What We Are Reading Today: ‘Native America’

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Updated 02 August 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Native America’

  • Kenneth Feder, a leading expert on Native American history and archeology, draws on archaeological, historical, and cultural evidence to tell the ongoing story

Author: KENNETH L. FEDER 

“Native America” presents an infinitely surprising and fascinating deep history of the continent’s Indigenous peoples.

Kenneth Feder, a leading expert on Native American history and archeology, draws on archaeological, historical, and cultural evidence to tell the ongoing story, more than 20,000 years in the making, of an incredibly resilient and diverse mixture of peoples, revealing how they have ingeniously adapted to the many changing environments of the continent, from the Arctic to the desert Southwest.

 


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Island in the Net’ by Steffen Kohn

Updated 11 February 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Island in the Net’ by Steffen Kohn

Until just a few years ago, Cuba was one of the least-connected countries in the world. But as digital technology has become increasingly available, Cubans have found inventive ways to work around such remaining barriers as slow speeds, high costs, and inadequate infrastructure.

In “Island in the Net,” Steffen Kohn examines Cuba’s nascent digital culture and how it has reconfigured the relationship between the state and its citizens.

Each chapter is accompanied by a multimodal anthropology work: a video game, interactive installations, video art, and an ethnographic documentary.