Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPankaj Jain, "Visual Anthropology of Indian Films: Religious Communities and Cultural Traditions in Bollywood and Beyond" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 367
Visual Anthropology of Indian Films: Religious Communities and Cultural Traditions in Bollywood and Beyond (Routledge, 2024) provides a unique inside…
1 year, 6 months ago
Lucy Noakes, "Dying for the Nation: Death, Grief and Bereavement in Second World War Britain" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Episode 255
Death in war matters. It matters to the individual, threatened with their own death, or the death of loved ones. It matters to groups and communities…
1 year, 6 months ago
Who Cares? A Conversation with Emily Kenway
Episode 130
In this episode, Emily Kenway shares insights from her powerful new book Who Cares: The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and How We Solve It (Seal Press,…
1 year, 6 months ago
Kristin Peterson and Valerie Olson, "The Ethnographer's Way: A Handbook for Multidimensional Research Design" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 336
The Ethnographer's Way: A Handbook for Multidimensional Research Design (Duke UP, 2024) guides researchers through the exciting process of turning an…
1 year, 6 months ago
Benjamin J. Shestakofsky on How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality
Episode 85
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Benjamin Shestakofsky about his book, Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, an…
1 year, 6 months ago
Richard J. Evans, "Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich" (Penguin, 2024)
Episode 1516
Richard Evans, author of the acclaimed The Third Reich Trilogy and over two dozen other volumes on modern Europe, is our preeminent scholar of Nazi G…
1 year, 6 months ago
Stacy Torres, "At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban America" (U California Press, 2025)
Episode 396
To understand elders' experiences of aging in place, sociologist Stacy Torres spent five years with longtime New York City residents as they coped wi…
1 year, 6 months ago
Richard J. Evans, "Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich" (Penguin, 2024)
Episode 1516
Richard Evans, author of the acclaimed The Third Reich Trilogy and over two dozen other volumes on modern Europe, is our preeminent scholar of Nazi G…
1 year, 6 months ago
Andy Hines, "Imagining After Capitalism" (Triarchy Press, 2025)
Episode 41
Imagining After Capitalism (Triarchy Press, 2025) is the culmination of a decade-long exploration of what comes next after capitalism. It leverages p…
1 year, 6 months ago
George Steinmetz, "The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 395
It is only in recent years that sociologists and historians of the social sciences have given empire the attention it deserves in histories of the di…
1 year, 6 months ago