Africa
Julie Archambault on her new book, Mobile Secrets: Youth, Intimacy and the Politics of Pretense in Mozambique.University of Chicago Press. Interview by Anna Eisenstein.
Steven Black on his book, Speech and Song at the Margins of Global Health: Zulu Tradition, HIV Stigma, and AIDS Activism in South Africa. Rutgers University Press. Interview by Yeon-Ju Bae.
Tom Boylston on his book, The Stranger at the Feast: Prohibition and Mediation in an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Community. University of California Press. Interview by Jon Bialecki.
Harri Englund on his new book, Gogo Breeze: Zambia’s Radio Elders and the Voices of Free Speech. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Perry Gilmore on her book, Kisisi (Our Language): The Story of Colin and Sadiki. Wiley Blackwell Press. Interview by Alma Gottlieb.
Liz Gunner on her book, Radio Soundings: South Africa and the Black Modern. Cambridge University Press. Interview by Louisa Meintjes
Britt Halvorson on her new book, Conversionary Sites: Transforming Medical Aid and Global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Josh Reno.
Naomi Haynes on her new book, Moving by the Spirit: Pentecostal Social Life on the Zambian Copperbelt. University of California Press. Interview by Jon Bialecki.
Sarah Hillewaert on her book, Morality at the Margins: Youth, Language, and Islam in Coastal Kenya. Fordham University Press. Interview by Kamala Russell.
Omotayo Jolaosho (and Dorothy Hodgson) on Tayo’s book, You Can’t Go to War Without Song: Performance and Community Mobilization in South Africa. Indiana University Press. Interview by Deborah Durham.
Graham Jones on his new book, Magic’s Reason: An Anthropology of Analogy. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Dalila Ozier.
Russell Kaschula on his book, Languages, Identities and Intercultural Communication in South Africa and Beyond: Interview Questions. Routledge Press. Interview by Jennifer Cox.
Birgit Meyer on her book, Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity. University of California Press. Interview by Yeon-Ju Bae
Mwenda Ntarangwi on his book, The Street is My Pulpit: Hip Hop and Christianity in Kenya. University of Illinois Press. Interview by Christine Chalifoux.
Denis Provencher on his book, Queer Maghrebi French. Liverpool University Press. Interview by Adeli Block.
Nina Sylvanus on her new book, Patterns in Circulation: Cloth, Gender, and Materiality in West Africa. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Quentin Williams on his book, Remix Multilingualism: Hip-hop, Ethnography and Performing Marginalized Voices. Bloomsbury Press. Interview by Misa Clark.
David Zeitlyn on his book, Mambila Divination: Framing Questions, Constructing Answers. Routledge Press. Interview by Stephan Feuchtwang.
Asia
Kimberly Chong on her new book, Best Practice: Management Consulting and the Ethics of Financialization in China. Duke University Press. Interview by Johannes Lenhard.
East Asia, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia
Nicholas Bartlett on his book, Recovering Histories: Life and Labor after Heroin in Reform-Era China. University of California Press. Interview with Yun Chen.
Aurora Donzelli on her book, Method of Desire: Language, Morality, and Affect in Neoliberal Indonesia. University of Hawai’i Press. Interview by Setrag Manoukian.
Aurora Donezelli on her book, One or Two Words: Language and Politics in the Toraja Highlands of Indonesia. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Nicco La Mattina.
Eva-Marie Dubuisson on her new book, Living Language in Kazakhstan: The Dialogic Emergence of an Ancestral Worldview. University of Pittsburgh Press. Interview by Meghanne Barker.
Jenanne Ferguson on her book, Words Like Birds: Sakha Language Discourses and Practices in the City. University of Nebraska Press. Interview by Laura Siragusa.
Patrick W. Galbraith on his book Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan. Duke University Press. Interview by Xiao Ke.
Nick Harkness on his book, Glossolalia and the Problem of Language. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Hyemin Lee.
Eric Henry on his book, The Future Conditional: Building an English-Speaking Society in Northeast China. Cornell University Press. Interview by Andy Zhenzhou Ten.
