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A Tiger’s Leap into the Past: An Interview with Anand Vivek Taneja
Anand Vivek Taneja’s recently published book Jinnealogy: Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi speaks of lives in conversation with... More
Fieldwork and the Native Informant: A Review of Culture at Large 2017
Fieldwork and the Native Informant Organizers: Eleana Kim (University of California, Irvine) and Zeynep Gürsel (Macalester College) Featured Guest: Gayatri Chak... More
The Promise of the Plan: An Interview with Thomas Yarrow
ON PLANSAtreyee Majumder: Amid the wide array of urban ethnography that exposes the messiness of development aspirations in postcolonial states, you offer an ... More
The Times of Sand: An Interview with Jerry C. Zee
Atreyee Majumder: What a wonderful revisiting of the old idiom about “the sands of time”! How did you zero in on sand? Jerry C. Zee: I’m glad you liked it—one ... More
Race and the Good Liberal
The black man is perfect, cried James Baldwin. Surely he knew the pitch of his prose. Those like me—the middlebrow intellectual, proud reader of Black thought—t... More
It Can’t Be Revolution: An Interview with Tania Li
What can anthropology add to the larger complex of forces that bring about social change? What follows is a lightly edited transcript of an interview between co... More
On the Travel Ban: An Interview with Darryl Li
On Friday, January 27, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that temporarily bars the entry of refugees into the United States and bans citizens of ... More
Anna Tsing and Michael Taussig
The current political moment involves an overwhelming mass hysteria under the apocalyptic sign of Donald Trump’s presidency. It also features the shutting down ... More
To Make Ends Possible Again: An Interview with Eli Thorkelson
Atreyee Majumder: Let me start by picking your brain on the notion of stubbornness. The anthropology of affect has straddled many emotions and their political m... More