Dr. Nancy Yan recently talked to Dr. Margaret Magat, author of Balut: Fertilized Eggs and the Making of Culinary Nationalism, a rich study and deep analysis of one part of Asian American foodways. Balut is a fertilized egg that is boiled and eaten
Recent Releases
Utah State University Press recently published Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge by Charles L. Briggs. A provocative theoretical synthesis by renowned folklorist and anthropologist Charles L. Briggs, Unlearning questions intellectual foundations and charts new paths forward. Briggs argues, through an expansive look
Brian Schrag’s Artistic Dynamos: An Ethnography on Music in Central African Kingdoms uses stories and research from Ngiembɔɔn communities of Central and West Cameroon as touchstones for proposing new approaches to arts scholarship and community development. Building on the results of ethnographic research, artistic
Resilience Through Writing: A Bibliographic Guide to Indigenous-Authored Publications in the Pacific Northwest before 1960 is an anthropological monograph that documents the earliest writing and publishing projects of Indigenous people in Northwestern North America. Even as many Indigenous men and women worked as
The Network on Culture is very pleased to publish Volume 2, Issue 1 (March 2021) of Matrix: A Journal for Matricultural Studies. The issue is now live online, here: https://www.networkonculture.ca/activities/matrix/issues/vol2_iss1. This issue has a special focus on matricultural societies of East Asia, including oral lore
On March 23, 2021, Routledge Press will publish Climate Change Temporalities: Explorations in Popular, Vernacular, and Scientific Discourse, a volume edited by Kyrre Kverndokk, Marit Ruge Bjærke, and Anne Eriksen. Climate Change Temporalities explores how various timescales, timespans, intervals, rhythms, cycles, and changes in acceleration
Wayne State University Press recently published Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century, an edited volume by Cristina Bacchilega and Jennifer Orme. Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century anthologizes contemporary stories, comics, and visual texts that intervene in a range of
Rutgers University Press recently released Rafael Ocasio’s Race and Nation in Puerto Rican Folklore: Franz Boas and John Alden Mason in Porto Rico. Ocasio also edited an anthology of folk narratives from Puerto Rico, which is forthcoming. Read below for descriptions of both
This handbook offers the most comprehensive, analytic, and multidisciplinary study of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the African Diaspora to date. Preeminent scholars Akintunde Akinyemi and Toyin Falola assemble a team of leading and rising stars across African Studies research to retrieve
McFarland Press recently published Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories, a book by John Bodner, Wendy Welch, Ian Brodie, Anna Muldoon, Donald Leech, and Ashley Marshall. As the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) spread around the world, so did theories, stories, and conspiracy beliefs about it. These theories