Jay Ke-Schutte on his book, Angloscene: Compromised Personhood in Afro-Chinese Translations. University of California Press. Interview with Andrew Carruthers.
Suk Young Kim on her new book, K-pop Live: Fans, Idols and Multimedia Performance. Stanford University Press. Interview by Chuyun Oh.
Sandra Kurfürst on her book, Dancing Youth: Hip Hop and Gender in Late Socialist Vietnam. Columbia University Press. Interview by Jonathan DeVore.
Sun Sun Lim on her book, Transcendent Parenting: Raising Children in the Digital Age. Oxford University Press. Interview by Kevin Laddapong.
Sylvia Martin on her book, Haunted: An Ethnography of the Hollywood and Hong Kong Media Industries. Oxford University Press. Interview by Maria Nikolaeva Lechtarova
Justine Buck Quijada on her book, Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets: Rituals of History in Post-Soviet Buryatia. Oxford University Press. Interview by Claudia Lahr.
Michael Prentice on his book, Supercorporate: Distinction and Participation in Post-Hierarchy Korea. Stanford University Press. Interview by Katherine K. Chen.
Jennifer Robertson on her book, Robo sapiens Japanicus: Robots, gender, family and the Japanese nation. University of California Press. Interview by Dan White.
Lisa Rofel and Sylvia Yangisako on their book, Fabricating Transnational Capitalism. Duke University Press. Interview by Janet Conner.
Merav Shohet on her book, Silence and Sacrifice: Family Stories of Care and the Limits of Love in Vietnam. Interview by Annemarie Samuels.
Teri Silvio on her book, Puppets, Gods, and Brands: Theorizing the Age of Animation From Taiwan. University of Hawai’i Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Stevie Suan on his book, Anime’s Identity: Performativity and Form beyond Japan. University of Minnesota Press. Interview by Wendy Goldberg.
Fang Xu on her book, Silencing Shanghai: Language and Identity in Urban China. Rowman and Littlefield. Interview by Andy Zhengzhou Tan.
South Asia
Sareeta Amrute on her new book, Encoding Race, Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Berlin. Duke University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
A. Aneesh on the publication of his new book, Neutral Accent: How Language, Labor and Life Become Global. Duke University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon
Bernard Bate’s book, Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern: Political Oratory and the Social Imaginary in South Asia, edited by E. Annamalai, Francis Cody, Malarvizhi Jayanth, and Constantine V. Nakassis. Stanford University Press. Interview by Hannah Carlan
Sarah Besky on her book, Tasting Qualities: The Past and Future of Tea. University of California Press. Interview by Shulan Sun.
Francis Cody on his book, The Light of Knowledge: Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India. Cornell University Press. Interview by Rachel Howard.
Sonia Das on her new book, Linguistic Rivalries: Tamil Migrants and Anglo-Franco Conflicts. Oxford University Press. Interview by Lia Siewert.
Christina Davis on her book, The Struggle for a Multilingual Future: Youth and Education in Sri Lanka. Oxford University Press. Interview by Gaya Morris.
Patrick Eisenlohr on his new book, Sounding Islam: Voice, Media and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean. University of California Press. Interview by Ben Ale-Ebrahim.
Michele Friedner on her book, Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India. University of Minnesota Press. Interview by Timothy Y. Loh.
Erika Hoffman-Dilloway on her new book, Signing and Belonging in Nepal. Gallaudet University Press. Interview by Rebekah Cupitt.
Lilly Irani on her book, Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India. Princeton University Press. Interview by Chris Kelty.
Leya Mathew discusses her book, English Linguistic Imperialism from Below: Moral Aspiration and Social Mobility. Multilingual Matters. Interview by Shivani Nag.
Constantine V. Nakassis on his new book, Doing Style: Youth and Mass Mediation in South India. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon
Constantine V. Nakassis on his book, Onscreen/Offscreen. University of Toronto Press. Interview by Chris Ball.
Ratan Kumar Roy on his book, Television in Bangladesh: News and Audiences. Routledge. Interview by Sharonee Dasgupta.
