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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies
Episode: Aysegül Savas, "The Anthropologists" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Description: Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should their life here look like? What rituals will structure their days? Whom can they consider family?As the young couple dreams about the possibilities of each new listing, Asya, a documentarian, gathers footage from the neighborhood like an anthropologist observing local customs. "Forget about daily life," chides her grandmother on the phone. "We named you for a whole continent and you're filming a park."Back in their home countries parents age, grandparents get sick, nieces and nephews grow up-all...