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Sep 23

Cattelino’s High Stakes: Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty

Just a quick note to sing the praises of my friend Jessica Cattelino’s new book High Stakes: Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty. It is an excellent ethnography examining the ramifications and impacts of gaming on Seminole life and cultural reproduction in the context of my own topsy turvey home country, South Florida. It is a wonderful work that is poised to contribute much to the fields of anthropology and Native American studies.  Jessica has just joined the faculty at UCLA. Learn more about her book from this UCLA press release and in this posting on antropologi.info. Congratulations Jessica!

Sep 22

Korean Shaman: Possession by the Spirit of Changun

I wanted to share a short film produced by my friends Liora and Shai Sarfati. It derives from Liora’s doctoral work on the material culture of Korean Shamanism. Liora is a student in East Asian Languages and Cultures and in Folklore at Indiana University.

Sep 13

Radio Inteview: Pravina Shukla on Body Art

The WFHB radio program Interchange recently did an excellent long-format interview with my colleague Pravina Shukla. Using her book Grace of Four Moons: Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India as a springboard, Pravina and host Dave Stewart engage in a lively, interesting and very substantive discussion of body adornment practices worldwide. The interview is an engaging overview of Pravina’s work and an excellent introduction to folkloristic perspectives on adornment as an expressive and material culture phenomena. Find the interview online here.