This memoir/ethnography is about water shortages in America’s breadbasket: the High Plains of western Kansas. It is about the author’s compelling confrontation with the land where he was raised.
This work evokes powerfully the majesty of space-in-the-world and how it gives shape to the contours of our lives. It is also about how the twists and turns of a person’s family are rooted to ever-changing landscapes. As such, the book is about how we can adapt to the social and environmental turbulence of our times. For me, it is a book that is both wise and soulful.
Finalist for the National Book Award An intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartland
The Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has taxed much of the aquifer beyond repair. The imminent depletion of the Ogallala and other aquifers around the world is a defining planetary crisis of our times. Running Out offers a uniquely personal account of aquifer depletion and the deeper layers through which it gains meaning and force.
Anthropologist Lucas Bessire journeyed back to western Kansas, where five generations of his family…
This book is a graphic representation of the “dark times” of contemporary society.In words and images, the authors articulate a powerful story of how individuals come to experience “moments of being” that propel them forward through the dark corridors they find on the path of life.
I loved this book because it made me think anew about how to understand and represent the human condition.
What will become of us in these trying times? How will we pass the time that we have on earth? In gorgeously rendered graphic form, Light in Dark Times invites readers to consider these questions by exploring the political catastrophes and moral disasters of the past and present, revealing issues that beg to be studied, understood, confronted, and resisted.
A profound work of anthropology and art, this book is for anyone yearning to understand the darkness and hoping to hold onto the light. It is a powerful story of encounters with writers, philosophers, activists, and anthropologists whose words are as…
This gripping novel is about the ethics of representation.Who has the right to represent whom? Can a middle-class white woman write fiction about the Chinese experience in the world?
The novel exposes the complications and complicities of publishing fiction and non-fiction in a decolonizing world. I loved this book because it reinforced the importance of ethics in our representation of others.
The No. 1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller from literary sensation R.F. Kuang
*A Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick*
'Propulsive' SUNDAY TIMES
'Razor-sharp' TIME
'A wild ride' STYLIST
'Darkly comic' GQ
'A riot' PANDORA SYKES
'Hard to put down, harder to forget' STEPHEN KING
Athena Liu is a literary darling and June Hayward is literally nobody.
White lies When Athena dies in a freak accident, June steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name Juniper Song.
Dark humour But as evidence threatens June's stolen success, she will discover exactly how far she…
Wisdom From the Edge describes what anthropologists can do to contribute to the social and cultural changes that shape a social future of well-being and viability.
Paul Stoller shows how anthropologists can develop sensuously described ethnographic narratives to communicate powerfully their insights to a wide range of audiences. These insights are filled with wisdom about how respect for nature is central to the future of humankind. Ultimately, Wisdom from the Edge underscores the importance of recognizing and applying indigenous wisdom to the social problems that threaten the future.
