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Burying Mussolini: Ordinary Life in the Shadows of Fascism (2024)
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Heywood, P. (in press). Burying Mussolini: Ordinary Life in the Shadows of Fascism. Cornell University Press

Burying Mussolini addresses the global resurgence in authoritarian and nationalist populism and its connection with valorizations of ordinary life. Predappio is the birthplace and burial site of Benito Mussolini and Italy's premier neo-fascist touris... Read More about Burying Mussolini: Ordinary Life in the Shadows of Fascism.

Hormonal Theory: A Rebellious Glossary (2024)
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Ford, A., Malcolm, R., Erikainen, S., Raeder, L., & Roberts, C. (Eds.). (2024). Hormonal Theory: A Rebellious Glossary. Bloomsbury

From angiotensin to cortisol, testosterone to xenoestrogens, and dopamine to endocrine disruptors, hormones are everywhere. These chemical entities are foundational to biological life and shape social, cultural, and political forces, while simultaneo... Read More about Hormonal Theory: A Rebellious Glossary.

Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation (2023)
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Heywood, P., & Candea, M. (Eds.). (2023). Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation. Cornell University Press

Beyond Description brings anthropologists and other social scientists together to examine the problem of explanation. What is "an explanation?" What can it add? What makes it authoritative, clarifying, or misleading? Whom does it serve and how is it... Read More about Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation.

After Failure (2023)
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Alexander, C. (Ed.). (2023). After Failure. Wiley

On Irreconciliation (2022)
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Mookherjee, N. (Ed.). (2022). On Irreconciliation. Wiley

On Irreconciliation focuses on the less examined but frequent ethnographic instances when survivors refuse to forgive in response to persistent impunity of past injustices, particularly, in the face of absence-presence of the rule of law and staged p... Read More about On Irreconciliation.

The Object of Conservation: an ethnography of heritage practice (2022)
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Jones, S., & Yarrow, T. (2022). The Object of Conservation: an ethnography of heritage practice. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315622385

The Object of Conservation examines how historic buildings, monuments and artefacts are cared for as valued embodiments of the past. It tells the fascinating story of the working lives of those involved in conservation through an ethnographic account... Read More about The Object of Conservation: an ethnography of heritage practice.

The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine: Classical to Contemporary (2021)
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Fuller, D., Saunders, C., & Macnaughton, J. (Eds.). (2021). The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine: Classical to Contemporary. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74443-4

This open access book studies breath and breathing in literature and culture and provides crucial insights into the history of medicine, health and the emotions, the foundations of beliefs concerning body, spirit and world, the connections between br... Read More about The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine: Classical to Contemporary.