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Books in Europeanist anthropology published in 2021 (alphabetical by author)

Balkenhol, Markus. 2021. Tracing Slavery: the Politics of Atlantic Memory in the Netherlands. New York: Berghann Books.

Bryant, Rebecca and Madeline Reeves. 2021. The Everyday Lives of Sovereignty: Political Imagination Beyond the State. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Hervouet, Ronan. 2021. A Taste for Oppression: a Political Ethnography of Everyday Life in Belarus. New York: Berghann Books.

Kościańska, Agnieszka. 2021. To See a Moose: the History of Polish Sex Education.  New York: Berghann Books.

Lie, Siv. 2021. Django Generations: Hearing Ethnorace, Citizenship, and Jazz Manouche in France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Marchand, Trevor. 2021. Craftwork in Twenty-First Century England. New York: Berghann Books.

Matosevic, Andrea. 2021. Almost, But Not Quite Bored in Pula. New York: Berghann Books.

Murray, Michael. 2021. The Camino de Santiago: Curating the Pilgrimage as Heritage and Tourism. New York: Berghann Books.

Racels, Andreea. 2021. Textures of Belonging: Senses, Objects, and Spaces of Romanian Roma. New York: Berghann Books.

Sistek, Frantisek, ed. 2021. Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe: Representations, Transfers and Exchanges. New York: Berghann Books.

Sutton, David. 2021. Bigger Fish to Fry: a Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples. New York: Berghann Books.

Taylor, Mary. 2021. Movement of the People: Hungarian Folk Dance, Populism, and Citizenship. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Books in Europeanist anthropology published in 2020 (alphabetical by author)

Ash, Lamorna. 2020. Dark, Salt, Clear: the Life of a Fishing Town. New York: Bloomsbury.

Bryant, Rebecca and Mete Hatay. 2020. Sovereignty Suspended: Building the So-Called State. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

D’Alosia, Fulvia and Simone Ghezzi, eds. 2020. Facing the Crisis: Ethnographies of Work in Italian Industrial Capitalism. New York: Berghann Books.

Falzon, Mark Anthony. 2020. Birds of Passage: Hunting and Conservation in Malta. New York: Berghann Books.

Herzfeld, Michael. 2020. Ours Once More: Folklore, Ideology, and the Making of Modern Greece. New York: Berghann Books.

Hirschkind, Charles. 2020. The Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Hsu, Elisabeth and Catherine Potter, eds. 2020. Medical Anthropology in Europe. New York: Routledge.

Gilbert, Andrew. 2020. International Intervention and the Problem of Legitimacy: Encounters in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Kozaitis, Kathryn. 2020. Indebted: An Ethnography of Despair and Resilience in Greece’s Second City. New York: Oxford University Press.

Liston, Noelle. 2020. The Truth Society: Science, Disinformation, and Politics in Berlusconi’s Italy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Mendes, Paulo. 2020. The Sea Commands: Community and Perception of the Environment in a Portuguese Fishing Village. New York: Berghann Books.

Sahraoui, Nina. 2020. Borders Across Healthcare: Moral Economies of Healthcare and Migration in Europe. New York: Berghann Books.

Testa, Alessandro. 2020. Rituality and Social (Dis)Order: The Historical Anthropology of Popular Carnival in Europe. New York: Routledge.

Trnka, Susanna. 2020. Traversing: Embodied Lifeworlds in the Czech Republic. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Nadkarni, Maya. 2020. Remains of Socialism: Memory and the Futures of the Past in Postsocialist Hungary. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Schubert, Viola. 2020. Modernity and the Unmaking of Men. New York: Berghann Books.

Ventsel, Aimar. 2020. Punks and Skins United: Identity, Class, and the Economics of an East German Subculture. New York: Berghann Books.

Books in Europeanist anthropology published in 2019 (alphabetical by author)

Beckfield, Jason. 2019. Unequal Europe: Regional Integration and the Rise of European Inequality. Oxford University Press.

Bernstein, Anya. 2019. The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia. Princeton University Press. **2020 William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology Winner**

Berta, Péter. 2019. Materializing Difference : Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma.  University of Toronto Press.

Feldman, Gregory. 2019. The Gray Zone: Sovereignty, Human Smuggling, and Undercover Police Investigation in Europe. Stanford University Press.

Firat, Bilge. 2019. Diplomacy and Lobbying during Turkey’s Europeanisation. Manchester University Press.

Grama, Emanuela. 2019. Socialist Heritage: The Politics of Past and Place in Romania. Indiana University Press.

Jung, Yuson 2019 Balkan Blues: Consumer Politics after State Socialism. Indiana University Press.

Kalantzis, Konstantinos. 2019. Tradition in the Frame: Photography, Power, and Imagination in Sfakia, Crete.  Indiana University Press.

Kleinman, Julie. 2019. Adventure Capital: Migration and the Making of an African Hub in Paris. University of California Press.

