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Science
Social Sciences
1126
Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, "The Quantified Schola...
An interview with Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
39 min
1127
Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Mérida M. Rúa, "Critical...
An interview with Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Mérida M. Rúa
69 min
1128
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
1129
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
1130
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
1131
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
1132
Yarimar Bonilla ed. et al., "Trouillot Remixed:...
An interview with Greg Beckett
62 min
1133
Jamie Barnes, "Stories, Senses and the Charisma...
An interview with Jamie Barnes
58 min
1134
Andrea Ballestero, "A Future History of Water" ...
An interview with Andrea Ballestero
78 min
1135
Dario Miccoli, "A Sephardi Sea: Jewish Memories...
An interview with Dario Miccoli
66 min
1136
Olúfemi Táíwò, "Against Decolonization: Taking ...
An interview with Olúfemi Táíwò
61 min
1137
Andrew Grant, "The Concrete Plateau: Urban Tibe...
An interview with Andrew Grant
43 min
1138
John Richens, "Tik Merauke: An Epidemic Like No...
An interview with John Richens
51 min
1139
Kenneth H. Kolb, "Retail Inequality: Reframing ...
An interview with Kenneth H. Kolb
35 min
1140
Raúl Pérez, "The Souls of White Jokes: How Raci...
An interview with Raúl Pérez
90 min
1141
Manuela Ciotti, "Retro-modern India: Forging th...
An interview with Manuela Ciotti
60 min
1142
Michael O. Johnston, "Community Media Represent...
An interview with Michael O. Johnston
24 min
1143
Eldritch Priest, "Earworm and Event: Music, Day...
An interview with Eldritch Priest
63 min
1144
On Victor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning"
A Discussion with Arthur Kleinman
26 min
1145
Ellie D. Hernández et al., "Transmovimientos: L...
An interview with Ellie D. Hernández
35 min
1146
Tyler Bradway and Elizabeth Freeman, "Queer Kin...
An interview with Tyler Bradway and Elizabeth Freeman
69 min
1147
Sarah Lamb, "Successful Aging as a Contemporary...
An interview with Sarah Lamb
56 min
1148
Julia Margaret Zulver, "High-Risk Feminism in C...
An interview with Julia Margaret Zulver
55 min
1149
L. L. Wynn and Angel M. Foster, "Sex in the Mid...
61 min
1150
Ugo Corte, "Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of ...
An interview with Ugo Corte
57 min