Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBatja Mesquita, "Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions" (Norton, 2022)
Episode 193
A pioneer of cultural psychology argues that emotions are not innate, but made as we live our lives together. We may think of emotions as universal r…
3 years, 5 months ago
Belonging: A Conversation with Geoffrey Cohen
Episode 140
Why do we feel the need to belong, and what happens when we don’t? This episode explores:
What it takes to belong. Why it physically hurts to be excl…3 years, 5 months ago
Samuel J. Redman, "Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Episode 16
In Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums (Harvard University Press, 2022 for paperback edition), Samuel J. Redman, Associ…
3 years, 5 months ago
David Newheiser, "The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 250
David Newheiser is a senior research fellow in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University. He is the author of…
3 years, 5 months ago
Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, "Metamodernism: The Future of Theory" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Episode 249
For decades, scholars have been calling into question the universality of disciplinary objects and categories. The coherence of defined autonomous ca…
3 years, 5 months ago
Mrinal Pande, "Popular Hinduism, Stories and Mobile Performances: The Voice of Morari Bapu in Multiple Media" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 227
This book addresses the recent transformations of popular Hinduism by focusing upon the religious cum artistic practice of Ramkatha, staged narrative…
3 years, 5 months ago
Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă, "Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 179
The episode features Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatca, co-authors of an extraordinary, field-shifting new book – Creolizing the Modern: Transylvani…
3 years, 5 months ago
Tom Bratrud, "Fire on the Island: Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu" (Berghahn Books, 2022)
Episode 184
In 2014, the island of Ahamb in Vanuatu became the scene of a startling Christian revival movement led by thirty children with ‘spiritual vision.’ Ho…
3 years, 5 months ago
Iván Sandoval-Cervantes, "Oaxaca in Motion: An Ethnography of Internal, Transnational, and Return Migration" (U Texas Press, 2022)
Episode 52
Migration is typically seen as a transnational phenomenon, but it happens within borders, too. Oaxaca in Motion: An Ethnography of Internal, Transnat…
3 years, 5 months ago
Stuart Earle Strange, "Suspect Others: Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
Episode 203
Suspect Others: Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname (U Toronto Press, 2021) explores how ideas of self-knowledge and ide…
3 years, 5 months ago