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Queer Anthropology: Anthropological Insights

Queer Anthropology offers a short introduction to an evolving subfield of socio-cultural anthropology, exploring its historical development, critiques over the past two decades, and responses to emerging challenges.

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David Murray
2025

2025 Queer Anthropology: Anthropological Insights. David A. B. Murray. University of Toronto Press.

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Zulfikar Hirji
2024

2024 "Speculative Futures of Objects" with Lillian O’Brien Davis and Clara Halpern, podcast series for Uncontainable Collections Research Project 2024, Art Gallery ...

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Zulfikar Hirji
2024

2024 "Architects of Time: Coloniality, Clocktowers, and Calendars on the East African Coast" in Architectures of Colonialism: Constructed Histories, Conflicting ...

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Zulfikar Hirji
2024

2024 "Dispersal, Decolonization, and Dominance: African Muslim Objects from the Sultanate of Witu (1858-1923)" in Decolonizing Islamic Art in Africa: New ...

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Natasha Myers
2023

2023 ÍMPETU INVOLUTIVO: Afectos y conversaciones entre plantas, insectos y científicos. Carla Hustak and Natasha Myers, translated by Sebastián Puente. Cactus Press.

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Alexandra Widmer
2023

2023 Moral Figures: Making Reproduction Public in Vanuatu.  Alexandra Widmer.

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Jillian Fulton-Melanson
2023

2023 "Resonating Restrictions: Dreaming with EDM ‘In-between’ Casablanca and Montreal" in D.Pardue, A.Kenny, & K.Young, eds., Sonic Signatures (Intellect Ltd.) 38-53. ...

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Zulfikar Hirji
2023

2023 "A Corpus of Illuminated Qur'ans from Coastal East Africa" Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 14:2–4, 356–95.

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Penny van Esterik
2023

2023 Designs on Pots: Ban Chiang and the Politics of Heritage in Thailand.  Penny van Esterik.

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Natasha Myers
2022

2022 What is Life? Edited by Biogroop in association with Katrin Klingen and Nick Houde, with contributions by Stefan Helmreich, Evelyn Fox ...

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Margaret MacDonald
2022

2022   Anthropologies of Global Maternal and Reproductive Health: From Policy Spaces to Sites of Practice.  Lauren J. Wallace, Maragaret E. ...

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Othon Alexandrakis
2022

2022 Radical Resilience: Athenian Topographies of Precarity and Possibility.  Othon Alexandrakis. Cornell University Press.

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Zulfikar Hirji
2022

2022 "The Faza Qur'an: Three Nineteenth-century Illuminated Manuscripts from Coastal East Africa" Journal of Qur’anic Studies 24:2, 21–47.

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Zulfikar Hirji
2022

2022 "The Dialogic Exhibition" co-authored with P. Bentley in Made for the Eyes of One Who Sees: Canadian Contributions to the ...

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Natasha Myers
2022

2022 Reactivating Elements: Chemistry, Ecology, Practice. Dimitris Papadopoulos, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, and Natasha Myers, eds. Duke University Press.