Anthropology Books in Choice's list of Outstanding Academic Titles
(OATs) for 2023.
For 2023, the editors of Choice selected 498 titles from among the 3,591 reviewed during the year for their Outstanding Academic Titles list. The titles were chosen from across the subject classification scheme, and the list appeared in the December Choice issue.
For the intended use of anthropology bibliographers, I've noted below the nine titles from the 2023 OAT list classified as Anthropology, followed by three more that should have been placed in the Anthropology classification, and finally a few more titles of possible interest for bibliographers selecting anthropology and related subjects.
Anthropology titles in the 2023 OAT list:
Sayers, Daniel O.
The archaeology of the homed and the unhomed.
University Press of Florida. 2023.
Curran, Bob and Andrew Nelson.
Journey without end: migration from the Global South through the
Americas.
Vanderbilt University Press. 2022.
Sojoyner, Damien M.
Joy and pain: a story of Black life and liberation in five albums.
University of California Press. 2022.
Robben, Antonius C. G. M. and Alexander Laban Hinton.
Perpetrators: encountering humanity's dark side.
Stanford University Press. 2023.
Sandstrom, Alan R. and Pamela Effrein Sandstrom.
Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain: Nahua sacred journeys in Mexico's
Huasteca Veracruzana.
University Press of Colorado. 2022.
Penfield, Penny.
Predatory economies: the Sanema and the socialist state in contemporary
Amazonia.
University of Texas Press. 2023.
Davis-Floyd, Robbie and Charles D. Laughlin.
Ritual: what it is, how it works, and why.
Berghahn Books. 2022.
Tongkeamha, Henrietta. Edited by Benjamin R. Kracht and Lisa LaBrada.
Stories from Saddle Mountain: autobiographies of a Kiowa family.
Nebraska University Press. 2021.
Howell, Jayne.
Women teachers of rural Oaxaca: agency and empowerment.
Lexington Books. 2023.
These three books on the 2023 OAT list were written by anthropologists but classified under other subjects:
Lederach, Angela Jill.
Feel the grass grow: ecologies of slow peace in Colombia.
Stanford University Press. 2023.
Classed under Social & Behavioral Sciences -- Political Science -- Political
Theory
McCulligh, Cindy.
Sewer of progress: corporations, institutionalized corruption, and the
struggle for the Santiago River.
MIT Press. 2023.
Classed under Science & Technology
Fiske, Amelia.
Reckoning with harm: the toxic relations of oil in Amazonia.
University of Texas Press. 2023.
Classed as Science & Technology -- Engineering
Finally, some additional 2023 OAT titles of possible interest to anthropology bibliographers:
- Pillsbury, Joanne, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazaraiegos, and James A. Doyal, editors. Lives of gods: divinity in Maya art. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2022.
- Rich, Michelle, editor. The arts of the ancient Americas at the Dallas Museum of Art. Dallas Museum of Art. 2023.
- Shea Murphy, Jacqueline. Dancing Indigenous worlds: choreographies of relation. University of Minnesota Press. 2023.
- Webster, Rebecca M., with James R. Bittorf et al. In defense of sovereignty: protecting the Oneida Nation's inherent right to self-determination. University of Wisconsin Press. 2023.
- Zeininger, Angel. The evolution of the primate foot: anatomy, function, and paleontological. Springer. 2022.
- Kellett, Nicole Coffey, with Graciela Orihuela Rocha. Graciela: one woman's story of war, survival, and perseverance in the Peruvian Andes. University of New Mexico Press. 2022.
- Hurston, Zora Neale. Edited by Genevieve West and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. You don't know us Negroes: and other essays. Armistad. 2022.
- Payne, Carol, et al, editors. Atiqput: Inuit oral history and project naming. McGill-Queen's Indigenous and northern studies, 103. Mc-Gill-Queen's University Press. 2022.
- Ehret, Christopher. Ancient Africa: a global history, to 300 CE. Princeton University Press. 2023.
- Lukavic, John P., Dakota Hoska, and Christopher Patrello with Kathleen Ash-Milby et al. Here now: Indigenous arts of North America at the Denver Art Museum. Hirmer, 2022.
This is the last time I will be compiling and posting anthropology titles from Choice's annual OAT lists to the ACRL/ANSS Community page. I've served as Anthropology subject editor for ACRL's database Resources for College Libraries (RCL) since 2007, but have now stepped down and will no longer have access to Choice Reviews Online .
A few days ago Anne Doherty, RCL's Project Editor, posted here to announce the opening for a new Anthropology subject editor, so reach out to her (adoherty@ala.org) if you think you might be interested in taking over. Anne is a wonderful leader and has been such a great help to me over years. It's been a rewarding and engaging job!
Janet Steins
Tozzer Libtrary (retired)
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Janet Steins
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