Books for Reviews

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 co-editors of the book review section, Sylvain Besençon (sylvain.besencon@unifr.ch) and Anne Kukuczka (anne.kukuczka@uzh.ch) for a choice of book to review or take a look at our bookshelf for a selection:

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/

Cicchini, Marco, Droux, Joelle, Ferreira, Cristina, Frauenfelder, Arnaud. 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

Gajardo, Anahy. 2024. Autochtonies en terrain miné. Formation et fragmentation des Diaguita dans le Chili néolibéralisé. 320 p. Genève: MétisPresses. https://www.metispresses.ch/fr/autochtonies-en-terrain-mine

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

Jaeger, Ursina. 2024. Children as Social Butterflies. Navigating Belonging in a Diverse Swiss Kindergarten. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/children-as-social-butterflies/9781978836983/

Schuler, Marie-Theres. 2024. Disability and Aid: An Ethnography of Logics and Practices of Distribution in a Uganda Refugee Camp. Leiden: Brill. https://brill.com/display/title/69056

2023

Bayart, Jean-François, Grazia Dell'Oro, Alessandro Monsutti, Carlo Vidoni. 2023. Destiny / Destination Milano, Emuse. https://emusebooks.com/libri/destiny/

Bille Larsen, Peter and Florence Graezer Bideau, eds. 2023. Governing Heritage and Creativity. Frictions, Avenues and Questions. Siracusa SR: LetteraVentidue Edizioni. https://www.letteraventidue.com/it/prodotto/700/governing-heritage-and-creativity

Calvão, F., Archer, M., & Benya, A. (Eds.). 2023. The Afterlives of Extraction. Alternatives and Sustainable Futures. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://brill.com/display/title/64309

Chanteloup, Laine, Valsangiacomo, Nelly. 2023. Résonances. La dimension sonore des Alpes. Lausanne : Antipodes.  https://www.antipodes.ch/produit/resonances/

Goulet Frédéric, Vinck Dominique, eds. 2023. New horizons of innovation studies. Doing without, doing with less. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing. https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/book/9781803925554/9781803925554.xml

Jallo, Zainabu, ed. 2023. Material Culture in Transit: Theory and Practice. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Material-Culture-in-Transit-Theory-and-Practice/Jallo/p/book/9781032223872

Marti, Simone. 2023. Innere Grenzziehungen. Das Nothilfe-Regime im schweizerischen Asylsystem. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6574-1/innere-grenzziehungen/

Meiu, George Paul. 2023. Queer Objects to the Rescue. Intimacy and Citizenship in Kenya. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/Q/bo208377586.html

Rossel, Lena. 2023. Être sorcière: Discours et pratiques contemporaines en Suisse romande. https://www.unine.ch/ethno/home/publications/ethnoscope.html

Schaeublin, Emanuel. 2023. Divine Money. Islam, Zakat and Giving in Palestine. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. https://iupress.org/9780253066572/divine-money/

Siegel, Veronika. 2023. Intimate Strangers. Commercial Surrogacy in Russia and Ukraine and the Making of Truth. Ithacan, New York: Cornell University Press.

https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771316/intimate-strangers/#bookTabs=4