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Although there is a tendency to disregard these films, Ray explains, 'Roving documentary footage is typically unable to maintain a sense of aesthetic abstract for long. In 2006 the Dutch government funded a program to convert its ageing celluloid films to digital, for all to access, thereby opening a window for researchers into the early administration of the nation and its colonies. [Extracted from the article]

"Cargoes In Motion: Materiality And Connectivity Across The Indian Ocean" is a book edited by Burkhard Schnepel and Julia Verne. The book is a compilation of scholarly papers presented at a conference in Berlin in 2019, and it explores the transportation of material objects across the Indian Ocean. The volume includes contributions from 15 scholars from various regions, and it draws on the expertise of anthropologists, geographers, and historians. This book is recommended for university students, scholars, and general readers interested in trade and the Indian Ocean region. [Extracted from the article]

"Working Backstage: A Cultural History and Ethnography of Technical Theater Labor" by Christin Essin is a timely and groundbreaking book that sheds light on the experiences and expertise of technical theater laborers who have been largely invisible. The book explores the genealogies of theatrical production and reveals surprising connections among backstage workers. It also delves into the history of labor rights and union membership within the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE). Essin's book is a valuable resource for academic disciplines such as Black studies, theater and performance, women and gender studies, and English, as well as for general audiences interested in learning more about the life and legacy of Lorraine Hansberry. [Extracted from the article]

This essay is a commentary on Dorinne Kondo's Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity. I consider how Kondo's definition of worldmaking and reparative creativity can be useful concepts for anthropologists contending with the ongoing debate on anthropology's colonial roots, postcolonial anxieties, and the abolition of the discipline. D. Soyini Madison and Erin Manning in dialog with Kondo provide a generative space to reflect on worldmaking as an anthropological endeavor, or anthropology as an act of worldmaking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

These studies draw on a shared vision of translanguaging as theory/practice, that is to say a theory that emerges from practice, transforms practice, and develops further through practice. The last case study, "Uncovering Translingual Practices in Teaching Parents Classical ASL Varieties" by Kristin Snoddon, adopts an ethnographic action research methodology to document the development and field-testing of an American Sign Language (ASL) curriculum aimed at parents of young deaf children in Toronto. Among them, Angel [3] refers to the "trans-semiotising" aspects of translanguaging to underline that translingual practices constitute a "whole-body sense-making process". [Extracted from the article]

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Santizo quickly learned the modified International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) that Hopkins was using and transcribed six hours of field interviews and narratives. Hopkins notes the variable deployment of the Chuj noun classifiers in tales, demonstrating that they are not simply grammatical markers but pragmatic indices of animacy and status. In solidarity with the Mayan activists who promoted the unification of Mayan orthographies and won this recognition, Hopkins retranscribed these narratives to respect the new conventions. [Extracted from the article]

But while Yoon deftly illustrates how Koreans in Wangjing consistently negotiate the parameters of Korean-ness through their day-to-day lives, rarely does she analyze these actions in relation to the larger efforts to define Korean-ness emerging from either of the Korean states or from the larger Korean diaspora. So, how can a trait that is so central to the well-being of Korean migrant communities in the United States have such a minimal impact on the lives of Koreans in Wangjing? Yoon expertly incorporates ethnographic accounts, interviews, and survey data throughout the book, allowing the "field" to voice itself, so to speak, even as she curates the data with her own scholarly analysis. [Extracted from the article]

In 1942, the University of Chicago hired Davis as full-time faculty member in the Department of Education; five years later Davis became the first Black tenured professor at a predominantly White university, but it came at a cost. But Davis was skeptical that Whites were willing to forgo White privilege and work with African Americans. [Extracted from the article]

It is within this tradition of Prestonian Catholic piety, private, ardent, secretive, and not a little compulsive, that Richard Kuerdon, so closely studied by William Shannon, surely belongs. WILLIAM D. SHANNON, Seventeenth-Century Lancashire Restored: The Life and Work of Dr Richard Kuerden, Antiquary and Topographer, 1623-1702: (Manchester: The Chetham Society, 2020 xviii x 346, £39. Was this declaration genuine, or had Kuerden joined the ever-growing band of English people who swore all kinds of oaths and declarations, several of them reciprocally contradictory, so as to hold on to place and livelihood?. [Extracted from the article]

April Nowell's book I Growing up in the Ice Age i is a timely summary of the state-of-the-art regarding Pleistocene youngsters, their lives, deaths and material worlds. Fossil and Archaeological Evidence of the Lived Lives of Plio-Pleistocene Children: by April Nowell, Oxford & Philadelphia, Oxbow Books, 2021, 372 pp., £38 (paperback) ISBN: 978-1-78925-294-1 In the sixth chapter, Nowell narrows in on adolescence, her particular interest of recent years (Nowell and French [6]). [Extracted from the article]

Such an analysis would strengthen the arguments that the Dominican LGBTQ community manages not only to resist state repression but also to spread its views over and above the repressive system, and that public visibility is an effective mechanism for this group in gaining respectability in the country. I Streetwalking i strongly argues that, far from being annihilated, the Dominican LGBTQ community resists the "necropolitical machinery" (p. 128) and, with the international community's support, fights to gain respectability (" I respeto i ") in the country (p. 129). [Extracted from the article]

Ultimately, Das looks to attempts at puzzle piecing for "emissaries", which are signs that "the everyday send[s] in order for it to be recognized" (p. 21). Both of these ambitions permeate each chapter, to be sure, but readers can follow the paths of Das's thought across these different foci depending on one's domains of curiosity. [Extracted from the article]