Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKelzang T. Tashi, "World of Worldly Gods: The Persistence and Transformation of Shamanic Bon in Buddhist Bhutan" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 281
In World of Worldly Gods: The Persistence and Transformation of Shamanic Bon in Buddhist Bhutan (Oxford UP, 2023), Kelzang T. Tashi offers the first …
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Romit Chowdhury, "City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Episode 306
In South Asian urban landscapes, men are everywhere. And yet we do not seem to know very much about precisely what men do in the city as men. How do …
2 years, 9 months ago
Ruchi Chaturvedi, "Violence of Democracy: Interparty Conflict in South India" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
Episode 202
In Violence of Democracy: Interparty Conflict in South India (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023), Ruchi Chaturvedi tracks the rise of India’s divisive politic…
2 years, 9 months ago
Jennifer Cearns, "Circulating Culture: Transnational Cuban Networks of Exchange" (UP of Florida, 2023)
Episode 194
“In this subtle and beautifully crafted ethnography, Cearns invites us to travel through the many Cuban circuits of exchange that give shape to mutat…
2 years, 9 months ago
Jamila Rodrigues, "Sufi Women, Embodiment and the 'Self': Gender in Islamic Ritual" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 311
Jamila Rodrigues's new book Sufi Women, Embodiment and the “Self”: Gender in Islamic Ritual (Routledge 2023) uses her dance and performance studies b…
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Renyi Hong, "Passionate Work: Endurance after the Good Life" (Duke UP, 2022)
Episode 209
In Passionate Work: Endurance after the Good Life (Duke UP, 2022), Renyi Hong theorizes the notion of being "passionate about your work" as an affect…
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Whisper Networks: A Discussion with Carrie Ann Johnson
Episode 173
What is a Whisper Network? What can you gain from being in one, and what is expected of the network members? Not everybody is invited is into a Whisp…
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Andrew Johnson, "If I Give My Soul: Faith Behind Bars in Rio de Janeiro" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Episode 193
Pentecostal Christianity is flourishing inside the prisons of Rio de Janeiro. To find out why, Andrew Johnson dug deep into the prisons themselves. H…
2 years, 10 months ago
Edyta Roszko, "Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam" (NIAS/University of Hawaii Press 2021
Episode 251
This remarkable and timely ethnography explores how fishing communities living on the fringe of the South China Sea in central Vietnam interact with …
2 years, 10 months ago
Sophie Bjork-James, "The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism's Politics of the Family" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Episode 247
The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism's Politics of the Family (Rutgers University Press, 2021) provides an account of how a theology of the f…
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