Department of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology

Publications

Department of Anthropology faculty are active publishers in a range of fields, topics, and geographic regions. Here is just a sample of recent books written by current University of Virginia anthropologists.

How is it between us?
HAU Books (2024)
Zanzibar Archipelago
University of Florida Press (2023)
Ethics or the Right Thing
HAU Books (2022)
Zanzibar Archipelago
Not You: Addiction, Relapse, and Release in Uganda excerpt
Oroncota
Contact, Structure, and Change cover
Maize Books (2021)
Investigaciones en el fuerte de Samaipata
Language Documentation and Description
Cross-speaker Repetition and Epistemic Stance in Tzeltal, Yucatec, and Zapotec Conversations cover
Language Documentation and Description
Indexing Ambivalence cover
Archaeologies of Empire cover
University of New Mexico Press (2020)
American Anthropologist cover
Nominal Anchoring cover
Language Science Press (2020)
Saying and Doing In Zapotec cover
Bloombury Press (2020)
The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology
Missionization and Language excerpt
The Journal of Pacific History cover
The Journal of Pacific History cover
His mother became medicine: drinking problems, ethical transformation and maternal care in central Uganda cover
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology cover
A War on People cover
University of California Press (2018)
Medical Anthropology Quarterly cover
American Anthropologist cover
Oxford Handbook of the Incas
Cognitive Semiotics cover
A Tale of Two Mayors excerpt
University of Chicago Press (2018)
Disappointment cover
Fordham University Press (2017)
2017 Charlottesville riots
The Cannibal Club cover
Political Ecologies of the Precarious excerpt
Bodies as Evidence excerpt
Between the ethical and the right thing excerpt
What Is a Situation? cover
Assembling Islamic Practice in a Swahili Urban Landscape excerpt
Annals of Anthropological Practice cover
Annals of Anthropological Practice cover
Lifeblood, Liquidity, and Cash Transfusions excerpt
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (2013)
Consume, Connect, Conserve: Consumer Spectacle and the Technical Mediation of Neoliberal Conservation's Aesthetic of Redemption and Repair excerpt
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/194277861300600102 (2013)
Prosuming Conservation excerpt
Abandoned People, Madness and the Untranslatable cover
University of St. Andrews Online Press (2011)
The Spectacle of Nature in the Global Economy of Appearances Anthropological Engagements with the Spectacular Mediations of Transnational Conservation excerpt
An Archaeometallurgical Investigation of Iron Smithing in Swahili Contexts and its Wider Implications excerpt
Revista de Antropología Iberoamericana 4 (3) cover
The Politics of Gesture cover
Oxford University Press (2009)
Real Anthropology and Other Nostalgias excerpt
Fordham University Press (2008)
Swahili Archaeology
Central Sites Peripheral Visions cover
University of Wisconsin Press (2006)
Critics Against Culture cover
University of Wisconsin Press (2005)
Archaeology of a Swahili Citadel on Pemba Island, Tanzania excerpt
African American Midwifery in the South cover
Harvard University Press (1998)
Household and State in Upper Mesopotamia cover
Smithsonian Institution Press (1998)
Conceiving the New World Order
University of California Press (1995)
Fluid Gender, Fluid Love cover
Brill