MSU Cultural Anthropology

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Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories
Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories 3.97 avg rating — 461 ratings
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The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny
The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny 4.20 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Swamplife: People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades
Swamplife: People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades 3.69 avg rating — 106 ratings
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The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins 3.97 avg rating — 7,631 ratings
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Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas
Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas 4.22 avg rating — 206 ratings
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We Are Dancing for You: Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women’s Coming-of-Age Ceremonies (Indigenous Confluences)
We Are Dancing for You: Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women’s Coming-of-Age Ceremonies (Indigenous Confluences) 4.52 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States
Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States 4.33 avg rating — 445 ratings
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" 4.05 avg rating — 32,081 ratings
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Waterlily
Waterlily 3.97 avg rating — 2,042 ratings
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God 3.99 avg rating — 377,796 ratings
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Life Stages and Native Women: Memory, Teachings, and Story Medicine (Critical Studies in Native History, 15)
Life Stages and Native Women: Memory, Teachings, and Story Medicine (Critical Studies in Native History, 15) 4.48 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic
Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic 4.23 avg rating — 299 ratings
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Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art
Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art 4.13 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Exit Zero: Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago
Exit Zero: Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago 4.05 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Volume 1a
Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Volume 1a 4.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil 4.21 avg rating — 1,146 ratings
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Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters 4.13 avg rating — 1,370 ratings
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Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship
Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship 3.88 avg rating — 192 ratings
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Collective Care: Indigenous Motherhood, Family, and HIV/AIDS (Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom)
Collective Care: Indigenous Motherhood, Family, and HIV/AIDS (Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom) 4.55 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth
Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth 4.39 avg rating — 223 ratings
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Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route 4.29 avg rating — 2,520 ratings
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Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science
Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science 4.08 avg rating — 437 ratings
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The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome
The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome 3.97 avg rating — 269 ratings
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism 4.11 avg rating — 15,875 ratings
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The New Colossus
The New Colossus 3.90 avg rating — 71 ratings
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The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail
The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail 4.56 avg rating — 2,092 ratings
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Incarcerated Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants and Violence in the Settler-Capitalist State
Incarcerated Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants and Violence in the Settler-Capitalist State 4.53 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France
Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France 4.34 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
Do Muslim Women Need Saving? 3.95 avg rating — 820 ratings
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The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction 4.02 avg rating — 24,962 ratings
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Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran
Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran 4.36 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity 4.05 avg rating — 18,778 ratings
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Feeding Desire: Fatness, Beauty and Sexuality Among a Saharan People
Feeding Desire: Fatness, Beauty and Sexuality Among a Saharan People 3.63 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Waste Away: Working and Living with a North American Landfill
Waste Away: Working and Living with a North American Landfill 3.60 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.65 avg rating — 194,440 ratings
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Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street
Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street
by: Karen Ho
3.93 avg rating — 738 ratings
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Phone & Spear: A Yuta Anthropology
Phone & Spear: A Yuta Anthropology 3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans
The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans 3.83 avg rating — 318 ratings
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Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media
Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media 3.96 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Who Counts?: The Mathematics of Death and Life after Genocide
Who Counts?: The Mathematics of Death and Life after Genocide 4.05 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination
Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination 4.27 avg rating — 546 ratings
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Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor
Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor 4.32 avg rating — 773 ratings
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 476,964 ratings
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Ghosts of War in Vietnam (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare, Series Number 27)
Ghosts of War in Vietnam (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare, Series Number 27) 3.76 avg rating — 75 ratings
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A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek
A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek 4.18 avg rating — 429 ratings
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Remembering Vancouver's Disappeared Women: Settler Colonialism and the Difficulty of Inheritance
Remembering Vancouver's Disappeared Women: Settler Colonialism and the Difficulty of Inheritance 4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Last Word: Women, Death, and Divination in Inner Mani
The Last Word: Women, Death, and Divination in Inner Mani 4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Mourning Remains: State Atrocity, Exhumations, and Governing the Disappeared in Peru's Postwar Andes
Mourning Remains: State Atrocity, Exhumations, and Governing the Disappeared in Peru's Postwar Andes 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence 4.21 avg rating — 2,119 ratings
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Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation
Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation 4.30 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction
Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction 4.49 avg rating — 209 ratings
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Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country
Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country 4.29 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Unlikely Alliances: Native Nations and White Communities Join to Defend Rural Lands (Indigenous Confluences)
Unlikely Alliances: Native Nations and White Communities Join to Defend Rural Lands (Indigenous Confluences) 3.40 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Commodifying Bodies
Commodifying Bodies 3.95 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies 3.91 avg rating — 3,747 ratings
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Birth in Eight Cultures
Birth in Eight Cultures 4.18 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures 4.20 avg rating — 87,600 ratings