Carl Rommel on his book, Egypt’s Football Revolution
Interview by Jessica Winegar https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/rommel-egypts-football-revolution Jessica Winegar: The study of sports has been somewhat marginal in the field of anthropology….
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Netta Avineri and Jesse Harasta on their edited volume, Metalinguistic Communities
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-76900-0 Last fall, we published a co-edited volume entitled Metalinguistic Communities: Case Studies of Agency, Ideology, and Symbolic Uses of …
Q and A with Professor Tim Newburn on Orderly Britain
We speak to Professor Tim Newburn about his new co-authored book, Orderly Britain, written with Andrew Ward, which explores facets of daily life – dog mess, smoking, drinking, parking, queuing,…
Julia Hildebrand on her book, Aerial Play
Interview by Maximilian Jablonowski https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-2195-6 Maximilian Jablonowski: While reading your book, one learns about your “transformation in a dron…
E. Moore Quinn on the edited volume Women and Pilgrimage
https://cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/book/10.1079/9781789249392.0000 It is interesting, and often useful, once a project has come to fruition (that is, seen the light of print), to breathe deepl…
Alessandro Duranti on his edited volume, Rethinking Politeness with Henri Bergson
Interview with Q https://global.oup.com/academic/product/rethinking-politeness-with-henri-bergson-9780197637869 The following dialogue is a transcript of an interview by a member of our sta…
Inês Signorini on her edited book, Language Practices of Cyberhate
https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-8068-8 In an interview published in July 2021 (https://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/080-083_Entrev-Benjamin_305-1-1…
Patricia Lange discusses The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology
https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Media-Anthropology/Costa-Lange-Haynes-Sinanan/p/book/9781032007762 Media is fundamentally about connection. Around the world, life is being…
Ratan Kumar Roy on his book, Television in Bangladesh
Interview by Sharonee Dasgupta https://www.routledge.com/Television-in-Bangladesh-News-and Audiences/Roy/p/book/9780367354459 Sharonee Dasgupta: The book starts from the question trying to …
Rebecca Stein on her book, Screen Shots
Interview by Areeg Faisal https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=31376 Areeg Faisal: Screen Shots is an ethnography of photography, cameras as colonial barometers, in the hands of a broad rang…
Irene Theodoropoulou and Johanna Tovar on their edited volume, Research Companion to Language and Country Branding
https://www.routledge.com/Research-Companion-to-Language-and-Country-Branding/Theodoropoulou-Tovar/p/book/9780367343590 Brands are omnipresent in our lives and they help us make choices as con…
Falina Enriquez discusses her new book, The Costs of the Gig Economy
Interview by Owen Kohl https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p086687 Owen Kohl: Let’s start with the powerful title. Can you briefly describe the gig economy in question? And …
Andrea Leone-Pizzighella on her book Discourses of Student Success
Interview by Clara Miller-Broomfield https://www.routledge.com/Discourses-of-Student-Success-Language-Class-and-Social-Personae-in-Italian/Leone-Pizzighella/p/book/9780367681111 Clara Mille…
Chihab El Khachab on his book, Making Film in Egypt
Interview by Meg Morley https://aucpress.com/product/making-film-in-egypt/https://aucpress.com/product/making-film-in-egypt/ Meg Morley: How do/would you explain the central arguments of yo…
Ergin Bulut on his book, A Precarious Game
Interview by Xiao Xe https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501746536/a-precarious-game/ Xiao Ke: It was a great pleasure to read about such a fun topic, executed in a rigorous way, …
Patricia Spyer on her book, Orphaned Landscapes
Interview by Karen Strassler https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823298693/orphaned-landscapes/ Karen Strassler: You are writing about a moment of profound destabilization and disorientation: …
Elliott Oring on his book, Joking Asides
Interview by Emily Bianchi https://upcolorado.com/utah-state-university-press/item/2920-joking-asides Emily Bianchi: I was wondering what brought you to write Joking Asides: The Theory, Ana…
Tomas Matza on his book, Shock Therapy
Interview by Natalja Czarnecki https://www.dukeupress.edu/shock-therapy Tomas Matza on his book, Natalja Czarnecki: In your ethnography of the popular “psychotherapeutic turn” in po…
Robert W. Gehl and Sean T. Lawson on Social Engineering
Interview by Emma Briant https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/social-engineering Emma Briant: Cambridge Analytica often pitched their methods as a contemporary digital marketing firm –…
Sandra Kurfürst on her book, Dancing Youth
Interview by Jonathan DeVore https://cup.columbia.edu/book/dancing-youth/9783837656343 Jonathan DeVore: Congratulations on your new book! First of all, can you recount how you became involv…
Leya Mathew discusses her book, English Linguistic Imperialism from Below
https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/English-Linguistic-Imperialism-from-Below/?k=9781788929134 Interview by Shivani Nag Shivani Nag: It would be helpful if you could first intr…
Fang Xu on her book, Silencing Shanghai
Interview by Andy Zhenzhou Tan Andy Zhenzhou Tan: The topic of your book – the (potential) loss of a language variety under language standardization – is of wide…
Ayalet Fader on her book, Hidden Heretics
Interview by Yzza Sedrati https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691169903/hidden-heretics Yzza Sedrati: What led you to divide the book in two? And what or who is the book in co…
Jérôme Camal on his book, Creolized Aurality
Interview by Sara Isabel Castro Font https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo38870959.html Sara Isabel Castro Font: In this book you explore the sounds and practices of gwoka …