Joshua M. Bluteau on his book, Dressing Up
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BluteauDressing Emerson Yuan-Jhen Lee: For many people, the men’s bespoke fashion industry is undoubtedly a mysterious and mesmerizing field. …
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BluteauDressing Emerson Yuan-Jhen Lee: For many people, the men’s bespoke fashion industry is undoubtedly a mysterious and mesmerizing field. …
Page 99 of my dissertation, titled “Hearing Voices as Social Agents,” involves the observation that sparked my interest in auditory verbal hallucinations in the first place: those who…
https://www.plutobooks.com/product/audit-culture/ Ilana: Reading about audit culture as a professor feels so much like a fish being told “notice this water.” What inspired you to compare…
https://sunypress.edu/Books/U/Unscripting-the-Present2 Elaine Lu: If you were to describe in one sentence the core argument of the book, what would that sentence be, and why? Timothy Gitzen…
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/passport-entanglements/paper Dodom Kim: Passport Entanglements offers a vivid portrayal of the plights of the Indonesian caregivers and domestic workers in Hong K…
https://www.sup.org/books/asian-studies/contesting-inequalities Yajie Chen: Even though I am familiar with the context and with some of the activist groups, you gave such vivid accounts of the…
Page 99 of my dissertation appears in a section exploring how immunity is communicated and understood across different domains of the Korean ginseng industry. The page opens with…
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo45558255.html Robyn Taylor-Neu: So, my first question is pretty standard: how would you explain the overarching argument of the book? J…
https://www.mediastudies.press/pub/nb-mapping-goffman Interview by Erving Goffman’s ghost, on the assumption that he would have had opinions about this research Erving Goffman: Why, when I …
“This exhibition was not aimed at inviting people into the Ballroom space as that’s not my responsibility, but to share some of the aesthetic tools from the culture…
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/vopli-vidopliassovas-tantsi-9781501363115/ Ifigeneia Gianne: What is the central focus and argument of your book on Tantsi, and why did you select this album …
https://bookshop.org/a/100347/9798988684404 Sherine Hamdy: Roxanne, I can’t believe the sequel to Death in a Nutshell is already here! As you know, I was a huge fan, but I think…
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691245034/code-work?srsltid=AfmBOoqR3xSPmEWlLgW2WQSbpHmIHhAiNmVkPChA7mQ5sTmoaGH_4Ebm Ilana Gershon: What insights into coding and Silicon Valley…
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/MakiharaLanguage Tony Webster: I want to say how much I enjoyed reading your book Language and Political Subjectivity: Stancemaking, Power and Politics in C…
My dissertation, Being Both: Negotiating Identity, Surveillance, and Belonging within Queer Middle Eastern and Queer Muslim Communities in the United States, explores how queer Muslims and queer Midd…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/beautiful-mystery Josh Reno: I just finished your book a week ago, and I feel like it is still happening to me. It is so good at exploring anxious,…
A review of the exhibit Dolly Parton: Journey of a Seeker at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Nashville, TN By Sarah D. Phillips The exhibit…
by Erika Alpert Krakoan national co-founder Magneto explains to diplomats at the new Krakoan Embassy in Jerusalem why mutants have decided to create their own language, from House…
by E. M. Elshaikh Last month, American Eagle released an ad campaign with actress Sydney Sweeney, modeled after a 1980s Calvin Klein denim ad. The campaign plays with…
The CaMP anthropology blog has been running for 10 years — our very first post was on September 4th, 2015. During this decade, we have celebrated 122 dissertations,…
My dissertation, With Other Men: Love, Narrative, and Belonging Among Same-Sex Attracted Men in New Orleans, is an ethnographic study of how love narratives—structured around the phrase “I…
https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295753119/satirical-tibet/ Shannon Ward: In the Introduction, you discuss zurza as a uniquely Tibetan genre of humour. Can you say more about how you first dis…
“After one candidate, the only one in a suit, described the many virtues of community involvement, a heckler shouted, “Frank, what clubs are you part of in the…
Page 99 of my dissertation drops the reader into what I call a “technological (dis)connective happening.” It captures a moment during the pandemic, when offline events moved online.…