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A Merchant's House
Life and Work in Small-Town Sri Lanka
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512828900
Pub Date: February 2027
Format: eBook
Settling the Mind, Settling the Land
Mindful Nationalism and Value Conflict Among Religious Israelis
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512830651
Pub Date: February 2027
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
Movement in the Rights Direction
An Ethnography of the UN Human Rights Committee
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512830392
Pub Date: December 2026
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
This pioneering ethnography of the UN Human Rights Committee reveals how perpetual reporting, driven by hope and belief in rights, paradoxically reinforces state power. A compelling study for scholars, students, and practitioners of human rights, international law, and the anthropology of international organizations.
Music and Noise
Loyalism, Marching, and the Meaning of the Political in Northern Ireland
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512830248
Pub Date: November 2026
Format: Hardcover
232 Pages
Music and Noise examines the practice of controversial Protestant parading in present-day Northern Ireland. Refraining from common categorizations of parading as straightforwardly political or apolitically “cultural,” anthropologist Sean French’s ethnographic study instead asks: political in what way?
Tacit Textuality
Drinking the Qurʾan in Zanzibar Town
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512830088
Pub Date: October 2026
Format: Hardcover
232 Pages
Tacit Textuality is an ethnography about the practice of kombe in Zanzibar, in which Qurʾanic verses are liquefied and consumed as medicine across religious divides. Hanna Nieber investigates three foci: kombe’s materiality, its social context that includes interreligious relations, and how the materiality of the book becomes part of the story.
Travels on the Edge
A Naturalist’s Notes from the Back of Beyond
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781606181539
Pub Date: September 2026
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
Lavishly illustrated, Travels on the Edge not only carries readers to some of the most remote and inaccessible parts of the world but also celebrates the challenges and joys of scientific research. Its author brings a rich human perspective to regions few people have had a chance to explore.
In Chocolate We Trust
The Hershey Company Town Unwrapped
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512830484
Pub Date: August 2026
Format: Paperback
216 Pages
An inside look at the transformation of Hershey, Pennsylvania, from a model industrial community into a twenty-first century suburbia powered by a $12 billion philanthropy.
Hope amid Despair
Encounters at the Existential Borderlands of the Mediterranean
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512829549
Pub Date: June 2026
Format: Paperback
216 Pages
Hope amid Despair tells the story of life on Lampedusa, a small island in the central Mediterranean and the southernmost frontier of undocumented migration to Europe. Alessandro Corso argues for an understanding of this border zone not as a site of order and control, but as one of existential struggle and moral possibility.
How We Think
The Hidden Life of Everyday Ideas
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 9781606180600
Pub Date: June 2026
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
A sweeping, thought-provoking exploration of how humans, as a species and as individuals, think about the world and themselves, How We Think takes the anthropological view about the human thought process, while focusing on what makes humans so different from each other although we are also universally so much alike.
Inner Zone
The Untold Violence of Retribution in Besieged Sarajevo
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512829013
Pub Date: May 2026
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
Inner Zone unearths a buried history of violence within the 1992–1995 siege of Sarajevo. As Serb forces besieged the city, Serb civilians, particularly women, became targets for retribution—but they couldn’t discuss their experiences postwar. By tracing this silencing, Inner Zone advances a new approach to telling contentious histories of war.
A Merchant's House
Life and Work in Small-Town Sri Lanka
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512828900
Pub Date: February 2027
Format: eBook
Settling the Mind, Settling the Land
Mindful Nationalism and Value Conflict Among Religious Israelis
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512830651
Pub Date: February 2027
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
Movement in the Rights Direction
An Ethnography of the UN Human Rights Committee
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512830392
Pub Date: December 2026
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
This pioneering ethnography of the UN Human Rights Committee reveals how perpetual reporting, driven by hope and belief in rights, paradoxically reinforces state power. A compelling study for scholars, students, and practitioners of human rights, international law, and the anthropology of international organizations.
Music and Noise
Loyalism, Marching, and the Meaning of the Political in Northern Ireland
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512830248
Pub Date: November 2026
Format: Hardcover
232 Pages
Music and Noise examines the practice of controversial Protestant parading in present-day Northern Ireland. Refraining from common categorizations of parading as straightforwardly political or apolitically “cultural,” anthropologist Sean French’s ethnographic study instead asks: political in what way?
Tacit Textuality
Drinking the Qurʾan in Zanzibar Town
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512830088
Pub Date: October 2026
Format: Hardcover
232 Pages
Tacit Textuality is an ethnography about the practice of kombe in Zanzibar, in which Qurʾanic verses are liquefied and consumed as medicine across religious divides. Hanna Nieber investigates three foci: kombe’s materiality, its social context that includes interreligious relations, and how the materiality of the book becomes part of the story.
Travels on the Edge
A Naturalist’s Notes from the Back of Beyond
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781606181539
Pub Date: September 2026
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
Lavishly illustrated, Travels on the Edge not only carries readers to some of the most remote and inaccessible parts of the world but also celebrates the challenges and joys of scientific research. Its author brings a rich human perspective to regions few people have had a chance to explore.
In Chocolate We Trust
The Hershey Company Town Unwrapped
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512830484
Pub Date: August 2026
Format: Paperback
216 Pages
An inside look at the transformation of Hershey, Pennsylvania, from a model industrial community into a twenty-first century suburbia powered by a $12 billion philanthropy.
Hope amid Despair
Encounters at the Existential Borderlands of the Mediterranean
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512829549
Pub Date: June 2026
Format: Paperback
216 Pages
Hope amid Despair tells the story of life on Lampedusa, a small island in the central Mediterranean and the southernmost frontier of undocumented migration to Europe. Alessandro Corso argues for an understanding of this border zone not as a site of order and control, but as one of existential struggle and moral possibility.
How We Think
The Hidden Life of Everyday Ideas
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 9781606180600
Pub Date: June 2026
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
A sweeping, thought-provoking exploration of how humans, as a species and as individuals, think about the world and themselves, How We Think takes the anthropological view about the human thought process, while focusing on what makes humans so different from each other although we are also universally so much alike.
Inner Zone
The Untold Violence of Retribution in Besieged Sarajevo
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512829013
Pub Date: May 2026
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
Inner Zone unearths a buried history of violence within the 1992–1995 siege of Sarajevo. As Serb forces besieged the city, Serb civilians, particularly women, became targets for retribution—but they couldn’t discuss their experiences postwar. By tracing this silencing, Inner Zone advances a new approach to telling contentious histories of war.