August 2025 – CaMP Anthropology
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“After one candidate, the only one in a suit, described the many virtues of community involvement, a heckler shouted, “Frank, what clubs are you part of in the community?” leading the candidate to admit that he hadn’t gotten the opportunity to join any clubs…yet. The other candidate ended up winning her seat, returning to work […]| CaMP Anthropology
Page 99 of my dissertation drops the reader into what I call a “technological (dis)connective happening.” It captures a moment during the pandemic, when offline events moved online. In this scene—part of an Airbnb Online experience on Zoom—my internet connection cut out for two minutes: We could not see the others’ responses to our absence, […]| CaMP Anthropology
by Clare Wiznura The 2007 video game BioShock explores what might happen when individuals have the option to keep all the fruits of their labour, free from taxes or restrictions on their work. The …| CaMP Anthropology
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/on-the-record/paper Jennifer Chacon: You note in the book that when immigrant residents want to avail themselves of various forms of relief from the threat of deportation (or, to be more legally precise, removal), they often have to establish their own exceptionality, demonstrating why they are deserving of legal relief that is not more widely available. Could you […]| CaMP Anthropology
Page ninety-nine of my dissertation offers an end-of-section summary, in which I distill the analytic work undertaken over the preceding ninety-eight pages. In these pages, I draw on Immanuel Kant’s theory of the sublime to illuminate how, beginning in the early 1960s, representations of the Holocaust were experienced within North American Jewish communities and mobilized […]| CaMP Anthropology
The 99th page of my dissertation is nestled within Chapter 3: When Words Fail: Therapeutic Aspects of Visual Arts—my favorite chapter. Conveniently, by explaining this chapter, I also show what my …| CaMP Anthropology
Interviewed by Kristina Jacobsen Kristina Jacobsen: Your book takes up two longstanding interests of anthropology: Indigeneity and modernity. Did you originally set out to study these topics or did…| CaMP Anthropology
https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-trauma-mantras Sofía Cifuentes Contador: The Trauma Mantras is a non-conventional ethnography that draws on different writing styles, such as autoethnography, poetry, essay-like pieces. What pushed you to write this book and how would you describe its main argument? Adrie Kusserow: I wanted to write this book because I have always felt creative poetic prose and […]| CaMP Anthropology
https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/guarded-by-two-jaguars Max Conrad: You argue that Catholicism as a religion facilitates heteroglossia and is ultimately shaped – formed and reformed – by dialogue, particularly the words and actions of laypeople. The divide in how Mainstream and Charismatic Catholics view religious authority seems to mirror other differences you outline in the book, such as hymns: catechistic, […]| CaMP Anthropology
Rachel Apone: Thank you for this creative, rich, and thought-provoking book! The book offers a fascinating argument about the history of Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and speaks to foundation…| CaMP Anthropology
How to Tell: Gender Performance and Viral “Identity Tests” “Supposedly, only women can do this,” a typical video begins. The woman bends at the waist and lifts a chair, steps over a broom, kneels a…| CaMP Anthropology
