With the goal of informing anthropology bibliographers, I've once again reviewed the Choice list of Outstanding Academic Titles for 2022. I hope this is useful!
From the 3,716 books reviewed by Choice from January to December, 2022, 433 were selected by Choice editors for their annual OAT list, with 13 of them classified as Anthropology. (For more context, In the 12 issues of Choice that appeared in 2022, one hundred and ten titles were classified in the category Social & Behavioral Sciences – Anthropology.)
1. Girl Archaeologist: Sisterhood in a Sexist Profession, by Alice Beck Kehoe (University of Nebraska Press, 2022).
2. Bodies in Evidence: Race, Gender, and Science in Sexual Assault Adjudication, by Heather R. Hlavka and Sameena Mulla (New York University Press, 2021).
3. The Best of Hard Times: Palestinian Refugee Masculinities in Lebanon, by Gustavo Barbosa (Syracuse University Press, 2022).
4. Galvanizing Nostalgia?: Indigeneity and Sovereignty in Siberia, by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer (Cornell University Press, 2022).
5. Cree and Christian: Encounters and Transformations, by Clinton Westman (University of Nebraska Press, 2022).
6. The Pleistocene Social Contract: Culture and Cooperation in Human Evolution, by Kim Sterelny (Oxford University Press, 2021).
7. Becoming Hopi: a History, edited by Wesley Bernardini, Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa, Gregson Schachner, and Leigh J. Kuwanwisiwma (University of Arizona Press, 2021).
8. Real, Recent, or Replica: Precolumbian Caribbean Heritage as Art, Commodity, and Inspiration, edited by Joanna Ostapkowicz and Jonathan A. Hanna (University of Alabama Press, 2021).
9. Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border, by Malini Sur (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021).
10. The indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere, by Paulette F. C. Steeves (University of Nebraska Press, 2021).
11. Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America: Material Vulture in Motion, c. 1780–1980, edited by Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021).
12. Archaeology and its Discontents: Why Archaeology Matters, by John C. Barrett (Routledge, 2021).
13. Bad Dog: Pit Bull Politics and Multispecies Justice, by Harlan Weaver (University of Washington Press, 2021).
Two additional anthropology titles appear in the 2022 OAT list, but were classified in other subject categories:
1. At the Limits of Cure, by Bharat Jayram Venkat (Duke University Press, 2021). Classified as Science & Technology – Health Sciences
Author Venkat is an anthropologist, and the Choice reviewer described this book as an excellent introduction to the field of medical anthropology.
2. Anthropology Plus. Bibliographic database, from EBSCO. Classified as Reference – Social & Behavioral Sciences
https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/anthropology-plus
Four other OAT titles may be of interest to anthropology bibliographers:
1. A History of World Egyptology, edited by Andrew Bednarski, Aidan Dodson, and Salima Ikram (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Classified as Social & Behavioral Sciences – History, Geography & Area Studies – Ancient History
2. Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How it Made Us Human, by Rob Dunn and Monica Sanchez (Princeton University Press, 2021). Classified as Science & Technology
Co-authors are an applied ecologist and an anthropologist.
3. The Sumerians: Lost Civilizations, by Paul Collins (Reaktion Books, 2021). Classified as Social & Behavioral Studies – History, Geography & Area Studies-Ancient History.
4. Amkoullel, the Fula Boy, by Amadou Hampaté Bậ (Duke University Press, 2021). Classified as Social & Behavioral Sciences – History, Geography & Area Studies – Africa.
The author, renowned Malian writer, ethnographer and historian, uses "his family chronicle as a lens, and offers readers unique insights into Fula religious beliefs, social hierarchies, marriage practices, and gender relations."- from Choice review
Janet Steins
Tozzer Library (retired)