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Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self
Elly Teman University of California Press, March 2010 Birthing a Mother is the first ethnography to probe the intimate experience of gestational surrogate motherhood. Elly Teman shows how surrogates and intended mothers carefully negotiate their cooperative endeavor. Drawing on anthropological …
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Revolutionizing Romance: Interracial Couples in Contemporary Cuba
Nadine T. Fernandez Rutgers University Press 2010 Scholars have long heralded mestizaje, or race mixing, as the essence of the Cuban nation. Revolutionizing Romance is an ethnographic account of the continuing significance of race in Cuba, as it is experienced …
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Recent Publications by AFA Members
We have added a new page to the website to highlight recent publications by our members. If you have any information you would like to submit for posting, please email them to AFAWebmaster. And do check out the new page!
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Anthropology Now
Anthropology Now – the general interest magazine for public anthropology – is excited to announce the relaunch of its website, www.anthronow.com. Visit and get sneak peaks of content appearing in the newest Atomic themed, Fall issue of Anthropology Now, as …
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VOICES 2010
Check out the latest issues of VOICES, guest co-edited by Lea S. McChesney and Judith Singleton. This special issue focuses on anthropological contributions to our understanding of sexual violence in post-conflict Africa and child sexual abuse in the U.S.
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