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Anthropology
Interviews with anthropologists about their new books.
October 13, 2026
Chicana Spiritual Activism
Chicana Spiritual Activism: Making Change, Making Soul (U Arizona Press, 2026) explores the profound impact of spiritual activism within the Chicana f…
October 10, 2026
Green Thinking
Green Thinking: Unlearning Outdated Ideas in Science, Economics and Politics (Routledge, 2026) is about unlearning, discarding damaging, outdated idea…
October 8, 2026
Immoral Traffic An Ethnography of Law, NGOs, and the Governance of Prostitution in India
Immoral Traffic: An Ethnography of Law, NGOs, and the Governance of Prostitution in India (Cambridge UP, 2025) delves into the complex intersection of…
October 7, 2026
Down and Out in Utopia
Imagine that you have just lost your job. You wonder: “Who or what can I depend on now?” The answer, it turns out, varies significantly depending on w…
October 7, 2026
Valuing Nature at the Ends of the World
Belize is often described as a “pristine” ecotourism destination with a landscape that is “naturally” valuable. Yet for much of the twentieth century,…
September 30, 2026
Transient Becoming
How do individuals seek to become better persons in contemporary China? How do they navigate the complex demands of personal growth given the fragment…
September 29, 2026
Smuggling Law
The Kurdish-populated Wan/Van Province is a major smuggling hub between Turkey and Iran. Kurdish smugglers cross this 180-mile-long land border, trans…
September 28, 2026
How Real Is Race?
Tune in to this discussion about How Real Is Race?: Unraveling Race, Biology, and Culture by Carol C. Mukhopadhyay, Rosemary Henze, and Yolanda T. Mos…
September 27, 2026
Welcome to the Journal of Autoethnography
In this episode, the editors of the Journal of Autoethnography offer an inside look at the journal, discussing its origin and revisiting notable artic…
September 26, 2026
Spies and Other Pigeons
Across Pakistan's rooftops, pigeon flyers devote enormous care and labor to birds that soar the skies, take part in competitions, and knit together co…
September 26, 2026
Water Logics
Water Logics: Materialist Epistemologies for the Environmental Humanities (U Virginia Press, 2026) examines the epistemological adjustments that take …
September 23, 2026
American Trickster
A gripping exposé of deception, cult power, and the long shadow of Carlos Castaneda, the man behind the biggest literary hoax of the twentieth century…
September 17, 2026
The Absent Stone
Where and to whom do ancient things belong? What happens when they are stolen—not by a colonial power, but by a national museum claiming them as state…
September 15, 2026
Belfastmen
Professor Tom Hulme's second book reconstructs the erotic and romantic lives of queer men in Belfast across roughly seventy years, from the recriminal…
September 12, 2026
Understanding Laughter and Humor
In John Charles Simon and Jennalee Donian’s Understanding Laughter and Humor: Why We Laugh, Why We Don’t, and Why It Matters (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025…
September 7, 2026
Inhabiting Silence
Monasteries are typically characterized by physical and symbolic limitations on access as they are usually known through written texts and accounts by…
September 7, 2026
Enclosing Caste
This episode features a conversation with historian Rupa Viswanath and anthropologist Joel Lee. We covered the remarkable transformations of the late …
September 6, 2026
Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century
What does medical anthropology look like in the twenty-first century? That is the central question of Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-Firs…
September 6, 2026
Under the Gaze of Global Mental Health
What went wrong with global mental health? Under the Gaze of Global Mental Health: A Critical Reflection (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) critically examine…
September 5, 2026
Relative Strangers
Examining how memory, intergenerational transmission, and kinship work together, Relative Strangers (U Toronto Press, 2024) sheds light on Romani life…