American Anthropological Association
Though we couldn’t connect with you in-person at the American Anthropological Association annual conference this year, we would still like to highlight our new books and share our conference discount.
We are pleased to offer AAA members a 40% discount with free shipping on all orders placed through December 31. Enter promo code WASH20 at checkout through our website or by calling 1-800-537-5487.
Our acquisitions editors are still eager to connect with current and prospective authors about new projects and book proposals. They have been working to transition their usual in-person conference appointments to virtual meetings by phone or Zoom. If you have a project you’d like to discuss, please get in touch with one of our editors:
Lorri Hagman, Executive Editor
Asian studies, cultural and environmental anthropology
Larin McLaughlin, Editor in Chief
Critical ethnic studies; American studies; Asian American studies; women’s, gender, and sexuality studies; Native and Indigenous studies; visual culture
We’ve curated a selection of our new and noteworthy books below, and you can find additional titles here.
New in Anthropology

Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian
The Everyday Politics of Eating Meat in India
$30.00
Paperback
248 Pages

Gardens of Gold
Place-Making in Papua New Guinea
$30.00
Paperback
242 Pages

Mountains of Blame
Climate and Culpability in the Philippine Uplands
$30.00
Paperback
192 Pages

Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories
Jarai and Other Lives in the Cambodian Highlands
$30.00
Paperback
280 Pages

Shifting Livelihoods
Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia
$30.00
Paperback
250 Pages

The Ends of Kinship
Connecting Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New York
$30.00
Paperback
304 Pages

Exile from the Grasslands
Tibetan Herders and Chinese Development Projects
$30.00
Paperback
188 Pages

Anticipating Future Environments
Climate Change, Adaptive Restoration, and the Columbia River Basin
$30.00
Paperback
232 Pages

Herring and People of the North Pacific
Sustaining a Keystone Species
$30.00
Paperback
276 Pages

Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast
$39.95
Hardcover
344 Pages

Bad Dog
Pit Bull Politics and Multispecies Justice
$30.00
Paperback
240 Pages

Protecting Whiteness
Whitelash and the Rejection of Racial Equality
$30.00
Paperback
296 Pages

Becoming Nisei
Japanese American Urban Lives in Prewar Tacoma
$29.95
Paperback
312 Pages

Ancient Ink
The Archaeology of Tattooing
$35.00
Paperback
368 Pages

Rural Origins, City Lives
Class and Place in Contemporary China
$30.00
Paperback
224 Pages

Tea and Solidarity
Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka
$30.00
Paperback
288 Pages