American Anthropological Association

Welcome to our virtual booth for the American Anthropological Association annual conference where we’ve collected our new books and conference discount to share with you during this year’s meeting, November 11-13, 2022, in Seattle, WA.

 

We are pleased to offer AAA members a 30% discount on all orders of our anthropology books placed through December 16, 2022. Enter promo code WAAA22 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, lhagman@uw.edu

Asian studies, cultural and environmental anthropology

 

Larin McLaughlin, Editorial Director, lmclaugh@uw.edu

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

Misreading the Bengal Delta

Misreading the Bengal Delta

Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal​ Bangladesh

Camelia Dewan, K. Sivaramakrishnan, K. Sivaramakrishnan

$32.00

Paperback

254 Pages

Mumbai Taximen

Mumbai Taximen

Autobiographies and Automobilities in India

Tarini Bedi, Padma Kaimal, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang

$32.00

Paperback

248 Pages

Dancing Transnational Feminisms

Dancing Transnational Feminisms

Ananya Dance Theatre and the Art of Social Justice

Ananya Chatterjea, Hui Niu Wilcox, Alessandra Lebea Williams, D. Soyini Madison, Piya Chatterjee

$30.00

Paperback

306 Pages

Making Livable Worlds

Making Livable Worlds

Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice

Hilda Lloréns

$30.00

Paperback

224 Pages

Chinese Village Life Today

Chinese Village Life Today

Building Families in an Age of Transition 

Gonçalo Santos

$32.00

Paperback

320 Pages

Painful Beauty

Painful Beauty

Tlingit Women, Beadwork, and the Art of Resilience

Megan A. Smetzer

$39.95

Hardcover

240 Pages

Racial Erotics

Racial Erotics

Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire

C. Winter Han

$30.00

Paperback

248 Pages

Reppin

Reppin'

Pacific Islander Youth and Native Justice

Keith L. Camacho

$30.00

Paperback

288 Pages

Consuming Ivory

Consuming Ivory

Mercantile Legacies of East Africa and New England

Alexandra Celia Kelly, K. Sivaramakrishnan, K. Sivaramakrishnan

$32.00

Paperback

278 Pages

Bad Dog

Bad Dog

Pit Bull Politics and Multispecies Justice

Harlan Weaver, Banu Subramaniam, Rebecca Herzig

$30.00

Paperback

240 Pages

Pure Land in the Making

Pure Land in the Making

Vietnamese Buddhism in the US Gulf South

Allison J. Truitt

$32.00

Paperback

226 Pages

Herring and People of the North Pacific

Herring and People of the North Pacific

Sustaining a Keystone Species

Thomas F. Thornton, Madonna L. Moss

$30.00

Paperback

276 Pages

Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian

Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian

The Everyday Politics of Eating Meat in India

James Staples, K. Sivaramakrishnan, K. Sivaramakrishnan

$32.00

Paperback

248 Pages

The Ends of Kinship

The Ends of Kinship

Connecting Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New York

Sienna R. Craig, Padma Kaimal, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang

$32.00

Paperback

304 Pages

Shifting Livelihoods

Shifting Livelihoods

Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia

Daniel Tubb, K. Sivaramakrishnan, K. Sivaramakrishnan

$32.00

Paperback

250 Pages

Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories

Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories

Jarai and Other Lives in the Cambodian Highlands

Jonathan Padwe, K. Sivaramakrishnan, K. Sivaramakrishnan

$32.00

Paperback

280 Pages