Llerena Guiu Searle on her book, Landscapes of Accumulation: Real Estate and the Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary India. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Liza Youngling.
Patricia Spyer on her book, Orphaned Landscapes: Violence, Visuality, and Appearance in Indonesia. Fordham University Press. Interview by Karen Strassler.
Karen Strassler on her new book, Demanding Images. Duke University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Sirpa Tenhunen on her book, A Village Goes Mobile: Telephony, Mediation, and Social Change in Rural India. Oxford University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Ben Tausig on his book, Bangkok is Ringing: Sound, Protest, and Constraint. Oxford University Press. Interview by Mack Hagood.
Amanda Weidman on her book, Brought to Life by the Voice: Playback Singing and Cultural Politics in South India. University of California Press. Interview by Constantine V. Nakassis.
Lauren Zentz on her new book, Statehood, Scale and Hierarchy: History, Language and Identity in Indonesia. Multilingual Matters. Interview by Zane Goebel.
America
North America
Emily Aguiló-Pérez on her book, An American Icon in Puerto Rico: Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play. London: Berghahn Books.
Morgan Ames on her book, The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop Per Child. Interview by Henry Jenkins.
Rusty Barnett on his new book, From Drag Queens to Leathermen: Language, Gender and Gay Male Subcultures. Oxford University Press. Interview by Sandhya Narayanan
Ulla Berg on her new book, Mobile Selves: Race, Migration, and Belonging in Peru and the U.S. New York University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon
Jon Bialecki on his book, A Diagram for Fire: Miracles and Variation in an American Charismatic Movement. University of California Press. Interview by Anna Eisenstein.
Susan Blum on her new book, “I Love Learning; I Hate School”: An Anthropology of College. Cornell University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Ergin Bulut on his book, A Precarious Game: The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry. Cornell University Press. Interview by Xiao Ke.
Lindsey Clouse on her book, Stigmatized on Screen: How Hollywood Portrays Nonstandard Accents. Rowman and Littlefield. Interview by Jeremy Rud.
Ann I. Corwin on her book, Embracing Aging: How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well. Rutgers University Press. Interview by H. Keziah Conrad.
Ana Croegaert on her book, Bosnian Refugees in Chicago: Gender, Performance, and Post-War Economies. Rowman and Littlefield Press. Interview by Dejan Duric.
Vanessa Díaz discusses Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood, Duke University Press. Interview by Sandhya Narayanan.
Erin Debenport on her new book, Fixing the Books: Secrecy, Literacy, and Perfectibility in Indigenous New Mexico. School of American Research Press. Interview by Shannon Wardy
Hilary Dick on her book, Words of Passage: National Longing and the Imagined Lives of Mexican Migrants. University of Texas Press. Interview by Alejandro I. Paz.
Brooke Erin Duffy on her new book, (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love: Gender, Media, and Aspirational Work. Yale University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Elizabeth Ellcessor on her book, In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality. Interview by Volha Verbilovich.
Ayala Fader on her book, Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age. Princeton University Press. Interview by Yzza Sedrati.
Catherine Fennell on her book, Last Project Standing: Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago. University of Minnesota Press. Interview by Janet Connor.
Inmaculada García-Sánchez on her annual review article. Interview by Kendall Powell.
Ilana Gershon on her book, Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don’t Find) Work Today. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Matt Tomlinson
Laura Goldblatt and Richard Handler on their book, The American Stamp: Postal Iconography, Democratic Citizenship, and Consumerism in the United States. Columbia University Press, Interview by Pauline Turner Strong.
Jessica Grieser on her book, The Black Side of the River: Race, Language, and Belonging in Washington DC. Georgetown University Press. Interview by Anna-Marie Sprenger.
Mack Hagood on his book, Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control. Duke University Press. Interview by Jake Smith.
Julia M. Hildebrand on her book Aerial Play: Drone Medium, Mobility, Communication, and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan. Interview by Maximilian Jablonowski.
