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Andrea Acri and Paolo E. Rosati, "Tantra, Magic, and Vernacular Religions in Monsoon Asia: Texts, Practices, and Practitioners from the Margins" (Routledge, 2022)
47 mins; March 23, 2023
Todd McGowan, "Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets" (Columbia UP, 2016)
43 mins; March 23, 2023
The Future of Genes and Equality: A Discussion with Kathryn Paige Harden
40 mins; March 22, 2023
Juwen Zhang, "Oral Traditions in Contemporary China: Healing a Nation" (Lexington Books, 2022)
68 hours 21 mins; March 22, 2023
David Houston Jones, "Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics" (Routledge, 2022)
68 hours 50 mins; March 22, 2023
Julia Kowalski, "Counseling Women: Kinship Against Violence in India" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
36 mins; March 22, 2023
Erin Raffety, "Families We Need: Disability, Abandonment, and Foster Care's Resistance in Contemporary China" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
43 mins; March 21, 2023
Gediminas Lesutis, "The Politics of Precarity: Spaces of Extractivism, Violence, and Suffering" (Routledge, 2021)
87 hours 19 mins; March 21, 2023
Melanie Heath, "Forbidden Intimacies: Polygamies at the Limits of Western Tolerance" (Stanford UP, 2023)
48 mins; March 21, 2023
Patrick L. Schmidt, "Harvard's Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science: The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022)
81 hours 31 mins; March 19, 2023
Felicity Hwee-Hwa Chan, "Tensions in Diversity: Spaces for Collective Life in Los Angeles" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
68 hours 55 mins; March 18, 2023
Kate Sylvester, "Women and Martial Art in Japan" (Routledge, 2022)
64 hours 17 mins; March 18, 2023
Rethinking Community in Myanmar: Practices of We-Formation Among Muslims and Hindus in Urban Yangon
27 mins; March 17, 2023
Ian Rowen, "One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism" (Cornell UP, 2023)
95 hours 2 mins; March 17, 2023
John Miller, "The Philosophy of Tattoos" (British Library, 2021)
53 mins; March 17, 2023
Academic Chat: Reflecting on Hu Tai-li’s Indigenous Ethnographic Work in Taiwan
11 mins; March 17, 2023
Ezra Rashkow, "The Nature of Endangerment in India: Tigers, 'Tribes', Extermination and Conservation, 1818-2020" (Oxford UP, 2023)
48 mins; March 16, 2023
Rosalynn A. Vega, "Nested Ecologies: A Multilayered Ethnography of Functional Medicine" (U Texas Press, 2023)
55 mins; March 15, 2023
Nomadic Pastoralism Among the Mongol Herders
50 mins; March 14, 2023
Illuminations Episode 3: Divine Technology
17 mins; March 14, 2023
Ke Li, "Marriage Unbound: State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China" (Stanford UP, 2022)
59 mins; March 13, 2023
Katherine Davies, "Siblings and Sociology" (Manchester UP, 2023)
40 mins; March 13, 2023
Charles L. Briggs, "Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge" (Utah State UP, 2021)
82 hours 52 mins; March 12, 2023
Book Chat: "Puppets, Gods and Brands. Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
56 mins; March 10, 2023
Arve Hansen, "Consumption and Vietnam’s New Middle Classes: Societal Transformations and Everyday Life" (Springer, 2022)
28 mins; March 10, 2023
Chris Walley on Deindustrialization (EF, JP)
40 mins; March 09, 2023
Miguel Sicart, "Playing Software: Homo Ludens in Computational Culture" (MIT Press, 2023)
62 hours 13 mins; March 08, 2023
Book Chat: "Women Migrants in Southern China and Taiwan" (Routledge, 2021)
46 mins; March 07, 2023
Timothy O. Benedict, "Spiritual Ends: Religion and the Heart of Dying in Japan" (U California Press, 2022)
79 hours 6 mins; March 07, 2023
Claudio E. Benzecry, "The Perfect Fit: Creative Work in the Global Shoe Industry" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
76 hours 13 mins; March 06, 2023
Ulrike Krause, "Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp: Gender, Violence, and Coping in Uganda" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
52 mins; March 06, 2023
Kyama M. Mugambi, "A Spirit of Revitalization: Urban Pentecostalism in Kenya" (Baylor UP, 2020)
99 hours 28 mins; March 05, 2023
Nicola Rollock, "The Racial Code: Tales of Resistance and Survival" (Penguin, 2022)
44 mins; March 05, 2023
Lisa M. Johnson and Rosemary A. Joyce, "Materializing Ritual Practices" (U Colorado Press, 2022)
