Summary of SEAA READS, session four, 2/2023
Making Peace with Nature , Ecological Encounters along the Korean DMZ . 2022 Duke University Press. Seven anthropologists of all ages got together online on Zoom to compare notes on Eleana Kim's latest book about the land, people, and locale along the long, narrow Demilitarized Zone between the north and the south of the Korean peninsula. This time the host who convened the virtual salon was Yookyeong Im, who got the conversation started and guided the topics from one area to another from time to time. Everyone knows that readers bring different experience to the text and so it was during the book club meeting. A variety of connections to the text and the larger landscape of anthropology came up. What is more, while solitary scholarly traditions of reading and authoring and presenting produce a lot of valuable thinking, it is only in conversation with others that whole new thoughts can be sparked and then kindled into a brighter light. As a small illustration, the book's title ...