Ethnography Reading Group
Based out of the University of Queensland, the reading group meets monthly to discuss an anthropological monograph.
The group was convened by Dr Susannah Chapman and Dr Xan Chacko from 2018-20. Dr. Susannah Chapman convenes it in 2021.
2021
December
I Swear I Saw This: Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own — Michael Taussig, 2011
November
The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds — Thom van Dooren, 2019
October
Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation — Juno Salazar Parreñas, 2018
August
The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail — Jason de León, 2015
April
The River is in Us: Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community — Elizabeth Hoover, 2017
February
Ordinary Affects — Kathleen Stewart, 2007
2020
December
Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science —- Kim Tallbear, 2013
September
Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait —- Attiya Ahmad, 2017
July
The Pursuit of Happiness —- Bianca C. Williams, 2018
June
Necropolitics —- Achille Mbembe, 2019
May
Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice Across Andean Worlds —- Marisol de la Cadena, 2015
April
No Friend But the Mountains —- Behrouz Boochani, 2018
March
‘Introductions: The Compulsion of Relations’, Relations: An Anthropological Account —- Marilyn Strathern, 2020
October
Rendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter —- Natasha Myers, 2015
September
Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier —- Tania Murray Li, 2014
August
Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution —- James Ferguson, 2015
July
Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination —- Julie Cruikshank, 2005
May
Conservation Is Our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea —- Paige West, 2006
March
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins —- Anna Tsing, 2015
February
‘How I read’ —- Joe Dumit, 2012
2019
Post-harvest Rice Paddy, Kuttanad, India 2016