New Books Network
Pitch a Book!
Hosts
Subscribe
Arts & Letters
Architecture
Art
Digital Humanities
Fantasy
Film
Folklore
Food
Historical Fiction
Literary Studies
Literature
Music
Performing Arts
Photography
Poetry
Popular Culture
Science Fiction
Peoples & Places
African Studies
African American Studies
American Studies
American South
American West
Asian American Studies
Australian and New Zealand Studies
British Studies
Caribbean Studies
Central Asian Studies
Chinese Studies
East Asian Studies
Eastern European Studies
European Studies
French Studies
German Studies
Indian Ocean World
Israel Studies
Italian Studies
Japanese Studies
Korean Studies
Latino Studies
Latin American Studies
Middle Eastern Studies
Native American Studies
Russian and Eurasian Studies
Southeast Asian Studies
South Asian Studies
World Affairs
Politics & Society
Animal Studies
Anthropology
Archaeology
Arguing History
Biography
Communications
Critical Theory
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery
Education
Economics
Finance
Geography
Gender Studies
Genocide Studies
History
Intellectual History
Journalism
Language
Law
LGBTQ+ Studies
Military History
National Security
Philosophy
Political Science
Politics
Politics & Polemics
Public Policy
Sociology
Sound Studies
Sports
Religion & Faith
Biblical Studies
Buddhist Studies
Christian Studies
Hindu Studies
Islamic Studies
Jewish Studies
Religion
Secularism
Spiritual Practice and Mindfulness
Science & Technology
Environmental Studies
Mathematics
Medicine
Neuroscience
Psychoanalysis
Psychology
Science
Science, Technology, and Society
Systems and Cybernetics
Technology
Special Series
Academic Life
Asian Review of Books
Big Ideas
Celebration Studies
Co-Authored
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight
Entrepreneurship and Leadership
Interpretive Political and Social Science
Kurdish Studies
Landscape Architecture
Mobilities and Methods
Mormonism
NBN Book of the Day
NBN Seminar
Malcolm X and Black Nationalism
A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler
Postscript
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
Scholarly Communications
SSEAC Stories
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel
Third World Nationalism
Ethnographic Marginalia
The Common Magazine
About Alex Golub
Associate professor of anthropology, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Alex's website
NBN Episodes hosted by Alex:
Anthropology
November 24, 2020
Tanna Times
Islanders in the World
Lamont Lindstrom
Hosted by Alex Golub
For four decades, Lamont "Monty" Lindstrom has conducted research on the island of Tanna in the Pacific nation of Vanuatu. Considered by outsiders to be incredibly exotic, Tanna attracts tourists …
Photography
September 30, 2020
La Batea
Elizabeth Ferry and Stephen Ferry
Hosted by Alex Golub
La Batea is an unconventional book. A collaboration between anthropologist Elizabeth Ferry and her photographer brother Stephen, it combines text and images to paint a picture of the lives of …
Asian American Studies
August 13, 2020
Possessing Polynesians
The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai‘i and Oceania
Maile Arvin
Hosted by Alex Golub
From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans saw Polynesians as almost racially white, and speculated that they were of Mediterranean or Aryan descent. In Possessing …
Australian and New Zealand Studies
June 23, 2020
God is Samoan
Dialogues Between Culture and Theology in the Pacific
Matt Tomlinson
Hosted by Alex Golub
Christian theologians in the Pacific Islands see culture as the grounds on which one understands God. In God is Samoan: Dialogues Between Culture and Theology in the Pacific (University of …
American Studies
May 13, 2020
Uncommon Anthropologist
Gladys Reichard and Western Native American Culture
Nancy Mattina
Hosted by Alex Golub
Protégé of Elsie Clews Parsons and Franz Boas, founder and head of Barnard College's anthropology department, and a trailblazer in Native American linguistics and anthropology, Gladys Reichard (1893–1955) is one …
Anthropology
March 2, 2020
Talking Like Children
Language and the Production of Age in the Marshall Islands
Elise Berman
Hosted by Alex Golub
Since World War II, the fate of the Marshal Islands has been tied to the United States. The Marshalls were a site of military testing, host a US military base …
American Studies
November 13, 2019
At The Bridge
James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging
Wendy Wickwire
Hosted by Alex Golub
The history of anthropology remembers James Teit as a field assistant and man-on-the spot for Franz Boas. But in At The Bridge: James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging (University …
Australian and New Zealand Studies
October 7, 2019
A Death in the Rainforest
How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea
Don Kulick
Hosted by Alex Golub
Called "perhaps the finest and most profound account of ethnographic fieldwork and discovery that has ever entered the anthropological literature" by the Wall Street Journal, A Death in the Rainforest …
American Studies
September 4, 2019
Gods of the Upper Air
How A Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
Charles King
Hosted by Alex Golub
American anthropologists consider Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead to be foundational figures, but outside the academy few people know the details of their ideas. In this new volume …
Australian and New Zealand Studies
July 25, 2019
Sea People
The Puzzle of Polynesia
Christina Thompson
Hosted by Alex Golub
It's rare for a book of non-fiction to catch the interest of the reading public in the United States, much less a book on the history of science in the …
African American Studies
July 12, 2019
The Lost Black Scholar
Resurrecting Allison Davis in American Social Thought
David Varel
Hosted by Alex Golub
Allison Davis (1902-1983) was a pioneering anthropologist who did ground-breaking fieldwork in the Jim Crow south, challenged the racial bias of IQ tests, and became the first African American to …