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Science
Social Sciences
976
Merrick Daniel Pilling, "Queer and Trans Madnes...
An interview with Merrick Daniel Pilling
36 min
977
Wendy Simonds, "Hospital Land USA: Sociological...
An interview with Wendy Simonds
39 min
978
Zachary Levenson, "Delivery As Dispossession: L...
An interview with Zachary Levenson
70 min
979
The History and Ethnography of Indigenous Peopl...
A Discussion with Jennifer Brown
38 min
980
Andreas Hackl, "The Invisible Palestinians: The...
An interview with Andreas Hackl
59 min
981
Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, "Franz Boas: The Emergen...
An interview with Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt
52 min
982
Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Mérida M. Rúa, "Critical...
An interview with Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Mérida M. Rúa
69 min
983
Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, "The Quantified Schola...
An interview with Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
39 min
984
NBN Classic: Tania Li, "Land’s End: Capitalist ...
f you want to read just one book to properly understand capitalism, let it be Tania Li’s award-winning 2014 book Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier (Duke University Press, 2014).
63 min
985
NBN Classic: Josh Reno, "Military Waste: The Un...
Seven decades of military spending during the cold war and war on terror have created a vast excess of military hardware – what happens to all of this military waste when it has served its purpose and what does it tell us about militarism in American culture?
74 min
986
NBN Classic: Jaime Alves, "Anti-Black City: Pol...
Alves makes a powerful contribution to urban anthropology, describing the spatial contours of “Brazilian Apartheid” in Sao Paulo...
62 min
987
NBN Classic: Charles King, "Gods of the Upper A...
King's book is a reminder of the central ideas of Boasian anthropology: a recognition that gender roles and racial assumptions are cultural constructions and not biological facts...
59 min
988
Yarimar Bonilla ed. et al., "Trouillot Remixed:...
An interview with Greg Beckett
62 min
989
Jamie Barnes, "Stories, Senses and the Charisma...
An interview with Jamie Barnes
58 min
990
Dario Miccoli, "A Sephardi Sea: Jewish Memories...
An interview with Dario Miccoli
66 min
991
Olúfemi Táíwò, "Against Decolonization: Taking ...
An interview with Olúfemi Táíwò
61 min
992
Andrea Ballestero, "A Future History of Water" ...
An interview with Andrea Ballestero
78 min
993
Andrew Grant, "The Concrete Plateau: Urban Tibe...
An interview with Andrew Grant
43 min
994
John Richens, "Tik Merauke: An Epidemic Like No...
An interview with John Richens
51 min
995
Kenneth H. Kolb, "Retail Inequality: Reframing ...
An interview with Kenneth H. Kolb
35 min
996
Raúl Pérez, "The Souls of White Jokes: How Raci...
An interview with Raúl Pérez
90 min
997
Michael O. Johnston, "Community Media Represent...
An interview with Michael O. Johnston
24 min
998
Manuela Ciotti, "Retro-modern India: Forging th...
An interview with Manuela Ciotti
60 min
999
Eldritch Priest, "Earworm and Event: Music, Day...
An interview with Eldritch Priest
63 min
1000
On Victor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning"
A Discussion with Arthur Kleinman
26 min