American Anthropological Association Virtual Exhibit

Featured books at the American Anthropological Association

We are pleased to exhibit at the 2023 meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Toronto, Canada from November 15-19, 2023, and offer a discount on all of our new and award-winning books in anthropology and sociology. Visit Booth #204, browse our new and recent titles, chat with editor Casey Kittrell, and enjoy a great discount!

Apply the discount code UTXAAA during checkout to receive 30% off the full list price of any book, plus free standard U.S. domestic shipping. Offer valid through December 31, 2023. Browse featured books below!

Ancient Maya Teeth

Dental Modification, Cosmology, and Social Identity in Mesoamerica

Vera Tiesler

Mesquite Pods to Mezcal

10,000 Years of Oaxacan Cuisines

Verónica Pérez Rodríguez, Shanti Morell-Hart, Stacie M. King

Emergent Quilombos

Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil

Bryce Henson

Llamas beyond the Andes

Untold Histories of Camelids in the Modern World

Marcia Stephenson

Pink Gold

Women, Shrimp, and Work in Mexico

María L. Cruz-Torres

Quantum Justice

Global Girls Cultivating Disruption through Spoken Word Poetry

Crystal Leigh Endsley

Reckoning with Harm

The Toxic Relations of Oil in Amazonia

Amelia M. Fiske

Harvesting Haiti

Reflections on Unnatural Disasters

Myriam J. A. Chancy

The Entablo Manuscript

Water Rituals and Khipu Boards of San Pedro de Casta, Peru

Sarah Bennison

The Comitán Valley

Sculpture and Identity on the Maya Frontier

Caitlin C. Earley

Predatory Economies

The Sanema and the Socialist State in Contemporary Amazonia

Amy Penfield

The Mexican American Experience in Texas

Citizenship, Segregation, and the Struggle for Equality

Martha Menchaca

Nested Ecologies

A Multilayered Ethnography of Functional Medicine

Rosalynn A. Vega

We Are All Armenian

Voices from the Diaspora

Aram Mrjoian

Pitching Democracy

Baseball and Politics in the Dominican Republic

April Yoder

Dancing with Life

Recontextualizing Mexican Masks

Pavel Shlossberg

Unseen Art

Making, Vision, and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica

Claudia Brittenham

The Right Kind of Suffering

Gender, Sexuality, and Arab Asylum Seekers in America

Rhoda Kanaaneh

Unraveling Time

Thirty Years of Ethnography in Cuenca, Ecuador

Ann Miles

Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge

Building a Community Archive

Robert Irwin

Undocumented Motherhood

Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing

Elizabeth Farfán-Santos

Oaxaca in Motion

An Ethnography of Internal, Transnational, and Return Migration

Iván Sandoval-Cervantes

The Continuing Storm

Learning from Katrina

Kai Erikson, Lori Peek

More City than Water

A Houston Flood Atlas

Lacy M. Johnson, Cheryl Beckett

Taking Form, Making Worlds

Cartonera Publishers in Latin America

Lucy Bell, Alex Ungprateeb Flynn, Patrick O'Hare

Abecedario de Juárez

An Illustrated Lexicon

Julián Cardona, Alice Leora Briggs

Rethinking Zapotec Time

Cosmology, Ritual, and Resistance in Colonial Mexico

David Tavárez

Image Encounters

Moche Murals and Archaeo Art History

Lisa Trever

Rethinking the Inka

Community, Landscape, and Empire in the Southern Andes

Frances M. Hayashida, Andrés Troncoso, Diego Salazar

Gothic Sovereignty

Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras

Jon Horne Carter

Downtown Juárez

Underworlds of Violence and Abuse

Howard Campbell

On the Porch

Life and Music in Terlingua, Texas

W. Chase Peeler

Playing with Things

Engaging the Moche Sex Pots

Mary Weismantel

Egypt’s Football Revolution

Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics

Carl Rommel

Grandmothers on Guard

Gender, Aging, and the Minutemen at the US-Mexico Border

Jennifer Johnson

Vital Voids

Cavities and Holes in Mesoamerican Material Culture

Andrew Finegold

Borderlands Curanderos

The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo

Jennifer Koshatka Seman

Descendants of Aztec Pictography

The Cultural Encyclopedias of Sixteenth-Century Mexico

Elizabeth Hill Boone

Her Cup for Sweet Cacao

Food in Ancient Maya Society

Traci Ardren

Viva George!

Celebrating Washington's Birthday at the US-Mexico Border

Elaine A. Peña

Frontier Intimacies

Ayoreo Women and the Sexual Economy of the Paraguayan Chaco

Paola Canova

Radical Cartographies

Participatory Mapmaking from Latin America

Bjørn Sletto, Joe Bryan, Alfredo Wagner, Charles Hale

Making It at Any Cost

Aspirations and Politics in a Counterfeit Clothing Marketplace

Matías Dewey

Sunbelt Diaspora

Race, Class, and Latino Politics in Puerto Rican Orlando

Patricia Silver

Love in the Drug War

Selling Sex and Finding Jesus on the Mexico-US Border

Sarah Luna

Maya Bonesetters

Manual Healers in a Changing Guatemala

Servando Z. Hinojosa, Servando G. Hinojosa

Caught in the Path of Katrina

A Survey of the Hurricane's Human Effects

J. Steven Picou, Keith Nicholls

The Florentine Codex

An Encyclopedia of the Nahua World in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

