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Cohen, Theodore. Finding Afro-Mexico: Race and Nation After the Revolution. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Descola, Philippe. The Composition of Worlds: Interviews with Pierre Charbonnier. Translated by Ninon Vinsonneau and Jonathan Magidoff. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2023.
Douglas Leonard. Anthropology, Colonial Policy, and the Decline of French Empire in Africa. London & New York & Oxford & New Delhi & Sydney: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
Fassin, Didier, and George Steinmetz, eds. The Social Sciences in the Looking Glass: Studies in the Production of Knowledge. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023.
Garrett, Andrew. The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall: Language, Memory, and Indigenous California. The MIT Press, 2023. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/15133.001.0001.
Georget, Jean-Louis, Hélène Ivanoff, and Richard Kuba, eds. Construire l'ethnologie en Afrique coloniale: politiques, collections et médiations africaines. Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2020.
Heaney, Christopher. Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Ladwig, Patrice, and Ricardo Roque, eds. States of Imitation: Mimetic Governmentality and Colonial Rule. New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2020.
Matos, Patrícia Ferraz de. Anthropology, Nationalism and Colonialism: Mendes Correia and the Porto School of Anthropology. Berghahn Books, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800738768.
Merkel, Ian. Terms of Exchange: Brazilian Intellectuals and the French Social Sciences. The Life of Ideas. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Morgan, Rachel. Sins of the Shovel: Looting, Murder, and the Evolution of American Archaeology. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2023.
Rosa, Frederico Delgado, and Han F. Vermeulen, eds. Ethnographers Before Malinowski: Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922. Berghahn Books, 2022.
Rutherford, Danilyn. Living in the Stone Age: Reflections on the Origins of a Colonial Fantasy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Schick, Johannes F. M., Mario Schmidt, and Martin Zillinger. The Social Origins of Thought: Durkheim, Mauss, and the Category Project. Vol. 43. Methodology and History in Anthropology. Berghahn Books, 2022.
Simpson, Daniel. The Royal Navy in Indigenous Australia, 1795–1855: Maritime Encounters and British Museum Collections. Palgrave Studies in Pacific History. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Turner, Hannah. Cataloguing Culture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2020.
Ziomek, Kirsten L. Lost Histories: Recovering the Lives of Japan's Colonial Peoples. Harvard East Asian Monographs 418. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2019.