I am Professor of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University, the author of Eloquence in Trouble: Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh, and the editor of Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems. I have completed a new manuscript, Crying Shame: Metaculture, Modernity and Lament, which I plan to use as the basis of a global documentary film.  My research interests include semiotics, representations, and issues surrounding language and globalization.