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About Alex Golub
NBN Episodes hosted by Alex:
January 4, 2024
Anthropology and Radical Humanism
Paul Radin was one of the founding generation of American cultural anthropologists: A student of Franz Boas, and famed ethnographer of the Winnebago.…
April 14, 2023
Participant Observers
Freddy Foks's Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain (U California Press, 2023) is a nov…
March 19, 2023
Harvard's Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science
Harvard's Department of Social Relations made history in the 1950s and 1960s as the most ambitious program in social science in the United States. Ded…
September 27, 2022
Franz Boas
Franz Boas is remembered today as one of the most important figures in the history of anthropology. In the United States, he is widely created with cr…
June 15, 2022
Coconut Colonialism
In Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa (Harvard UP, 2022), Holger Droessler provides a novel history of the impact of globaliz…
March 29, 2022
In the Shadow of the Palms
This episode we speak with Sophie Chao, author of In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua (Duke University Press, 2022). H…
August 20, 2021
Everything Ancient Was Once New
In Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawai‘i to Kahiki (U Hawaii Press, 2021), Emalani Case draws on her own life experienc…
July 28, 2021
Boasians at War
The realities of race that continue to plague the United States have direct ties to anthropology. Anthropologists often imagine their discipline as i…
July 19, 2021
Voyagers
In Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific (Apollo, 2020), the distinguished anthropologist Nicholas Thomas tells the story of the peopling of the Pac…
February 3, 2021
Revealing the Invisible Mine
Located amid tropical rainforest in the heart of Papua New Guinea, the Frieda River area is home to one of the biggest undeveloped gold and copper dep…
November 24, 2020
Tanna Times
For four decades, Lamont "Monty" Lindstrom has conducted research on the island of Tanna in the Pacific nation of Vanuatu. Considered by outsiders to …
September 30, 2020
La Batea
La Batea is an unconventional book. A collaboration between anthropologist Elizabeth Ferry and her photographer brother Stephen, it combines text and …
August 13, 2020
Possessing Polynesians
From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans saw Polynesians as almost racially white, and speculat…
June 23, 2020
God is Samoan
Christian theologians in the Pacific Islands see culture as the grounds on which one understands God. In God is Samoan: Dialogues Between Culture a…
May 13, 2020
Uncommon Anthropologist
Protégé of Elsie Clews Parsons and Franz Boas, founder and head of Barnard College's anthropology department, and a trailblazer in Native American lin…
March 2, 2020
Talking Like Children
Since World War II, the fate of the Marshal Islands has been tied to the United States. The Marshalls were a site of military testing, host a US milit…
November 13, 2019
At The Bridge
The history of anthropology remembers James Teit as a field assistant and man-on-the spot for Franz Boas. But in At The Bridge: James Teit and an Anth…
October 7, 2019
A Death in the Rainforest
Called "perhaps the finest and most profound account of ethnographic fieldwork and discovery that has ever entered the anthropological literature" by …
September 4, 2019
Gods of the Upper Air
American anthropologists consider Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead to be foundational figures, but outside the academy few people know the…
July 25, 2019
Sea People
It's rare for a book of non-fiction to catch the interest of the reading public in the United States, much less a book on the history of science in th…
July 12, 2019
The Lost Black Scholar
Allison Davis (1902-1983) was a pioneering anthropologist who did ground-breaking fieldwork in the Jim Crow south, challenged the racial bias of IQ te…