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Eternity Now: Talking about Mysticism with the Apostle to the Gangs of LA
49 mins; January 14, 2023
Consumed: The Myth and Reality of Cannibalism
24 mins; January 14, 2023
Harald Koberg, "Free Play: Digital Gaming and the Longing for Effectiveness" (Büchner-Verlag, 2021)
59 mins; January 13, 2023
The Future of Inequality: A Discussion with Mike Savage
42 mins; January 13, 2023
Forbidden Fruit: Religious Fervor about Food
29 mins; January 12, 2023
Christopher Loperena, "The Ends of Paradise: Race, Extraction, and the Struggle for Black Life in Honduras" (Stanford UP, 2022)
60 hours 58 mins; January 09, 2023
Philippe-Richard Marius, "The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
89 hours 1 min; January 08, 2023
Bordering the Bedouin
77 hours 10 mins; January 07, 2023
Bin Xu, "The Culture of Democracy: A Sociological Approach to Civil Society" (Polity Press, 2022)
41 mins; January 07, 2023
Daniel White, "Administering Affect: Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety" (Stanford UP, 2022)
83 hours 37 mins; January 07, 2023
Carlos Alberto Sánchez, "A Sense of Brutality. Philosophy after Narco-Culture" (Amherst College Press, 2020)
52 mins; January 06, 2023
Siv B. Lie, "Django Generations: Hearing Ethnorace, Citizenship, and Jazz Manouche in France" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
57 mins; January 04, 2023
Regine A. Spector, "Order at the Bazaar: Power and Trade in Central Asia" (Cornell UP, 2017)
39 mins; January 04, 2023
Joel Robbins, "Theology and the Anthropology of Christian Life" (Oxford UP, 2020)
66 hours 12 mins; January 03, 2023
Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou, "The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power" (NYU Press, 2022)
80 hours 59 mins; January 02, 2023
Bonus Episode: "Nomadland"
29 mins; January 01, 2023
Magnus Fiskesjö, "Stories from an Ancient Land: Perspectives on Wa History and Culture" (Berghahn Books, 2021)
55 mins; January 01, 2023
Mathew Gandy, "Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space" (MIT Press, 2022)
32 mins; December 30, 2022
Trader, Hunter, Herder, Other: Types and Categories of Nomadism
27 mins; December 28, 2022
Luke Munn, "Automation Is a Myth" (Stanford UP, 2022)
66 hours 30 mins; December 27, 2022
Ruth Tsoffar, "Life in Citations: Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture" (Routledge, 2019)
112 hours 41 mins; December 24, 2022
Annuska Derks et al. "Fragrant Frontier: Global Spice Entanglements from the Sino-Vietnamese Uplands" (NIAS Press, 2022)
25 mins; December 23, 2022
Edward E. Curtis IV, "Muslims of the Heartland: How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American Midwest" (NYU Press, 2022)
40 mins; December 23, 2022
Holly Walters, "Shaligram Pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)
51 mins; December 22, 2022
Rumya Sree Putcha, "The Dancer's Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India" (Duke UP, 2022)
79 hours 1 min; December 22, 2022
Geoff Harkness, "Changing Qatar: Culture, Citizenship, and Rapid Modernization" (NYU Press, 2020)
41 mins; December 21, 2022
Richard Brian Miller, "Why Study Religion?" (Oxford UP, 2021)
44 mins; December 20, 2022
Jenny L. Davis, "How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things" (MIT Press, 2020)
38 mins; December 20, 2022
Efram Sera-Shriar, "Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)
58 mins; December 18, 2022
Munira Khayyat, "A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon" (U California Press, 2022)
61 hours 31 mins; December 18, 2022
Kelly I. Aliano, "The Performance of Video Games: Enacting Identity, History and Culture Through Play" (McFarland, 2022)
42 mins; December 17, 2022
Amal Sachedina, "Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern: The Politics of Time in the Sultanate of Oman" (Cornell UP, 2021)
55 mins; December 17, 2022
Philippe Peycam, "Cultural Renewal in Cambodia: Academic Activism in the Neoliberal Era" (Brill and ISEAS, 2020)
29 mins; December 16, 2022
Batja Mesquita, "Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions" (Norton, 2022)
59 mins; December 15, 2022
Belonging: A Conversation with Geoffrey Cohen
58 mins; December 15, 2022
Samuel J. Redman, "Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums" (Harvard UP, 2022)
47 mins; December 15, 2022
David Newheiser, "The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
56 mins; December 13, 2022
Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, "Metamodernism: The Future of Theory" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
60 hours 3 mins; December 12, 2022
Mrinal Pande, "Popular Hinduism, Stories and Mobile Performances: The Voice of Morari Bapu in Multiple Media" (Routledge, 2022)
30 mins; December 12, 2022
Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă, "Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires" (Cornell UP, 2022)
42 mins; December 10, 2022
Tom Bratrud, "Fire on the Island: Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu" (Berghahn Books, 2022)
55 mins; December 10, 2022
Iván Sandoval-Cervantes, "Oaxaca in Motion: An Ethnography of Internal, Transnational, and Return Migration" (U Texas Press, 2022)
45 mins; December 10, 2022
Stuart Earle Strange, "Suspect Others: Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
94 hours 32 mins; December 10, 2022
David O’Brien and Melissa Shani Brown, "People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
22 mins; December 09, 2022
Emily Channell-Justice, "Without the State: Self-Organization and Political Activism in Ukraine" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
48 mins; December 09, 2022
Inna Perheentupa, "Feminist Politics in Neoconservative Russia: An Ethnography of Resistance and Resources" (Policy Press, 2022)
31 mins; December 08, 2022
Virginia R. Dominguez and Brigittine M. French, "Anthropological Lives: An Introduction to the Profession of Anthropology" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
48 mins; December 07, 2022
Margret Grebowicz, "Rescue Me: On Dogs and Their Humans" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
41 mins; December 07, 2022
Ted Conover, "Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge" (Knopf, 2022)
53 mins; December 07, 2022
Barbara Harris Combs, "Bodies Out of Place: Theorizing Anti-Blackness in U.S. Society" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
70 hours 14 mins; December 06, 2022
Mary-Frances O'Connor, "The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss" (HarperOne, 2022)
52 mins; December 05, 2022
Cristina Civantos, "Jamón and Halal: Lessons in Tolerance from Rural Andalucía" (Amherst College Press, 2022)
58 mins; December 05, 2022
Melissa Kagen, "Wandering Games" (MIT Press, 2022)
52 mins; December 04, 2022
Nadim Bawalsa, "Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return Before 1948" (Stanford UP, 2022)
80 hours 25 mins; December 04, 2022
Irene Hilden, "Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive: Dealing with the Berlin Sound Archive's Acoustic Legacies" (Leuven UP, 2022)
53 mins; December 03, 2022
Teemu Taira, "Atheism in Five Minutes" (Equinox Publishing, 2022)
54 mins; December 03, 2022
Chris McMorran, "Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
36 mins; December 02, 2022
Gregory Shushan, "The Next World: Extraordinary Experiences of the Afterlife" (White Crow Books, 2022)
50 mins; December 02, 2022
Lan Anh Hoang, "Vietnamese Migrants in Russia: Mobility in Times of Uncertainty" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)
50 mins; December 01, 2022
Henni Alava, "Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Uganda: There is Confusion" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
95 hours 20 mins; December 01, 2022
Florian Köhler, "Space, Place and Identity: Wodaabe of Niger in the 21st Century" (Berhahn Book, 2020)
54 mins; November 29, 2022
Eugenia Roussou, "Orthodox Christianity, New Age Spirituality and Vernacular Religion: The 'Evil Eye' in Greece" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
48 mins; November 29, 2022
Hilan Bensusan, "Indexicalism: The Metaphysics of Paradox" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
63 hours 52 mins; November 29, 2022
Sarah Abel, "Permanent Markers: Race, Ancestry, and the Body After the Genome" (UNC Press, 2021)
65 hours 38 mins; November 29, 2022
Ryan Thomas Skinner, "Afro-Sweden: Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
107 hours 47 mins; November 29, 2022
Ipek Demir, "Diaspora As Translation and Decolonisation" (Manchester UP, 2022)
62 hours 24 mins; November 29, 2022
Pierre Minn, "Where They Need Me: Local Clinicians and the Workings of Global Health in Haiti" (Cornell UP, 2022)
69 hours 8 mins; November 28, 2022
Alexander Laban Hinton, "Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal" (Cornell UP, 2022)
86 hours 25 mins; November 25, 2022
Kasia Paprocki, "Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh" (Cornell UP, 2021)
