October 2025 – CaMP Anthropology
3 posts published by | during October 2025| CaMP Anthropology
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691245034/code-work?srsltid=AfmBOoqR3xSPmEWlLgW2WQSbpHmIHhAiNmVkPChA7mQ5sTmoaGH_4Ebm Ilana Gershon: What insights into coding and Silicon Valley emerge when you begin with hackers in Mexico? Héctor Beltrán: Starting from Mexico reveals how Silicon Valley’s celebrated flexibility is actually quite rigid about who gets to be flexible and where. During my fieldwork, the mainstream narrative was that tech is open, meritocratic, and borderless....| CaMP Anthropology
Tony Webster: I want to say how much I enjoyed reading your book Language and Political Subjectivity: Stancemaking, Power and Politics in Chile and Venezuela. It’s really a wonderful and thou…| CaMP Anthropology
My dissertation, Being Both: Negotiating Identity, Surveillance, and Belonging within Queer Middle Eastern and Queer Muslim Communities in the United States, explores how queer Muslims and queer Middle Eastern people in the U.S. navigate overlapping systems of Islamophobia, racialization, and homotransphobia. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in New York City and in digital spaces between 2020 […]| CaMP Anthropology
Josh Reno: I just finished your book a week ago, and I feel like it is still happening to me. It is so good at exploring anxious, uncertain moments before there’s a sense of shared understand…| CaMP Anthropology
A review of the exhibit Dolly Parton: Journey of a Seeker at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Nashville, TN By Sarah D. Phillips The exhibit Dolly Parton: Journey of a Seeker opened in May 2025 at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee. It advances a straightforward argument: […]| CaMP Anthropology
by Erika Alpert Krakoan national co-founder Magneto explains to diplomats at the new Krakoan Embassy in Jerusalem why mutants have decided to create their own language, from House of X #1 (Hickman et al. 2019a, 32). In 2025, wars are raging in Ukraine and Israel and too many other places, but they all come down […]| CaMP Anthropology
by E. M. Elshaikh Last month, American Eagle released an ad campaign with actress Sydney Sweeney, modeled after a 1980s Calvin Klein denim ad. The campaign plays with the homophone jeans/genes. In …| CaMP Anthropology
The CaMP anthropology blog has been running for 10 years — our very first post was on September 4th, 2015. During this decade, we have celebrated 122 dissertations, and 302 new books. The blog started because when Indiana University dissolved the innovative and beloved department of Communication and Culture, five ethnographers moved to IU’s anthropology […]| CaMP Anthropology
My dissertation, With Other Men: Love, Narrative, and Belonging Among Same-Sex Attracted Men in New Orleans, is an ethnographic study of how love narratives—structured around the phrase “I love you”—are interdiscursively linked to broader histories of racialized exclusion, public health discourse, and queer social life. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with same-sex attracted men in monogamous, […]| CaMP Anthropology
Shannon Ward: In the Introduction, you discuss zurza as a uniquely Tibetan genre of humour. Can you say more about how you first discovered zurza as a genre? Do you remember the first Amdo Tibetan …| 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
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
