In our latest episode in this series What Concepts Do we welcome guest producer Nazlı Özkan, who leads us through a discussion of New Media. How has newness been produced as a feature of media in different political and historical contexts, and

72. Astro-Colonialism: Conversation with Willi Lempert

25 days ago 40m 29s

In this episode, Dr. Willi Lempert discusses anthropology of outer space, focusing on historical and ongoing forms of colonialism on and off of Earth, as well as indigenous futurisms and alternative imaginations of outer space. Our interview w

71. AnthroBites: Disability

Feb 29th, 2024 20m 42s

AnthroBites: Disability with Dr. Arseli Dokumaci.AnthroBites is a series from the AnthroPod team, designed to make anthropology more digestible. Each episode tackles a key concept, text, or theme, and breaks it down into manageable, bite-sized

70. What Does Anthropology Sound Like: Podcasts

Feb 16th, 2023 56m 54s

Anthropology can be presented in various forms - what does it mean to share anthropology through podcasts? In the latest episode in the What Does Anthropology Sound Like series, we explore anthropological podcasts as method and as output. This

69. Anthropology Conferencing in Hybrid Space

Dec 8th, 2022 19m 12s

In this AnthroPod episode, we provide a retrospective on the Virtual Otherwise conference from the perspective of the local node in Agria, Greece. Touching on matters of accessibility, engagement, and multimodality, we ask: Whither anthropology

68. Conducting Fieldwork in the United States

Sep 15th, 2022 32m 35s

This episode is devoted to thinking through the specificity of the United States as a place in which to conduct fieldwork.For show notes, please visit : https://culanth.org/fieldsights/contributed-content/anthropod

67. AnthroPod Talks Abortion

Jun 30th, 2022 37m 30s

In this episode, Professors Sophie Bjork-James, Carolyn Sufrin, and Elise Andaya share what the anthropology of abortion looks like in their fieldsites and how those sites will change in a post-Roe world, and we break down this topic with the h

66. The Sound of Borders, Pt. 2: Active Citizenship

Apr 19th, 2022 19m 13s

In part 2 of our series on sound and borders, cultural geographer Tom Western talks with Nick Smith about the work of the Syrian and Greek Youth Forum (SGYF) in Athens, Greece. Featuring sound clips created by the SGYF team, the discussion unpa

65. What Solidarity Does

Apr 5th, 2022 52m 25s

This is the second episode in the series "What Concepts Do." In this episode, Contributing Editor Sharon Jacobs unpacks the concept of solidarity, alongside anthropologists Darryl Li, Amahl Bishara, Lesley Gill, and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos. W

64. The Sound of Borders, Pt. 1: Crossing

Mar 25th, 2022 56m 49s

In this episode, anthropologist and artist Alex Chavez talks about performance, migration and nationalism in the United States. For show-notes, please visit https://culanth.org/fieldsights/the-sound-of-borders-a-conversation-with-alex-chavez

63. What Does Anthropology Sound Like: Performance

Mar 8th, 2022 1h 9m

Cassandra Hartblay, Cristiana Giordano, and Greg Pierotti discuss performance as ethnographic medium in the third installment of What Does Anthropology Sound Like, an Anthropod Series. For transcriptions, visual content, and other resources re

62. What Resilience Does

Feb 17th, 2022 53m 45s

In this episode, Contributing Editors Joyce Rivera-González and Michelle Hak Hepburn unpack the concept of resilience, alongside anthropologists Roberto Barrios, Elizabeth F.S. Roberts, Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux, Andrew Wooyoung Kim, and Jason C

61. Radical Humanism and Decolonization: An Interview with Kamari Maxine Clarke

Feb 3rd, 2022 46m 32s

Professor Kamari Clarke reflects on her ethnographic work in Africa, her thinking on the legacies of colonialism in the discipline of Anthropology, and her recent work with the Radical Humanism Initiative.For the transcription and show-notes

60. Portraits of Unbelonging: Special Crossover with Ottoman History Podcast

Jun 9th, 2021 34m 30s

The Ottoman archives contain just over a hundred photographs that look like old family portraits, but they were created for an entirely different purpose. They document the renunciation of Ottoman nationality, "terk-i tabiiyet," by Armenian emi

59. Socialism, Spies, and Serendipity: Verdery & Ghodsee on Anthro and Epistemic Change

Nov 15th, 2020 53m 22s

Katherine Verdery reflects on working through her Securitate file and ethnographers' positionalities, her research in Eastern Europe prior to the fall of communism, and what anthropology offers at moments when the episteme shifts.

58. What Does Anthropology Sound Like: Poetry

Oct 24th, 2020 39m 36s

Writing ethnographic poetry with Darcy Alexandra and Ather Zia. This is the second installment in the What Does Anthropology Sound Like series, in which we ask anthropologists to share their work and insights with us on the different forms thei

57. Anthropology and/of Mental Health, Pt. 2

Jun 25th, 2020 1h 17m

The "Anthropology and/of Mental Health" series is a two-part exploration of anthropologists' experiences with mental health. In this episode, Anar expands the conversation about mental health in anthropology through conversations and contributi

56. Children's Carework in a Global Pandemic: Anthropology of Childhood and Infectious Disease

May 15th, 2020 53m 51s

Hunleth and Yount-André discuss Hunleth's research on children's caregiving amid Zambia's tuberculosis (TB) outbreak and trace parallels with today's COVID19 pandemic. They look at the role of proximity, recognizing the different ways children

55. Raciolinguistic Ideologies & Decolonizing Anthropologies: A Conversation with Jonathan Rosa

Feb 17th, 2020 1h 10m

Jonathan Rosa discusses raciolinguistic ideologies, a framework developed by Rosa and Professor Nelson Flores (University of Pennsylvania) to critique the racialization of various speaking subjects and their linguistic practices. The interview

54. What Does Anthropology Sound Like: Activism

Jan 20th, 2020 50m 18s

Sophie Chao and Bianca Williams discuss activism, organizing, and anthropology in the first installment of a new Anthropod series: What Does Anthropology Sound Like.

53. Anthropology and/of Mental Health, Pt. 1

Nov 14th, 2019 46m 49s

In this episode, AnthroPod Contributing Editor Anar Parikh talks to Prof. Beatriz-Reyes Foster and Prof. Rebecca Lester about their blog series "Trauma and Resilience in Ethnographic Fieldwork" on Anthrodendum. For more, visit https://culanth.o

52. Anthropologists as Public Intellectuals: Kristen Ghodsee & Ruth Behar in Conversation

Aug 15th, 2019 1h 2m

Ruth Behar speaks with Kristen Ghodsee about how anthropologists can be public intellectuals: They discuss how can anthropologists maintain credibility as scholars within the academy while also speaking to broader audiences; the necessity of pa

51. Cashlessness: A Look at Life on the Margins of a Digitalizing Economy

Jun 27th, 2019 26m 40s

Guests Camilla Ida Ravnbøl and Marie Kolling explore the impact that digitalizing economies have on communities that are poor and highly cash dependent. The episode features Ravnbøl's research with Roma migrants at the Roskilde Festival, a musi

AnthroBites: Anthropology of NGOs

May 2nd, 2019 19m 56s

Mark Schuller on anthropological work in, with, and on NGOs.

50. Walking amid Wonder: Tulasi Srinivas and Namita Dharia in Conversation

Mar 19th, 2019 46m 24s

Guests Namita Dharia and Tulasi Srinivas discuss the possibilities for an anthropology of wonder. Their conversation builds out from Srinivas’s latest book, "The Cow in the Elevator: An Anthropology of Wonder," and explores questions of positio