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NBN Episodes hosted by Lachlan:
Anthropology
March 3, 2021
Ethnography #9
Alan Klima
Hosted by
Lachlan Summers
Alan Klima’s Ethnography #9 (Duke University Press, 2019) was co-written by a ghost. And that’s just the start of what’s going on in this eerie, singular book. It’s a discussion …
Anthropology
November 4, 2020
The Book of Unconformities
Speculations on Lost Time
Hugh Raffles
Hosted by
Lachlan Summers
At once an examination of geology, a biography of monuments, and a meditation on the connection between personal loss and massive loss, Hugh Raffles’ The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on …
Anthropology
August 5, 2020
Bomb Children
Life in the Former Battlefields of Laos
Leah Zani
Hosted by
Lachlan Summers
In this episode, I talk with Dr. Leah Zani, a public anthropologist and poet based in California, about her truly wonderful book Bomb Children: Life in the Former Battlefields of …
Anthropology
August 4, 2020
There is No More Haiti
Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince
Greg Beckett
Hosted by
Lachlan Summers
In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Greg Beckett, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Western University, about his richly grounded book There is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death …
Anthropology
July 17, 2020
From Boas to Black Power
Racism, Liberalism and American Anthropology
Mark D. Anderson
Hosted by
Lachlan Summers
Mark Anderson’s From Boas to Black Power: Racism, Liberalism and American Anthropology (Stanford University Press) is at once a story about US anthropology and US liberalism from the 1930s to …