“Entrepreneurs in Bodily Capital”: On Lisa Uperesa’s “Gridiron Capital: How American Football Became a Samoan Game”
David Lipset reviews Lisa Uperesa’s anthropological study “Gridiron Capital: How American Football Became a Samoan Game.”
David Lipset is professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota. He is a cultural anthropologist who has done long-term fieldwork in Papua New Guinea. Most recently, he is the author of Yabar: The Alienations of Murik Men in a Papua New Guinea Modernity (Palgrave, 2017) and co-editor (with Richard Handler) of Vehicles: Cars, Canoes and other Metaphors of Moral Imagination (Berghahn, 2018).
David Lipset reviews Lisa Uperesa’s anthropological study “Gridiron Capital: How American Football Became a Samoan Game.”
A new sociological study of our culture of dating apps, casual hookups, and “radical personal freedom.”
David Lipset reviews two new essay collections about Jewish identity, "Freud and Monotheism" and "Jews and the Ends of Theory."