Adam Hodges on his book, When Words Trump Politics: Resisting a Hostile Regime of Language. Stanford University Press. Interview by Yeon-Ju Bae.
Britt Halvorson on her new book, Conversionary Sites: Transforming Medical Aid and Global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Josh Reno.
Kristina Jacobsen on her new book, The Sound of Navajo Country: Music, Language, and Diné Belonging. University of North Carolina Press. Interview by Morgan Siewert.
Pamela Klassen on her book, The Story of Radio Mind: A Missionary’s Journey on Indigenous Land. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Georgia Ennis.
Ingrid Kummels on her book, Transborder Media Spaces: Ayuujk Videomaking between Mexico and the US. Berghahn Books. Interview with Alana Mazur.
Michele LaFrance on her book, Institutional Ethnography: A Theory of Practice for Writing Studies Researchers. Utah State University Press. Interview by Sarah Fischer.
Susan Lepselter on her book, The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity and UFOs in the American Uncanny. University of Michigan Press. Interview by Micol Seigel.
William Leap on his book, Language Before Stonewall: Language, Sexuality, History. Palgrave Press. Interview by Brian Adam-Thies.
Brent Luvaas on his book, Street Style: An Ethnography of Fashion Blogging. Bloomsbury Press. Interview by Matthew Raj Webb.
Jessa Lingel on her book, An Internet for the People: The Politics and Promise of Craigslist. Princeton University Press. Interview by Nazli Azergun.
Sylvia Martin on her book, Haunted: An Ethnography of the Hollywood and Hong Kong Media Industries. Oxford University Press. Interview by Maria Nikolaeva Lechtarova.
Shannon Mattern on her book, A City is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences. Princeton University Press. Interview by Elliot Montpellier.
Shaka McGlotten on their book, Dragging: Or, in the Drag of a Queer Life. Routledge Press. Interview with Robyn Taylor-Neu.
Tom Mould on his book, Overthrowing the Queen: Telling Stories of Welfare in America. Indiana University. Interview by Fionnán Mac Gabhann.
Jennifer Petersen on her book, How Machines Came to Speak: Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech. Duke University Press. Interview by Joseph Wilson.
Rachel Plotnick on her book, Power Button: : A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing. MIT University Press. Interview by Kevin Laddapong.
Elizabeth Povinelli on her graphic novel, The Inheritance. Duke University Press. Interview by Randeep Hothi.
Justin Richland on his book, Cooperation without Submission: Indigenous Jurisdictions in Native Nation–US Engagements. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Hannah McElgunn.
Jonathan Rosa on his book, Looking Like a Language, Sounding Like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad. Oxford University Press. Interview by Jessica López-Espino.
Mark Sicoli on his new book, Saying and Doing in Zapotec: Multimodality, Resonance, and the Language of Joint Actions. Bloomsbury Press. Interview by Grace East.
Shalini Shankar on her new book, Advertising Diversity: Ad Agencies and the Creation of Asian-American Consumers. Duke University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Jonathan Sterne on his book, Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology. Duke University Press. Interview by Toni Nieminen.
Julia Ticona on her new book, Left to Our Own Devices: Coping with Insecure Work in a Digital Age. Oxford University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Katrina Daly Thompson on her book, Muslims on the Margins: Creating Queer Religious Community in North America. New York University Press. Interview by Ben Ale-Ebrahim.
Bonnie Urciuoli on her co-edited volume, The Spanish Language in the United States: Rootedness, Racialization, and Resistance. edited with José A. Cobas, Joe Feagin and Daniel J. Delgado. Routledge.
Herve Varenne on his book, Educating in Life: Ethnographies of Challenging New Normals. Routledge University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Tony Webster on his book, Intimate Grammars: An Ethnography of Navajo Poetry. University of Arizona Press. Interview by Juan Luis Rodriquez
Eitan Wilf on his book, Creativity on Demand: The Dilemmas of Innovation in an Accelerated Age. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Latin America
Valérie Robin Azevedo on her book, Los Silencios de la guerra. Interview by Emily Fjaellon Thompson.
