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November 6, 2020 (November 24, 2020)

American Anthropological Association Virtual Exhibit

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Welcome to the 2020 University of Illinois Press American Anthropological Association virtual exhibit! While we wish this could be an in-person event, we’re still excited to show you new research […]

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May 6, 2020 (May 6, 2020)

Remembering Ira E. Harrison

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The following is an excerpt from Alisha R. Winn’s chapter “Ira E. Harrison: Activist, Scholar, and Visionary Pioneer” in The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology edited by […]

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February 1, 2016 (February 4, 2016)

Signal Traffic awarded by SCMS

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Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures, edited by Lisa Parks and Nicole Starosielski, has won the Best Edited Collection Award for 2015-2016, awarded by the Society for Cinema and […]

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October 16, 2015 (October 16, 2015)

Sing in the sunshine

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By the grace of the gods and the bulging forearms of Kyle Schwarber, the Cubs have advanced to the National League Championship Series, there to face the New York Mets. […]

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August 18, 2014 (August 11, 2014)

Cheryl LaRoche: Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad

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Cheryl Janifer LaRoche‘s book, Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad, examines the “geography of resistance” and tells the powerful and inspiring story of African Americans ensuring their own liberation […]

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August 1, 2014 (July 31, 2014)

Brazil’s sex tourism perceptions and culture

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Erica Lorraine Williams visited the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University to discuss her book Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements. In her talk, Williams examines the impact of […]

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June 5, 2014 (June 4, 2014)

Q&A with Maya Market Women author S. Ashley Kistler

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S. Ashley Kistler is an assistant professor of anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Rollins College. In her new book Maya Market Women: Power and Tradition in San Juan Chamelco, […]

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April 14, 2014 (April 11, 2014)

Q&A with Sex Tourism in Bahia author Erica Lorraine Williams

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Erica Lorraine Williams is an assistant professor of anthropology at Spelman College.  She answered some questions about her book Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements. Q: For your book research you […]

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