Jeanette Favrot Peterson, Kevin Terraciano

The Value of Aesthetics

Oaxacan Woodcarvers in Global Economies of Culture

Alanna Cant

Plant Kin

A Multispecies Ethnography in Indigenous Brazil

Theresa L. Miller

Believing Women in Islam

Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an

Asma Barlas

Recipes for Survival

Maria Thereza Alves, Michael Taussig

Believing Women in Islam

A Brief Introduction

Asma Barlas, David Raeburn Finn

Moving In and Out of Islam

Karin van Nieuwkerk

Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt

Navigating the Margins of Respectability

L. L. Wynn

No Alternative

Childbirth, Citizenship, and Indigenous Culture in Mexico

Rosalynn A. Vega

Slavery and Utopia

The Wars and Dreams of an Amazonian World Transformer

Fernando Santos-Granero

Recovering Inequality

Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster

Steve Kroll-Smith

Words of Passage

National Longing and the Imagined Lives of Mexican Migrants

Hilary Parsons Dick

Life in Oil

Cofán Survival in the Petroleum Fields of Amazonia

Michael L. Cepek, Bear Guerra

Banking on Beauty

Millard Sheets and Midcentury Commercial Architecture in California

Adam Arenson

Kuxlejal Politics

Indigenous Autonomy, Race, and Decolonizing Research in Zapatista Communities

Mariana Mora

Framing a Lost City

Science, Photography, and the Making of Machu Picchu

Amy Cox Hall

The Independent Republic of Arequipa

Making Regional Culture in the Andes

Thomas F. Love

Substance and Seduction

Ingested Commodities in Early Modern Mesoamerica

Stacey Schwartzkopf, Kathryn E. Sampeck

Under Surveillance

Being Watched in Modern America

Randolph Lewis

Dopers in Uniform

The Hidden World of Police on Steroids

John Hoberman

Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados

Class and Culture on the South Texas Border

Chad Richardson, Michael J. Pisani

Make Ours Marvel

Media Convergence and a Comics Universe

Matt Yockey

Frankie and Johnny

Race, Gender, and the Work of African American Folklore in 1930s America

Stacy I. Morgan

Flying Under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force

Mapping a Chicano/a Art History

Ella Maria Diaz

Rebellious Bodies

Stardom, Citizenship, and the New Body Politics

Russell Meeuf

Jazz and Cocktails

Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir

Jans B. Wager

Connecting The Wire

Race, Space, and Postindustrial Baltimore

Stanley Corkin

Arresting Development

Comics at the Boundaries of Literature

Christopher Pizzino

Practicing Transnationalism

American Studies in the Middle East

Eileen T. Lundy, Edward J. Lundy

Black Bodies, Black Rights

The Politics of Quilombolismo in Contemporary Brazil

Elizabeth Farfán-Santos

Thunder Shaman

Making History with Mapuche Spirits in Chile and Patagonia

Ana Mariella Bacigalupo

Graphic Borders

Latino Comic Books Past, Present, and Future

Frederick Luis Aldama, Christopher González

Beyond Machismo

Intersectional Latino Masculinities

Aída Hurtado, Mrinal Sinha

Captivity Beyond Prisons

Criminalization Experiences of Latina (Im)migrants

Martha D. Escobar

Trying to Get Over

African American Directors after Blaxploitation, 1977-1986

Keith Corson

Entre Guadalupe y Malinche

Tejanas in Literature and Art

Inés Hernández-Ávila, Norma E. Cantú

Independent Stardom

Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System

Emily Carman

Cuban Underground Hip Hop

Black Thoughts, Black Revolution, Black Modernity

Tanya L. Saunders

The Color of Love

Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families

Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman

Nurturing Masculinities

Men, Food, and Family in Contemporary Egypt

Nefissa Naguib

The Jemima Code

Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks

Toni Tipton-Martin

Standing in the Need

Culture, Comfort, and Coming Home After Katrina

Katherine E. Browne

Queer Brown Voices

Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism

Uriel Quesada, Letitia Gomez, Salvador Vidal-Ortiz

Invisible in Austin

Life and Labor in an American City

Javier Auyero, Loïc Wacquant

Portable Borders

Performance Art and Politics on the U.S. Frontera since 1984

Ila Nicole Sheren

A Right to Health

Medicine, Marginality, and Health Care Reform in Northeastern Brazil

Jessica Scott Jerome

The Borderlands of Race

Mexican Segregation in a South Texas Town

Jennifer R. Nájera

Race on the QT

Blackness and the Films of Quentin Tarantino

Adilifu Nama

Rainforest Cowboys

The Rise of Ranching and Cattle Culture in Western Amazonia

Jeffrey Hoelle

Americans in the Treasure House

Travel to Porfirian Mexico and the Cultural Politics of Empire

Jason Ruiz

Queer Beirut

Sofian Merabet

[Un]framing the "Bad Woman"

Sor Juana, Malinche, Coyolxauhqui, and Other Rebels with a Cause

Alicia Gaspar de Alba

Reading Magnum

A Visual Archive of the Modern World

Harry Ransom Center, Steven Hoelscher, Geoff Dyer

Maya after War

Conflict, Power, and Politics in Guatemala

Jennifer L. Burrell

Foxboy

Intimacy and Aesthetics in Andean Stories

Catherine J. Allen, Julia Meyerson

¡Chicana Power!

Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement

Maylei Blackwell

Dissident Women

Gender and Cultural Politics in Chiapas

Shannon Speed, R. Aída Hernández Castillo, Lynn M. Stephen

Consuming Grief

Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society

Beth A. Conklin