Anna Babel on her book, Between the Andes and the Amazon: Language and Social Meaning in Bolivia. University of Arizona Press. Interview by Diego Arispe- Bazan.
Chris Ball on his book, Exchanging Words: Language, Ritual, and Relationality in Brazil’s Xingu Indigenous Park. University of New Mexico Press. Interview by Meghanne Barker.
Ulla Berg on her new book, Mobile Selves: Race, Migration, and Belonging in Peru and the U.S. New York University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon
Jérôme Camal on his book, Creolized Aurality: Guadaloupean Gwoka and Postcolonial Politics. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Sara Isabel Castro Font.
Alex E. Chávez on his new book, Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Politics of Huapango Arribeňo. Duke University Press. Interview by William Cotter.
Juan Manuel del Nido on his book, Taxi vs. Uber: Courts, Markets, and Technology in Buenos Aires. Stanford University Press. Interview by Diego Valdivieso
Nicholas Q. Emlen on his book, Language, Coffee, and Migration on an Andean-Amazonian Frontier.University of Arizona Press. Interview by Gaya Morris.
Falina Enriquez on her new book, The Costs of the Gig Economy: Musical Entrepreneurs and the Cultural Politics of Inequality in Northeastern Brazil. University of Illinois Press. Interview by Owen Kohl.h
Alex Fattal on his book, Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Winifred Tate.
Alex Fattal on his book, Shooting Cameras for Peace: Youth, Photography, and the Colombian Armed Conflict. Harvard University Press. Interview by Camilo Ruiz Sanchez.
Shane Greene on his book, Punk and Revolution: Seven More Interpretations of Peruvian Reality. Duke University Press. Interview by Orin Starn.
Kregg Hetherington on his book, Government of Beans. Duke University Press. Interview by Indivar Jonnalagadda.
Ieva Jusionyte on her new book, Savage Frontier: Making News and Security on the Argentine Border. University of California Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Sarah Muir on her new book, Routine Crisis: An Ethnography of Disillusion. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Kabir Tambar.
Martijn Oosterbaan on his new book, Transmitting the Spirit: Religious Conversion, Media and Urban Violence in Brazil. Pennsylvania State University. Interview by Jessica Rivers.ook, Transmitting the Spirit
Jennifer Roth-Gordon on her new book, Race and the Brazilian Body: Blackness, Whiteness and Everyday Language in Rio de Janeiro. University of California Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Juan Luis Rodríguez on his book, Language and Revolutionary Magic in the Orinoco Delta. Bloomsbury Press. Interview by Rusty Barrett.
Robert Samet on his book, Deadline: Populism and the Press in Venezuela. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Alejandro Velasco.
Sarah Shulist on her new book, Transforming Indigeneity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon.University of Toronto Press. Interview by Shannon Ward.
Inês Signorini on her edited volume, Language Practices of Cyberhate in Unfolding Global and Local Realities. Cambridge University Press.
Yana Stainova on her book Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela. University of Michigan Press. Interview by Ahona Palchoudhuri.
Bonnie Urciuoli on her book, Neoliberalizing Diversity in Liberal Arts College Life. Berghahn Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Herve Varenne on his book, Educating in Life: Ethnographies of Challenging New Normals. Routledge University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Europe
Sareeta Amrute on her new book, Encoding Race, Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Berlin. Duke University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Gretchen Bakke on her book, The Likeness. University of California Press. Interview by Krisztina Fehérváry.
Melissa Caldwell on her book, Living Faithfully in an Unjust World: Compassionate Care in Russia. University of California Press. Interview by Natalja Czarnecki.
James Costa on his new book, Revitalising Language in Provence: A Critical Approach. Wiley Blackwell. Interview by Sandhya Narayanan.
Stuart Dunmore on his book, Language Revitalisation in Gaelic Scotland. Edinburgh University Press. Interview by Christian Puma-Ninacuri.
Florian Jaton on his book, The Constitution of Algorithms: Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating. The MIT Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Graham Jones on his new book, Magic’s Reason: An Anthropology of Analogy. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Dalila Ozier.
