Hanwool Choe takes the page 99 test
My dissertation is about instant messages among Korean family(-in-law) members. I particularly focus on how families make strategic use of everyday photo-/video-sharing to construct and perform their …
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Lindsey Pullam takes the page 99 test
The 99th page of my dissertation goes into substantial detail about why military cemeteries exist for Israeli Druze IDF soldiers (when no such cemeteries exist for Druze civilians).…
Denis Provencher on his book, Queer Maghrebi French
https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/isbn/9781781382790/ Interview by Adeli Block Adeli Block: Your monograph Queer Maghrebi French (2017) frequently references your first book, Queer Fre…
Justine Buck Quijada on her book, Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/buddhists-shamans-and-soviets-9780190916794 Interview by Claudia Lahr Claudia Lahr: What makes the subject of time – be it linear or recursive – so important i…
Shannon Ward takes the page 99 test
My dissertation, Learning Language, Transforming Knowledge: Language Socialization in Amdo, Tibet, examines young children’s social and linguistic development in China’s western borderlands. Based on …
Roberto J. González on his book, Connected
Interview by Patricia G. Lange https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520344211/connected Patricia G. Lange: According to your book, the people of the remote community of Talea in Oaxaca, Mexico have a say…
Guilherme Fians takes the Page 99 test
On page 99 of my dissertation, the reader finds themself in the middle of an ethnographic description of a heated political debate held during the 101st Universal Congress…
Gretchen Bakke on The Likeness
Interview by Krisztina Fehérváry https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520320048/the-likeness Krisztina Fehérváry: Something I love about great ethnography is the classic move of introducing the reader to…
Stuart Dunmore on his book, Language Revitalisation in Gaelic Scotland
Interview by Christian Puma-Ninacuri https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-language-revitalisation-in-gaelic-scotland.html Christian Puma-Ninacuri: Gaelic-medium education (GME) has been develope…
Lionel Wee and Robbie Goh on their book, Language, Space, and Cultural Play
Interview by Ida Hoequist https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/language-space-and-cultural-play/327DE07D95DC80767188DE0AA9139EDD Ida Hoequist: In this book, you combine affect theory with an …
Jane Setter on her book, Your Voice Speaks Volumes
Interview by Paola Medina González https://global.oup.com/academic/product/your-voice-speaks-volumes-9780198813842 Paola Medina González: In your book, you address a variety of topics including speec…
William Leap on his book, Language Before Stonewall
Interview by Brian Adam-Thies https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030335151 Background The Stonewall “Riots” occurred from June 28th-July 3rd, 1969 in New York City, Greenwich Village. These event…
Michelle LaFrance on her book, Institutional Ethnography
Interview by Sarah Fischer https://upcolorado.com/utah-state-university-press/item/3649-institutional-ethnography Sarah Fischer: You are an English professor, and your book deals with various subfiel…
Elizabeth Fox takes the page 99 test
I have been fascinated by Mongolia’s capital city since my first visit in 2012. Despite my familiarity with the anthropological literature, on arrival in Ulaanbaatar I was utterly…
Kate Fleming and Umberto Ansaldo discusses Revivals, Nationalism, and Linguistic Discrimination
Interview by Claudia Matachana https://www.routledge.com/Revivals-Nationalism-and-Linguistic-Discrimination-Threatening-Languages/Fleming-Ansaldo/p/book/9781138193314 Claudia Matachana: Through the b…
JoAnne Yates on her book, Engineering Rules
https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/engineering-rules Interview by Michael Prentice Michael Prentice: Engineering Rules is your third book following Control through Communication and Structuring th…
Sabina Perrino on her book, Narrating Migration
https://www.routledge.com/Narrating-Migration-Intimacies-of-Exclusion-in-Northern-Italy-1st-Edition/Perrino/p/book/9781138584679 Interview by Daniela Narvaez Daniela Narvaez: In your book, you reflec…
Regna Darnell’s reflections upon retirement
What is your morning routine? I’m a night owl with frequent insomnia. On a good morning, the CBC radio alarm plays local and global news from 7:30-8:30. I…
Karen Strassler on her new book, Demanding Images
https://www.dukeupress.edu/demanding-images Interview by Ilana Gershon Ilana Gershon: Your book is about the image-event, and I am wondering if you could explain what an image-event is, and how you…
Christina Dunbar-Hester on her book, Hacking Diversity
Interview by Héctor Beltrán https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691182070/hacking-diversity Héctor Beltrán: In your ethnographic work with voluntaristic open technology communities across…
David Zeitlyn on his book, Mambila Divination
Interview by Stephan Feuchtwang https://www.crcpress.com/Mambila-Divination-Framing-Questions-Constructing-Answers/Zeitlyn/p/book/9780367199500 Stephan Feuchtwang: Is divination a ritual, despite its…
Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth takes the p. 99 test
Opening to page 99 of Finding the Singing Spruce: Craft Labor, Global Forests, and Musical Instrument Makers in Appalachia, you’ll find my reflections on choosing apprenticeship as the ethnographic…
Kimberly Chong on her new book, Best Practice
Interview by Johannes Lenhard https://www.dukeupress.edu/best-practice Johannes Lenhard: Your book is continuing a so far relatively short line of monographs in anthropology started by perhaps Caitli…
Elizabeth Falconi and Kathryn Graber’s edited Storytelling as Narrative Practice
https://brill.com/view/title/38668 Interview by Dilara Inam Dilara Inam: As you say you blur many taken-for-granted distinctions between spontaneous and rehearsed or quotidian and unconventional ways…