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Balaš, Nikola. An ethnographic chiefdom: epistemic arrest and knowledge production in Czechoslovak ethnography (1969-1989). Methodology and History in Anthropology. New York: Berghahn Books, 2024.
Choudhury, Nafay, and Annika Schmeding, eds. Frontier ethnographies: deconstructing research experiences in Afghanistan and Pakistan. New York, N.Y.: Berghahn Books, 2024.
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.
Kan, Sergei. A Maverick Boasian: The Life and Work of Alexander A. Goldenweiser. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023.
Lewis, Herbert S. Correcting the record: essays on the history of American anthropology. Methodology and History in Anthropology. New York: Berghahn Books, 2024.
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.
Niehaus, Isak A. Radcliffe-Brown: journeys through colonial worlds, 1881-1955. Methodology and History in Anthropology. New York: Berghahn Books, 2024.
Niekerk, Carl. Enlightenment anthropology: Defining humanity in an era of colonialism. Max Kade German-American Research Institute Series. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2024.
Rosa, Frederico Delgado, and Han F. Vermeulen, eds. Ethnographers Before Malinowski: Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922. Berghahn Books, 2022.
Sabean, David Warren. A Delicate Choreography: Kinship Practices and Incest Discourses in the West since the Renaissance. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111014548.
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.
Shokeid, Moshe. Beyond ethics and pragmatism: evocative moments in doing ethnography. New Directions in Anthropology. New York: Berghahn Books, 2024.