The Ethnography of Reading at Thirty

Matthew Rosen is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Ohio University, USA. His earlier publications concern media practices and public culture in postcolonial and postsocialist cities. He is the author most recently of Tirana Modern: Biblio-Ethnography on the Margins of Europe (2022).

1: Introduction: The Ethnography of Reading at Thirty.- 2: Reading as Self-Making: Examining the Contemporary Literate Practices of Adolescent Girls in Singapore.- 3: The Labor of Reading: Hardship and Moralization of Reading in the Contemporary Dujing (Reading Classics) Movement.- 4: Reading Foucault, Becoming an Intellectual in Seoul.- 5:  Brazilian Black Activists' Anthropophagous Manifesto: Reclaiming Blackness in Afro-Brazilian History and Culture.- 6: A Language-and-Materiality Approach to Reading: Reinvigorating Thirty-Year-Old Questions.- 7: Vital Literatures: Anthropologies of Religion and The Ethnography of Reading.- 8: Six Ways of Reading Bibles: Ethnographic Reflections, 2003-2022.- 9: Reading and Praxis among U.S. Marxist Activists.- 10: Shared Reading as a Spatio-Temporal Literary Technology.- 11: Reading Context: On Ethnography of Translation and Commentary.- 12: Reading to Share: An Ethnography of Public Book Discussion Groups.- 13: Reading Delhi: From the Literary Field to Metro Trains.- 14: The Unfinished Work of NYC Graffiti Writers During the Covid-19 Pandemic.