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…
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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…
Thomas D. Zlatic and Sara Van Den Berg on Walter Ong’s Language as Hermeunetic
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501714498/language-as-hermeneutic/ Maddy Adams: You are both professors of English, and this blog is an anthropology blog. Walter Ong’s work has traveled…
Tanja Ahlin takes the pg. 99 test
Page 99 of my thesis is so short I can quote it here in its entirety. Here it goes: Love My mother never told me Love is a…
Erin Gould takes the page 99 test
My dissertation entitled, “Youth Transformations in Storytelling: Transmutability, Haunting, and Fen al Hikaya in Marrakech, Morocco” discusses fen al hikaya, the famous form of oral Moroccan public a…
Patricia G. Lange on her new book, Thanks for Watching
https://upcolorado.com/university-press-of-colorado/item/3737-thanks-for-watching Interview by Jan English-Lueck Jan English-Lueck: You have been writing about YouTubers, on and off screen, for over…
Michelle Williams takes the page 99 test
One half of page 99 of my doctoral thesis is a photo, taken at eye level of a group of Tongan students sitting cross-legged on the ground of…
Monica Heller’s Reflections upon Retirement
How did you discover linguistic anthropology? Why did it attract you? I kind of sidled into it. The initial interest came from growing up in Montréal in the…
Judith T. Irvine and Susan Gal on their new book
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/signs-of-difference/E69813363E4CD9927C6C8E1BD2FC3011 Interview by Hannah McElgunn Hannah McElgunn: Signs of Difference begins with analyses that draw from long te…
Jennifer Hsieh takes the page 99 test
Jennifer Hsieh Page 99 Test Media scholars, philosophers, and anthropologists have all written about noise—that mysterious sonic object that can be grating to the ear at the same…
Jasmine Folz on her dissertation
Page 99 of my dissertation about free and open source software in India begins with a description of children dancing at a community centre in a Bengaluru slum.…
Nicholas Emlen on his book, Language, Coffee, and Migration on an Andean-Amazonian Frontier
https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/language-coffee-and-migration-on-an-andean-amazonian-frontier Interview by Gaya Morris This book is an ethnography of multilingualism in the Alto Urubamba Valley, on …
Don Kulick on his book, A Death in the Rainforest
https://www.workman.com/products/a-death-in-the-rainforest Excerpted from original New Books Network podcast https://newbooksnetwork.com/don-kulick-a-death-in-the-rainforest-how-a-language-and-a-way-…
Marcel Danesi discusses his book on memes and pop culture
https://brill.com/view/title/54309 Interview by Leila Mzali Leila Mzali: How did you initially become interested in the study of youth and pop culture? How did you realize that memes, while…
Sujatha Fernandes talks about her new book, Curated Stories
https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190618049.001.0001/acprof-9780190618049 Interview by Ben Ale-Ebrahim Ben Ale-Ebrahim: What led you to first start thinking about storytel…
Jessica Hardin discusses her book, Faith and the Pursuit of Health
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/faith-and-the-pursuit-of-health/9780813592923 Courtney Handman: Can you give a brief overview of the main theoretical and ethnographic issues that you discuss i…
Angela Reyes and Stanton Wortham talk about their new book
https://www.routledge.com/Discourse-Analysis-beyond-the-Speech-Event-1st-Edition/Wortham-Reyes/p/book/9780415839501 Interview by Alex McGrath Alex McGrath: Your book very concisely addresses an issue…