New Materials: Anthropology :: November 22nd, 2009

1. Domestic life in prehispanic capitals : a study of specialization, hierarchy, and ethnicity / edited by Linda R. Manzanilla and Claude Chapdelaine
2. Day of the Dead in the USA : the migration and transformation of a cultural phenomenon / Regina M. Marchi
3. Cuba in the shadow of change : daily life in the twilight of the revolution / Amelia Rosenberg Weinreb
4. Pattern and process in cultural evolution / edited by Stephen Shennan
5. The objects of evidence : anthropological approaches to the production of knowledge / edited by Matthew Engelke
6. Mysteries and discoveries of archaeoastronomy : from Giza to Easter Island / Giulio Magli
7. Material culture and technology in everyday life : ethnographic approaches / edited by Phillip Vannini
8. Kinship and beyond : the genealogical model reconsidered / edited by Sandra Bamford and James Leach
9. Human sexuality : biological, psychological, and cultural perspectives / Anne Bolin, Patricia Whelehan
10. The human lineage / Matt Cartmill, Fred H. Smith
11. The human career : human biological and cultural origins / Richard G. Klein
12. How women got their curves and other just-so stories : evolutionary enigmas / David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton
13. Food and gender in Fiji : ethnoarchaeological explorations / Sharyn Jones
14. Fieldwork is not what it used to be : learning anthropology's method in a time of transition / edited by James D. Faubion and George E. Marcus ; foreword by Michael M.J. Fischer
15. Ethnicity, Inc. / John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff
16. The ethics of cultural appropriation / edited by James O. Young and Conrad G. Brunk
17. Catching fire : how cooking made us human / Richard Wrangham
    In this stunningly original book, renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham argues that "cooking" created the human race. At the heart of "Catching Fire" lies an explosive new idea: The habit of eating cooked rather than raw food permitted the digestive tract to shrink and the human brain to grow, helped structure human society, and created the male-female division of labor
18. Body ornaments of Malaita, Solomon Islands / Ben Burt ; with contributions from David Akin and support from Michael Kwaʼioloa ; drawings by Ben Burt