Taylor Lowe takes the page 99 test
My dissertation analyzed the work of self-described Thai “design activists” who designed a building’s form, programming, and m…
My dissertation analyzed the work of self-described Thai “design activists” who designed a building’s form, programming, and m…
When I took on this challenge, I was hoping that page 99 of my dissertation would happen to contain some brilliant insight of mine, or at least some…
What do folklore, folklife, folk music, folk medicine, folk belief, and folk horror have in common? Apparently, something, although just what is open to debate. It all hinges,…
Carrie Lane: If you were addressing an audience of new college grads about to begin their post-college careers, how would you describe your book and its argument? Claudia Strauss:…
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501776465/throw-your-voice/#bookTabs=1 Alex Warburton: Your two main sites, a puppet theater and a children’s group home, aren’t obviously connect…
Diego Arispe-Bazán: The argument of the book hinges on the concepts of communicative care and convivencia (living together). How did you identify these phenomena ethnographically, and how have…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/incommunicable Daniel Krugman: This book is clearly a cumulation of thinking throughout your career arriving at a generative and fruitful apex. When was the first mo…
Tarleton Gillespie: This book is so many things, and I’m really excited that it’s out and can now be taken up in so many conversations – about the…
The page 99 test suggests that the core of a text might be found on one of its pages. After I submitted my dissertation to MIT Libraries and…
https://www.routledge.com/Community-Solidarity-and-Multilingualism-in-a-Transnational-Social-Movement-A-Critical-Sociolinguistic-Ethnography-of-Emmaus/GarridoSarda/p/book/9780367534530 Maryam …
https://beekeepingintheendtimes.com/Home Mira Guth: In the book, you write beautifully about the power of storytelling to both gather knowledge and incite action—from ethnographic stories of c…
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/going-tactile-9780197778029 Bob Offer-Westort: Going Tactile is such an exciting book: It’s a unique read in a number of ways, many of which …
https://www.dukeupress.edu/composing-violence Drew Kerr: On one reading, you’ve offered a fresh take on the exclusionary Hindu nationalist project of perpetual crisis re/creating an intern…
https://www.routledge.com/The-Anthropology-of-Digital-Practices-Dispatches-from-the-Online-Culture-Wars/Postill/p/book/9781032370828 Katrien Pype: In this book you not only aim to describe the…
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/moral-atmospheres/9780231210416 Patrick Eisenlohr: Moral Atmospheres is not just a rich portrait of the freewheeling mediascapes of a Lahore marketplace, it is al…
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=34329 Drew Kerr: Soft power, nation branding, pop culture diplomacy, anime, manga, anxiety, hope, all feature centrally in your wonderful book. Affect emerg…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/atmospheric-noise Drew Kerr: Atmospheric Noise highlights multiple sensory modes involved with negotiating airport noise. On first brush, the sonic obviously invokes…
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781501511561/html?lang=en Elizabeth McHugh: On page 25 you talk about how you came to be involved with this project. Had you known about the lan…
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BerlinerBecoming#:~:text=Description,an%20array%20of%20astonishing%20experiences. Todd Meyers: I think a fair place with which to open a discussion of Becom…
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520389380/heavy-metal-islam Lara Sabra: Your book has shown that especially in the Middle East, which suffers from censorship and authoritarian regimes, art ca…
https://www.routledge.com/Internet-Video-Culture-in-China-YouTube-Youku-and-the-Space-in-Between/Moskowitz/p/book/9781032092881 Marcella Szablewicz: In media anthropology there is always the q…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/activist-affordances This interview was conducted in February 2023. Nate Tilton: How does activist affordances address the limitations of the social model of disa…
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo210361609.html Danilyn Rutherford: I’m so excited to see Home Signs in print. We found out about each other a couple years ago and have b…
Cornell University Press Nomaan Hasan: I want to begin with the observation that the ethnographic attention of this book is devoted to the minor. At the very outset…