Roxanne Varzi on her anthropological novel, Death in a Nutshell
Sherine Hamdy: Roxanne, it was such a delight to read this book! I’m not sure what I was expecting – well, I’ll admit that I was expecting a…
Sherine Hamdy: Roxanne, it was such a delight to read this book! I’m not sure what I was expecting – well, I’ll admit that I was expecting a…
Matei Candea, Taras Fedirko, Paolo Heywood, and Fiona Wright https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487548841 We’re delighted to announce the publication of our new edited volume,…
https://www.sup.org/books/anthropology/feeling-machines Nick Seaver: Readers may have heard about care robots before, perhaps even within the context of the aging population of Japan, but your…
https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/pacific/uneven-connections Ira Bashkow: Uneven Connections is a fascinating study of mobile phones in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Phones used to be exp…
https://brill.com/display/title/70944?language=en Interview by Janet McIntosh Janet McIntosh: It’s really a remarkable book. I’ve never read anything quite like it. It’s i…
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/making-sense/paper Timothy Loh: Thank you so much for this wonderful and incisive book! It’s such an exciting contribution not only to deaf anthropology and sign …
https://www.sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/monuments-decolonized Sultan Doughan: There is so much material to mine and ask questions about in this wonderful book, Monuments Decolonized: Alg…
https://www.stevenfeld.net/acoustemology-four-lectures Marina Peterson: It was a real pleasure to read the four chapters of Acoustemology: Four Lectures, which span your career. I was struck b…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/six-paintings-from-papunya Jennifer Biddle: As a way of beginning, could you briefly introduce yourselves, and what brought you together on this project. …
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501777783/the-politics-of-language-oppression-in-tibet Shannon Ward: Your book deals centrally with the biopolitics of language oppression, charti…
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/uncommon-cause/paper Chip Zuckerman: Thank you, John, for engaging with me about your new book. I should start by telling readers that we went to graduate school …
https://www.routledge.com/Mother-Tongue-Prestige-The-Sociolinguistics-of-Privilege-in-Urban-Middle-Class-Education-in-India/Chandras/p/book/9781032404554 Priya M. Dabak: This book is divided i…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/disability-worlds This interview took place on Zoom rather than email, and has been edited to reflect our vibrant conversation Bridget Bradley: Having followed yo…
In this interview with Anna D’Alton, Sarah Kerr discusses her new book, Wealth, Poverty and Enduring Inequality: Let’s Talk Wealtherty. The book argues that to tackle inequality today,…
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/between-self-and-community/9781978831384/ Hyemin Lee: Your book wonderfully illustrates the encounters between globally dominant socialization ideologies…
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/sovereign-attachments/paper Drew Kerr: I’m so excited you’ve taken this time to discuss Sovereign Attachments! It sits as one among, now, a number of urgent book-…
https://punctumbooks.com/titles/speaking-with-the-dead-an-ethnography-of-extrahuman-experience/ Kristina Wirtz: Congratulations on this lovely book, Matt! It is a fascinating and empathetic ac…
https://press.umich.edu/Books/L/Learning-to-Love2 Jiarui Sun:. Throughout the book you have emphasized that New Life, the psychospiritual self-development program you studied, did not “have an…
Page 99 of my dissertation offers only a half-page of writing. The top half contains a screenshot from YouTube of the original soundtrack (OST) for the Hum TV…
Hyemin Lee: Your book, Amdo Lullaby: An Ethnography of Childhood and Language Shift on the Tibetan Plateau, offers an insightful exploration of the anthropological question of how senses…
https://www.sup.org/books/asian-studies/millennial-north-korea Haeeun Shin: Could you share about your intellectual trajectory of Millennial North Korea? What triggered you to have an interest…
In this interview with Anna D’Alton, Sam Friedman and Aaron Reeves discuss their new book, Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite. Drawing on years of…
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…