Sabina M. Perrino

This book adopts an innovative approach in exploring the evolution of fitness practices among a community of gym-goers amidst a global pandemic, considering its impact on the interplay of the words, habits, and relationships.

Sabina M. Perrino is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at Binghamton University. She is author of Narrating Migration: Intimacies of Exclusion in Northern Italy (Routledge), Research Methods in Linguistic Anthropology (with Sonya Pritzker; Bloomsbury), and Storytelling in the Digital World (with Anna De Fina; John Benjamins). She is the co-editor of the Series Bloomsbury Studies in Linguistic Anthropology.

Joshua O. Reno is Professor of Anthropology at Binghamton University. He is the author of Waste Away (2016), Military Waste (2019) and, with Britt Halvorson, Imagining the Heartland (2022), all from University of California Press. He has a forthcoming book, Home Signs, which examines the strangeness and importance of non-verbal communication from an autoethnographic perspective.