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NBN Episodes hosted by Dannah:

Anthropology June 4, 2019

Crossing the Border to India

Youth, Migration, and Masculinities in Nepal

Jeevan Sharma

Hosted by Dannah Dennis
People’s decisions to migrate in search of work are often discussed in terms of economic necessity, but these decisions are also shaped by a host of historical and cultural factors …
Anthropology May 15, 2019

Romancing the Sperm

Shifting Biopolitics and the Making of Modern Families

Diane Tober

Hosted by Dannah Dennis
The development of a whole suite of new reproductive technologies in recent decades has contributed to broad cultural conversations and controversies over the meaning of family in the United States …
Anthropology April 29, 2019

Internet Celebrity

Understanding Fame Online

Crystal Abidin

Hosted by Dannah Dennis
What does it mean to be famous on the Internet? How do people become Internet celebrities, and what can that celebrity be used to do? Dr. Crystal Abidin offers anthropological …
Anthropology February 15, 2019

The Pursuit of Happiness

Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism

Bianca Williams

Hosted by Dannah Dennis
Analyses of the lives of black women in the United States often focus on narratives of struggle and sorrow, as black women must contend daily with the intersecting oppressions of …
Anthropology January 29, 2019

Garbage Citizenship

Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal

Rosalind Fredericks

Hosted by Dannah Dennis
The production and removal of garbage, as a key element of the daily infrastructure of urban life, is deeply embedded in social, moral, and political contexts. In her book Garbage …
Anthropology December 4, 2018

Battling the Buddha of Love

A Cultural Biography of the Greatest Statue Never Built

Jessica Marie Falcone

Hosted by Dannah Dennis
What can we learn from the anthropological study of projects that are never realized, or of dreams that are never fulfilled? In her new book, Battling the Buddha of Love …
Anthropology September 7, 2018

Biblical Porn

Affect, Labor, and Pastor Mark Driscoll’s Evangelical Empire

Jessica Johnson

Hosted by Dannah Dennis
In her book Biblical Porn: Affect, Labor, and Pastor Mark Driscoll’s Evangelical Empire (Duke University Press, 2018), Dr. Jessica Johnson chronicles the rise and fall of Mars Hill Church, an …
Anthropology May 1, 2018

Far Out

Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal

Mark Liechty

Hosted by Dannah Dennis
How did Nepal become synonymous, in the minds of many Westerners, with the idea of a mystical paradise and a place to find enlightenment? How did Kathmandu become the subject …