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https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/how-data-need-people/776A73CBBE3EAA67243A4830514F1F62 Grey Gundaker: Although sociology and history of science have been around a long time, it took a whil…
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/heritage-fever-9780197756041 Byron Dueck: This fascinating study examines a recent groundswell of work to enshrine expressive practices as intangible cu…
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https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/being-understood/?SF1=work_id&ST1=CVIEW-67dd512c2ee28 Tsung-Lun Alan Wan: In your book, your discussion of signing songs really stood ou…
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-avatar-faculty/paper Jie Wu: Your framework draws on anthropology, psychology, psychiatry, epidemiology, communication, and game studies. How do you navigate …
https://www.dukeupress.edu/making-value Kenzell Huggins: This book draws from an eclectic mix of data, building on ethnographic exploration of Irish music sessions, interviews with members …
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501784446/digital-initiation-rites/#bookTabs=1 Mikkel Kenni Bruun: Digital Initiation Rites invites the reader on an ethnographic tour de force in…
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https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/MasquelierIn When we first decided to edit a book, following the success of the workshop on “Waiting” held at Tulane University in 2018, we had in mind a…
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isbn/9781800413023/html?lang=en&srsltid=AfmBOor53v9eMQDN9re1MILUy8hPJyJvYq9n7U15EyYlBPpCm-HAunkK Khoi Nguyen: As you state in your introduction, you…
https://nyupress.org/9781613322796/living-toward-justice/ Fanicy Sears: Can you just briefly describe what the Living Justice Project is and what the book seeks to do? Sonya E. Pritzker: Th…
By Erin Moriarty and Octavian Robinson When we think about The Crip Linguistics Reader, what strikes us most is not the theoretical architecture that it assembled. Rather, it…
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501778810/politics-of-tranquility/#bookTabs=1 Isla: First, I would like to thank you for conducting this challenging fieldwork, writing stories of…
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/atmospheric-knowledge/paper Birgit Abels and Patrick Eisenlohr on their book, Atmospheric Knowledge https://www.ucpress.edu/books/atmospheric-knowledge/paper …
https://gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/T/The-Evidence-Is-Life2 Timothy Loh: I love the framework of pilgrimage/peregrinación that you foreground in this book, drawing upon your interlocutors’ use…
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691273143/island-in-the-net?srsltid=AfmBOooW-5giq7V3PN0xLmnFIhC7onakRHbyvm1UQS2rcln2mBNs2G4U Bert Hoffmann: If the World Wide Web is the same ev…
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/borderland-circuitry/paper Shulan Sun: How would you introduce the main arguments of Borderland Circuitry in 2026, especially in light of the U.S. gover…
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BluteauDressing Emerson Yuan-Jhen Lee: For many people, the men’s bespoke fashion industry is undoubtedly a mysterious and mesmerizing field. …
Once upon a time, Sophia Balakian was a doctoral student at the University of Illinois. Once upon a time, I was (with Ellen Moodie) her co-advisor. We have…