Mariann Vaczi is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her interests include the politics of Indigenous and modern sports, the anthropology of the body, sensory anthropology, and identity constructions through cultural performance genres. She is the author of Catalonia's Human Towers: Castells, Cultural Politics, and the Struggle Toward the Heights (Indiana University Press, 2023) and Soccer, Culture and Society in Spain: An Ethnography of Basque Fandom (Routledge, 2015).