AnthroPod

By Society for Cultural Anthropology

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AnthroPod is produced by the Society for Cultural Anthropology. In each episode, we explore what anthropology teaches us about the world and people around us.

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AnthroPod episodes:

04.09.2024
73. What New Media Does
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...
03.26.2024
72. Astro-Colonialism: Conversation with Willi Lempert
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 with Dr. Lempert...
02.29.2024
71. AnthroBites: Disability
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 chunks. In this episode, Dr....
02.16.2023
70. What Does Anthropology Sound Like: Podcasts
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 episode...
12.08.2022
69. Anthropology Conferencing in Hybrid Space
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 conferencing?
09.15.2022
68. Conducting Fieldwork in the United States
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
06.30.2022
67. AnthroPod Talks Abortion
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...
04.19.2022
66. The Sound of Borders, Pt. 2: Active Citizenship
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,...
04.05.2022
65. What Solidarity Does
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. What is solidarity, and who can...
03.25.2022
64. The Sound of Borders, Pt. 1: Crossing
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
03.08.2022
63. What Does Anthropology Sound Like: Performance
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 related to this episode of Anthropod, please visit:...
02.17.2022
62. What Resilience Does
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 Cons. Where did the concept of resilience originate from, and...
02.03.2022
61. Radical Humanism and Decolonization: An Interview with Kamari Maxine Clarke
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 of this episode, please visit:...
06.09.2021
60. Portraits of Unbelonging: Special Crossover with Ottoman History Podcast
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 emigrants bound for the US...
11.15.2020
59. Socialism, Spies, and Serendipity: Verdery & Ghodsee on Anthro and Epistemic Change
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.
10.24.2020
58. What Does Anthropology Sound Like: Poetry
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 their...
06.25.2020
57. Anthropology and/of Mental Health, Pt. 2
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 contributions about attention, grief, and unexpected changes to our...
05.15.2020
56. Children's Carework in a Global Pandemic: Anthropology of Childhood and Infectious Disease
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 offer care, how to discuss disease with...
02.17.2020
55. Raciolinguistic Ideologies & Decolonizing Anthropologies: A Conversation with Jonathan Rosa
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 begins with a focus on this concept and related...
01.20.2020
54. What Does Anthropology Sound Like: Activism
Sophie Chao and Bianca Williams discuss activism, organizing, and anthropology in the first installment of a new Anthropod series: What Does Anthropology Sound Like.
11.14.2019
53. Anthropology and/of Mental Health, Pt. 1
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.org/fieldsights/contributed-content/anthropod
08.15.2019
52. Anthropologists as Public Intellectuals: Kristen Ghodsee & Ruth Behar in Conversation
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 patience and thinking of a career...
06.27.2019
51. Cashlessness: A Look at Life on the Margins of a Digitalizing Economy
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 music festival in Denmark...
05.02.2019
AnthroBites: Anthropology of NGOs
Mark Schuller on anthropological work in, with, and on NGOs.
03.19.2019
50. Walking amid Wonder: Tulasi Srinivas and Namita Dharia in Conversation
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 positionality in the field, canonical...
02.14.2019
49. When Fieldwork Breaks Your Heart
In "When Fieldwork Breaks Your Heart," guest producer Aisha Sultan considers the question: what do you do when fieldwork threatens to break your heart? While graduate seminars and methodological reflections within anthropology often focus on the possibilities ethnography affords as...
01.24.2019
48. (W)Rap on Gender/Sexuality
“(W)Rap on: Gender/Sexuality” is the third episode of the (W)Rap On series at AnthroPod, which brings anthropologists into conversation with artists, activists, and scholars from other disciplines and perspectives. The series is loosely inspired by James Baldwin and Margaret Mead’s...
01.04.2019
47. (W)rap on Immigration
Anthropologist Jason De León and journalist Maria Hinojosa discuss migration, U.S. border militarization, and teaching and writing in political times. Journalist Julio Ricardo Varela moderates the conversation. This episode is part of the (W)rap On: Series, inspired by the original...
12.17.2018
46. Reading List for a Progressive Environmental Anthropology
This roundtable discussion explores the recently published Reading List for a Progressive Environmental Anthropology. The crowdsourced reading list is a project organized by Bridget Guarasci (Franklin and Marshall College), Amelia Moore (University of Rhode Island), and Sarah Vaughn (University of...
10.15.2018
AnthroBites: Queer Anthropology
Margot Weiss explores the origins, presents and futures of queer anthropology.
08.27.2018
45. (W)Rap on Race
“(W)Rap On: Race” features anthropologist Shalini Shankar discussing race, social activism, and pedagogy with Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson. Christien Tompkins moderates the conversation. (W)Rap on Race is the inaugural episode of the new (W)Rap On series at AnthroPod, which...
07.10.2018
44. Sounds of Economic Collapse in Egypt
Maria Frederika Malmstrom on the Sound of Economic Collapse in Egypt
06.12.2018
43. AnthroPod Crossover: The Familiar Strange with Vijayendra Rao
Vijayendra Rao, an economist with the World Bank, talks with anthropologist Ian Pollock about the theory and practice of development, anthropology’s relationship to development, and how ethnography might help the disenfranchised engage with powerful institutions and effect social change.
06.06.2018
AnthroBites: Hunters & Gathers
Graeme Warren explains what we can learn about histories and cultures through Hunter & Gatherer research.
05.09.2018
42. Schools, Prisons, and Blackness in America: A Conversation with Damien Sojoyner
Damien Sojoyner on race, education, imprisonment, and their intersection in the United States.
04.17.2018
41. Teresa Caldeira on Urban Practices and Ethnographic Intimacy
Teresa Caldeira discusses her recent research on urban practices and forms of cultural production from the peripheries of São Paulo, Brazil that are reshaping public space, including rap music, graffiti, ostentation funk, and pixação Producer: Liliana Gil Music: Excerpts from “Soldado Sem...
03.15.2018
AnthroBites: Feminist Anthropology
Christa Craven discusses feminist anthropology in this episode of AnthroBites, the podcast that makes key concepts in anthropology more digestible.
02.13.2018
40. Anthropology's Politics: A Conversation with Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar
Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar discuss their recent book, Anthropology's Politics: Disciplining the Middle East (2015). They touch on how political and economic pressures shape how U.S.-based scholars research and teach about the Middle East, how certain topics and regions...
01.16.2018
39. Podcasts and Pedagogy: Audio in the Anthropology Classroom
Angela Jenks shares her approach to anthropological pedagogy and offers thoughtful insights into how anthropologists might begin thinking about how to incorporate podcasts into their syllabi.
12.21.2017
38. The Anthropology of Media in a Post-Truth Era
Anthropologists of media and journalism reflect on the current post-truth era in the United States means for research and teaching. This episode features a panel from the the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association with Naomi Schiller, Robert...
10.12.2017
37. More-than-Human Politics
Guest producers Stine Krøijer and Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen take up a debate that is central to current environmental and political anthropology: namely, how ethnographers can identify and describe the political when earth beings, spirits, or nonhuman others become part of...
09.27.2017
AnthroBites: Sovereignty
Yarimar Bonilla discusses the concept of sovereignty and its anthropological applications in this episode of AnthroBites, the podcast that makes key concepts in anthropology more digestible.
09.15.2017
36. Drone: Anthropology, Poetry, Military
Hugh Gusterson, Kim Garcia, and a U.S. military drone operator on active duty discuss the representation of drone warfare. Their conversation engages the ways we think about communities of expertise and war, as well as how we represent the experiences...
08.29.2017
AnthroBites: Scientific Racism
Rachel Watkins discusses the origins and legacies of scientific racism for AnthroBites, the podcast that makes key concepts in anthropology more digestible.
08.15.2017
35. Ethnography and Design, Pt. 3: Labor in the Gig Economy
Lilly Irani discusses the human labor behind artificial intelligence technology. Irani helped create a platform called Turkopticon to support workers on Amazon Mechanical Turk, a website that outsources micro data processing work. Irani also talks about her current book project...
07.13.2017
34. Ethnography and Design, Pt. 2: Swedish Design and Ethnocharrettes
Keith Murphy discusses the anthropology of design through his work on Swedish design as well as bringing design methods into ethnography through ethnocharrettes.
06.13.2017
33. Ethnography and Design, Pt. 1: Disability, Design, and Performance
Cassandra Hartblay discusses design and ethnography through her work on disability in Russia.
05.25.2017
32. Animals and Anthropology
Theory, method, and politics of studying human-animal relations from anthropological perspectives with Nikhil Anand, Philippe Descola, Radhika Govindrajan, Laura Ogden, and Paige West.
04.11.2017
31. Socializing Through Technology: Pokémon GO in Downtown Detroit
Guest podcaster David Lein examines the impact of Pokémon GO on communities, both digital and physical, in conversation with Michigan-based scholars John Cheney-Lippold, Eric Montgomery, and individuals in Detroit who are using Pokémon GO.
03.14.2017
30. Outer Space Trilogy, Pt. 3: Ice Cream And Architecture
In the third and final episode in our trilogy on outer space, anthropologist Valerie Olson discusses systems thinking in the Anthropocene, off-world architecture and garbage, as well as food and health beyond Earth.

