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How We Got “Stuck With” Tourism
Nov 16 2020
By Matilde Córdoba Azcárate, author of Stuck with Tourism: Space, Power, and Labor in Contemporary YucatánChances are that you have been a tourist, traveling to experience new things, learn from others, encounter new landscapes and emotions, and give back or rediscover your inner self. And c
Struggling to “Have a Life” – How Adolescents Navigate Psychiatric Care
Nov 13 2020
This post is part of our #RaisingOurVoices2020 blog series. Learn more at our American Anthropological Association virtual exhibit.By Janis H. Jenkins and Thomas J. Csordas, co-authors of Troubled in the Land of Enchantment: Adolescent Experience of Psychiatric TreatmentNew Mexico is a p
Q&A with Anthropologist Rebecca Lester: What We Get Wrong about Eating Disorders
Nov 12 2020
This post is part of our #RaisingOurVoices2020 blog series. Learn more at our American Anthropological Association virtual exhibit.UC Press author and anthropologist Rebecca Lester recently won the 2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing for her book Famished: Eating Disorders and F
Author Spotlight: Scott Stonington on The Changing Experience of Dying in a Globalizing World
Nov 11 2020
This post is part of our #RaisingOurVoices2020 blog series. Learn more at our American Anthropological Association virtual exhibit.When physician-anthropologist Scott Stonington set out to study end-of-life care in Thailand, he had no idea that his journey would take him so far from his work as
#RaisingOurVoices2020: New and Notable in Anthropology
Nov 05 2020
UC Press is thrilled to be publishing a number of new groundbreaking books in Anthropology.The United States of WarA Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic Stateby David Vine In The United States of War, David Vine traces this pattern of bloody co
#RaisingOurVoices2020: Meet with UC Press Anthropology Editor Kate Marshall—Virtually
Oct 30 2020
Interested in publishing your work with UC Press? Schedule a meeting.
Author Spotlight: Interview with Salih Can Açiksöz, author of award-winning Sacrificial Limbs
Oct 12 2020
This post is part of our #MESA2020 blog series. Learn more at our MESA virtual exhibit.We're thrilled to announce Salih Can Açiksöz has won MESA's 2020 Fatima Mernissi Book Award for Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey! This award is given to the