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Anthropology
Interviews with anthropologists about their new books.
August 9, 2026
Infrastructural Urbanism in Contemporary China
Infrastructural Urbanism in Contemporary China: Volunteering, Infrastructures and Civic Imaginations (Leiden University Press, 2026) examines how Chin…
August 9, 2026
Near and Desired Things
Near and Desired Things: Shamanism in Late Imperial Local Siberian Museums (Cornell University Press, 2026) reveals nineteenth-century Siberian museum…
August 9, 2026
Becoming Utopia
Becoming Utopia: History, Heritage, and Sustainability in the American Midwest (U Nebraska Press, 2026) centers on the tiny community of Bishop Hill,…
August 9, 2026
Beyond Free Speech
Are we driving our technology, or is it starting to drive us? In this thought-provoking conversation, Eli Karetny sits down with researcher and author…
August 7, 2026
55 The Microbiopolitics of Novel Foods
What role do microbes play in aquaponic farming and cultivated meat production, and how might such novel food technologies impact microbiomes? In this…
August 1, 2026
Atomic Collective
In the aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse, Kazakhstan inherited the remnants of one of the world's most contaminated landscapes: the Semipal…
August 1, 2026
The Kiss
The Kiss: A History of Passion and Power (Reaktion, 2026) by Professor Katie Barclay tells the surprising history of our most intimate gesture: th…
July 31, 2026
China’s Landless Peasants and the Role of State-led Rural Urbanization
As part and parcel of China’s compressed modernization, processes of state-led rural urbanization through land expropriation and rural-to-urban reloca…
July 27, 2026
Understanding Social Images
In this episode I discuss the book Understanding Social Images: Essays on Visual Methods and Teaching Anthropology (Berghahn, 2025) with co-editors Da…
July 26, 2026
Heritage Fever
The early twenty-first century ushered in a period of change in Bolivia. The country welcomed its first Indigenous president, a new constitution, …
July 26, 2026
Life in Spite of Everything
Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the Ukrainian East (Daunt Books Publishing, 2025) is a unique reflection on the much-mythologised Donetsk and …
July 24, 2026
Feeding the World as If People Mattered
Backyard gardens flush with cucumbers, tomatoes, and peppers where bees buzz and chickens scratch. Beyond, a forest filled with blackberries and jewel…
July 24, 2026
Against Heritage
The rise of “heritage” foods—that is, the reinvention of traditional foods—has enjoyed a high profile thanks to the oft-praised efforts of chefs such …
July 20, 2026
Caste as a Material Question
This episode featured a conversation with Rahul Sonpimple, founder of the All-India Independent Scheduled Castes Association. Our conversation began w…
July 19, 2026
Refusing Sustainability
Sustainability has become a touchstone for development worldwide, promising an antidote to environmental degradation and capitalism's excess: waste. R…
July 16, 2026
175 The Caste Pod: a Crossover episode with Ajantha Subramanian (JP)
In the spirit of Hannah Arendt's natality principle (that new things are always and should always be being born, each one unique and endowed with limi…
July 11, 2026
Forms of Blackness
What does Blackness look like? In Forms of Blackness: Race and Visibility in the French-Speaking World (Duke University Press, 2026), Cécile Bishop …
July 9, 2026
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Hindu Ethics
With the plurality of Hinduism in mind, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Hindu Ethics focuses on the human, sociological and situational ethical framework u…
July 8, 2026
Cookstove Chronicles
Stove improvers have been designing and promoting “clean” or “efficient” biomass cookstoves in India since the 1940s and have been frustrated to …
July 7, 2026
BDSM Practices in Contemporary Poland
In BDSM Practices in Poland: Barbed Wire Floggings, Rope Orgasms, and the Problem with Desire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), cultural anthropologist and …