Books for review

SJSCA - the Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology reviews recent publications that make important theoretical or empirical contributions to anthropology. We have a particular focus on publications originating in the Swiss academic context. If you are interested in writing a book review, get in touch with the editor of the book review section, Anne Kukuczka (anne.kukuczka@uzh.ch) for a choice of book to review or take a look at our bookshelf for a selection:

2025

Mazin, Hélène. 2025. Les exilés de la Roya. Enquête sur une solidarité submersive. Genève: Editions IES. (book available from SJSCA for postal delivery). https://www.hesge.ch/hets/la-hets-geneve/editions-ies/catalogue/les-exiles-la-roya 

Kesselring, Rita. 2025. Extraction, Global Commodity Trade, and Urban Development in Zambia's Northwestern Province: An Ethnography of Inequality and Interdependence. London: Bloomsbury Academic. https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350454323

Bentley, Jenny. 2025. Guardians of Land and Water. Rituals, vulnerability, and Indigenous Belonging Among the Himalayan Mútunci Róng. Zürich: Seismo. https://www.seismoverlag.ch/de/daten/guardians-of-land-and-water/

Debaene, Vincent. 2025. La source et le signe. Anthropologie, littérature et parole indigène. Paris: Seuil. https://www.seuil.com/ouvrage/la-source-et-le-signe-vincent-debaene/9782021588620

Eitel, Kathrin and Carsten Wergin, eds. 2025. Handbuch Umweltethnologie. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-45341-1?page=1#toc

Jallo, Zainabu. 2025. Diasporic Consciousness in the Material Culture of Brazilian Candomblé. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Diasporic-Consciousness-in-the-Material-Culture-of-Brazilian-Candomble/Jallo/p/book/9781032483306   

Stasik, Michael. 2025. Bus Station Hustle: Transport Work in Urban Ghana. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/bus-station-hustle/C68C94A80742B913E27AFF83C9A3A99B

Wolf, Anna-Lena. 2025. Labor on the Line. Justice at Work on Assam Tea Plantations. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501783371/labor-on-the-line/

 

2024

Aterianus-Owanga, Alice. 2024. Rencontres postexotiques. Transmettre et éprouver les danses sabar en France et en Suisse. Paris: Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre. https://presses-universitaires.parisnanterre.fr/index.php/produit/rencontres-postexotiques-transmettre-et-eprouver-les-danses-sabar-en-france-et-en-suisse/

Becci, Irene, ed. 2024. Les éco-spiritualités contemporaines. Un changement culturel en Suisse. Zürich, Genf: Seismo. https://www.seismoverlag.ch/de/daten/les-eco-spiritualites-contemporaines/

Bozzini, David, Fresia, Marion, Killias, Olivia and Anne Lavanchy, eds. 2024. Engagements : penser la responsabilité de l’anthropologue avec Ellen Hertz. Neuchâtel: Éditions Alphil-Presses universitaires suisses. https://libra.unine.ch/handle/123456789/34648

Burger, Tim, Mahar, Usman, Schild, Pascale and Anna-Maria Walters, eds. 2024. The Multi-Sited Ethnographer. Living the Field beyond Research. Bielefeld: Transcript. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6677-9/the-multi-sided-ethnographer/

Cicchini, Marco, Droux, Joelle, Ferreira, Cristina, and Arnaud Frauenfelder. 2024. Paroles, paroles. Comment l'État écoute ses justiciables. Lausanne: Antipodes. https://www.antipodes.ch/produit/paroles-paroles/

Finke, Peter. 2024. Qazaq Pastoralists in Western MongoliaInstitutional Change, Economic Diversification and Social Stratification. Oxon, New York: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Qazaq-Pastoralists-in-Western-Mongolia-Institutional-Change-Economic-Diversification/Finke/p/book/9780367700850

Francini, Esther Tisa, Hertzog, Alice, Malefakis, Alexis, Oberhofer, Michaela, eds. 2024. Mobilizing. Benin Heritage in Swiss Museums. Zürich: Scheidegger & Spiess. https://www.scheidegger-spiess.ch/en/produkt/mobilizing/1529

Forney, Jérémie, Bentia, Dana and Angga Dwiartama. 2024. Everyday Agri-Environmental Governance: The Emergence of Sustainability through Assemblage Thinking. London: Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003271260/everyday-agri-environmental-governance-j%C3%A9r%C3%A9mie-forney-dana-bentia-angga-dwiartama

Haller, Tobias and Samuel Weissmann, eds. 2024. Disenchanted Modernities. Mega-Infrastructure Projects, Socio-Ecologial Changes and Local Responses. Münster: LIT Verlag. https://www.lit-verlag.de/isbn/978-3-643-80378-8

Lustenberger, Sibylle. 2024. Judentum in Bewegung. Die Entstehung gleichgeschlechtlicher Elternschaft in Israel. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34130-4

Monsutti, Alessandro. 2024. Homo Itinerans: towards a global ethnography of Afghanistan. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books. https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/MonsuttiHomo

Mugler, Johanna, Sheild Johansson, Miranda and Robin Smith. 2024. Anthropology and Tax. Ethnographies of Fiscal Relations. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/ch/universitypress/subjects/law/taxation-law/anthropology-and-tax-ethnographies-fiscal-relations?format=HB&isbn=9781009254588