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1951
Pehr Granqvist, "Attachment in Religion and Spi...
Granqvist focuses on the connections between early caregiving experiences, attachment patterns, and individual differences in religious cognition, experience, and behavior...
48 min
1952
Oded Y. Steinberg, "Anglo-German Thought in the...
Steinberg analyses the emergence of a particular notion of a “Teutonic” identity among a group of scholars in England and Germany...
46 min
1953
Charlotte Bruckermann, "Claiming Homes: Confron...
Chinese citizens make themselves at home despite economic transformation, political rupture, and domestic dislocation in the contemporary countryside...
45 min
1954
Matt Tomlinson, "God is Samoan: Dialogues Betwe...
Christian theologians in the Pacific Islands see culture as the grounds on which one understands God...
49 min
1955
Ehud Halperin, “The Many Faces of a Himalayan G...
Halperin employs an interdisciplinary approach to tell the story of Hadimba from the ground up...
66 min
1956
Rebecca Hanson and Patricia Richards, "Harassed...
The authors argue that the androcentric, racist, and colonialist epistemological foundations of ethnographic methodology contribute to the silence surrounding sexual harassment...
59 min
1957
Ashley E. Kerr, "Sex, Skulls, and Citizens: Gen...
Kerr argues that Argentine scientific projects of the era were not just racial encounters, but were also conditioned by sexual relationships in all their messy, physical reality...
64 min
1958
Robert Samet, "Deadline: Populism and the Press...
Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, has been ranked as one of the most violent cities in the world...
54 min
1959
Allan Downey, "The Creator’s Game: Lacrosse, Id...
Downey examines the role that lacrosse played and continues to play in the construction of settler-colonial and indigenous identity in Canada...
58 min
1960
Sa’ed Atshan, "Queer Palestine and the Empire o...
Atshan explores the Palestinian LGBTQ movement and offers a window into the diverse community living both in historic Palestine and in diaspora...
52 min
1961
R. Farrugia and K. D. Hay, "Women Rapping Revol...
The authors draw on seven years of fieldwork to illuminate the important role that women have played in mobilizing a grassroots response to political and social pressures at the heart of Detroit’s ongoing renewal and development project....
48 min
1962
Nora Haenn, "Marriage after Migration: An Ethno...
Haenn tells the stories of five women in rural Mexico, each navigating the tricky terrain that is men’s international migration...
50 min
1963
Joy White, "Terraformed: Young Black Lives in t...
How are black lives lived in the contemporary city?
34 min
1964
Barbara J. Risman, "Where the Millennials Will ...
Risman uses her gender structure theory to tackle the question about whether today’s young people, Millennials, are pushing forward the gender revolution or backing away from it...
56 min
1965
Martina Cvajner, "Soviet Signoras: Personal and...
Cvajner focuses on a group of women who migrated from areas in the former Soviet Union to northern Italy...
47 min
1966
A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polym...
Eisler argues that modern humans are descended from primates who imitated the hunting practices and pack hierarchies of wolves during the scarcity of the ice age...
49 min
1967
John Stratton Hawley, “Krishna's Playground: Vr...
What happens when the Anthropocene Age makes everything virtual? What happens when heaven gets plowed under?
51 min
1968
Kathryn M. De Luna, "Collecting Food, Collectin...
De Luna documents the evolving meanings borne in the collection of wild foods for an agricultural people in south central Africa around the turn of the first millennium....
68 min
1969
Sam Han, "(Inter)Facing Death: Life in Global U...
Han analyzes the nexus of death and digital culture in the contemporary moment in the context of recent developments in social, cultural and political theory....
49 min
1970
James C. Scott, "Against the Grain: A Deep Hist...
We are schooled to believe that states formed more or less synchronously with settlement and agriculture. Scott asks us to question this belief.
52 min
1971
Michele Wakin, "Hobo Jungle: A Homeless Communi...
Wakin offers an up-close exploration of the evolution that has taken place with unsheltered homelessness....
48 min
1972
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
1973
Alexander L. Fattal, "Guerrilla Marketing: Coun...
Fattal investigates the Colombian government’s campaign to turn Marxist guerrilla fighters in the FARC into consumer citizens...
56 min
1974
Govind Gopakumar, "Installing Automobility: Eme...
Automobiles and their associated infrastructures, deeply embedded in Western cities, have become a rapidly growing presence in the mega-cities of the Global South...
53 min
1975
Ashley Mears, "Very Important People: Status an...
The global party circuit. . . lifestyle that offers million-dollar birthday parties, megayachts on the French Riviera, and $40,000 bottles of champagne....
49 min