Ingrid Kummels on her new book, Indigenity in Real Time
Interview by Maria Eugenia Ulfe https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/indigeneity-in-real-time/9781978834781 María Eugenia Ulfe: Congratulations, Ingrid, for publishing this wonderful …
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Amahl Bishara discusses her book, Crossing a Line
Interview by Sarah Ihmoud https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=34196 Sarah Ihmoud: Crossing a Line offers a refreshing and indeed critical ethnographic approach to understanding Palestinian …
Yaina Stainova on her book, Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela
Interview by Ahona Palchoudhuri https://www.press.umich.edu/11698102/sonorous_worlds Ahona Palchoudhuri: I’d like to begin with a particularly moving ethnographic instance from your book in…
Valérie Robin Azevedo on her book, Los Silencios de la guerra
https://lasiniestraensayos.com/libro/los-silencios-de-la-guerra-memorias-y-conflicto-armado-en-ayacucho-peru/ Interview (and translation) by Emily Fjaellon Thompson English version below …
Tom Mould on his book, Overthrowing the Queen: Telling Stories of Welfare in America.
Interview by Fionnán Mac Gabhann iupress.org/overthrowing-the-queen Fionnán Mac Gabhann: Overthrowing the Queen represents one of several objectives devised as part of a collaborative proje…
Stevie Suan on his book, Anime’s Identity
Interview by Wendy Goldberg https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/animes-identity Wendy Goldberg: How fixed is Japan’s perceived cultural dominance for anime? How could cultural do…
Laura Goldblatt and Richard Handler on their book, The American Stamp
Interview by Pauline Turner Strong http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-american-stamp/9780231208246 Pauline Strong: Congratulations on the publication of your book! I very much enjoyed reading…
Jay Ke-Schutte on his book, Angloscene
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520389816/angloscene Interview with Andrew Carruthers Andrew Carruthers: First, please allow me to offer you a hearty congratulations on the publication of …
Jonathan Sterne on his book, Diminished Faculties
Interview by Toni Nieminen https://www.dukeupress.edu/diminished-faculties Toni Nieminen: First, congratulations on Diminished Faculties, what a wonderful read it was! I find your form of w…
Gaby Greenlee takes the page 99 test
Page 99 of my dissertation reflects on a detail in an elite type of garment that the Inka Empire (ca. 1476-1532 CE) fabricated in its workshops during the…
Jessica Storey-Nagy takes the page 99 test
Page 99 of my dissertation falls in Chapter 1, “A ‘Viktator’ in the Making: Gaslighting Democracy, Telling Lies, and Evoking Histories,” which describes political culture in Hungary after…
Omotayo’s book, You Can’t Go to War Without Song
https://iupress.org/9780253063212/you-cant-go-to-war-without-song/ Tayo Jolaosho died on October 21, 2021, months before their book was published in July 2022. We honor their work and memory …
Stephen Chrisomalis on his book, Reckonings
Interview by Grace East https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262044639/reckonings/ Grace East: Reckonings whisks us away on a journey through time and space and introduces us to how people en…
Constantine Nakassis on his book, Onscreen/Offscreen
Interview by Chris Ball https://utorontopress.com/9781487541804 Christopher Ball: Onscreen/Offscreen tracks Tamil film of the first decade and a half of the 2000s through analysis of di…
Alana Brekelmans takes the page 99 test
Page 99 of my thesis opens with an evocative image: ‘Sleepy Cloncurry, the scene of more unfulfilled promises than any other town in Australia, clung to its horses…
Lindsey Clouse on her book, Stigmatized on Screen
Interview by Jeremy A. Rud https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793647412/Stigmatized-on-Screen-How-Hollywood-Portrays-Nonstandard-Dialects Jeremy Rud: Linguists have long called out the language at…
Tero Frestadius takes the page 99 test for his dissertation
Page 99 ends my verbatim account of broken dialogue in an anti-gentrification rally in Leimert Park, LosAngeles in 2017. This third of a page consists of three references…
Kimberly Hassel takes the page 99 test
Page 99 of my dissertation begins with a passport photograph taken of me in 2016, juxtaposed with a purikura photograph taken in the same year. Purikura, a colloquialism…
Elizabeth Ellcessor on her book, In Case of Emergency
Interview by Volha Verbilovich New York University Press Volha Verbilovich: Emergency media are cultural and temporal. In Case of Emergency develops these definitions, revealing the history…
Niku T’arhechu T’arhesi takes the page 99 test
“Yes,” I said. My answer left you like a glutton without food—unsatisfied. Before you could request thick ethnographic details, I handed you page 99 of Endangered Words and…
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….
Dodom Kim takes the page 99 test
On page 99 of my dissertation, I end a section that traces a series of Chinese newspaper reports on a pregnant woman’s long-winded quest for the so-called “birth…
Leah Junck takes the page 99 test
Page 99 of my dissertation is part of my methodology section and connects testing research moments to the topic at hand: the use of the dating application Tinder…
Katy Highet takes the page 99 test
I wasn’t expecting my p. 99 – right in the middle of my methodology – to be particularly revealing. But as luck (or indeed Ford Madox Ford) would…