Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNomadic Pastoralism Among the Mongol Herders
Episode 22
Nomadic Pastoralism among the Mongol Herders: Multispecies and Spatial Ethnography in Mongolia and Transbaikalia (Amsterdam University Press, 2021) i…
3 years, 3 months ago
Illuminations Episode 3: Divine Technology
Episode 72
It’s common to feel that technology removes the magic of the world, but Hindu worshippers in Bangalore have shown that it's all in the approach.
Gues…
3 years, 3 months ago
Ke Li, "Marriage Unbound: State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Episode 14
In recent years the authors of a slew of books and articles have debated whether China is moving toward or away from the rule of law. Against this en…
3 years, 3 months ago
Katherine Davies, "Siblings and Sociology" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Episode 279
Katherine Davies' book Siblings and Sociology (Manchester UP, 2023) draws upon innovative qualitative data sources to explore the significance of sib…
3 years, 3 months ago
Charles L. Briggs, "Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge" (Utah State UP, 2021)
Episode 215
A provocative theoretical synthesis by renowned folklorist and anthropologist Charles L. Briggs, Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the P…
3 years, 3 months ago
Book Chat: "Puppets, Gods and Brands. Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
Episode 5
For this instalment, we had the pleasure of hosting Teri Silvio, who works as Research Fellow at the Academia Sinica Institute of Ethnology. We chatt…
3 years, 3 months ago
Arve Hansen, "Consumption and Vietnam’s New Middle Classes: Societal Transformations and Everyday Life" (Springer, 2022)
Episode 171
In this episode, we discuss Arve Hansen’s new book Consumption and Vietnam’s New Middle Classes: Societal Transformations and Everyday Life (Springer…
3 years, 3 months ago
Chris Walley on Deindustrialization (EF, JP)
Episode 101
On a blustery fall morning back in 2019, RTB welcomed Christine Walley, anthropologist and author of Exit Zero: Family and Class in Postindustrial Ch…
3 years, 3 months ago
Miguel Sicart, "Playing Software: Homo Ludens in Computational Culture" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 66
The play element at the heart of our interactions with computers—and how it drives the best and the worst manifestations of the information age.
Wheth…
3 years, 3 months ago
Book Chat: "Women Migrants in Southern China and Taiwan" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 2
In this podcast, the host, Lara Momesso, interviews Dr Beatrice Zani, author of the book Women Migrants in Southern China and Taiwan. Mobilities, Dig…
3 years, 3 months ago