Anthropology

How mindfulness came to be regarded as a psychological support, an ethical practice and a component of public policy

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

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

Why and how local coffee bars in Italy—those distinctively Italian social and cultural spaces—have been increasingly managed by Chinese baristas since the Great Recession of 2008

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

A richly illustrated journey through the evolution of Africa’s extraordinary natural world across deep time

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

How social scientists' disagreements about their key words and distinctions have been misconceived, and what to do about it

An in-depth look at why non-Jewish Poles are trying to bring Jewish culture back to life in Poland today

“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

A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powers

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

Bridging the social and life sciences to unlock the mystery of how cities shape mental health and illness

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

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

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

The hard work required to make God real, how it changes the people who do it, and why it helps explain the enduring power of faith

How China is using the US-led war on terror to erase the cultural identity of its Muslim minority in the Xinjiang region

A revealing look at Jewish men and women who secretly explore the outside world, in person and online, while remaining in their ultra-Orthodox religious communities

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

A sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies

The strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America—from eugenics and posture pageants to today’s promoters of “paleo posture”

In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed—why some civilizations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why some disappeared forever
“A landmark book: lucid, deep, and insightful. ....

An intimate and personal account of the profound roles birds play in the lives of some Indigenous people

How undetonated bombs from a war that ended more than fifty years ago still affect Cambodian farmers and their land

Why the pursuit of state recognition by seemingly marginal religious groups in Egypt and elsewhere is a devotional practice

Why software isn’t perfect, as seen through the stories of software developers at a run-of-the-mill tech company

An exploration of the ways that shifting relations between materiality and language bring about different forms of politics in Tehran