Natalia Knoblock on her book, Language of Conflict: Discourses of the Ukrainian Crisis. Bloomsbury Academic. Interview by Sofiya Asher.
Andrea Leone-Pizzighella on her book Discourses of Student Success: Language, Class, and Social Personae in Italian Secondary Schools. Routledge. Interview by Clara Miller-Broomfield.
Siv B. Lie on her book, Django Generations: Hearing Ethnorace, Citizenship, and Jazz Manouche in France. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Lynn Hooker.
Noelle Molé Liston on her book, The Truth Society: Science, Disinformation, and Politics in Berlusconi’s Italy. Cornell University Press. Interview by Jonah Rubin.
Michael Lucey on his book, What Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Jennifer Mack on her book, The Construction of Equality: Syriac Immigration and the Swedish City. University of Minnesota Press. Interview by Lynda Chubak.
Paul Manning on his book, Love Stories: Language, Private Love, and Public Romance in Georgia. University of Toronto Press. Interview by Kamala Russell.
Tomas Matza on his book, Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity, and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia. Duke University Press. Interview by Natalja Czarnecki.
Roxana Moroşanu on her new book, An Ethnography of Household Energy Demand in the UK. Palgrave Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon
Keith Murphy on his new book, Swedish Design: An Ethnography. Cornell University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Ben Peters on his new book, How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet. MIT University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon
Sabina Perrino on her book, Narrating Migration: Intimacies of Exclusion in Northern Italy. Routledge. Interview by Daniela Narvaez.arrating Migration
Deborah Puccio-Den on her book, Mafiacraft: An Ethnography of Deadly Silence. HAU Books. Interview by Elliott Wiseman.
Lisa Rofel and Sylvia Yangisako on their book, Fabricating Transnational Capitalism. Duke University Press. Interview by Janet Conner.
Anat Rosenberg on her book, The Rise of Mass Advertising: Law, Enchantment, and the Cultural Boundaries of British Modernity. Oxford University Press. Interview by Astrid Van den Bossche.
Bradd Shore on his book, Shakespeare and Social Theory: The Play of Great Ideas. Routledge. Interview by Rob Shore.
Danko Šipka on his book, Lexical Layers of Identity: Words, Meaning, and Culture in the Slavic Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Interview by Nikolina Zenovic.
Damien Stankiewicz on his new book, Europe Un-Imagined: Nation and Culture at a French-German Television Channel. University of Toronto Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon
David Sutton on his book, Bigger Fish to Fry: A Theory of Cooking as Risk with Greek Examples. Berghan Books. Interview by Ariana Gunderson.
Anna Tuckett on her book, Rules, Paper, Status: Migrant and Precarious Bureaucracy in Contemporary Italy. Stanford University Press. Interview by Dodom Kim.
Katherine Verdery on her book, My Life as a Spy. Duke University Press. Interview by Tim Gitzen.
Shireen Walton on her book, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy: Care and Community in Milan and Beyond. UCL Press. Interview by Rachel Howard.
Kit Woolard on her new book, Singular and Plural: Ideologies of Linguistic Authority in 21st Century Catalonia. Oxford University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Helena Wulff on her book, Rhythms of Writing: An Anthropology of Irish Literature. Bloomsbury Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Middle East
Noah Amir Arjomand on his new book, Fixing Stories: Local Newsmaking and International Media in Turkey and Syria. Cambridge University Press. Interview by Susan Seizer.
Narges Bajoghli on her book, Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic. Stanford University Press. Interview by Zehra Hashmi.
Amahl Bishara on her book, Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence and Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression. Stanford University Press. Interview by Sarah Ihmoud.
Alessandra Ciucci on her book, The Voice of the Rural: Music, Poetry, and Masculinity among Migrant Moroccan Men in Umbria. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Nicco La Mattina.
Sherine Hamdy and Coleman Nye on their new graphic novel, Lissa: A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship and Revolution. University of Toronto Press. Interview by Perry Sherouse.
Angie Heo on her book, The Political Lives of Saints: Christian-Muslim Mediation in Egypt. University of California Press. Interview by Alice Yeh.
