Anthropology Book Forum

JESSICA BARNES, 2022, Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 296pp., ISBN 978-1-4780-1852-0

Helen Anne Curry — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Mexico in Space

Savannah Mandel — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Anne W. Johnson's, Mexico in Space: From La Raza Cósmica to The Space Race, released in 2026, is an extensive ethnographic study of Mexico's history with outer space. Relying on two main frameworks and Canguilhem's concept of milieux it produces an interpretation of Mexico’s relationship to space which emphasizes a story of globalization and “planetization”. The Mexican space milieux invokes a multidimensional, situated understanding of outer space with blurred and shifting boundaries.

Pain into Purpose: Mobilizing Emotions in Argentina's Black Resistance Movement, Review

Reed Margolis — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This article is a review of Prisca Gayles' Pain into Purpose: Mobilizing Emotions in Argentina's Black Resistance Movement (2024).

review

Melanie Langgle — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

review

UnderBelly Review

Levi Vonk — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Underbelly review

crossing the lines

faith vanvleet — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

crossing the lines