Book Review Berliner, David C. Losing Culture. Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times. New Brunswick, Camden, Newark, New Jersey, and London: Rutgers University Press, 2020, 150 pages. Francisco Rivera Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution “I love the things I never had / with the others I no longer have,” wrote the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral (1958, 96) to express a longing for that which we have never owned. Arjun Appadurai (1996, 77) calls it a feeling for “losses that never took place.” Nostalgia is a theme long explored in literature, popular culture, and the arts. In recent years, nostalgia has seen a boom in anthropology, contemporary archaeology, social history, and heritage studies through studies on migration, exile, and deindustrialization. David Berliner has studied cultural transmission, nostalgia, and its anthropological derivations since the 2000s. Originally published in French under the title Perdre sa culture by Editions Zones Sensibles in 2018, Losing Culture is welcomed by an English reading audience. The book is a sober, almost frugal—with a single photo and no fgures or tables—edition of revised articles previously published. The theme is a growing sense of cultural loss. The book is an analysis of the place of the past in the present and the multiple discourses that are built around such nostalgia. Nostalgia is a complex notion, and many have attempted to define its contours, its derivations, and its conceptual trajectory. Losing Culture ofers a conceptual distinction between endonostalgia and exonostalgia to decipher the multiple forms taken by the diagnoses of loss and the experiences of longing. Endonostalgia refers to the “nostalgia for a past that has been experienced personally” (62). Exonostalgia is the longing for “a past that one has not personally lived, entailing feelings of loss that are detached from the direct experience of loss” (62). These ideas invite us to refect on the dynamism of nostalgic discourses and practices through time. Exploring exonostalgia as “the Francisco Rivera 1 Anthropologica 64.1 (2022)