PrincetonAnthropology

2021

Anthropology

We publish innovative and exciting books in anthropology that drive research agendas forward and that engage and enlighten the general public in their pursuit of answers to big questions.

https://press.princeton.edu/subjects/anthropology

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

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691164465/how-god-becomes-real

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

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691202181/the-war-on-the-uyghurs

An intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America’s heartland

https://press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/9780691212654/running-out

An intimate and moving portrait of daily life in New York’s oldest institution of traditional rabbinic learning

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691203997/yeshiva-days

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

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691169903/hidden-heretics

A vivid look at China’s shifting place in the global political economy of technology production

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691207674/prototype-nation

The first ethnographic exploration of the contentious debate over whether nonhuman primates are capable of culture

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691204284/chimpanzee-culture-wars

How craigslist champions openness, democracy, and other vanishing principles of the early web

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691188904/an-internet-for-the-people

An exploration of how ordinary U.S. Christians create global connections through the multibillion-dollar child sponsorship industry

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691201467/christian-globalism-at-home

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

https://press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/9780691204291/what-is-religious-authority

A remarkable look at an understudied feature of the Iranian justice system, where forgiveness is as much a right of victims as retribution

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691172040/forgiveness-work

A vivid portrait of the early years of biblical archaeology from the acclaimed author of 1177 b.c.: The Year Civilization Collapsed

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691166322/digging-up-armageddon

Leading scholars take stock of Darwin’s ideas about human evolution in the light of modern science

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691191140/a-most-interesting-problem

A comprehensive account of the origins, evolution, and behavior of South and Central American primates

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691143644/new-world-monkeys

The foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperback

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691210667/shamanism

An important investigation of the sociocultural fallout of America’s work on the atomic bomb

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691202174/the-nuclear-borderlands

How China’s art students develop their aesthetic styles and enter the nation’s creative economy

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691203096/creativity-class

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

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691199474/delicious

A powerful portrait of the greatest humanitarian emergency of our time, from the director of Human Flow

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691207049/human-flow

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