New Books Network
Anthropology
Middle Eastern Studies May 7, 2021

Between Muslims

Religious Difference in Iraqi Kurdistan

J. Andrew Bush

Hosted by Asad Dandia
Between Muslims Religious Difference in Iraqi Kurdistan (Stanford UP, 2020) by J. Andrew Bush asks what it means to be Muslim, yet not pious, in Iraqi Kurdistan. Though Islam is …

Subscribe to

Anthropology

on the NBN

RSS Spotify Stitcher Apple Premium Ad-Free Email Alerts
Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work May 6, 2021

Nothing About Us Without Us

Reading Protests against Oppressive Knowledge Production as Guidelines for Solidarity Research

Dilara Yarbrough

Hosted by Rachel Stuart
Today I talked to Dilara Yarbrough about her article "Nothing About Us Without Us: Reading Protests against Oppressive Knowledge Production as Guidelines for Solidarity Research," published in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (2019). Dilara …
Sociology May 6, 2021

Gentrification Down the Shore

Molly Vollman Makris and Mary Gatta

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
In Gentrification Down the Shore (Rutgers University Press, 2020), Molly Vollman Makris and Mary Gatta engage in a rich ethnographic investigation of Asbury Park to better understand the connection between …
Critical Theory May 6, 2021

Creative Control

The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries

Michael L. Siciliano

Hosted by Dave O'Brien
How should we understand creative work? In Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries (Columbia UP, 2021), Michael Siciliano, an assistant professor of sociology at Queen's University …
Geography May 5, 2021

Nuclear Suburbs

Cold War Technoscience and the Pittsburgh Renaissance

Patrick Vitale

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
From submarines to the suburbs--the remaking of Pittsburgh during the Cold War During the early Cold War, research facilities became ubiquitous features of suburbs across the United States. Pittsburgh's eastern …
Anthropology May 5, 2021

Wade Davis Discusses His Life and Work

Wade Davis

Hosted by Keith Krueger
"… I am an axe; And my son a handle, soon; To be shaping again, model; And tool, craft of culture; How we go on." - Gary Snyder, Axe Handles (1983) "… wisdom …
Southeast Asian Studies May 3, 2021

Democracy for Sale

Elections, Clientelism, and the State in Indonesia

Edward Aspinall and Ward Berenschot

Hosted by Michele Ford
In post-Suharto Indonesian politics the exchange of patronage for political support is commonplace. Clientelism saturates the political system through everyday practices of vote buying, influence peddling, manipulating government programs, and …
Sociology May 3, 2021

Privilege Lost

Who Leaves the Upper Middle Class and How They Fall

Jessi Streib

Hosted by Michelle Newhart
Talking about social class and the American class structure is a challenge. It can be easy to talk about the class system too rigidly, implying that “the rich stay rich …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel April 26, 2021

Believers

Faith in Human Nature

Melvin Konner

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
Believers: Faith in Human Nature (Norton, 2019) is a scientist's answer to attacks on faith by some well-meaning scientists and philosophers. It is a firm rebuke of the "Four Horsemen"--Richard …
Ethnographic Marginalia April 23, 2021

The Ethnography of Immigration

In Conversation with Dr. Tahseen Shams

Tahseen Shams

Hosted by Alexander Diamond
How are immigrants’ lives shaped by cultural and political dynamics in their homeland, hostland, and “elsewhere” countries whose geopolitical dynamics affect their experiences (such as South Asian Muslims who are …
Latin American Studies April 23, 2021

Uncertain Citizenship

Everyday Practices of Bolivian Migrants in Chile

Megan Ryburn

Hosted by Elena McGrath
Megan Ryburn’s Uncertain Citizenship: Everyday Practices of Bolivian Migrants in Chile (University of California Press, 2018) is a multi-sited ethnography of citizenship practices of Bolivian migrants in Chile. The book asks …
Indian Religions April 22, 2021

The Science of Satyug

Class, Charisma, and Vedic Revivalism in the All World Gayatri Pariwar

Daniel Heifetz

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
The first in-depth study of the All World Gayatri Pariwar, a modern Indian religious movement. The All World Gayatri Pariwar is a modern religious movement that enjoys wide popularity in …
Geography April 21, 2021

Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future

Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartography in Hawai'i

Candace Fujikane

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
In Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai'i (Duke University Press, 2021), Candace Fujikane draws upon Hawaiian stories about the land and water and their …
Jewish Studies April 19, 2021

Beyond the Synagogue

Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice

Rachel B. Gross

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
In 2007, the Museum at Eldridge Street opened at the site of a restored nineteenth-century synagogue originally built by some of the first Eastern European Jewish immigrants in New York …
Economics April 19, 2021

The Human Network

How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs, and Behaviors

Matthew O. Jackson

Hosted by Peter Lorentzen
Social networks existed and shaped our lives long before Silicon Valley startups made them virtual. For over two decades economist Matthew O. Jackson, a professor at Stanford University, has studied how …
Literary Studies April 19, 2021

Touch

Recovering Our Most Vital Sense

Richard Kearney

Hosted by Britton Edelen
In this episode, I interview Richard Kearney, professor of philosophy at Boston College, about his most recent book, Touch: Recovering Our Most Vital Sense, out through Columbia University Press. The …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel April 16, 2021

The End of Love

A Sociology of Negative Relations

Eva Illouz

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people's lives, the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined for us; the feverish waiting …
Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work April 16, 2021

The Routledge Handbook of Male Sex Work, Culture, and Society

John Geoffrey Scott and Christian Grov

Hosted by Rachel Stuart
Panoramic and provocative in its scope, John Geoffrey Scott and Christian Grov's The Routledge Handbook of Male Sex Work, Culture, and Society (Routledge, 2021) is the definitive guide to contemporary issues …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast April 15, 2021

Can We Fix Social Media?

A Discussion with Christopher A. Bail

Christopher A. Bail

Hosted by Marshall Poe
In an era of increasing social isolation, platforms like Facebook and Twitter are among the most important tools we have to understand each other. We use social media as a …
Economics April 15, 2021

Everybody Lies

Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Hosted by Peter Lorentzen
Economist, data journalist, and best-selling author Seth Stephens-Davidowitz uses data from the internet to gain new insights into the human psyche. In his new book Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and …