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Anthropology
Interviews with anthropologists about their new books.
October 26, 2024
Beekeeping in the End Times
Every hundred years, as the story goes, two angels wonder out loud whether the bees are still swarming. For as long as the bees are swarming, the ange…
October 25, 2024
Atmospheric Violence
Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) grapples with the afterlife of environmental disasters and armed c…
October 24, 2024
From Tapas to Modern Yoga
Extensively based on fieldwork material, From Tapas to Modern Yoga: Sādhus' Understanding of Embodied Practices (Equinox, 2024) primarily analyses emb…
October 21, 2024
Ginkgo Village
Ginkgo Village: Trauma and Transformation in Rural China (Anu Press, 2023) provides an original and powerfully intimate bottom-up perspective on China…
October 20, 2024
Resigned Activism
Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China (MIT Press, 2021) by Dr. Anna Lora-Wainwright digs deep into the paradoxes, ambivalences, and …
October 18, 2024
Daybreak in Gaza
This is Gaza – a place of humanity and creativity, rich in culture and industry. A place now utterly devastated, its entire population displaced by a …
October 17, 2024
Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration
Today’s book is: Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration (Russell Sage Foundation, 2024), by Dr. Ernesto Castañeda and Daniel…
October 15, 2024
Children are Everywhere
Children are Everywhere: Conspicuous Reproduction and Childlessness in Reunified Berlin (Berghahn Books, 2024) by Dr. Meghana Joshi engages with how d…
October 14, 2024
Muslim Chinese: The Hui in Rural Ningxia
As the predominantly Muslim Chinese who claim ancestry from Persian and Arabic-speaking regions in Central Asia and the Middle East, the Hui people in…
October 13, 2024
Apartheid Remains
Over the course of the 20th century, the South African state attempted to construct a “White Man’s Country” on the African continent using the biopoli…
October 12, 2024
Migration, Constraints, and Suffering
A key part of the experience of migration is not being in full control of one’s circumstances and doing. In this episode, Ingrid Piller speaks with Ma…
October 11, 2024
Walled-In
Walls profoundly shape the spaces we live in and the places we move through, impinge on our everyday lives, and entangle power relations, identity, an…
October 11, 2024
Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar
Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar (Cambridge UP, 2024) looks at Old Delhi's Daryaganj Sunday Book Market, popularly known as Daryaganj Sunday Patri Kit…
October 9, 2024
Conceiving Christian America
In 1997, a group of white pro-life evangelical Christians in the United States created the nation’s first embryo adoption program to “save” the thousa…
October 6, 2024
Bananapocalypse: Plantation Southeast Asia and Its Many Afterlives
This episode focuses on a cluster of issues of longstanding significance in Southeast Asia and in Southeast Asian Studies – plantation agriculture, gl…
October 6, 2024
Transnational Communicative Care
How do families care for each when they are divided over generations by powerful geopolitical forces beyond their control? In this episode, Hanna Tors…
October 6, 2024
Being Human
In the contemporary world, political violence has been an unavoidable issue for everyone. It is therefore essential to criticize political violence in…
October 4, 2024
Sufism in Europe
Francesco Piraino’s Sufism in Europe: Islam, Esotericism and the New Age (University of Edinburgh Press, 2024) is a vital contribution to the growing …
September 30, 2024
The Precarity of Masculinity
A compelling work that explores the lives and aspirations of young footballers with deep nuance and insight, The Precarity of Masculinity: Football, P…
September 29, 2024
Hoof Beats
From the Rockies to the Himalayas, the bond between horses and humans has spanned across time and civilizations. In this archaeological journey, Willi…