Dear all,
As I've done over the past several years, I'm sharing my summary of selections from Choice magazine's most recent list of Outstanding Academic Titles (OATs) with the hope it may be of interest to ANSS members who are anthropology bibliographers and subject specialists.
Each year in the December issue, Choice editors at ACRL name their OAT selections from all titles reviewed during the year (or since the last list was compiled). There are 439 OAT titles in the 2021 list. (A bit more context: every year Choice reviews some 3,600 new publications, including databases, with the goal of identifying those of relevance to college library collections; the annual OAT list is selected from among them.)
In the OAT list for 2021, ten titles have been placed under the subject Anthropology:
Archaeologies of Violence and Privilege, edited by Christopher N. Matthews and Bradley D. Phillipi. University of New Mexico Press, 2020.
Class, Gender and Migration: Return Flows Between Mexico and the United States in Times of Crisis, by María Eugenia D'Aubeterre Buznego, Alison Elizabeth Lee, and Maria Leticia Rivermar Pérez. Routledge, 2020.
Collaborations: Anthropology in a Neoliberal Age, edited by Emma Heffernan, Fiona Murphy, and Jonathan Skinner. Routledge, 2020.
Ethnographies of Home and Mobility: Shifting Roofs, by Alejandro Miranda Nieto, Aurora Massa, and Sara Bonfanti. Routledge, 2020.
Going Forward by Looking Back: Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, and Collapse, edited by Felix Riede and Payson Sheets. (Series: Catastrophes in Context, 3.) Berghahn Books, 2020.
Has Archaeology Buried the Bible?, by William G. Dever. Eerdmans, 2020.
The Movement for Reproductive Justice: Empowering Women of Color Through Social Activism, by Patricia Zavella. New York University Press, 2020.
Native Providence: Memory, Community, and Survivance in the Northeast, by Patricia E. Rubertone. University of Nebraska Press, 2020.
Our Whole Gwich'in Way of Life Has Changed = Gwich'in k'yuu gwiidandài' thak ejuk gòonlih: Stories from the People of the Land, by Leslie McCartney and Gwich'in Tribal Council. Polynya Press, 2020.
Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty, by Ana-Maurine Lara. SUNY Press, 2020.
Another five OAT titles are by anthropologists, though each has been placed in a different subject category by Choice editors:
Chimpanzees: Lessons from our Sister Species, by Kevin D. Hunt. Cambridge University Press, 2020. (Science & Technology – Biology – Zoology)
Divided Bodies: Lyme Disease, Contested Illness, and Evidence-Based Medicine, by Abigail Anne Dumes. Duke University Press, 2020. (Science & Technology – Health Sciences)
Herring and the People of the North Pacific: Sustaining a Keystone Species, by Thomas F. Thornton and Madonna L. Moss. University of Washington Press, 2021. (Social & Behavioral Sciences – Business, Management & Labor)
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art, by Rebecca Wragg Sykes. Bloomsbury Sigma, 2020. (Science & Technology – Earth Science)
A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin's 'Descent of Man' Got Right and Wrong about Human Evolution, by Jeremy M. DeSilva. Princeton University Press, 2021. (Science & Technology – Biology)
Finally, I'll note another four OATs of possible interest for anthropology students and researchers:
The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization, by Roland Ennos. Scribner, 2020. (Science & Technology)
The Cambridge History of Native American Literature, edited by Melanie Benson Taylor. Cambridge University Press, 2020. (Humanities – Language & Literature – English & American)
Native Americans of New England, by Christoph Strobel. Praeger, 2020. (Social & Behavioral Sciences – History, Geography & Area Studies – North America)
Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, edited by Constantine Petridis. Art Institute of Chicago, 2020. (Humanities – Art & Architecture)
Janet Steins
Anthropology subject editor for Resources for College Libraries
Anthropology bibliographer (retired)
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Janet Steins
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