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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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 …