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…
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://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…
In this interview with Anna D’Alton (LSE Review of Books), Naila Kabeer discusses her new book, Renegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh Paradox, forthcoming from LSE Press in Septe…
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.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…