Guilherme Fians takes the Page 99 test
On page 99 of my dissertation, the reader finds themself in the middle of an ethnographic description of a heated political debate held during the 101st Universal Congress…
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Gretchen Bakke on The Likeness
Interview by Krisztina Fehérváry https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520320048/the-likeness Krisztina Fehérváry: Something I love about great ethnography is the classic move of introducing the reader to…
Stuart Dunmore on his book, Language Revitalisation in Gaelic Scotland
Interview by Christian Puma-Ninacuri https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-language-revitalisation-in-gaelic-scotland.html Christian Puma-Ninacuri: Gaelic-medium education (GME) has been develope…
Lionel Wee and Robbie Goh on their book, Language, Space, and Cultural Play
Interview by Ida Hoequist https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/language-space-and-cultural-play/327DE07D95DC80767188DE0AA9139EDD Ida Hoequist: In this book, you combine affect theory with an …
Jane Setter on her book, Your Voice Speaks Volumes
Interview by Paola Medina González https://global.oup.com/academic/product/your-voice-speaks-volumes-9780198813842 Paola Medina González: In your book, you address a variety of topics including speec…
William Leap on his book, Language Before Stonewall
Interview by Brian Adam-Thies https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030335151 Background The Stonewall “Riots” occurred from June 28th-July 3rd, 1969 in New York City, Greenwich Village. These event…
Michelle LaFrance on her book, Institutional Ethnography
Interview by Sarah Fischer https://upcolorado.com/utah-state-university-press/item/3649-institutional-ethnography Sarah Fischer: You are an English professor, and your book deals with various subfiel…
Elizabeth Fox takes the page 99 test
I have been fascinated by Mongolia’s capital city since my first visit in 2012. Despite my familiarity with the anthropological literature, on arrival in Ulaanbaatar I was utterly…
Kate Fleming and Umberto Ansaldo discusses Revivals, Nationalism, and Linguistic Discrimination
Interview by Claudia Matachana https://www.routledge.com/Revivals-Nationalism-and-Linguistic-Discrimination-Threatening-Languages/Fleming-Ansaldo/p/book/9781138193314 Claudia Matachana: Through the b…
JoAnne Yates on her book, Engineering Rules
https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/engineering-rules Interview by Michael Prentice Michael Prentice: Engineering Rules is your third book following Control through Communication and Structuring th…
Sabina Perrino on her book, Narrating Migration
https://www.routledge.com/Narrating-Migration-Intimacies-of-Exclusion-in-Northern-Italy-1st-Edition/Perrino/p/book/9781138584679 Interview by Daniela Narvaez Daniela Narvaez: In your book, you reflec…
Regna Darnell’s reflections upon retirement
What is your morning routine? I’m a night owl with frequent insomnia. On a good morning, the CBC radio alarm plays local and global news from 7:30-8:30. I…
Karen Strassler on her new book, Demanding Images
https://www.dukeupress.edu/demanding-images Interview by Ilana Gershon Ilana Gershon: Your book is about the image-event, and I am wondering if you could explain what an image-event is, and how you…
Christina Dunbar-Hester on her book, Hacking Diversity
Interview by Héctor Beltrán https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691182070/hacking-diversity Héctor Beltrán: In your ethnographic work with voluntaristic open technology communities across…
David Zeitlyn on his book, Mambila Divination
Interview by Stephan Feuchtwang https://www.crcpress.com/Mambila-Divination-Framing-Questions-Constructing-Answers/Zeitlyn/p/book/9780367199500 Stephan Feuchtwang: Is divination a ritual, despite its…
Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth takes the p. 99 test
Opening to page 99 of Finding the Singing Spruce: Craft Labor, Global Forests, and Musical Instrument Makers in Appalachia, you’ll find my reflections on choosing apprenticeship as the ethnographic…
Kimberly Chong on her new book, Best Practice
Interview by Johannes Lenhard https://www.dukeupress.edu/best-practice Johannes Lenhard: Your book is continuing a so far relatively short line of monographs in anthropology started by perhaps Caitli…
Elizabeth Falconi and Kathryn Graber’s edited Storytelling as Narrative Practice
https://brill.com/view/title/38668 Interview by Dilara Inam Dilara Inam: As you say you blur many taken-for-granted distinctions between spontaneous and rehearsed or quotidian and unconventional ways…
Thomas D. Zlatic and Sara Van Den Berg on Walter Ong’s Language as Hermeunetic
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501714498/language-as-hermeneutic/ Maddy Adams: You are both professors of English, and this blog is an anthropology blog. Walter Ong’s work has traveled…
Tanja Ahlin takes the pg. 99 test
Page 99 of my thesis is so short I can quote it here in its entirety. Here it goes: Love My mother never told me Love is a…
Erin Gould takes the page 99 test
My dissertation entitled, “Youth Transformations in Storytelling: Transmutability, Haunting, and Fen al Hikaya in Marrakech, Morocco” discusses fen al hikaya, the famous form of oral Moroccan public a…
Patricia G. Lange on her new book, Thanks for Watching
https://upcolorado.com/university-press-of-colorado/item/3737-thanks-for-watching Interview by Jan English-Lueck Jan English-Lueck: You have been writing about YouTubers, on and off screen, for over…
Michelle Williams takes the page 99 test
One half of page 99 of my doctoral thesis is a photo, taken at eye level of a group of Tongan students sitting cross-legged on the ground of…
Monica Heller’s Reflections upon Retirement
How did you discover linguistic anthropology? Why did it attract you? I kind of sidled into it. The initial interest came from growing up in Montréal in the…