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Anthropology
Interviews with anthropologists about their new books.
April 22, 2024
Seeking a Future for the Past
In Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City (U Michigan Press, 2024), Philipp Demgenski examines the complexities a…
April 21, 2024
Settler Ecologies
Settler Ecologies: The Enduring Nature of Settler Colonialism in Kenya (University of Toronto Press, 2024) tells the story of how settler colonialism …
April 21, 2024
Migrants Who Care
As the U.S. population ages and as health care needs become more complex, demand for paid care workers in home and institutional settings has increase…
April 21, 2024
Code Work
In Code Work: Hacking Across the US/México Techno-Borderlands (Princeton UP, 2023), Héctor Beltrán examines Mexican and Latinx coders’ personal strate…
April 21, 2024
Fieldnotes in the Critical Study of Religion
Fieldnotes in the Critical Study of Religion: Revisiting Classical Theorists (Bloomsbury, 2023) introduces students to the so-called classics of the f…
April 19, 2024
The Promise of Piety
The Promise of Piety: Islam and the Politics of Moral Order in Pakistan (Cornell University Press, 2024) by Arsalan Khan is an incisive ethnographic s…
April 17, 2024
Underground
Bruce O'Neill's Underground: Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, li…
April 16, 2024
Rights Refused
Over three years have passed since a military coup of February 2021 in Myanmar precipitated a popular uprising that has since transformed into a revol…
April 15, 2024
Exit Wounds
American guns have entangled the lives of people on both sides of the US-Mexico border in a vicious circle of violence. After treating wounded migrant…
April 14, 2024
Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland
How embedded are the dignity and personhood of the elderly in the collective memory of their nation? In Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland: Memor…
April 14, 2024
Chinese Espresso
Why and how local coffee bars in Italy--those distinctively Italian social and cultural spaces--have been increasingly managed by Chinese baristas sin…
April 13, 2024
Cultural Approaches to Studying Religion
Cultural Approaches to Studying Religion: An Introduction to Theories and Method (Bloomsbury, 2023) examines the analytic tools of scholars in religio…
April 12, 2024
Precarious Modernities
What does living “precariously” mean in Casablanca? In 2014 it meant being labeled tcharmil (seeming to endanger public order) and swept up by the po…
April 12, 2024
Making Sense of "Bad English"
Brynn Quick speaks with Dr Elizabeth Peterson about language ideologies and what we think when we hear different varieties of English. The conversati…
April 11, 2024
The Lettered Indian
Bringing into dialogue the fields of social history, Andean ethnography, and postcolonial theory, The Lettered Indian: Race, Nation, and Indigenous Ed…
April 6, 2024
Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century
Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Social Movements and Agrarian Change (Cornell University Press, 2024) by Dr. Marc Edelman …
April 5, 2024
How Language Shapes Relationships in Professional Sports Teams
While the topic of relationships in professional sports teams is gaining greater attention from researchers and practitioners, the role that coach and…
April 4, 2024
Hurricanes, Fiction, and Speculative Ethnography (EF)
In this episode, Elizabeth talks with Steven Gonzalez, anthropologist and author of speculative fiction under the pen name E.G. Condé. They discuss th…
April 3, 2024
Palestinian Chicago
Chicago is home to one of the largest, most politically active Palestinian immigrant communities in the United States. For decades, secular nationalis…
April 3, 2024
The Invention of Prehistory
Books about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings an…