What's AnthroPod about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

AnthroPod episodes:

73. What New Media Does

72. Astro-Colonialism: Conversation with Willi Lempert

71. AnthroBites: Disability

70. What Does Anthropology Sound Like: Podcasts

69. Anthropology Conferencing in Hybrid Space

68. Conducting Fieldwork in the United States

67. AnthroPod Talks Abortion

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

65. What Solidarity Does

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

63. What Does Anthropology Sound Like: Performance

62. What Resilience Does

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

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

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

58. What Does Anthropology Sound Like: Poetry

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

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

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

54. What Does Anthropology Sound Like: Activism

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

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

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

AnthroBites: Anthropology of NGOs

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

49. When Fieldwork Breaks Your Heart

48. (W)Rap on Gender/Sexuality

47. (W)rap on Immigration

46. Reading List for a Progressive Environmental Anthropology

AnthroBites: Queer Anthropology

45. (W)Rap on Race

44. Sounds of Economic Collapse in Egypt

43. AnthroPod Crossover: The Familiar Strange with Vijayendra Rao

AnthroBites: Hunters & Gathers

42. Schools, Prisons, and Blackness in America: A Conversation with Damien Sojoyner

41. Teresa Caldeira on Urban Practices and Ethnographic Intimacy

AnthroBites: Feminist Anthropology

40. Anthropology's Politics: A Conversation with Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar

39. Podcasts and Pedagogy: Audio in the Anthropology Classroom

38. The Anthropology of Media in a Post-Truth Era

37. More-than-Human Politics

AnthroBites: Sovereignty

36. Drone: Anthropology, Poetry, Military

AnthroBites: Scientific Racism

35. Ethnography and Design, Pt. 3: Labor in the Gig Economy

34. Ethnography and Design, Pt. 2: Swedish Design and Ethnocharrettes

33. Ethnography and Design, Pt. 1: Disability, Design, and Performance

32. Animals and Anthropology

31. Socializing Through Technology: Pokémon GO in Downtown Detroit

30. Outer Space Trilogy, Pt. 3: Ice Cream And Architecture