Roxanne Varzi on her anthropological novel, Death in a Nutshell
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…
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,…
My dissertation Making Chinese Orthodox explored the Chinese Orthodox Church as a site of interaction between Russian and Chinese states. Page 99 comes at the end of the…
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…
Mike Mena, Brooklyn College Why are all my favorite black and brown heroes so… insecure. They whine. They cry. They question every decision they make. They always ask…
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…
Miranda Sheild Johansson is an academic at UCL anthropology who has just published a book with Cambridge University Press and was asked to sign a new generative licensing…
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://utorontopress.com/9781487554279/untold-stories/?srsltid=AfmBOoq615DQfP5E2-AcCtkGe0xFZKGL5LbK2Oe7WywXSdqOaxZZsAeD Cécile Evers: In the beginning of Untold Stories, you recount an anecdo…
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498594219/The-Relationship-People-Mediating-Love-and-Marriage-in-Twenty-First-Century-Japan Robert Marshall: How did you decide to study Japanese matchmakers? …
The Silent Knight: Ideologies of Languagelessness in BATGIRL (2000-2006) by Mike Mena Why study comics? Simple: they reflect and refract ideologies present in everyday life. Comics are a…
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…
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/between-self-and-community/9781978831384/ Hyemin Lee: Your book wonderfully illustrates the encounters between globally dominant socialization ideologies…
I wish I could say the 99th page of my dissertation was somehow at least partiallyilluminating about what I tried to say with my doctoral research, but alas.…
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/sovereign-attachments/paper Drew Kerr: I’m so excited you’ve taken this time to discuss Sovereign Attachments! It sits as one among, now, a number of urgent book-…
https://punctumbooks.com/titles/speaking-with-the-dead-an-ethnography-of-extrahuman-experience/ Kristina Wirtz: Congratulations on this lovely book, Matt! It is a fascinating and empathetic ac…
https://press.umich.edu/Books/L/Learning-to-Love2 Jiarui Sun:. Throughout the book you have emphasized that New Life, the psychospiritual self-development program you studied, did not “have an…