Tamar Katriel discusses her book, Defiant Discourse: Speech and Action in Grassroots Activism. Routledge Press. Interview by Irit Dekel.
Chihab El Khachab on his book, Making Film in Egypt: How Labor, Technology, And Mediation Shape The Industry. American University in Cairo. Interview by Meg Morley.
Mayzar Lotfalian on his new book, What People Do With Images: Aesthetics, Politics and the Production of Iranian Visual Culture in Transnational Circuits. Sean Kingston Publishing. Interview by Michael Fischer.
Chaim Noy on his new book, Thank You for Dying for Our Country: Commemorative Texts and Performances in Jerusalem. Oxford University Press. Interview by Lindsey Pullum.
Carl Rommel on his book, Egypt’s Football Revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics. Interview by Jessica Winegar.
Rebecca Stein on her book, Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine. Stanford University Press. Interview by Areeg Faisal.
Herve Varenne on his book, Educating in Life: Ethnographies of Challenging New Normals. Routledge University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Neha Vora on her book, Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar. Stanford University Press. Interview by Patrick Lewis.
Roxanne Varzi on her book, Last Scene Underground: An Ethnographic Novel of Iran. Stanford University Press. Interview by Harvey Stark.
Oceania
Elise Berman on her book, Talking Like Children: Language and the Production of Age in the Marshall Islands. Oxford University Press. Interview by Shannon Ward.
Jennifer Deger discusses Phone and Spear: A Yuta Anthropology. MIT University Press. Interview by Zeynep Gürsel.
Daniel Fisher on his book, The Voice and Its Doubles: Media and Music in Northern Australia. Duke University Press. Interview by Georgia Ennis.
Courtney Handman on her book, Critical Christianity: Translation and Denominational Conflict in Papua New Guinea. University of California Press. Interview by Dan Jorgensen.
Jessica Hardin on her book, Faith and the Pursuit of Health: Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa. Rutgers University Press. Interview by Courtney Handman.
Don Kulick on his book, A Death in the Rainforest. Workman Publishing. Interview by Alex Golub.
Matt Tomlinson on his book, God is Samoan: Dialogues between Culture and Theology in the Pacific. University of Hawai’i Press. Interview by Jon Bialecki.
Virtual
Crystal Abidin on her book, Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online. Emerald Insights. Interview by Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson.
Yorum Bilu on his book, With Us More Than Ever: Making the Absent Rebbe Present in Messianic Chabad. Stanford University Press. Interview by Yael Assor.
Adrian Blackledge and Angela Creese on their book, Voices of a City Market: An Ethnography. Multilingual Matters. Interview by Amanda Kaminsky.
Marcel Danesi on his book, Memes and the Future of Pop Culture. Brill Press. Interview by Leila Mzali.
Jenny Davis on her book, How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things. MIT University Press. Interview by Kevin Laddapong.
Christina Dunbar-Hester on her book, Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology in Open Technology Cultures. Princeton University Press. Interview by Héctor Beltrán.
Kate Eichhorn on her new book, The End of Forgetting. Harvard University Press. Interview by Shuting Li.
Sujatha Fernandes on her book, Curated Stories: The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling. Oxford University Press. Interview by Ben Ale-Ebrahim.
Robert W. Gehl and Sean T. Lawson on his book, Social Engineering: How Crowdmasters, Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls Created a New Form of Manipulative Communication. MIT Press. Interview by Emma Briant.
Marjorie Goodwin and Asta Cekaite on their book, Embodied Family Choreography: Practices of Control, Care, and Mundane Creativity. Routledge Press. Interview by Yeon-Ju Bae.
Melissa Gregg on her book, Counter Productive: Time Management in the Knowledge Economy. Duke University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Fleming, Kara and Umberto Ansaldo on their book, Revivals, Nationalism, and Linguistic Discrimination: Threatening Languages. Routledge University Press. Interview by Claudia Matachana.
