Omotayo’s book, You Can’t Go to War Without Song
https://iupress.org/9780253063212/you-cant-go-to-war-without-song/ Tayo Jolaosho died on October 21, 2021, months before their book was published in July 2022. We honor their work and memory …
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Stephen Chrisomalis on his book, Reckonings
Interview by Grace East https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262044639/reckonings/ Grace East: Reckonings whisks us away on a journey through time and space and introduces us to how people en…
Constantine Nakassis on his book, Onscreen/Offscreen
Interview by Chris Ball https://utorontopress.com/9781487541804 Christopher Ball: Onscreen/Offscreen tracks Tamil film of the first decade and a half of the 2000s through analysis of di…
Alana Brekelmans takes the page 99 test
Page 99 of my thesis opens with an evocative image: ‘Sleepy Cloncurry, the scene of more unfulfilled promises than any other town in Australia, clung to its horses…
Lindsey Clouse on her book, Stigmatized on Screen
Interview by Jeremy A. Rud https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793647412/Stigmatized-on-Screen-How-Hollywood-Portrays-Nonstandard-Dialects Jeremy Rud: Linguists have long called out the language at…
Tero Frestadius takes the page 99 test for his dissertation
Page 99 ends my verbatim account of broken dialogue in an anti-gentrification rally in Leimert Park, LosAngeles in 2017. This third of a page consists of three references…
Kimberly Hassel takes the page 99 test
Page 99 of my dissertation begins with a passport photograph taken of me in 2016, juxtaposed with a purikura photograph taken in the same year. Purikura, a colloquialism…
Elizabeth Ellcessor on her book, In Case of Emergency
Interview by Volha Verbilovich New York University Press Volha Verbilovich: Emergency media are cultural and temporal. In Case of Emergency develops these definitions, revealing the history…
Niku T’arhechu T’arhesi takes the page 99 test
“Yes,” I said. My answer left you like a glutton without food—unsatisfied. Before you could request thick ethnographic details, I handed you page 99 of Endangered Words and…
Carl Rommel on his book, Egypt’s Football Revolution
Interview by Jessica Winegar https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/rommel-egypts-football-revolution Jessica Winegar: The study of sports has been somewhat marginal in the field of anthropology….
Dodom Kim takes the page 99 test
On page 99 of my dissertation, I end a section that traces a series of Chinese newspaper reports on a pregnant woman’s long-winded quest for the so-called “birth…
Leah Junck takes the page 99 test
Page 99 of my dissertation is part of my methodology section and connects testing research moments to the topic at hand: the use of the dating application Tinder…
Katy Highet takes the page 99 test
I wasn’t expecting my p. 99 – right in the middle of my methodology – to be particularly revealing. But as luck (or indeed Ford Madox Ford) would…
Netta Avineri and Jesse Harasta on their edited volume, Metalinguistic Communities
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-76900-0 Last fall, we published a co-edited volume entitled Metalinguistic Communities: Case Studies of Agency, Ideology, and Symbolic Uses of …
Yuliya Grinberg takes the page 99 test
At one Quantified Self event, Dave offered a particularly striking comparison between automobiles and bodies, one, he says, his father, a car aficionado, failed to fully appreciate to…
Julia Hildebrand on her book, Aerial Play
Interview by Maximilian Jablonowski https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-2195-6 Maximilian Jablonowski: While reading your book, one learns about your “transformation in a dron…
E. Moore Quinn on the edited volume Women and Pilgrimage
https://cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/book/10.1079/9781789249392.0000 It is interesting, and often useful, once a project has come to fruition (that is, seen the light of print), to breathe deepl…
Alessandro Duranti on his edited volume, Rethinking Politeness with Henri Bergson
Interview with Q https://global.oup.com/academic/product/rethinking-politeness-with-henri-bergson-9780197637869 The following dialogue is a transcript of an interview by a member of our sta…
Cat Tebaldi takes the page 99 test for her dissertation
My dissertation looked at how far-right narratives circulate through the ensemble of alternatives to public schools that conservative and far-right groups use to educate— homeschools, far-right onli…
Ashlee Dauphinais takes the page 99 test
My dissertation has been a deeply personal project from the beginning. It would make sense, then, that page 99 finds me in the middle of a section titled…
Inês Signorini on her edited book, Language Practices of Cyberhate
https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-8068-8 In an interview published in July 2021 (https://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/080-083_Entrev-Benjamin_305-1-1…
Patricia Lange discusses The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology
https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Media-Anthropology/Costa-Lange-Haynes-Sinanan/p/book/9781032007762 Media is fundamentally about connection. Around the world, life is being…
Ratan Kumar Roy on his book, Television in Bangladesh
Interview by Sharonee Dasgupta https://www.routledge.com/Television-in-Bangladesh-News-and Audiences/Roy/p/book/9780367354459 Sharonee Dasgupta: The book starts from the question trying to …
Rebecca Stein on her book, Screen Shots
Interview by Areeg Faisal https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=31376 Areeg Faisal: Screen Shots is an ethnography of photography, cameras as colonial barometers, in the hands of a broad rang…