuper, Adam. "Meyer Fortes: The Person, the Role, the Theory." The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 34, no. 2 (2016): 127–39.
Lee, Julian C. H., John M. Prior, and Thomas A. Reuter, eds. Trajectories: Excursions with the Anthropology of E. Douglas Lewis. Asian Thought and Culture 74. New York: Peter Lang Publishing Inc., 2016.
Lindberg, Christer. "French-Swedish-American Crossroads: Alfred Métraux, Erland Nordenskiöld, and the Gothenburg School of Ethnography." Anthropos 111 (2016): 214–24.
Lindee, Susan, and Joanna Radin. "Patrons of the Human Experience: A History of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropology Research, 1941-2016." Current Anthropology 57, no. Supplement (2016): S218–S301.
Luciak, Ilja A. "Vision and Reality: Axel Wenner–Gren, Paul Fejos, and the Origins of the Wenner–Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research." Cureent Anthropology 57, no. Supplement 14 (2016): S302–S332.
Lyman, R. Lee. Theodore E. White and the Development of Zooarchaeology in North America. Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016.
Marquez-Grant, Nicholas Marquez-Grant, Janet Marie Truesdell, and Linda Fibiger. "Physical Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology in Europe: History, Current Trends and Challenges." International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 26, no. 6 (2016): 1078–88.
Meyers, Rebecca, William Rothman, and Charles Warren, eds. Looking with Robert Gardner. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2016.
Mitman, Gregg, and Kelley Wilder. Documenting the World: Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Mitman, Gregg, and Kelley Wilder. Documenting the World: Film, Photography and the Scientific Record. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Morreira, Shannon. "Working With Our Grandparents' Illusions: On Colonial Lineage and Inheritance in Southern African Anthropology." HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 6, no. 2 (October 31, 2016): 279–95.
Morris-Reich, Amos. Race and Photography: Racial Photography as Scientific Evidence, 1876-1980. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Morrow, Sean. The Fires Beneath: The Life of Monica Wilson, South African Anthropologist. Cape Town: Penguin Books, 2016.
Myhre, Knut Christian. Cutting and Connecting: "Afrinesian" Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange. New York: Berghahn, 2016.
2015
Adair-Toteff, Christopher. Fundamental Concepts in Max Weber's Sociology of Religion. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Asch, Michael. "Anthropology, Colonialism and the Reflexive Turn: Finding a Place to Stand." Anthropologica 57, no. 2 (2015): 481–89.
Barrera Rubio, Alfredo. En Busca de Los Antiguos Mayas: Historia de La Arquelogía En Yucatán. Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico: Editorial Dante, 2015.
Canales, Jimena. The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate that Changed Our Understanding of Time. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.
Combés, Isabelle. "Historia franciscana y etnografía chiriguana." Boletín Americanista 70 (2015): 57–72.
Córdoba, Lorena. "Etnógrafo-Misionero, Misionero-Etnógrafo: Alfred Métraux y John Arnott." Boletín Americanist 65, no. 1 (2015): 95–112.
Crapanzano, Vincent. Recapitulations. New York: Other Press, 2015.
Darnell, Regna. "Applied Anthropology: Disciplinary Oxymoron?" Anthropologica, no. 57 (2015): 1–11.
Darnell, Regna, and Frederic W. Gleach, eds. Corridor Talk to Culture History: Public Anthropology and Its Consequences. Histories of Anthropology Annual 9. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015.
Darnell, Regna, Michelle Hamilton, Robert L. A. Hancock, and Joshua Smith, eds. The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 1: Franz Boas as Public Intellectual—Theory, Ethnography, Activism. Vol. 1. The Franz Boas Papers 1. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015.
Dias, Nélia. "From French Indochina to Paris and Back Again: The Circulation of Objects, People, and Information, 1900-1932." Museum & Society 13, no. 1 (2015): 7–21.
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. Fredrik Barth: An Intellectual Biography. London: Pluto, 2015.
Frank, Reanne. "Back to the Future? The Emergence of a Geneticized Conceptualization of Race in Sociology." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 661 (2015): 51–64.
Gardner, Helen, and Patrick McConvell. Southern Anthropology: A History of Fison and Howitt's Kamilaroi and Kurnai. Palgrave Studies in Pacific History. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Graff, Harvey J. Undisciplining Knowledge: Interdisciplinarity in the Twentieth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.
Gray, Geoffrey. "'A great deal of mischief can be done': Peter Worsley, the Australian National University, the Cold War and Academic Freedom, 1952-1954." Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society 101, no. 1 (2015): 25–44.
