Bateson Book Forum: The Resonance of Unseen Things
In The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny, Susan Lepselter describes the affects and networked logics that ... More
Academic Precarity in American Anthropology: A Forum
If as many as 80 percent of doctoral students in cultural anthropology are not getting tenure-track jobs, then why are PhD programs in the United States almost ... More
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
Reading Achille Mbembe in Indian Majoritarian Politics
In the 2014 Indian national elections the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), under the stewardship of Narendra Modi, returned to power with a comfortable majority. O... More
Bateson Book Forum: The Mushroom at the End of the World
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s beautifully written ethnography The Mushroom at the End of the World evokes the forms of life that emerge in the ruins and fissures—the ... 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
What Are You Reading? Responses to the Election and Inauguration
Like many anthropologists, we responded to this postelection moment by turning to books. But confronted by the long lists of readings in crowdsourced syllabi, w... More
The Shattered Echo Chamber: Experiences of #AmAnth2016 in the Wake of the Election
As anthropologists convened for the 2016 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, just one week after Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential ... More
Just an Anthropologist? An Interview with Esther Newton
The following interview, which was conducted by Sebastian Mohr (Danish School of Education, Aarhus University), took place in Esther Newton’s office at the Univ... More