Comment by fantasmapocalypse on 22/01/2025 at 05:02 UTC

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View submission: Anthropologists, would you please pick 3 to 10 books that you would recommend others to read to understand ONE aspect/field/subject of history/anthropology?

• This is a smattering of the kinds of books I would read as a graduate student preparing for comps...*

Jesus Loves Japan by Ikeuchi (Migration, race, and religion in Japan)

Everyday Conversions by Ahmad (Religious conversion, migration, Middle East)

In Amma's Healing Room by Flueckiger (Religious practice and gender, India)

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies by Holmes AND Land of Open Graves by De León (migration, labor, racism, punishment, American Southwest)

The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism by Fernando (Islam, France, secularism, discrimination, racism)

Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report by Mahmood (law, religion, secularism, and modernity)

Japan and National Anthropology: A Critique by Ryang (Japan, ethnicity, nationalism, culture, race)

Ghetto at the Center of the World by Mathews (Hong Kong, migration, capitalism, globalization)

How Race is Made in America by Molina (race, migration, identity, ethnicity)

Social death: racialized rightlessness and the criminalization of the unprotected by Cacho (race, violence, marginalization)

Gore Capitalism by Valencia (economics, precarity, capitalism, marginalization, migration, violence)

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