Gray, Geoffrey. Abrogating Responsibility: Vesteys, Anthropology and the Future of Aboriginal People. North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2015.
Guha, Sudeshna. Artifacts of History: Archaeology, Historiography, and Indian Pasts. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2015.
Hardy, Andrew. The Barefoot Anthropologist: The Highlands of Champa and Vietnam in the Words of Jacques Dournes. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2015.
Howell, Brian M. "Anthropology and the Making of Billy Graham: Evangelicalism and Anthropology in the 20th-Century United States." American Anthropologist 117 (2015): 59–70.
Jensen, Joan M., and Michelle Wick Patterson, eds. Travels with Frances Densmore: Her Life, Work, and Legacy in Native American Studies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015.
Johnson, Curtis N. Darwin's Dice: The Idea of Chance in the Thought of Charles Darwin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Kaiser, Alan. Archaeology, Sexism, and Scandal: The Long-Suppressed Story of One Woman's Discoveries and the Man Who Stole Credit for Them. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442275249/Archaeology-Sexism-and-Scandal-The-Long-Suppressed-Story-of-One-Woman's-Discoveries-and-the-Man-Who-Stole-Credit-for-Them.
Kan, Sergei, ed. Sharing Our Knowledge: The Tlingit and Their Coastal Neighbors. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015.
Kirch, Patrick V. Unearthing the Polynesian Past: Explorations and Adventures of an Island Archaeologist. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2015.
Kristen, Todd J., and Reade Davis. "The Legacies of Indigenous History in Archaeological Thought." Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 22 (2015): 512–42.
Kuhn, Konrad J. "Europeanization as Strategy: Disciplinary Shifts in Switzerland and the Formation of European Ethnology." Ethnologia Europaea: Journal of European Ethnology 45, no. 1 (2015): 80–97.
Larson, Carolyne Ryan. Our Indigenous Ancestors: A Cultural History of Museums, Science, and Identity in Argentina, 1877-1943. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015.
Manickam, Sandra Khor. Taming the Wild: Aborigines and Racial Knowledge in Colonial Malaya. Singapore: NUS Press, 2015.
Mazé, Camille, Frédéric Poulard, and Christelle Ventura. "Dismantling, Reorganization, and Creation: The Introduction to Ethnology Museums: Culture, Politics, and Institutional Change." Museum Anthropology Review 9, no. 1–2 (2015): 34.
Milam, Erika Lorraine. "Men in Groups: Anthropology and Aggression, 1965–84." Oriris 30 (2015): 66–88.
Mullings, Leith. "Anthropology Matters." American Anthropologist 117, no. 1 (2015): 4–16.
Noyes, John K. Herder: Aesthetics against Imperialism. German and European Studies 21. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015.
Nuñez-Johnsson, Kyra. Gertrude Duby Blom (1901-1993): Resistance Fighter. Pregny: Editions Infolio ; Editions de Penthes, 2015.
Perry, Richard J. Killer Apes, Naked Apes, and Just Plain Nasty People: The Misuse and Abuse of Science in Politics. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.
Rice, Don S., and Prudence M. Rice. "Forty Years in Petén, Guatemala: A Hagiographic Prosopography." In Human Adaptation in Ancient Mesoamerica: Empirical Approaches to Mesoamerican Archaeology, edited by Nancy Gonlin and Kirk D. French, 295–334. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2015.
Rodseth, Lars. "Back to Boas, Forth to Latour: An Anthropological Model for the Ontological Turn." Current Anthropology 56 (2015): 865–82.
Seymour, Susan C. Cora Du Bois: Anthropologist, Diplomat, Agent. Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015.
Shapiro, Warren. "Not 'from the Natives'' Point of View": Why the New Kinship Studies Need the Old Kinship Terminologies.'" Anthropos 110, no. 1 (2015): 1–13.
Starn, Orin, ed. Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.
Colón, Gabriel Alejandro Torres, and Charles A. Hobbs. "The Intertwining of Culture and Nature: Franz Boas, John Dewey, and Deweyan Strands of American Anthropology." Journal of the History of Ideas 76, no. 1 (2015): 139–62.
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Vincent, Stephanie, and Simon Mays. "Thomas Henry Huxley (AD 1825–1895): Pioneer of Forensic Anthropology." In Trends in Biological Anthropology, edited by Karina Gerdau-Radonic and Kathleen McSweeny, 89–94. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2015.
2014
Bennett, Tony. "Liberal Government and the Practical History of Anthropology." History and Anthropology 25, no. 2 (2014): 150–70.
