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The Anthropology Book Forum publishes a broad range of conversations focused on discussing and evaluating newly published work relevant to anthropological audiences, broadly conceived. We publish online every Monday. Learn more. Check out our full list of books and films available for review.
If you lead a Book Club, please feel free to use the following book reviews, questions and discussion summaries, which have come into being through the Readers' Group I have the privilege of leading. These are updated regularly. Also included are articles on how to set up and run a Book Club.
1 mar 2022 · Variety, complexity and changeability of life trajectories are grasped by the notion of ‘social navigation’ (p. 29), which refers to negotiation between different social environments and relations such as war, kinship, power, rituals, state, home, reciprocity, ‘waithood’ (p. 168), violence, wealth.
1 gru 2022 · Aurora Donzelli's aim is to connect a micro-analysis of talk (speech events) with social settings and cultural meanings to achieve a more thorough understanding of the way both are dialectically constituted and change.
16 cze 2005 · This book not only summarizes what we know about people; it also offers a coherent, easy-to-understand though radical, explanation. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, the author argues that culture shaped human evolution.
30 sie 2024 · We share all our best tips and tricks for running a book club discussion here, including how to prepare, how to structure and facilitate the discussion, and how to deal with some common meeting and discussion challenges.
1 lut 2012 · Our investigation focuses on a set of book clubs for which we collected data on group members’ pre- and post-discussion evaluations of a specific book, and the interpersonal influence...
