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Sophomore level

Violence ANT 264 (fa26)

  • Righteous Dopefiend by Bourgois & Schonberg
  • After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives by Edward W. Said
  • Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation by Eyal Weizman
  • Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability & Political Violence in Turkey by Salih Can Aciksoz
  • Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul by Deniz Yonucu
  • Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War & the Roots of Terror by Mahmood Mamdani
  • The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens by Bernard E. Harcourt
  • Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor by Rob Nixon
  • States of Terror: Begoña Aretxaga’s Essays
  • Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America by Hansen et al.
  • The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail by Jason De León
  • Violence in War & Peace by Scheper-Hughes & Bourgois
  • The Notion of Family by LaToya Ruby Frazier
  • Ongoing Return: Mapping Memory & Storytelling in Palestine by Rana Barakat
  • Leave If You Can: Migration & Violence in Bordered Worlds by Amelia Frank-Vitale
  • Do Muslim Women Need Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod
  • ✔️ The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
  • Illuminations: Essays & Reflections by Walter Benjamin

The Anthropology of Lying & Deception ANT 295 (fa26)

  • How to Do Things with Words by J.L. Austin
  • The Modernity Bluff: Crime, Consumption & Citizenship in Côte d’Ivoire by Sasha Newell
  • Given Time: I. Counterfeit Money by Jacques Derrida
  • Passing: Two Publics in a Mexican Border City by Rihan Yeh
  • Mistrust: An Ethnographic Theory by Matthew Carey
  • Mules & Men by Zora Neale Hurston
  • Defacement: Public Secrecy & the Labor of the Negative by Michael Taussig

People-Centered: Doing Anthropology ANT 299 (fa26)

  • The Ethnographer’s Way: A Handbook for Multidimensional Research Design by Peterson & Olson
  • Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice by Hilda Llorens

Junior level

Ethnography, Evidence & Experience ANT 300 (fa26)

  • Leave If You Can: Migration & Violence in Bordered Worlds by Amelia Frank-Vitale
  • Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene by Nayanika Mathur
  • Returning to Reims by Didier Eribon

Food, Health & Justice ANT 311 (fa26)

  • Food Justice Undone: Lessons for Building a Better Movement by Hanna Garth

Japanese Society & Culture ANT 323 (fa26)

  • Lost in Transition: Youth, Work & Instability in Postindustrial Japan by Mary C. Brinton
  • Learning to Be Adolescent: Growing Up in U.S. & Japanese Middle Schools by Gerald K. LeTendre
  • The Too-Good Wife: Alcohol, Codependency & the Politics of Nurturance in Postwar Japan by Amy Borovoy
  • Food Safety after Fukushima: Scientific Citizenship & the Politics of Risk by Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna

Queer Becomings ANT 337 (fa26)

  • The Struggle to Be Gay—in Mexico, for Example by Roger N. Lancaster
  • Gay Fathers, Their Children & the Making of Kinship by Aaron Goodfellow
  • Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance & Ballroom Culture in Detroit by Marlon M. Bailey

Art & Archaeology of Ancient Mesoamerica ANT 366 (fa26)

  • The Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec by Mary Ellen Miller

Ethnography of Schools & Schooling ANT 368 (fa26)

  • Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School by Shamus Khan
  • Police in the Hallways: Discipline in an Urban High School by Kathleen Nolan
  • Made in America: Immigrant Students in Our Public Schools by Laurie Olsen
  • Scripting the Moves: Culture & Control in a “No-Excuses” Charter School by Joanne W. Golann
  • Up Against Whiteness: Race, School & Immigrant Youth by Stacey J. Lee
  • Masculinity & Sexuality in High School by C. J. Pascoe
  • Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way: Lessons from an Urban Classroom by Brian D. Schultz
  • Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity by Ann Arnett Ferguson
  • Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality by Armstrong & Hamilton
  • Moving across Differences: How Students Engage LGBTQ+ Themes in a High School Literature Class by Mollie V. Blackburn
  • Lives in Limbo: Undocumented & Coming of Age in America by Roberto G. Gonzales

Anthropological Theory ANT 390 (fa26)

  • Learning to Labor: How Working-Class Kids Get Working-Class Jobs by Paul Willis
  • The Practice of Everyday Life by Michel de Certeau
  • Carnal Knowledge & Imperial Power: Race & the Intimate in Colonial Rule by Ann Laura Stoler
  • Outline of a Theory of Practice by Pierre Bourdieu
  • Live & Die Like a Man: Gender Dynamics in Urban Egypt by Farha Ghannam
  • Sweetness & Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History by Sidney W. Mintz
  • Capital, v.1 by Karl Marx
  • Silencing the Past: Power & the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
  • Colonialism & Its Forms of Knowledge by Bernard S. Cohn
  • Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance by James C. Scott

Senior level

Visible Evidence: Wildlife Films & Multispecies Documentary ANT 455 (fa26)

  • Cross-Cultural Filmmaking: A Handbook for Making Documentary & Ethnographic Films & Videos by Barbash & Taylor

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