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
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: A Critique of Political Economy: Volume One: The Process of Production of Capital 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