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Arpan Roy, "Relative Strangers: Romani Kinship and Palestinian Difference" (U Toronto Press, 2025)

Examining how memory, intergenerational transmission, and kinship work together, Relative Strangers: Romani Kinship and Palestinian Difference (U Toronto Press, 2025) sheds light on Romani life in Palestine. Arpan Roy presents an ethnographic portr... more

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Chiara Formichi, "Domestic Nationalism: Muslim Women, Health, and Modernity in Indonesia" (Stanford UP, 2025)

In her most recent publication, Domestic Nationalism: Muslim Women, Health, and Modernity in Indonesia (Stanford UP, 2025), Chiara Formichi argues that Muslim women in Java and Sumatra, from the late 1910s to the 1950s, were central to Indonesia's pr... more

30 Jun 2026 • 1 hr 10 min

Caste and Music with T.M. Krishna

This episode features a conversation with Carnatic vocalist, T.M. Krishna, who is also the author of two books on this musical tradition. We began with his first book’s account of the modernization of Carnatic music through a set of social, technical... more

29 Jun 2026 • 1 hr 9 min

Susannah Crockford, "A Perturbed System: Religion and Climate Change from the End of a World" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

Our ecological system is disturbed, and with it, every other system we’ve built to inhabit it. We do not face inevitable destruction, yet many of us cannot conceive of climate change as anything but the end of the world, an apocalypse with all its bi... more

29 Jun 2026 • 48 min

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Marta Dominguez Diaz

Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Anthropology at the University of St. Gallen

University of St. Gallen

Episode: Marta Dominguez Diaz, "Tunisia's Andalusians: The Cultural Identity of a North African Minority" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

Josh Lambert

Sophia Moses Robeson, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies in English and Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Wellesley College

Wellesley College

Episode: Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age

Marielle Risse

Author of Ethnographic Reflections on Marriage in Dhofar, Oman

Author, Anthropologist

Episode: Marielle Risse, "Ethnographic Reflections on Marriage in Dhofar, Oman" (Anthem Press, 2026)

Karl Whittington

Professor and Chair of Art History, The Ohio State University

The Ohio State University

Episode: Karl Whittington, "Queer Making: On Artists and Desire in Medieval Europe" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2025)

John Longhurst

Author and journalist, Can Robots Love God and Be Saved? A Journalist's Report on Faith

CMU Press / Winnipeg Free Press

Episode: John Longhurst, "Can Robots Love God and Be Saved? A Journalist Reports on Faith" (CMU Press, 2024)

Patrick Brodie

Assistant Professor in the School of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin, author of Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland

University College Dublin

Episode: Patrick Brodie, "Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland" (Duke UP, 2026)

Jeffrey Hoelle

Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara; author of Cultivated and Rainforest Cowboys

University of California, Santa Barbara

Episode: Jeffrey Hoelle, "Cultivated: Plants, Hair, and the Aesthetic of Control" (Yale UP, 2026)

Mardi Reardon-Smith

Environmental Anthropologist and STS Scholar

Monash University

Episode: Mardi Reardon-Smith, "Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia" (Stanford UP, 2025)

Olga Burlyuk

Associate Professor of Europe's External Relations in the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam

University of Amsterdam

Episode: Ladan Rahbari and Olga Burlyuk eds., "From the Margins: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity" (Open Book Publishers, 2026)

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Miranda Melcher

Host of The New Books Network episode and related projects

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Good podcast; shame about the gambling ads
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Australiaa year ago
It's a common belief that if you can't explain something simpl, you don't understand it. That doesn't naturally lead us to deliver all knowledge for the lowest common denominator, but most maybe all, sources of information are being written for the person who won't understand it. This podcast has breaks from that bad habit. In a week I've heard ideas, sharpened from experience and repetition, delivered with thrust I've never met elsewhere.
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Nahvis
United States5 years ago
mostly a podcast by experts for experts
It's a common belief that if you can't explain something simpl, you don't understand it. That doesn't naturally lead us to deliver all knowledge for the lowest common denominator, but most maybe all, sources of information are being written for the person who won't understand it. This podcast has breaks from that bad habit. In a week I've heard ideas, sharpened from experience and repetition, delivered with thrust I've never met elsewhere.
Audible
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Jer
United States5 years ago
Engaging and informative
This podcast covers a wide range of books, and the conversations are really interesting.
Apple Podcasts
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United States7 years ago

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Carola E. Lorea, "Communities of Sound: Religion, Displacement, and Caste in the Bay of Bengal" (Wesleyan UP, 2026)

Q: How does the Matua Mahotsap challenge high-culture aesthetics and the Bodhrulok judgment of these sounds as 'noise'?

Matua sound embodies bhab, ecstatic emotion, which can lead listeners to altered states; this challenges conventional expectations of discipline and intelligibility in high-culture Bengali aesthetics, reframing loudness as a meaningful act of belonging and resistance rather than mere nuisance.

Carola E. Lorea, "Communities of Sound: Religion, Displacement, and Caste in the Bay of Bengal" (Wesleyan UP, 2026)

Q: Can you talk about the research methods and techniques you used?

I employ sonic ethnography and deep listening, using field recordings, a collaborative approach with local Mottwa artists, and learning songs myself as an apprentice to capture the multisensory dimensions of their practices.

Patrick Brodie, "Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland" (Duke UP, 2026)

Q: But I'm wondering like, how did you first enter into this problematic and approach these contradictions when you started fieldwork in 2017?

He describes adopting an emplaced, ground-up approach, grounding macro-level economic theory in the lived experiences of workers and communities, visiting data-center sites, talking with residents, and tracing how policies played out in rural and coastal regions against Dublin's dominance.

Patrick Brodie, "Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland" (Duke UP, 2026)

Q: So I'm wondering at first if you can just kind of like touch on those three terms or those three strands as you understand them, as you use them, as you theorize them in this work?

Patrick Brodie explains that the three terms—financialization, media infrastructures, and environment—are interlinked in Ireland's recent history, highlighting how economic models, housing, and state policy interact with media production and digital infrastructure to shape regional development and social life.

Jeffrey Hoelle, "Cultivated: Plants, Hair, and the Aesthetic of Control" (Yale UP, 2026)

Q: For listeners who may not be very familiar with the region, how would you sketch the local context here and the history related to the expansion of settled agriculturalism?

Hoelle explains the late-1960s military push to open the Amazon for development, the creation of extractive reserves in Acre, and how rubber tappers resisted upheaval, framing conservation and local livelihoods as intertwined in a model of sustainable frontier governance.

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