Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchArthur Kleinman, "Writing at the Margin: Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine" (U California Press, 1997)
Episode 193
One of the most influential and creative scholars in medical anthropology takes stock of his recent intellectual odysseys in this collection of essay…
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Celeste Vaughan Curington et al., "The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance" (U California Press, 2021)
Episode 276
The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance (U California Press, 2021) is the first comprehensive look at "digital-sexual racism,…
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Dan DiPiero, "Contingent Encounters: Improvisation in Music and Everyday Life" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
Episode 181
Contingent Encounters: Improvisation in Music and Everyday Life (U Michigan Press, 2022) offers a sustained comparative study of improvisation as it …
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Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt: A Conversation with Andrew Simon
Episode 42
Andrew Simon, a historian of media, popular culture, and the Middle East at Dartmouth College, discusses his new book Media of the Masses: Cassette C…
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Affective Masculinities
Episode 110
Amrita De talks about affective masculinities, aspirational linkages with dominant scripts of masculinities, socially organized. As she expands her w…
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Stephen Bullivant, "Nonverts: The Making of Ex-Christian America" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 59
The United States is in the midst of a religious revolution. Or, perhaps it is better to say a non-religious revolution. Around a quarter of US adult…
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Gary Alan Fine, "Fair Share: Senior Activism, Tiny Publics, and the Culture of Resistance" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 275
If you’ve ever been to a protest or been involved in a movement for social change, you have likely experienced a local culture, one with slogans, jar…
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Bernard D. Geoghegan, "Code: From Information Theory to French Theory" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 103
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan traces the shared intellectual and political history of computer scientists, cyberneticists, anthropologists, linguists, …
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David H. Price, "The American Surveillance State: How the US Spies on Dissent" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Episode 11
When the possibility of wiretapping first became known to Americans they were outraged. Now, in our post-9/11 world, it's accepted that corporations …
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Helena Hof, "The EU Migrant Generation in Asia: Middle-Class Aspirations in Asian Global Cities" (Policy Press, 2022)
Episode 112
Drawing on an extensive study with young individuals who migrated to Singapore and Tokyo in the 2010s, The EU Migrant Generation in Asia: Middle-Clas…
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