New Books in Anthropology
Interviews with Anthropologists about their New Books
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- Description
- Interviews with Anthropologists about their New Books
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-11-21 19:09
- last episode published
- 2024-11-21 09:00
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- 2.53 days
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- Marshall Poe
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- 2267
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Episodes
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| 2024-11-21 | Devotional Fanscapes: Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans, and Cultural Politics in India and Beyond (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023) examines how fans worship film stars as deities. Focusing on temples dedicated to Bollywood (Hindi cinema) stars and th... |
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| 2024-11-21 |
Without Parents or Papers: A Discussion with Stephanie L. Canizales Today’s book is: Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States (U California Press, 2024), a which explores how each year, thousands of youth endure harrowing unaccompanied and undocumented migrations across Cen... |
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| 2024-11-20 | What can social spaces tell us about social relations in society? How do everyday social spaces like teashops, reading rooms and libraries reify-or subvert-dominant social structures like caste and gender? These are the questions that Social Spaces an... |
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| 2024-11-20 |
Vivian Asimos, "Cosplay and the Dressing of Identity" (Reaktion, 2024) Cosplay, born from the fusion of ‘costume’ and ‘play’, transcends mere dress-up by transforming enthusiasts of TV shows, movies, books or video games into living embodiments of their cherished characters. Cosplay and the Dressing of Identity (Reaktion,... |
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| 2024-11-19 | Around the world, millions are forcibly displaced by conflict, climate change, and persecution. Some cross international borders, while others are displaced within their own countries. In We Wait for a Miracle: Health Care and the Forcibly Displaced (J... |
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| 2024-11-15 | How do street-level bureaucrats in Austria’s public service deal with linguistic diversity? In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Ingrid Piller speaks with Dr Clara Holzinger (University of Vienna) about her PhD research investigating ho... |
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| 2024-11-13 | Tribe-state relations are a foundational element of authoritarian bargains in the Middle East, and in particular in the Gulf States. However, the structures of governance built upon that foundation exhibit wide differences. What explains this variation... |
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| 2024-11-13 |
David Shoemaker, "Wisecracks: Humor and Morality in Everyday Life" (U Chicago Press, 2024) 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 conversation and indeed a good life, jokes have never seemed more morally problematic than they do now. How ca... |
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| 2024-11-12 |
Nandini Sundar, "The Burning Forest: India's War In Bastar" (Verso, 2019) The Burning Forest: India's War Against the Maoists (Verso, 2019) by Nandini Sundar is an empathetic, moving account of what drives indigenous peasants to support armed struggle despite severe state repression, including lives lost, homes and communiti... |
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| 2024-11-11 |
Roxani Krystalli, "Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question" (Oxford UP, 2024) In the latest edition of Ethnographic Marginalia, we talk with Roxani Krystalli about her new book Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question (Oxford UP, 2024). Roxani describes the dilemmas she faced in her research on encounters between those... |
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