Catherine Rhodes on her book, Undoing Modernity
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…
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…
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/kill-talk-9780197808023 (Author’s Note for Context: The preface and introduction of Kill Talk make clear that this book does not claim to…
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…
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…