Interviews with Anthropologists about their New Books
https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/politics-society/anthropology/
episode 49: Joseph E. Taylor III, "Persistent Callings: Seasons of Work and Identity on the Oregon Coast" (Oregon State UP, 2019)
Focusing on the Nestucca river valley, Taylor shows how nature, culture, markets, and technology affected the "callings," or identities, of residents from pre-colonial times to the very recent past....
episode 238: Joseph Reagle, "Hacking Life: Systematized Living and its Discontents" (MIT Press, 2019)
Reagle examines these attempts to systematize living and finds that they are the latest in a long series of self-improvement methods...
episode 23: Elizabeth A. Wheeler, "HandiLand: The Crippest Place on Earth" (U Michigan Press, 2019)
Wheeler uses a fictional place called HandiLand as a yardstick for measuring how far American society has progressed toward social justice and how much remains to be done...
episode 128: D. A. Bell and W. Pei, "Just Hierarchy: Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World" (Princeton UP, 2020)
What are the arguments in favor of social hierarchies?
episode 127: Tania Jenkins, "Doctors’ Orders: The Making of Status Hierarchies in an Elite Profession" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Jenkins engages readers in readers in a ethnography where she spent years observing and interviewing American, international, and osteopathic medical residents in two hospitals...
episode 126: Josh Seim, "Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering" (U California Press, 2020)
What is the role of the ambulance in the American city?
episode 59: Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins, "Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Waste offers Stamatopoulou-Robbins a unique vantage point for understanding everyday life under occupation, the role of environmental discourse in the production and destruction of sovereignty,..
episode 123: M. Maloney, S. Roberts, and T. Graham, "Gender, Masculinity and Video Gaming: Analysing Reddit’s r/gaming Community" (Palgrave, 2019)
What can online social spaces like Reddit’s r/gaming reveal about gender attitudes, masculinized spaces, and turning points in gamer communities?
episode 48: Jerome Whitington, "Anthropogenic Rivers: The Production of Uncertainty in Lao Hydropower" (Cornell UP, 2018)
Whitington examines the dynamics and discourses centered around the development of hydropower dams in the Mekong River Basin...
episode 235: Kate Devlin, "Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
Devlin builds on the science and the philosophy surrounding our most intimate relationship with technology...