CaMP Anthropology
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Anthropology blog that features posts, discussions, and links at the intersections of communication, media, and performance.
Bloomington, Indiana
Joined September 2015
Shannon Mattern on her book, A City is not a Computer
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Interview by Elliott Montpellier Elliot Montpellier: You write that you questioned how to write about “the frustratingly capricious world of technology” in book form. With this in mind, what inspir…
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Emily Aguiló-Pérez on her book, An American Icon in Puerto Rico
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Interview by Julia Perillo Julia Perillo: How did you get the idea for this book? Emily Aguiló-Pérez: This was based on my doctoral dissertation, and I decided to talk about Barbie as I was studyin…
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Mathias Levi Toft Kristiansen takes the page 99 test
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My dissertation is about how middle-class people in the United States economize their everyday life to get economic security. Ethnographically, I focus on two groups of Americans who participate in…
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Richard Bauman on his book, A Most Valuable Medium
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Interview by Ilana Gershon Ilana Gershon: What inspired you to study early commercial sound recordings? And what problems did these recordings present to their makers? Dick Bauman: In hindsight, my…
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Shaka McGlotten on their book, Dragging: Or, in the Drag of a Queer Life
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Interview with Robyn Taylor-Neu Robyn Taylor-Neu: It’s conventional (for this blog series) to ask about the focus and argument of the book–but Dragging seems to willfully resist reduction to …
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Ingrid Kummels discusses her book, Transborder Media Spaces
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Interview by Alana Mazur Alana Mazur: One of the main themes running through your book is Indigenous audiovisual media and mediatized politics. You provide an in-depth and nuanced analysis of the r…
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John P. O’Regan on his book, Global English and Political Economy
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Interview by Bonnie Urciuoli Bonnie Urciuoli: Can you say a bit about how your Marx reading group led to this book. John O’Regan: The Marx reading group came together as a result of conversations I…
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Jessica Grieser on her book, The Black Side of the River
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Interview by Anna-Marie Sprenger Anna-Marie Sprenger: First of all, congratulations on your new book! I am curious how you came to focus on place specifically in your research of Black speakers in …
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Ingrid Kummels on her new book, Indigenity in Real Time
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Interview by Maria Eugenia Ulfe María Eugenia Ulfe: Congratulations, Ingrid, for publishing this wonderful book. It is a beautifully written ethnography about Zapotec and Ayuujk mediamakers’ involv…
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Amahl Bishara discusses her book, Crossing a Line
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Interview by Sarah Ihmoud Sarah Ihmoud: Crossing a Line offers a refreshing and indeed critical ethnographic approach to understanding Palestinian political expression across the fragmented social …
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Yaina Stainova on her book, Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela
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Interview by Ahona Palchoudhuri Ahona Palchoudhuri: I’d like to begin with a particularly moving ethnographic instance from your book in which Demian – who I sometimes like to think of as the prota…
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Valérie Robin Azevedo on her book, Los Silencios de la guerra
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Interview (and translation) by Emily Fjaellen Thompson English version below Emily Fjaellen Thompson: Usted ha tenido un par de años muy prolíficos. En 2021, La Siniestra publicó la traducción al c…
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Tom Mould on his book, Overthrowing the Queen: Telling Stories of Welfare in America.
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Interview by Fionnán Mac Gabhann iupress.org/overthrowing-the-queen Fionnán Mac Gabhann: Overthrowing the Queen represents one of several objectives devised as part of a collaborative project you i…
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Laura Goldblatt and Richard Handler on their book, The American Stamp
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Interview by Pauline Turner Strong Pauline Strong: Congratulations on the publication of your book! I very much enjoyed reading it and I look forward to sharing it with students. To begin our conve…
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Jonathan Sterne on his book, Diminished Faculties
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Interview by Toni Nieminen Toni Nieminen: First, congratulations on Diminished Faculties, what a wonderful read it was! I find your form of writing very interesting. The mixing of different voices …
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