Elizabeth Keating on her new book, Words Matter: Communicating Effectively in the New Global Office Place. University of California Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon
David Parisi on his book, Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing. University of Minnesota Press. Interview by Carlin Wing.
Ori Schwarz on his book, Sociological Theory for Digital Society: The Codes that Bind Us Together. Wiley Blackwell Press. Interview by Dan M. Kotliar.
Jane Setter on her book, Your Voice Speaks Volumes: It’s not what you say, but how you say it. Oxford University Press. Interview by Paola Medina González.
Philip Seargeant on his book, The Emoji Revolution: How technology is shaping the future of communication. Cambridge University Press. Interview by Kevin Laddapong.
Lauren Zentz on her book, Narrating Stance, Morality, and Political Identity: Building a Movement on Facebook. Routledge. Interview by Özge Korkmaz.
Global
Netta Avineri and Jesse Harasta on their edited volume, Metalinguistic Communities: Case Studies of Agency, Ideology, and Symbolic Uses of Language. Palgrave.
Adrian Blackledge and Angela Creese on their book, Voices of a City Market: An Ethnography. Multilingual Matters. Interview by Amanda Kaminsky.
Stephen Chrisomalis on his book, Reckonings: Numerals, Cognition, and History. MIT University Press. Interview by Grace East.
Emily Contois and Zenia Kish on their edited book, Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, and Negotiation. University of Illinois Press.
Alessandro Duranti on his edited volume, Rethinking Politeness with Henri Bergson. Oxford University Press. Interview by Q.
Haidy Geismar on her book, Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age. UCL Press. Interview by Josh Bell.
Patricia Lange on her edited book, The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology, edited with Elisabetta Costa, Patricia G. Lange, Nell Haynes, and Jolynna Sinanan. Routledge Press.
Ronald Niezen on his book, #HumanRights: The Technologies and Politics of Justice Claims in Practice. Stanford University Press. Interview by Kevin Laddapong.
Elliott Oring on his book, Joking Asides: The Theory, Analysis, and Aesthetics of Humor. Utah State University Press. Interview by Emily Bianchi.
E. Moore Quinn on the edited volume, Women and Pilgrimage. CABI Digital Library.
Irene Theodoropoulou and Johanna Tovar on their edited volume, Research Companion to Language and Country Branding. Routledge.
Anne Marie Trester on her book, Employing Linguistics: Thinking and Talking about Careers in Linguistics. Bloomsbury Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Kate Vieira on her book, Writing for Love and Money: How Migration Drives Literacy Learning in Transnational Families. Oxford University Press. Interview by Amy Garey.
Brad Wigger on his book, Invisible Companions: Encounters with Imaginary Friends, Gods, Ancestors, and Angels. Stanford University Press. Interview by Laura Murry.
JoAnne Yates on her book with Craig N. Murphy, Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting since 1880. John Hopkins University Press. Interview by Michael Prentice.
Theoretical Inquiries
Charles Briggs on his book, Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge. University Press of Colorado. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Mack Hagood on his book, Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control. Duke University Press. Interview by Jake Smith.
Richard Irvine on his book, An Anthropology of Deep Time: Geological Temporality and Social Life. Cambridge University Press. Interview by Jon Bialecki.
William Mazzarella on his book, The Mana of Mass Society. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Elayne Oliphant.
Graham Jones on his new book, Magic’s Reason: An Anthropology of Analogy. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Dalila Ozier.
Webb Keane on his new book, Ethical Life: Its Natural and Social Histories. Princeton University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon
Susan Gal and Judith Irvine on their book, Signs of Difference: Language and Ideology in Social Life. Cambridge University Press. Interview by Hannah McElgunn.
Walter Ong’s Language as Hermeunetic: A Primer on the Word and Digitization. Cornell University Press. Interview by Maddy Adams.
John P. O’Regan on his book, Global English and Political Economy. Routledge Press. Interview by Bonnie Uricuoli.
Lionel Wee and Robbie Goh on their book, Language, Space, and Cultural Play: Theorizing Affect in the Semiotic Landscape. Cambridge University Press. Interview by Ida Hoequist.
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