[Linganth] Meghanne Barker's new book

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Meghanne Barker's book just came out, and to celebrate, CaMP anthropology
is posting an interview with Meghanne Barker that Alex Warburton conducted.

campanthropology.org

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Please check it out,
Ilana

Press blurb: *Throw Your Voice* is a story of loss and recovery. It relates
how children placed in a temporary care institution make sense of their
situations. Moving between a Kazakhstan government children's home, Hope
House, and the Almaty State Puppet Theater, Meghanne Barker shows how
children, and puppets, as proxies, bring to life ideologies of childhood
and visions of a rosy future. Sites and stories run in parallel. Framed by
the narrative of Anton Chekhov's "Kashtanka," about a lost dog taken in by
a kind stranger, the author follows the story's staging at the puppet
theater. At Hope House, children find themselves on a path similar to
Kashtanka, dislodged from their first homes to reside in a second.

The heart of this story is about living in displacement and about the
fragile intimacies achieved amidst conditions of missing. Whether due to
war, migration, or pandemic, people get separated from those closest to
them. *Throw Your Voice* examines how strangers become familiar, and how
objects mediate precarious ties. She shows how people use fantasy to
mitigate loss.
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