Anthropology

A mesmerizing trip across America to investigate the changing face of death in contemporary life

A powerful graphic novel that traces Turkey's descent into political violence in the 1970s through the experiences of four students on opposing sides of the conflict

Finalist for the National Book Award
An intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartland

An anthropologist's groundbreaking account of how Islamic religious authority is assembled through the unceasing labor of community building on the island of Java

The origins and development of the modern American emergency state

How the prized matsutake mushroom is remaking human communities in China—and providing new ways to understand human and more-than-human worlds

A new way of thinking about the climate crisis as an exercise in delimiting knowable, and habitable, worlds

One of the world’s preeminent cultural anthropologists leaves a last work that fundamentally reconfigures how we study most other cultures

How Brazil’s long history of racism and authoritarian politics has led to the country’s present crises and epidemic of violence

How evangelical churches in the United States convert migrant distress into positive religious devotion

An up-close account of how Nigerians’ self-reliance in the absence of reliable government services enables official dysfunction to strengthen state power

An inside view of the experimental practices of cognitive psychology—and their influence on the addictive nature of social media

A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computers

The epic story of human evolution, from our primate beginnings more than five million years ago to the agricultural era

A savory account of how the pursuit of delicious foods shaped human evolution

What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planet

How the financial pressures of paying for college affect the lives and well-being of middle-class families

A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intolerance

A compelling history of the German ethnologists who were inspired by Prussian polymath and explorer Alexander von Humboldt

“A perfect blend of cutting-edge science and compelling storytelling.”—Bill Bryson

A revolutionary new vision of human biology and the scientific breakthroughs that will transform our lives

An expansive look at how culture shapes our emotions—and how we can benefit, as individuals and a society, from less anger and more shame