Circulations

"Courtney Handman offers a dynamic perspective on the ways in which ideas, people, languages, and things move, or don't, as a critical part of how nations are imagined and engineered. This is an extremely thoughtful--and thought-provoking--book."--Bambi Schieffelin, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, New York University

"Circulations is an intellectually exhilarating book with a wry sense of humor that explores the modernist take on the social world by analyzing why Papua New Guinea's distinctiveness is viewed as such an evocative site of communication problems."--Ilana Gershon, Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Anthropology, Rice University, author of The Pandemic Workplace: How We Learned to Be Citizens in the Office

"Taking in everything from airplanes to pathless forests, telepathy to new languages, Courtney Handman brings a fresh vision to some of the classic ethnographic scenes. Her breadth of imagination and depth of insight make for fascinating reading."--Webb Keane, author of Christian Moderns: Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter and Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination

"Circulations is a finely observed and persuasively argued account of how colonial frames helped create and intensify conditions of isolation and fragmentation--and set the terms for decolonizing agendas. A must-read for scholars of culture, language, empire, and decoloniality."--Matt Tomlinson, author of God Is Samoan: Dialogues between Culture and Theology in the Pacific