Loftsdóttir, Kristín. 2019. Crisis and Coloniality at Europe’s Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland. Routledge

Murawski, Michał. 2019. The Palace Complex: A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw, and a City Transfixed.  Indiana University Press. **2020 William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology Honorable Mention**

Books in Europeanist anthropology published in 2018 (alphabetical by author)

Aistara, Guntra A. 2018. Organic Sovereignties: Struggles over Farming in an Age of Free Trade. University of Washington Press.

Çaǧlar, Ayşe and Nina Glick Schiller. 2018. Migrants and City-making: Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration. Duke University Press.

Demetriou, Olga Maya. 2018. Refugeehood and the Postconflict Subject: Reconsidering Minor Losses. State University of New York Press.

Dzenovska, Dace. 2018. School of Europeanness: Tolerance and Other Lessons in Political Liberalism in Latvia. Cornell University Press.

Franquesa, Jaume. 2018. Power Struggles: Dignity, Value, and the Renewable Energy Frontier in Spain. Indiana University Press.

Heywood, Paolo. 2018.  After Difference: Queer Activism in Italy and Anthropological Theory. Berghahn.

Høyer Leivestad, Hege. 2018.  Caravans: Lives on Wheels in Contemporary Europe. Bloomsbury.

Krause, Elizabeth L. 2018. Tight Knit: Global Families and the Social Life of Fast Fashion. The University of Chicago Press.

Szombati, Kristóf. 2018. The Revolt of the Provinces: Anti-Gypsyism and Right-Wing Politics in Hungary. Berghahn.

Tuckett, Anna. 2018. Rules, Paper, Status: Migrants and Precarious Bureaucracy in Contemporary Italy. Stanford University Press.

Verdery, Katherine. 2018. My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File. Duke University Press.

Books in Europeanist anthropology published in 2017 (alphabetical by author)

Babül, Elif M. 2017. Bureaucratic Intimacies: Translating Human Rights in Turkey. Stanford University Press.

Bach, Jonathan P.G. 2017. What Remains: Everyday Encounters with the Socialist Past in Germany. Columbia University Press.

Beaman, Jean. 2017. Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France. University of California Press.

Ben-Yehoyada, Naor. 2017. The Mediterranean Incarnate: Region Formation Between Sicily and Tunisia since World War II. The University of Chicago Press. **2018 William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology Honorable Mention**

Bjork, Stephanie R. 2017. Somalis Abroad: Clan and Everyday Life in Finland. University of Illinois Press.

Brković, Čarna. 2017. Managing Ambiguity: How Clientelism, Citizenship and Power Shape Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Berghahn Books.

Dalakoglou, Dimitris. 2017. The Road: An Ethnography of (Im)mobility, Space, and Cross-border Infrastructures in the Balkans. Manchester University Press.

Graham, Barbara. 2017. Death, Materiality and Mediation: An Ethnography of Remembrance in Ireland. Berghahn Books.

Guano, Emanuela. 2017. Creative Urbanity: An Italian Middle Class in the Shade of Revitalization. University of Pennsylvania Press.

Jones, Graham M. 2017. Magic’s Reason: An Anthropology of Analogy. The University of Chicago Press. **Association for French Cultural Studies: Lawrence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies Honorable Mention**

Leite. Naomi. 2017. Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging. University of California Press.

Materka, Edyta. 2017. Dystopia’s Provocateurs: Peasants, State, and Informality in the Polish-German Borderlands. Indiana University Press.

Murphy, John P. 2017. Yearning to Labor: Youth, Unemployment, and Social Destiny in Urban France. University of Nebraska Press.

Rogozen-Soltar, Mikaela H. 2017. Spain Unmoored: Migration, Conversion, and the Politics of Islam. Indiana University Press.

Roudakova, Natalia. 2017. Losing Pravda: Ethics and The Press in Post-Truth Russia. Cambridge University Press.

Sjoholm, Barbara. 2017. Black Fox: A Life of Emilie Demant Hatt, Artist and Ethnographer. The University of Wisconsin Press.

Stankiewicz, Damien. 2017. Europe Un-imagined: Nation and Culture at a French-German Television Channel. University of Toronto Press.

Swanson, John C. 2017. Tangible Belonging: Negotiating Germanness in Twentieth-century Hungary. University of Pittsburgh Press.

Teitelbaum, Benjamin R. 2017. Lions of the North: Sounds of the New Nordic Radical Nationalism. Oxford University Press.

Trnka, Susanna. 2017. One Blue Child: Asthma, Responsibility, and the Politics of Global Health. Stanford University Press.

Wulff, Helena. 2017. Rhythms of Writing: An Anthropology of Irish Literature. Bloomsbury.

Books in Europeanist anthropology published in 2016 (alphabetical by author)

Bowen, John R. 2016. On British Islam: Religion, Law, and Everyday Practice in Shari’a Councils. Princeton University Press.

Cartier, Marie. 2016. The France of the Little-middles: A Suburban Housing Development in Greater Paris. Berghahn.

Cashman, Ray. 2016. Packy Jim: Folklore and Worldview on the Irish Border. The University of Wisconsin Press.

