ANTH 101: Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology

• Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America (2012), Heather Paxson


• Being Dead Otherwise (2023), Anne Allison


• Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (2009), Karen Ho


• The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence (2020), Laurence Ralph


• The Scattered Family: Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality (2014), Cati Coe. Available through Interlibrary Loan.


• American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the Twenty-First Century (2021), Shannon Lee Dawdy


• Motherhood on Ice: The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs (2023), Marcia C. Inhorn


• Code Work: Hacking Across the US/México Techno-Borderlands (2023), Héctor Beltrán


• Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn (1991), Karen McCarthy Brown.

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