Columbia Anthropologists wow with several new books

It's been an extraordinarily productive year for Columbia anthropologists, who have published several pathbreaking new books. From a rethinking of human-animal relations, to the moral philosophy of reparation after slavery, and from the role of gender violence in feminism and geopolitics to a new theory of the state in contemporary Mexico, with a meditation on language and ethics in deaf Nepal, our colleagues keep pushing the boundaries of the discipline.

Hannah Chazin published Live Stock and Dead Things: The Archaeology of Zoopolitics between Domestication and Modernity' with the University of Chicago Press. David Scott published 'Irreparable Evil: An Essay in Moral and Reparatory History' with Columbia University Press. Claudio Lomnitz published two new books on Mexican political life, one in English and one in Spanish, including Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State Form in Mexico and Para una teología política del crimen organizado. Mara green released Making Sense: Language, Ethics, and Understanding in Deaf Nepal with the University of California Press. Lila Abu-Lughod's co-edited volume, The Cunning of Gender Violence: Geopolitics and Feminism, also arrived from Duke University Press in recent months. You can read more about them at the links here (and below in the 'Hot off the Press' section of the website.