60 hours 1 min; March 05, 2023
Ben Davies et al., "Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic" (Oxford UP, 2022)
61 hours 16 mins; March 04, 2023
Jennie E. Burnet, "To Save Heaven and Earth: Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide" (Cornell UP, 2023)
73 hours 18 mins; March 04, 2023
Seema Golestaneh, "Unknowing and the Everyday: Sufism and Knowledge in Iran" (Duke UP, 2022)
67 hours 35 mins; March 03, 2023
Greta Lynn Uehling, "Everyday War: The Conflict Over Donbas, Ukraine" (Cornell UP, 2023)
62 hours 2 mins; March 02, 2023
Damien M. Sojoyner, "Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums" (U California Press, 2022)
78 hours 42 mins; March 01, 2023
Arthur Kleinman, "Writing at the Margin: Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine" (U California Press, 1997)
32 mins; March 01, 2023
Celeste Vaughan Curington et al., "The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance" (U California Press, 2021)
49 mins; March 01, 2023
Dan DiPiero, "Contingent Encounters: Improvisation in Music and Everyday Life" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
85 hours 37 mins; February 27, 2023
Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt: A Conversation with Andrew Simon
67 hours 56 mins; February 27, 2023
Affective Masculinities
19 mins; February 27, 2023
Stephen Bullivant, "Nonverts: The Making of Ex-Christian America" (Oxford UP, 2022)
83 hours 52 mins; February 26, 2023
Gary Alan Fine, "Fair Share: Senior Activism, Tiny Publics, and the Culture of Resistance" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
38 mins; February 26, 2023
Bernard D. Geoghegan, "Code: From Information Theory to French Theory" (Duke UP, 2023)
53 mins; February 25, 2023
David H. Price, "The American Surveillance State: How the US Spies on Dissent" (Pluto Press, 2022)
54 mins; February 23, 2023
Helena Hof, "The EU Migrant Generation in Asia: Middle-Class Aspirations in Asian Global Cities" (Policy Press, 2022)
68 hours 50 mins; February 22, 2023
Jane Lasonder, "Red Alert: The Inside Story of Prostitution and Human Trafficking" (Scholten Uitgeverij BV, 2016)
62 hours 39 mins; February 22, 2023
Shannon Philip, "Becoming Young Men in a New India: Masculinities, Gender Relations and Violence in the Postcolony" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
37 mins; February 22, 2023
Joseph Plaster, "Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin" (Duke UP, 2023)
65 hours 37 mins; February 20, 2023
Nicholas Mirzoeff, "White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness" (MIT Press, 2023)
61 hours 46 mins; February 19, 2023
Fabio Duarte and Ricardo Alvarez, "Urban Play: Make-Believe, Technology, and Space" (MIT Press, 2021)
70 hours 55 mins; February 18, 2023
Marnia Lazreg, "Foucault's Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan" (Berghahn Books, 2020)
54 mins; February 16, 2023
Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez, "When Rains Became Floods: A Child Soldier’s Story" (Duke UP, 2015)
37 mins; February 16, 2023
Sarah Kunz, "Expatriate: Following a Migration Category" (Manchester UP, 2023)
65 hours 6 mins; February 15, 2023
Emily Hund, "The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media" (Princeton UP, 2023)
49 mins; February 15, 2023
Lee D. Baker, "From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954" (U California Press, 1998)
54 mins; February 13, 2023
Shailaja Paik, "The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India" (Stanford UP, 2022)
48 mins; February 12, 2023
Piro Rexhepi, "White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality Along the Balkan Route" (Duke UP, 2022)
72 hours 22 mins; February 12, 2023
Jessica Barnes, "Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt" (Duke UP, 2022)
25 mins; February 10, 2023
Mary Ann Hinsdale and Stephen Okey, "T&T Clark Handbook of Theological Anthropology" (T&T Clark, 2020)
25 mins; February 09, 2023
A New Hope? Japanese Retirement Migration to Malaysia
23 mins; February 09, 2023
Leslie Bow, "Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy" (Duke UP, 2022)
50 mins; February 08, 2023
Gendered Labor, Food Security, and Technology in 20th Century Mali
61 hours 6 mins; February 06, 2023
Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner, "Claiming the State: Active Citizenship and Social Welfare in Rural India" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
