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AnthroPod
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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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87. AAA 2025 Part 1: Storytelling, Performance, History
2w ago00:53:52Tap to summarizeThis is the first of a three-part miniseries covering the 2025 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in New Orleans. The conference presentations we’ll share with you today revolve around the stories people tell themselves about themselves; the ways people come to connect with and understand history; how people carry and transmit cultural traditions; and the emotional performances that help people process and move forward. We’ll move from political activist spaces to sports performances, from diasporic family histories to more recent narratives around forced migration—guided along the way by music and sound recordings from some of this episode’s interlocutors.
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86. Linguistic Anthropology and Anthropologists in Mexico: Part 2
4w ago00:50:32Tap to summarizeThis is the second episode of the two-part miniseries on linguistic anthropologists working with indigenous communities in Mexico. In this episode, Emiliana Cruz, a native Chatino speaker and scholar based at CIESAS, reflects on her research, her career, and the realities of Indigenous education in contemporary Mexico.
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May 300:46:54Tap to summarizeThis episode is the first part of a two-part miniseries on linguistic anthropologists working with Indigenous communities in Mexico. In conversation with Mario Chávez Peón (CIESAS) and Carolyn O’Meara (UNAM), the episode introduces their research on Indigenous languages, their community-engaged fieldwork, and the activism that grows out of it, from developing writing systems alongside speakers to advocating for the rights and visibility of the communities they work with.
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84. Thinking through Problems Together: Comparison and Collaboration in Anthropology Today
Apr 200:48:12Tap to summarizeRethinking anthropological research through tension, comparison, transparency, and shared knowledge-making around notion of collaboration.
Transcribe →83. Playing Fieldwork - Rewiring the Field: Digital Ethnography Today
Mar 1201:13:27Tap to summarizeExplores fieldwork through digital ethnography today through gaming, social media and digital life.
Transcribe →82. More than a Game: A Black Feminist Look at the Anthropology of Sports
Feb 301:03:52Tap to summarizeA Black feminist anthropology of college football, race, labor, and care.
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81. The Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Voluntary Death
Jan 800:27:24Tap to summarizeIn this episode, we dive into the series of debates that have emerged around assisted suicide, both within and outside the boundaries of medico-legal institutions. Through a conversation with anthropologists Dr. Dwai Banerjee, Dr. Miki Chase, Dr. Sophia Jaworski, and Dr. Miranda Tuckett, we explore the ethical obligations that are raised around end of life care by the legalization of aid-in-dying and the practice of voluntary death.
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Sep 200:51:16Tap to summarizeThis episode is about love. What does it mean to study love ethnographically and analytically? How might we speak of love, especially in today’s social and political climate? In dialogue with Dr Omar Kasmani, whose work explores migrant loves and intimacies in Berlin, we trace the hopes, heartbreaks, and potentialities that love can hold for field research and ethnographic writing. Bridging the subjective and the objective, the personal and the shared, the inward and the outward, love remains a concept as powerful as it is perplexing. We hope this conversation encourages a more deliberate investigation of love within our discipline, and highlights its richness and complexity as an essential lens for ethnographic inquiry.
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79. Pushing Buttons: Gender and Sexual Diversity & Dissidence in Academia
Jun 2400:43:25Tap to summarizeIn this episode, we dive into gender and sexual diversity, sexual dissidence, and their intersections with anthropology and education. Through a conversation with Dr. Joshua Liashenko, Director of LGBTQ+ Studies at Chapman University, we explore how queer anthropologists are engaging with these concepts in their approaches to research, training and teaching, particularly in relation to gay, lesbian, queer and trans communities in North America. We discuss the historical development of anthropology’s engagement with sexuality and highlight the importance of bringing these conversations into the classroom, especially as anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and policies continue to rise across North America, particularly in the United States. This episode also considers how these themes are being taken up in university settings, especially within Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts and offers resources for listeners who want to dive deeper into this work.
Transcribe →78. Eyes on Florida: Community-centered anthropology in Tampa Bay
Oct 31, 202400:35:31Tap to summarizeRecently, Tampa Bay has stoked controversy among U.S. anthropologists. Facing statewide rising fascism and oppressive laws targeting historically marginalized minorities, it's also the site of the 2024 American Anthropological Association (AAA) annual meeting. In this episode of AnthroPod, we visit three Tampa-based anthropologists doing community-centered fieldwork among marginalized local communities.
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