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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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80. A Dialogue on Love: Writing Through Migrant Belonging
This episode is about love. What does it mean to study love ethnographically and analytically? How might we speak of love, especially in today’s socia...
79. Pushing Buttons: Gender and Sexual Diversity & Dissidence in Academia
In this episode, we dive into gender and sexual diversity, sexual dissidence, and their intersections with anthropology and education. Through a conve...
78. Eyes on Florida: Community-centered anthropology in Tampa Bay
Recently, Tampa Bay has stoked controversy among U.S. anthropologists. Facing statewide rising fascism and oppressive laws targeting historically marg...
77. AAA 2023 - Conversations with Harsha Walia Part Two: Anthropologists
The second episode of our two-part mini-series, showcases a roundtable discussion held at the 2023 American Anthropological Association’s Annual meeti...
76. AAA 2023 - Conversations with Harsha Walia Part One: Migrant Workers
A discussion featuring Harsha Walia, alongside community organizers and migrant workers representing Migrant Workers Alliance for Change (MWAC), took...
75. Anthropology and Algorithms
In this episode, Professor Nick Seaver, Professor Veronica Barassi, and Alex Moltzau discuss the intersection of anthropology and algorithms. What exa...
74. Sounds of the Margins: Podcasting as Alternative Archives
In this episode, fellow podcasters, Frankie Younger and Dr. Anthony Jerry share how they combined podcasting with community engagement to create podca...
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 n...
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,...
71. AnthroBites: Disability
AnthroBites: Disability with Dr. Arseli Dokumaci.
AnthroBites is a series from the AnthroPod team, designed to make anthropology more digestible...
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 Anth...
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. Tou...
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.
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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 fieldsite...
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...
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, alo...
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...
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 Anthropolog...
62. What Resilience Does
In this episode, Contributing Editors Joyce Rivera-González and Michelle Hak Hepburn unpack the concept of resilience, alongside anthropologists Rober...
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, an...
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 purp...
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...
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 whi...
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 exp...
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...
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...
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 Anthropol...
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 "Traum...
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 credibilit...
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 dependen...
AnthroBites: Anthropology of NGOs
Mark Schuller on anthropological work in, with, and on NGOs.
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...
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...
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,...
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....
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...
AnthroBites: Queer Anthropology
Margot Weiss explores the origins, presents and futures of queer anthropology.
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 McKess...
44. Sounds of Economic Collapse in Egypt
Maria Frederika Malmstrom on the Sound of Economic Collapse in Egypt
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 r...