Chin, Elizabeth, ed. Katherine Dunham: Recovering an Anthropological Legacy, Choreographing Ethnographic Futures. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press, 2014.
Cohen-Cole, Jamie. The Open Mind: Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Darnell, Regna, and Frederic W. Gleach, eds. Anthropologists and Their Traditions across National Borders. Histories of Anthropology Annual 8. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014.
Debaene, Vincent. Far Afield: French Anthropology Between Science and Literature. Translated by Justin Izzo. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Flores, Ruben. Backroads Pragmatists: Mexico's Melting Pot and Civil Rights in the United States. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.
Golotvin, A.N. "Concerning the History of Russian Archaeology in the Studies of A. D. Pryakhin (for the 75th Anniversary of the Scholar)." Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia 42, no. 3 (2014): 100–105.
Hay, Fred. "Race, Culture, and History: Charles Wagley and the Anthropology of the African Diaspora in the Americas." Boletim Do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas 9, no. 3 (2014): 695–705.
Hochman, Brian. Savage Preservation: The Ethnographic Origins of Modern Media Technology. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
Hviding, Edvard, and Cato Berg, eds. The Ethnographic Experiment: A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908. New York: Berghahn Books, 2014.
Jonsson, Hjorleifur. Slow Anthropology: Negotiating Difference with the Iu Mien. Studies on Southeast Asia Series, no. 64. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2014.
Kehoe, Alice Beck. A Passion for the True and Just: Felix and Lucy Kramer Cohen and the Indian New Deal. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2014.
Kyllingstad, Jon Røyne. Measuring the Master Race: Physical Anthropology in Norway, 1890–1945. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2014.
Lewis, Herbert S. In Defense of Anthropology: An Investigation of the Critique of Anthropology. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2014.
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Munro, John. "Interwoven Colonial Histories: Indigenous Agency and Academic Historiography in North America." Canadian Review of American Studies 44, no. 3 (2014): 402–25.
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Simpson, Audra. Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.
Teslow, Tracy. Constructing Race: The Science of Bodies and Cultures in American Anthropology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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2013
Bank, Andrew, and Leslie J. Bank, eds. Inside African Anthropology: Monica Wilson and Her Interpreters. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Bell, Joshua A., Alison K. Brown, and Robert J. Gordon, eds. Recreating First Contact: Expeditions, Anthropology, and Popular Culture. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2013.
Browman, David L. Cultural Negotiations: The Role of Women in the Founding of Americanist Archaeology. Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013.
Eickhoff, Martijn. "'You Should Speak With... and Hurry!': Some Personal Reflections on the Value of Oral History for the History of Archaeology." Complutum 24, no. 2 (2013): 153–61.
El-Nofely, A. “History of Physical Anthropology in Egypt.” International Journal of Anthropology 28, no. 2–3 (2013): 155–62.
Gray, Geoffrey, and Doug Munro. “Ron Crocombe and Harry Maude.” In Ron Crocombe: E Toa: Pacific Writings to Celebrate His Life and Work, edited by Linda Crowl, Marjorie Tuainekore Crocombe, and R. A. Dixon. Suva: USP Press, 2013.
Hicks, Dan. "Four-Field Anthropology: Charter Myths and Time Warps from St. Louis to Oxford." Current Anthropology 54, no. 6 (2013): 753–63.
Addi, Lahourai. Deux anthropologues au Maghreb: Ernest Gellner et Clifford Geertz. Paris: Éditions des Archives Contemporaines, 2013.
Mandler, Peter. Return From the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.
Mogilner, Marina. Homo Imperii: A History of Physical Anthropology in Russia. Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013.
Murray, Tim. "Why the History of Archaeology is Essential to Theoretical Archaeology." Complutum 24, no. 2 (2013): 21–31.
Murray, Stephen O. American Anthropology and Company: Historical Explorations. Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013.
Patterson, Thomas C. "An Archaeology of the History of Nineteenth-Century U.S. Anthropology: James McCune Smith, Radical Abolitionist and Anthropologist." Journal of Anthropological Research 69, no. 4 (2013): 459–84.
Shaw, Lytle. Fieldworks: From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics. Modern and Contemporary Poetics. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2013.
Sheppard, Kathleen L. The Life of Margaret Alice Murray: A Woman's Work in Archaeology. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2013.
Stoler, Ann Laura, ed. Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013.
Weiss-Wendt, Anton, and Rory Yeomans, eds. Racial Science in Hitler's New Europe, 1938–1945. Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013.
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