New Books
The Best Place: Addiction, Intervention and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver
Author: Danya Fast
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Overview: In both local and international imaginations, Vancouver, Canada, is often celebrated as one of the world’s most beautiful, cosmopolitan, and livable cities. Simultaneously, the city continues to be ground zero for successive waves of public health emergency and intervention, including a recent and unprecedented drug overdose crisis driven by the proliferation of illicitly-manufactured fentanyl and related analogs in the local drug supply. In The Best Place: Addiction, Intervention, and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver, Danya Fast explores these politics of place from the perspectives of young people who use drugs. Those who are the subject of this book were in many ways relegated to the social, spatial, and economic margins of the city. Yet, they were also often at the very center of city life and state projects, including the project of protecting life in the context of the current overdose crisis.
Shépa: The Tibetan Oral Tradition in Choné
Authors: Mark Turin Bendi Tso, Marnyi Gyatso, Naljor Tsering, and Members of the Choné Tibetan Community
Publisher: Cambridge: Open Book Publishers.
Overview: This book contains a unique collection of Tibetan oral narrations and songs known as Shépa, as these have been performed, recorded and shared between generations of Choné Tibetans from Amdo living in the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Presented in trilingual format — in Tibetan, Chinese and English — the book reflects a sustained collaboration with and between members of the local community, including narrators, monks, and scholars, calling attention to the diversity inherent in all oral traditions, and the mutability of Shépa in particular.
You can also read an interview with Mark Turin about the book on the SPPGA website here.
Recent Publications
Sabina Magliocco and Sadie Rittman (MA 2022):
Magliocco, S., & Rittman, S. (2023). Fairies, Environmental Justice, and Re-Enchantment in Modern Pagan Narratives. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 17(4), 414–433. https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.24149
Andrew Mason/Andrew Martindale
Mason AR, Martindale A. Rethinking Cultural Heritage in the International Finance Corporation Performance Standards. Advances in Archaeological Practice. Cambridge University Press; 2023;11(4):388–401. DOI:10.1017/aap.2023.26
Sara Shneiderman
Shneiderman, S., Limbu, B.K., Baniya, J., Suji, M., Rawal, N., Subedi, P.C., Warner, C.D. 2023. House, Household, and Home: Revisiting Anthropological and Policy Frameworks through Postearthquake Reconstruction Experiences in Nepal. Current Anthropology, University of Chicago Press 64(5): 498-527.https://doi.org/10.1086/727369
