Anthropology: New Titles http://www.press.umich.edu/rss/newAnthro.xml New Anthropology Books en-us ump.webmaster@umich.edu Anthrohistory: Unsettling Knowledge, Questioning Discipline | by Edward Murphy, David William Cohen, Chandra D. Bhimull, Fernando Coronil, Monica Eileen Patterson, and Julie Skurski, editors http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=302815 A volume at the crossroads of History and Anthropology Getting Ghost: Two Young Lives and the Struggle for the Soul of an American City | by Luke Bergmann http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=2444757 A window into the lives of two young urban drug dealers My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft | by Bonnie A. Nardi http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1597570 An anthropologist's analysis of the world's most popular online world game Olof the Eskimo Lady | by Inga Dora Bjornsdottir http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=362065 The story of an Icelandic dwarf who made a living in 19th-century America posing as an Eskimo Lost and Found: The Adoption Experience, 3rd Edition | by Betty Jean Lifton http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=334810 Explores the obstacles and issues that adoptees, orphans, and foster children face when they have been separated from a parent or denied the right to know their origins. When Women Have Wings: Feminism and Development in Medellin, Colombia | by Donna F. Murdock http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=286385 A vivid and detailed ethnographic account of the problems of professionalization and feminism in a community center project in one of Medellin, Colombia's most embattled working class districts . Anthropometric Standards: An Interactive Nutritional Reference of Body Size and Body Composition for Children and Adults 2nd Edition | by A. Roberto Frisancho http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=93311 Compiles the largest database of material on anthropometric standards from National Health Examination surveys. Kyongju Things: Assembling Place | by Robert Oppenheim http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=318121 A historical ethnography of place amidst objects in the contemporary city of Kyongju, South Korea. Contesting the Commons: Privatizing Pastoral Lands in Kenya | by Carolyn K. Lesorogol http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=300488 Examines the highly disputed idea of privatizing communal land through one Samburu community.