Anthropology on Air

Anthropology on Air

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Anthropology on Air is a podcast brought to you by the Social Anthropology department at the University of Bergen in Norway. Each season, we bring you conversations with inspiring thinkers from the anthropology world and beyond. The music in the podcast is made by Victor Lange, and the episodes are hosted and produced by Sidsel Marie Henriksen and Sadie Hale. You can follow us on Facebook or visit Institutt for sosialantropologi where you can find more information on the ongoing work and upcoming events at the department.

Digestive Belonging, Trans-Species Sensing & Care in America’s Dairyland

February 13, 2026

Digestive Belonging, Trans-Species Sensing & Care in America’s Dairyland

In this episode, we speak with Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Copenhagen, Katy Overstreet. Katy is coordinator f…

“Rurality 2.0”: How City Migrants are Reshaping Norway’s Rural Regions with Tom Bratrud

December 8, 2025

“Rurality 2.0”

In today’s episode, we talk to Tom Bratrud about his ongoing, long-term work with city-dwellers who migrate to rural parts of Norway. This research fo…

#23 Amber, China & Geological Anthropology w/ Alessandro Rippa

September 23, 2025

Amber, China, and Geological Anthropology

In this episode, we speak with Alessandro Rippa about amber – a fossilised resin that not only allow us a glimpse into prehistoric lifeforms and clima…

#22 Ethnographic Poetry & Migration w/ Hans Lucht

March 25, 2025

Ethnographic Poetry and Migration

In this episode, we are in company with Hans Lucht to talk about ethnographic poetry. Hans is a senior researcher, and the head of migration research …

#21 Slavery and Genocide: Jamaica, the US South & the Historical Sociology of Evil w/ Orlando Patterson

February 24, 2025

Slavery and Genocide

Welcome to a special two-episode series of Anthropology on Air! In this and the previous podcast, you will listen to selected parts of a lecture se…

#20 The Paradoxes of Freedom: a Socio-Historical Approach w/ Orlando Patterson

February 11, 2025

The Paradoxes of Freedom

In this and the following podcast, you will listen to selected parts of a lecture series on the subject of slavery and freedom with professor of Socio…

#19 Journeying anew, with or without knowledge w/ Marilyn Strathern

December 10, 2024

Journeying Anew, With or Without Knowledge

Welcome to a special episode of Anthropology on Air. In this episode you will hear the recordings of the 2024 ⁠Fredrik Barth Memorial Lecture⁠, held …

#18 Muskoxen, reindeer, and performing wilderness in Norway w/Karin Lillevold

November 20, 2024

Muskoxen, Reindeer, and Performing Wilderness in Norway

In this episode, we speak with Karin Lillevold, a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies, and R…

#17 Theopolitical patchworks: Evangelical gangs in Rio de Janeiro w/Martjin Oosterbaan

November 8, 2024

Theopolitical Patchworks

In this episode we speak with ⁠Martjin Oosterbaan⁠. Martjin is professor at the department of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University, with a chai…

#16 Birdwatching and loss in the Anthropocene w/Andrew Whitehouse

September 13, 2024

Birdwatching and Loss in the Anthropocene

Welcome to season 4 of Anthropology on Air! With autumn on the way in Bergen, we kick off a new season with a resident of another North Sea city: dr. …

#15 Public affection, morality police & gendered violence in Mumbai w/Atreyee Sen

June 26, 2024

Public Affection, Morality Police, and Gendered Violence in Mumbai

In this episode, the finale to season 3, we speak with Atreyee Sen, Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenha…

#14 Technoscience & the limits of life w/Martin Eggen Mogseth & Fartein Hauan Nilsen

June 7, 2024

Technoscience and the Limits of Life

Martin Eggen Mogseth and Fartein Hauan Nilsen

In this episode, we speak with Martin Eggen Mogseth and Fartein Hauan Nilsen about their first edited volume, Limits of Life: Reflections on Life, Dea…

#13 Nuclear waste management & the anthropology of infrastructures w/Penny Harvey

May 7, 2024

Nuclear Waste Management and the Anthropology of Infrastructures

In this episode of Anthropology on Air, we speak with Penny Harvey, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester in the UK. Penny …

#12 Masculinity, far-right ideology & militarised policing in Rio de Janeiro w/Tomas Salem

April 23, 2024

Masculinity, Far-Right Ideology, and Militarized Policing in Rio de Janeiro

In this special episode, we speak with Tomas Salem, a PhD fellow in our own department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. We do a dee…

#11 Water justice, activism, and the Rights of Nature movement w/Andrea Muehlebach

April 8, 2024

Water Justice, Activism, and the Rights of Nature Movement

To kick off season three of Anthropology on Air, we speak with Andrea Muehlebach. Andrea is Professor of Maritime Anthropology and Cultures of Water a…

#10 Sensing God, doing magic & kindling anomalous experience through transformative practice w/Tanya Luhrmann

December 19, 2023

Sensing God, Doing Magic, and Kindling Anomalous Experience Through Transformative Practice

Tanya Luhrmann is Albert Ray Lang Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University, with a courtesy appointment in Psychology, and an elected member …

#9 Rituals, social cohesion & the theory of modes of religiosity w/Harvey Whitehouse

November 29, 2023

Rituals, Social Cohesion and the Theory of Modes of Religiosity

In this episode, you will meet professor at the University of Oxford, Harvey Whitehouse. Harvey is the director of the ⁠Centre for the Study of Social…

#8 Contemporary hunter-gatherer communities, Ju/’hoansi, indigenous rights & knowledge systems w/Jennifer Hays

November 14, 2023

Contemporary Hunter-Gatherer Communities, Ju/’hoansi, Indigenous Rights and Knowledge Systems

In this episode you will meet ⁠Jennifer Hays⁠, who is professor in social anthropology at the University of Tromsø (UiT) – the Arctic University of No…

#7 Human Rights, Islam, Secularism & Sudan w/Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im

October 24, 2023

Human Rights, Islam, Secularism and Sudan

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im

This episode is the second of two podcasts focusing on the longstanding partnership between Bergen and Khartoum. In the episode you will meet, Abdull…

#6 Sudan & Norway Academic Collaboration: 60 years of Bonds and Beyond w/Munzoul Assal & Leif Manger

October 24, 2023

Sudan and Norway Academic Collaboration

Munzoul Assal and Leif Manger

This episode is the first of two podcasts focusing on the longstanding partnership between Bergen and Khartoum. The first episode provides a historica…