Crystal Abidin on her book, Internet Celebrity
https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/Internet-Celebrity/?k=9781787560796 Interview by Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson: What do you see as the main focus and argument of th…
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Mack Hagood on his new book, Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control
https://www.dukeupress.edu/hush Interview by Jacob Smith Jacob Smith: Hush offers a strikingly original take on the history of devices and practices that offer control over the sonic environment. As…
Jennifer Robertson on her new book, Robo sapiens japanicus
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520283206/robo-sapiens-japanicus Interview by Daniel White Daniel White: In addition to the variety of topics you have explored in Japan over your career, you have be…
Katherine Verdery on her book, My Life as a Spy
https://www.dukeupress.edu/my-life-as-a-spy Interview by Tim Gitzen Tim Gitzen: You describe this book—and the process of reading your police file and writing the book—as part memoir. This is evident…
Goodwin and Cekaite on their book, Embodied Family Choreography
https://www.routledge.com/Embodied-Family-Choreography-Practices-of-Control-Care-and-Mundane-Creativity/Goodwin-Cekaite/p/book/9781138633261 Interview by Yeon-Ju Bae YJB: In arguing that the family a…
Angie Heo on her new book, The Political Lives of Saints
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520297982/the-political-lives-of-saints Interview by Alice Yeh Alice Yeh: Talk of persecution and extinction often accompanies media coverage of Christians in the …
Jonathan Rosa on his new book, Looking Like a Language and Sounding Like a Race
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/looking-like-a-language-sounding-like-a-race-9780190634735 Interview by Jessica López-Espino Jessica López-Espino: Let’s start with your title, what does it me…
Birth as Ritual/Ritual as Birth
Cultural anthropologist, Robbie Davis-Floyd, is considered by many as the Queen of Childbirth Studies. A Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of…
Elise Berman on her new book, Talking Like Children
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/talking-like-children-9780190876982 Interview by Shannon Ward Shannon Ward: Most chapters of your book illustrated the enactment of “aged agency” t…
Eitan Wilf on his new book, Creativity on Demand
https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo34094110.html Interview by Ilana Gershon Ilana Gershon: You describe how, when you explained your previous work on regimented jazz instructio…
Haidy Geismar on her new book, Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/museum-object-lessons-for-the-digital-age Interview by Joshua Bell Joshua Bell: Your book is a manifesto of sorts of what the digital – as a relatively ne…
Author Interview: Q&A with Rachel O’Neill on Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy
In this author interview, we speak to Rachel O’Neill about her recent book, Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy, which offers an ethnographic study of the ‘seduction industry…
Author Interview: Mary Evans, Sarah Moore and Hazel Johnstone on Detecting the Social: Order and Disorder in Post-1970s Detective Fiction
In their new book, Detecting the Social: Order and Disorder in Post-1970s Detective Fiction, Mary Evans, Sarah Moore and Hazel Johnstone show how twenty-first-century detective fiction offers insight…
Author Interview: Mary Evans, Sarah Moore and Hazel Johnstone on Detecting the Social: Order and Disorder in Post-1970s Detective Fiction
In their new book, Detecting the Social: Order and Disorder in Post-1970s Detective Fiction, Mary Evans, Sarah Moore and Hazel Johnstone show how twenty-first-century detective fiction offers insight…
Melissa Gregg on her new book, Counterproductive
Interview by Ilana Gershon https://www.dukeupress.edu/counterproductive Ilana Gershon: When did the argument for Counterproductive come to you in the process of researching and writing? Melissa Gregg…
John Postill on his new book, The Rise of Nerd Politics
Interview by Angela VandenBroek https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/R/bo27407562.html Angela VandenBroek: The Rise of Nerd Politics is a captivating description and analysis o…
Sarah Shulist on her new book, Transforming Indigeneity
Interview by Shannon Ward https://utorontopress.com/ca/transforming-indigeneity-2 Shannon Ward: Your book demonstrates how children in São Gabriel actively respond to discourse that frames Indigene…
Britt Halvorson on her new book, Conversionary Sites
https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo28267368.html Interview by Josh Reno Josh Reno: What were your primary goals in writing this book? Britt: Halvorson: One of my goals in writi…
Island in the Stream: A discussion with author Michael Lambek on his new release
The Scholarly Publishing program at University of Toronto Press has been producing the Anthropological Horizons series since 1991. The series is home to imaginative, immersive ethnographic works that…
Roxanne Varzi on her ethnographic novel, Last Man Underground
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=25983 Harvey Stark: What inspired you to write Last Scene Underground and what one or two main things do you hope your readers will come away with? Roxanne Varzi: …
Anthropology Otherwise: Thoughts on a Graphic Novel Experiment – Part 2
This is the second of a two-part blog post by Marie-Eve Carrier Moisan discussing the challenges and potentials of part of transforming ethnographic research into graphic novel form.…
Anthropology Otherwise: Thoughts on a Graphic Novel Experiment
In the first of a two-part blog post, Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan talks about the challenges of adapting her ethnographic work on sex tourism in Brazil into graphic novel form.…
Teaching & Learning Creative Habits: The Evolution of #archink
With #inktober now in its 10th year, Author Katherine Cook explains the on-going success of the campaign, and discusses the evolution of #archink. As instructors, we often have rather lofty…
Kristina Jacobsen on her new book, The Sound of Navajo Country
https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469631868/the-sound-of-navajo-country/?title_id=3849 Morgan Siewert: On its face, your project to analyze expressive culture among Navajo country music artists using…