Author Laura Tubelle de González discusses her new textbook Through the Lens of Cultural Anthropology, and her hopes for its use in the classroom. González discusses what inspired her, why she includes her own personal experiences, and how her strategic use of language and graphics will allow students to easily place themselves within the book.
July 11, 2019
With International Women’s Day just around the corner, we’re highlighting books that raise awareness and call for a gender-balanced world.
March 6, 2019
Asking what it means to be quilombola (descendants of African slaves) in the twenty-first century. Guest post by Mary Lorena Kenny, author of the newest ethnography in our popular Teaching Culture series.
June 26, 2018
Author Gillian Crowther provides background on how Eating Culture has changed from the first to the second edition and on some of the important issues raised in its pages.
June 6, 2018
Author Paul Stoller takes to the medium of blogging to provide some background on the purpose of his new collection as well as the importance, at this particular historical moment, of anthropology and the sharing of anthropological knowledge.
April 19, 2018
For World Anthropology Day, we asked Paul Stoller to share his thoughts on the urgent need for a more public anthropology, as well as his ideas about blogging as one particular way to reach that public.
February 15, 2018
Authors Monica Heller and Bonnie McElhinny provide background on how their new project was initially conceived, how the book is structured, and how they hope to offer up new ways of thinking about language.
November 29, 2017
For University Press Week, our Higher Education sales representative, Mike Byer, shares his experiences from the road.
November 7, 2017
For University Press Week, Executive Editor Anne Brackenbury discusses how academic publishing needs to go beyond just the facts in order to truly engage a wider public.
November 6, 2017
Authors Alan Smart and Josephine Smart explain posthumanism and what it means to be human in the twenty-first century.
August 3, 2017