New Books in Anthropology
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1976
C. M. Driscoll and M. R. Miller, “Method as Ide...
Whatever strategy one uses there is a relationship between one’s social identity and the categories shaping theoretical and methodological assumptions...
74 min
1977
Jacqueline H. Fewkes, "Locating Maldivian Women...
What is a mosque? What are women's mosques specifically?
63 min
1978
T. Sangaramoorthy and K. Kroeger, "Rapid Ethnog...
How can researchers gather information quickly, for instance in the times of COVID-19?
56 min
1979
Nusrat S. Chowdhury, "Paradoxes of the Popular:...
Chowdhury offers insight into what she calls "the paradoxes of the popular," or the constitutive contradictions of popular politics...
51 min
1980
Forrest Stuart, "Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, D...
How do young men use drill music and social media to gain power?
61 min
1981
Nancy Mattina, "Uncommon Anthropologist: Gladys...
Mattina offers the first full biography of Reichard, and examines her pathbreaking work in the ethnography of ritual and mythology; Wiyot, Coeur d’Alene, and Navajo linguistics; folk art, gender, and language; and her exceptional career of teaching, editing, publishing, and mentoring...
62 min
1982
Maria Rashid, "Dying to Serve: Militarism, Affe...
Rashid conducts an intimate and layered ethnography of militarism and death in Pakistan, with a focus on the lives, aspirations, and tragedies of soldiers and their families in rural Punjab...
66 min
1983
Ayala Fader, "Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in ...
What would you do if you questioned your religious faith, but revealing that would cause you to lose your family and the only way of life you had ever known?
90 min
1984
Mythri Jegathesan, "Tea and Solidarity: Tamil W...
Jegathesan makes essential contributions to the fields of anthropology and gender studies but also to scholars interested in South Asia, decoloniality, and ethical research methods...
52 min
1985
Jyoti Puri, "Sexual States: Governance and the ...
Puri tracks the efforts to decriminalize homosexuality in India to show how the regulation of sexuality is fundamentally tied to the creation and enduring existence of the state...
52 min
1986
Katie Horowitz, "Drag, Interperformance, and th...
Horowitz argues that the radical (in)difference between kings and queens provides a window into the perennial rift between lesbians and gay men...
61 min
1987
Fiona Vera-Gray, "The Right Amount of Panic: Ho...
Have you ever thought about how much energy goes into avoiding sexual violence?
51 min
1988
Shay Welch, "The Phenomenology of a Performativ...
Welch investigates the phenomenological ways that dance choreographing and dance performance exemplify both Truth and meaning-making within Native American epistemology,..
61 min
1989
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
56 min
1990
Baptiste Brossard, "Forgetting Items: The Socia...
Alzheimer's disease has not only profound medical consequences for the individual experiencing it but a life-changing impact on those around them...
48 min
1991
Carlo Caduff, "The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic E...
In this episode, we discuss the pandemic when it was a ‘perhaps’, unpack the blurring of reason and faith among expert interlocutors and draw out lessons on preparedness and its paradoxes for the present global coronavirus crisis...
47 min
1992
A Discussion with Kelly McFall about Using "Rea...
The "Reacting" technique asks students to play the roles of historical actors and to re-enact particular events and situations. The instructors using the method have had great success...
52 min
1993
Maura Finkelstein, "The Archive of Loss: Lively...
Mumbai's textile industry is commonly but incorrectly understood to be an extinct relic of the past...
68 min
1994
Miriam J. Abelson, "Men in Place: Trans Masculi...
Abelson and I discuss the various types of masculinity she identified in her study, such as hypermasculine men, regular guys, and men who seek to embody what Abelson calls “Golidlocks masculinity.”
59 min
1995
Christopher Houston, "Istanbul, City of the Fea...
Houston explores social movements and the broader practices of civil society in Istanbul in the critical years before and after the 1980 military coup, the defining event in the neoliberal reengineering of the city...
60 min
1996
Chelsea McCracken, "A Grammar of Belep" (Walter...
Belep is spoken by approximately 1600 people in New Caledonia, primarily in the Belep Isles. This is the first full-length grammar of the language, describing the sounds, morphology and syntax of Belep...d
52 min
1997
Oliver Kaplan, "Resisting War: How Communities ...
Kaplan’s case studies of Columbia – with extensions to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, and the Philippines – demonstrates how, why, and when civilians effectively resist the influence of armed actors and limit violence...
41 min
1998
Great Books: Denis Hollier on Lévi-Strauss' "Tr...
Ostensibly a travelogue and ethnographic account of a European's fieldwork among indigenous people in mid-20th century Brazil, it is a work of impassioned curiosity...
53 min
1999
J. S. Hirsch and S. Khan, "Sexual Citizens: A L...
"Sexual Citizens" is based on years of research interviewing and observing college life—with students of different races, genders, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic backgrounds...
58 min
2000
Marco Z. Garrido, "The Patchwork City: Class, S...
Synthesizing literature in political sociology and urban studies, Garrido shows how experiences along the housing divide in Manila constitute political subjectivities and shape the very experience of democracy in contemporary Philippines...
45 min