https://sunypress.edu/Books/U/Unscripting-the-Present2 Elaine Lu: If you were to describe in one sentence the core argument of the book, what would that sentence be, and why? Timothy Gitzen…
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https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo45558255.html Robyn Taylor-Neu: So, my first question is pretty standard: how would you explain the overarching argument of the book? J…
https://www.mediastudies.press/pub/nb-mapping-goffman Interview by Erving Goffman’s ghost, on the assumption that he would have had opinions about this research Erving Goffman: Why, when I …
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https://bookshop.org/a/100347/9798988684404 Sherine Hamdy: Roxanne, I can’t believe the sequel to Death in a Nutshell is already here! As you know, I was a huge fan, but I think…
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/MakiharaLanguage Tony Webster: I want to say how much I enjoyed reading your book Language and Political Subjectivity: Stancemaking, Power and Politics in C…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/beautiful-mystery Josh Reno: I just finished your book a week ago, and I feel like it is still happening to me. It is so good at exploring anxious,…
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/on-the-record/paper Jennifer Chacon: You note in the book that when immigrant residents want to avail themselves of various forms of relief from the threat of de…
Interviewed by Kristina Jacobsen Kristina Jacobsen: Your book takes up two longstanding interests of anthropology: Indigeneity and modernity. Did you originally set out to study these topics o…
https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/guarded-by-two-jaguars Max Conrad: You argue that Catholicism as a religion facilitates heteroglossia and is ultimately shaped – formed and reformed – by dialo…
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/circulations/paper Rachel Apone: Thank you for this creative, rich, and thought-provoking book! The book offers a fascinating argument about the history of Tok Pi…
https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/rainforest-radio Bernard Perley: You mention how radio as a medium introduced new domains for language use, but also as an affirmation of traditional forms of …
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691244471/making-a-mindful-nation Bingjing Yang: I thoroughly enjoyed reading your book and have started practicing mindfulness myself to better…
In this interview with LSE Review of Books Managing Editor Anna D’Alton, Danny Dorling discusses his new book, The Next Crisis: What We Think About the Future which…
https://www.sup.org/books/anthropology/common-circuits Biella Coleman: Drawing from fieldwork in three global cities and three hacker spaces, Common Circuits examines how hackers in these coll…
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https://www.sup.org/books/revolution-within Sherine Hamdy: Yasmin, I loved this book, and I want to start by saying how much I admire the amount of work and careful thought and writing…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/hailing-the-state Ilana Gershon: Why did you decide to call your book, Hailing the State? What becomes available for analysis when you understand protest as am…
https://www.routledge.com/Power-Affect-and-Identity-in-the-Linguistic-Landscape-Chinese-Commun/Yao/p/book/9781032341064 Paul Gruba: Could you briefly define linguistic landscape and perhaps te…
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…