48 mins; February 03, 2023
Sue Ann Barratt and Aleah N. Ranjitsingh, "Dougla in the Twenty-First Century: Adding to the Mix" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
74 hours 43 mins; February 02, 2023
Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic, "Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow" (Routledge, 2022)
76 hours 18 mins; February 02, 2023
Nick Seaver, "Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
87 hours 32 mins; February 02, 2023
Brooke Schedneck, "Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand: Encounters with Buddhist Monks" (U Washington Press, 2021)
49 mins; February 01, 2023
Clare Forstie, "Queering the Midwest: Forging LGBTQ Community" (NYU Press, 2022)
74 hours 18 mins; February 01, 2023
David Newheiser, "The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
78 hours 9 mins; January 31, 2023
Missing: Men at Work
51 mins; January 31, 2023
M. R. Sharan, "Last Among Equals: Power, Caste and Politics in Bihar's Villages" (Westland, 2021)
45 mins; January 30, 2023
Queer Space
17 mins; January 29, 2023
Robin Bartram, "Stacked Decks: Building Inspectors and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
31 mins; January 29, 2023
Shailaja Paik, "The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India" (Stanford UP, 2022)
63 hours 40 mins; January 27, 2023
Myanmar Jewellers in China
26 mins; January 27, 2023
Batja Mesquita, "Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions" (Norton, 2022)
30 mins; January 26, 2023
Stephanie C. Kane, "Just One Rain Away: The Ethnography of River-City Flood Control" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
44 mins; January 25, 2023
Gillian Tan, "Pastures of Change: Contemporary Adaptations and Transformations among Nomadic Pastoralists of Eastern Tibet" (Springer, 2018)
60 hours 58 mins; January 24, 2023
Lois Presser, "Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences" (U California Press, 2022)
42 mins; January 24, 2023
Elizabeth FarfĂĄn-Santos, "Undocumented Motherhood: Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing" (U Texas Press, 2022)
76 hours 29 mins; January 24, 2023
Namita Vijay Dharia, "The Industrial Ephemeral: Labor and Love in Indian Architecture and Construction" (U California Press, 2022)
53 mins; January 22, 2023
David Collier and Gerardo L. Munck, "Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies: Insights and Methods for Comparative Social Science" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
70 hours 3 mins; January 21, 2023
Hil Malatino, "Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
63 hours 31 mins; January 20, 2023
Surviving the State: Struggles for Land and Democracy in Myanmar
18 mins; January 19, 2023
Malini Ambach et al., "Temples, Texts, and Networks: South Indian Perspectives" (HASP, 2022)
42 mins; January 19, 2023
James C. Rhoads et al., "Cultivating Q Methodology: Essays Honoring Steven R. Brown" (Bookbaby, 2022)
48 mins; January 18, 2023
Paulina Laura Alberto et al., "Voices of the Race: Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870-1960" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
53 mins; January 17, 2023
The Ideology of Innovation in India
68 hours 22 mins; January 17, 2023
Marlene Schäfers, "Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
39 mins; January 16, 2023
Eric A. Stanley, "Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable" (Duke UP, 2021)
52 mins; January 16, 2023
On Émile Durkheim's "The Elementary Forms of Religious Life" (1912)
59 mins; January 15, 2023
Carwil Bjork-James, "The Sovereign Street: Making Revolution in Urban Bolivia" (U Arizona Press, 2020)
56 mins; January 15, 2023
Chris Bilton et al., "Creativities: The What, How, Where, Who and Why of the Creative Process" (Edward Elgar, 2022)
40 mins; January 15, 2023
Xiang Biao and Wu Qi, "Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
100 hours 40 mins; January 15, 2023
Benjamin Hegarty, "The Made-Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia" (Cornell UP, 2022)
62 hours 33 mins; January 15, 2023
Tanya KaterĂ­ HernĂĄndez, "Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality" (Beacon Press, 2022)
59 mins; January 14, 2023
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