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Anthropology
Interviews with anthropologists about their new books.
November 20, 2024
Social Spaces and the Public Sphere
What can social spaces tell us about social relations in society? How do everyday social spaces like teashops, reading rooms and libraries reify-or su…
November 20, 2024
Cosplay and the Dressing of Identity
Cosplay, born from the fusion of ‘costume’ and ‘play’, transcends mere dress-up by transforming enthusiasts of TV shows, movies, books or video games …
November 19, 2024
We Wait for a Miracle
Around the world, millions are forcibly displaced by conflict, climate change, and persecution. Some cross international borders, while others are dis…
November 15, 2024
Linguistic Diversity as a Bureaucratic Challenge
How do street-level bureaucrats in Austria’s public service deal with linguistic diversity? In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Ingri…
November 13, 2024
Wisecracks
What good is a good sense of humour especially when the humour may be ethically questionable? Although humour seems a valuable part of a good conversa…
November 13, 2024
Kinship, State Formation and Governance in the Arab Gulf States
Tribe-state relations are a foundational element of authoritarian bargains in the Middle East, and in particular in the Gulf States. However, the stru…
November 12, 2024
The Burning Forest
The Burning Forest: India's War Against the Maoists (Verso, 2019) by Nandini Sundar is an empathetic, moving account of what drives indigenous peasant…
November 11, 2024
Good Victims
In the latest edition of Ethnographic Marginalia, we talk with Roxani Krystalli about her new book Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question …
November 10, 2024
Inheritance
Each of us is endowed with an inheritance--a set of evolved biases and cultural tools that shape every facet of our behavior. For countless generation…
November 10, 2024
An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods
An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods: Political Ideology and Insurrection in the Mayan Popul Vuh and the Andean Huarochiri Manuscript (University of …
November 8, 2024
"The Languages of Indonesian Politics" Revisited
In 1966 Benedict Anderson published 'The Languages of Indonesian Politics', a seminal paper exploring the development of Indonesian as a new language …
November 7, 2024
Care Activism
Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care (U Illinois Press, 2023) challenges the stereotype of downtrodden …
November 3, 2024
Carceral Recovery
Carceral Recovery: Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New Pharmaceutical Self (Lexington Books, 2023) explores the interrelation between carceral conditio…
November 2, 2024
The Sound of Difference
What happens when the elitist space of 'Western' classical music seeks to diversify itself? And what are the social effects worked through diversity d…
October 31, 2024
Digital Intimacies
Queer men's cultures of intimacy have long been sites of fierce contestation. Indeed, debates have raged for decades over issues such as monogamy, saf…
October 31, 2024
When We Prioritize Data and Metrics, What Happens to Human Connections?
Today’s book is: The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World (Princeton University Press, 2024), by Dr. Allison Pugh, which exp…
October 30, 2024
Judging Refugees
Dr Laura Smith-Khan speaks with Dr Anthea Vogl about her new book, Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination (Cam…
October 29, 2024
Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh
Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh: Children of Crows (Routledge, 2024) provides comprehensive ethnographic accounts that depict th…
October 29, 2024
Digital Masquerade
Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China (NYU Press, 2023) offers a trenchant and singular analysis of the convergence of digital …
October 28, 2024
Quinine's Remains
What happens after colonial industries have run their course—after the factory closes and the fields go fallow? Set in the cinchona plantations of Ind…