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Science
Social Sciences
1801
Russell T. Warne, "In the Know: Debunking 35 My...
An interview with Russell T. Warne
36 min
1802
Johanna Drucker, "Visualization and Interpretat...
An interview with Johanna Drucker
48 min
1803
Eben Kirksey, "The Mutant Project: Inside the G...
An interview with Eben Kirksey
59 min
1804
Joseph David, "Kinship, Law and Politics: An An...
Interview with Joseph David
52 min
1805
Isar P. Godreau, "Scripts of Blackness: Race, C...
An interview with Isar Godreau
71 min
1806
Salih Can Açıksöz, "Sacrificial Limbs: Masculin...
An interview with Salih Can Açıksöz
67 min
1807
Constance Smith, "Nairobi in the Making: Landsc...
An interview with Constance Smith
64 min
1808
Ethnographic Fieldwork in Ecuador: A Discussion...
An interview with Maricarmen Hernandez
48 min
1809
Sienna R. Craig, "The Ends of Kinship: Connecti...
An interview with Sienna Craig
78 min
1810
David Henig, "Remaking Muslim Lives: Everyday I...
An interview with David Henig
55 min
1811
S. L. Lewis and M. A. Maslin, "The Human Planet...
An interview with Mark Maslin
42 min
1812
John Hartigan Jr., "Shaving the Beasts: Wild Ho...
An interview with John Hartigan Jr.
60 min
1813
Michal S. Raucher, "Conceiving Agency: Reproduc...
Raucher explores the ways ultra-Orthodox Jewish women in Israel make decisions about their reproductive lives...
55 min
1814
Christopher M. Kelty, "The Participant: A Centu...
Kelty offers a historical ethnography of the concept of participation, investigating how the concept has evolved into the form it takes today...
51 min
1815
Sharon J. Yoon, "The Cost of Belonging: An Ethn...
Why, in a commercially successful city like Wangqing, are Chinese Koreans more successful in their businesses than entrepreneurs from Korea who often have prestigious educational degrees?
64 min
1816
Steven Fabian, "Making Identity on the Swahili ...
Fabian combines extensive archival sources from African and European archives alongside fieldwork in Bagamoyo to move beyond the category of 'Swahili' as it has been traditionally understood....
102 min
1817
Michal Pagis, "Inward: Vipassana Meditation and...
Pagis explores in depth one school of mindfulness, or vipassana, founded by the Indian teacher S.N. Goenka and now established in countries around the world...
61 min
1818
Amanda J. Lucia, "White Utopias: The Religious ...
Transformational festivals, from Burning Man to Lightning in a Bottle, Bhakti Fest, and Wanderlust, are massive events that attract thousands of participants to sites around the world...
52 min
1819
Andrea Ballestero, "A Future History of Water" ...
Ballestero looks at the unexpected ethical and technical entanglements through which experts understand water in Latin America...
56 min
1820
Abigail A. Dumes, "Divided Bodies: Lyme Disease...
Dumes offers an ethnographic exploration of the Lyme disease controversy...
50 min
1821
Introduction to the 'Ethnographic Marginalia' P...
A new podcast, all about ethnography and ethnographers!
53 min
1822
Lessie Jo Frazier, "Desired States: Sex, Gender...
Lessie Jo Frazier contends that desire played a central role in the political culture of the modern Chilean state.,,,
72 min
1823
Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel, "Voices from the ...
Weigel and Tarnoff take an unprecedented dive into the tech industry, conducting unfiltered, in-depth, anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels,,,
46 min
1824
Oluwakemi M. Balogun, "Beauty Diplomacy: Embody...
Balogun takes us inside the world of Nigerian beauty contests...
45 min
1825
Richard Seymour, "The Twittering Machine" (Vers...
Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine...
61 min