About Lachlan Summers

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NBN Episodes hosted by Lachlan:

Alan Klima, "Ethnography #9" (Duke UP, 2019)

March 3, 2021

Ethnography #9

Alan Klima
Hosted by Lachlan Summers

Alan Klima’s Ethnography #9 (Duke University Press, 2019) was co-written by a ghost. And that’s just the start of what’s going on in this eerie, singu…

Hugh Raffles, "The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time" (Pantheon Books, 2020)

November 4, 2020

The Book of Unconformities

Hugh Raffles
Hosted by Lachlan Summers

At once an examination of geology, a biography of monuments, and a meditation on the connection between personal loss and massive loss, Hugh Raffles’ …

Leah Zani, "Bomb Children: Life in the Former Battlefields of Laos" (Duke UP, 2019)

August 5, 2020

Bomb Children

Leah Zani
Hosted by Lachlan Summers

In this episode, I talk with Dr. Leah Zani, a public anthropologist and poet based in California, about her truly wonderful book Bomb Children: Life i…

Greg Beckett, "There is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince" (U California Press, 2019)

August 4, 2020

There is No More Haiti

Greg Beckett
Hosted by Lachlan Summers

In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Greg Beckett, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Western University, about his richly grounded book There is N…

Mark D. Anderson, "From Boas to Black Power: Racism, Liberalism and American Anthropology" (Stanford UP, 2019)

July 17, 2020

From Boas to Black Power

Mark D. Anderson
Hosted by Lachlan Summers

Mark Anderson’s From Boas to Black Power: Racism, Liberalism and American Anthropology (Stanford University Press) is at once a story about US anthrop…