This year’s AAA meeting will be held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic and anthropologists will be raising our voices and taking part in a number of online live-streamed events. Check out the schedule where a number of UTP authors will be taking part.
November 4, 2020
In her second post for the blog, Alisse Waterston writes about the current problems the world faces and why we must confront these dark times to seek and create an alternative world from the one in which we now live.
September 24, 2020
Alisse Waterston discusses her book, Light in Dark Times , and explains why the book is perfect for students seeking to understand the current world we live in.
August 25, 2020
Laura Tubelle de González discusses the conversations that are now taking place in academia to support the Black Lives Matter movement.
July 23, 2020
Robert Phillips, author of Virtual Activism , discusses the history of the LGBT movement, and in particular, examines how the movement has unfolded in Singapore over the last twenty years.
June 25, 2020
Karen Stocker delves into her new book, Millennial Movements and looks at the recent protests taking place in the United States and around the world.
June 18, 2020
Every week we’re bringing you some great books chosen by our staff for your work-from-home reading. This week, Rebecca Duce, one of our amazing sales reps, has chosen Posthumanism as her staff pick for week 4.
April 27, 2020
Does the current coronavirus outbreak provide us with a window of opportunity for a more balanced, healthy, and sustainable way of living? Katharine Zywert, co-editor of Health in the Anthropocene, addresses this question in our latest blog post.
April 23, 2020
Released earlier this year, From Water to Wine explores how Angola has changed since the end of its civil war in 2002. The text’s themes are relevant to making sense of both the current crisis and the deeper questions facing Angola. Author Jess Auerbach discusses these in our latest blog post.
April 22, 2020
Newly released Things That Art offers an opportunity to interrogate the concept of categories using text and image. Author and artist, Lochlann Jain, speaks with Anne Brackenbury to talk about his debut non-fiction graphic novel.
September 24, 2019