Feldman-Savelsberg, Pamela. 2016. Mothers on the Move: Reproducing Belonging between Africa and Europe. The University of Chicago Press.

Graham, Barbara. 2017. Death, Materiality and Mediation: An Ethnography of Remembrance in Ireland. Berghahn Books.

Green, Sarah F. 2016. Notes from the Balkans: Locating Marginality and Ambiguity on the Greek-Albanian Border. Princeton University Press.

Hasselberg, Ines. 2016. Enduring Uncertainty: Deportation, Punishment and Everyday Life, Dislocation. Berghahn Books.

Jaffe-Walter, Reva. 2016. Coercive Concern: Nationalism, Liberalism, and the Schooling of Muslim Youth. Stanford University Press.

Napolitano, Valentina. 2016. Migrant Hearts and the Atlantic Return: Transnationalism and the Roman Catholic Church. Fordham University Press.

Raikhel, Eugene A. 2016. Governing Habits: Treating Alcoholism in the Post-Soviet Clinic. Cornell University Press.

Shoshan, Nitzan. 2016. The Management of Hate: Nation, Affect, and the Governance of Right-wing Extremism in Germany. Princeton University Press.

Speier, Amy. 2016. Fertility Holidays: IVF Tourism and the Reproduction of Whiteness. New York University Press.

Willson, Margaret. 2016. Seawomen of Iceland: Survival on the Edge. University of Washington Press.

Selected books in Europeanist anthropology published prior to 2016 (alphabetical by author)

Arkin, Kimberly A. 2013. Rhinestones, Religion, and the Republic: Fashioning Jewishness in France. Stanford University Press. **Winner of the 2016 Jordan Schnitzer Prize in the Category of Social Science, Anthropology, and Folklore, sponsored by the Association of Jewish Studies (AJS)**

Brettell, Caroline B. and Deborah Reed-Danahay. 2012. Civic Engagements: The Citizenship Practices of Indian and Vietnamese Immigrants.  Stanford University Press.

Cole, Jeffrey E. and Sally S. Booth. 2007. Dirty Work: Immigrants in Domestic Service, Agriculture, and Prostitution in Sicily. Lexington Books.

Coles, Kimberley. 2007. Democratic Designs: International Interventions and Electoral Practice in Post-War Bosnia-Herzegovina. University of Michigan Press.

Creed, Gerald. 2011. Masquerade and Postsocialism: Ritual and Cultural Dispossession in Bulgaria. Indiana University Press. **2012 William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology Winner**, **John D. Bell 2012 Memorial Book Prize of the Bulgarian Studies Association**

Ghodsee, Kristen. 2009. Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe: Gender, Ethnicity and the Transformation of Islam in Postsocialist Bulgaria. Princeton University Press.

Heatherington, Tracey. 2010.  Wild Sardinia: Indigeneity and the Global Dreamtimes of Environmentalism. University of Washington Press.

Herzfeld, Michael. 2009. Evicted from Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome. The University of Chicago Press. **Choice Magazine: CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Awards**

Kideckel, David. 2008. Getting By in Post-Socialist Romania: Work, the Body and Working Class Culture. Indiana University Press.

Krause, Elizabeth. 2009. Unraveled: A Weaver’s Tale of Life Gone Modern. University of California Press.

Mahmud, Lilith. 2014. The Brotherhood of Freemason Sisters: Gender, Secrecy, and Fraternity in Italian Masonic Lodges. The University of Chicago Press. **2015 William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology Winner**

Mandel, Ruth. 2008. Cosmopolitan Anxieties: Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and Belonging in Germany. Duke University Press. **2009 William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology Winner**

Muehlebach, Andrea. 2012. The Moral Neoliberal: Welfare and Citizenship in Italy. The University of Chicago Press. **2013 Society for the Anthropology of Europe: William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology Honorable Mention**

Murphy, Liam D.  2010. Believing in Belfast: Charismatic Christianity After the Troubles.  Carolina Academic Press.

Naumescu, Vlad. 2007. Modes of Religiosity in Eastern Christianity: Religious Processes and Social Change in Ukraine. Lit Verlag.

Navaro-Yashin, Yael. 2012. The Make-Believe Space: Affective Geography in a Postwar Polity. Duke University Press.

Neofotistos, Vasiliki P. 2012. The Risk of War: Everyday Sociality in the Republic of Macedonia. University of Pennsylvania Press.

Razsa, Maple. 2015.  Bastards of Utopia: Living Radical Politics After Socialism. Indiana University Press.

Reed-Danahay, Deborah and Caroline B. Brettell, eds. 2008. Citizenship, Political Engagement and Belonging: Immigrants in Europe and the United States. Rutgers University Press . **Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009**

Rogers, Douglas. 2009. The Old Faith and the Russian Land: A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals. Cornell University Press.

Wagner, Sarah E. 2008. To Know Where He Lies: DNA Technology and the Search for Srebrenica’s Missing. University of California Press.