64 hours 15 mins; November 24, 2022
Marquis Bey, "Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender" (Duke UP, 2022)
49 mins; November 24, 2022
Rhonda F. Levine, "When Race Meets Class: African Americans Coming of Age in a Small City" (Routledge, 2019)
59 mins; November 23, 2022
Eva Illouz, "The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative Relations" (Polity Press, 2021)
37 mins; November 23, 2022
Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses, "Genocide: Key Themes" (Oxford UP, 2022)
75 hours 45 mins; November 22, 2022
Bridget Kies and Megan Connor, "Fandom, the Next Generation" (U Iowa Press, 2022)
40 mins; November 22, 2022
Psyche A. Williams-Forson, "Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America" (UNC Press, 2022)
32 mins; November 21, 2022
Alda Benjamen, "Assyrians in Modern Iraq: Negotiating Political and Cultural Space" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
77 hours 1 min; November 21, 2022
On Victor and Edith Turner's "The Forest of Symbols"
39 mins; November 17, 2022
David McDermott Hughes, "Energy without Conscience: Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity" (Duke UP, 2017)
55 mins; November 16, 2022
Mark D. Calder, "Bethlehem's Syriac Christians: Self, Nation and Church in Dialogue and Practice" (Gorgias Press, 2017)
107 hours 26 mins; November 16, 2022
Megan Asaka, "Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City" (U Washington Press, 2022)
65 hours 0 mins; November 15, 2022
Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto, "(Im)mobile Homes: Family Life at a Distance in the Age of Mobile Media" (Oxford UP, 2022)
29 mins; November 14, 2022
Naomi A. Moland, "Can Big Bird Fight Terrorism?: Children's Television and Globalized Multicultural Education" (Oxford UP, 2019)
33 mins; November 14, 2022
Meredith Schweig, "Renegade Rhymes: Rap Music, Narrative, and Knowledge in Taiwan" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
96 hours 20 mins; November 11, 2022
Sarah E. Wagner, "What Remains: Bringing America's Missing Home from the Vietnam War" (Harvard UP, 2019)
66 hours 55 mins; November 10, 2022
Rustom Bharucha, "The Second Wave: Reflections on the Pandemic Through Photography, Performance, and Public Culture" (Seagull Books, 2022)
58 mins; November 10, 2022
Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish, "Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, and Negotiation" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
50 mins; November 10, 2022
Lavanya Vemsani, "Hinduism in Middle India: Narasimha, The Lord of the Middle" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
47 mins; November 09, 2022
Richard Petts, "Father Involvement and Gender Equality in the United States: Contemporary Norms and Barriers" (Routledge, 2022)
24 mins; November 09, 2022
The Future of Rules: A Discussion with Lorraine Daston
35 mins; November 08, 2022
Željka Matijasević, "The Borderline Culture: Intensity, Jouissance, and Death" (Lexington, 2021)
40 mins; November 07, 2022
Aisha Khan, "The Deepest Dye: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World" (Harvard UP, 2021)
75 hours 0 mins; November 07, 2022
Harris Solomon, "Lifelines: The Traffic of Trauma" (Duke UP, 2022)
82 hours 24 mins; November 04, 2022
Thomas G. Cowan, "Subaltern Frontiers: Property and Labour in the Neoliberal Indian City" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
67 hours 23 mins; November 04, 2022
Gurpinder Singh Lalli, "Schools, Space and Culinary Capital" (Routledge, 2022)
27 mins; November 03, 2022
92 Janet McIntosh on "Let's Go Brandon," QAnon and Alt-Right Language (EF, JP)
38 mins; November 03, 2022
Geetanjali Srikantan, "Identifying and Regulating Religion in India: Law, History and the Place of Worship" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
23 mins; November 03, 2022
Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett, "Curious Minds: The Power of Connection" (MIT Press, 2022)
63 hours 53 mins; November 03, 2022
Michael Herzfeld, "Subversive Archaism: Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage" (Duke UP, 2022)
48 mins; November 02, 2022
Eleanor Knott, "Kin Majorities: Identity and Citizenship in Crimea and Moldova" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
58 mins; November 02, 2022
Chris Salter, "Sensing Machines: How Sensors Shape Our Everyday Life" (MIT Press, 2022)
77 hours 19 mins; November 01, 2022
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