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Headstrong: Women Porters, Blackness, and Modernity in Accra (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025) explores the experiences of women porters, called kayayei, in Accra, Ghana. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork, anthropologist Laurian R. Bowles shows how kayayei... more

Today I had the pleasure of talking to Professor Xiang Biao on his new book, Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World, which was originally written and published in Chinese. The English translation has just come out with Palgrave Macmilla... more

Moorings: Voyages of Capital across the Indian Ocean (U of California Press, 2025) follows sailors from the Gulf of Kachchh in India as they voyage across the Indian Ocean on mechanized wooden sailing vessels known as vahans, or dhows. These voyages ... more

American anthropologist Oscar Lewis secured permission from Fidel Castro to undertake three years of field research on cultural and economic change in Cuba in the decade after the victory of Castro's M-26 Movement. Oscar Lewis in Cuba: La Partida Fin... more

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Dr. Nidhi Mahajan
Author of the book Moorings: Voyages of Capital Across the Indian Ocean.
University of California Press
Episode: Nidhi Mahajan, "Moorings: Voyages of Capital across the Indian Ocean" (U of California Press, 2025)
Susan M. Rigdon
Author of "Oscar Lewis in Cuba: La Partida Final"
Berghahn Books
Episode: Susan M. Rigdon, "Oscar Lewis in Cuba: La Partida Final" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
Dr. Chelsi West Ohueri
Author of Encountering Race in Albania: An Ethnography of the Communist Afterlife
Cornell University Press
Episode: Chelsi West Ohueri, "Encountering Race in Albania: An Ethnography of the Communist Afterlife" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Jovana Diković
An economic anthropologist who explores rural development in Serbia.
University College London Press
Episode: Jovana Diković, "The Laissez-Faire Peasant: Post-Socialist Rural Development in Serbia" (UCL Press, 2025)
Sari Pietikainen
Professor of Discourse Studies at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland
University of Jyväskylä
Episode: Cold Rush
Dr. Maan Barua
Environmental and urban geographer, university lecturer of human geography at the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
Episode: Maan Barua, "Plantation Worlds" (Duke UP, 2024)
Vanessa Diaz
Author and anthropologist specializing in celebrity media production.
Duke University Press
Episode: Vanessa Diaz, "Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood" (Duke UP, 2020)
Bettina Ng'weno
Professor in African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis, researching space, property, social justice and cities
University of California, Davis
Episode: Bettina Ng′weno, "No Place Like Home in a New City: Anti-Urbanism and Life in Nairobi" (U of California Press, 2025)
Dr. Zozan Balci
Award-winning academic and sociolinguist, as well as a social justice advocate.
University of Technology Sydney
Episode: Erased Voices and Unspoken Heritage

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Reighan Gillam
Host of the New Books in Anthropology channel, focused on exploring diverse anthropological topics and new publications.
Dr. Miranda Melcher
Co-host and contributor to discussions on anthropological themes and emerging research with a focus on encouraging academic dialogue.

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4.5 out of 5 stars from 131 ratings
  • Beautiful and Soothing

    Wonderful to feel connected and grounded in today’s troubling world.

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    5
    Lily Scott - One Love
    United States6 months ago
  • Good podcast; shame about the gambling ads

    Hi, i really appreciate this podcast, but think that running gambling ads is in questionable taste given the disproportionate impact of gambling on the marginalised

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    Hugo JH
    Australia6 months 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.

    Audible
    5
    Nahvis
    United States4 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
    5
    Jer
    United States4 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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    dkd84
    United States6 years ago

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Wonderful to feel connected and grounded in today's troubling world.
Mixed feelings about episode lengths; suggestions for more concise formats have been noted.
Great academic podcast for anthropologists, or for anyone interested in academic discussion.
Appreciation for new insights about anthropological literature and the opportunity to hear authors discuss their work.
Conversations cover a wide range of books and the discussions are really interesting.

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Susan M. Rigdon, "Oscar Lewis in Cuba: La Partida Final" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
Q: How did Project Cuba come to be, exactly?
The project was driven by Oscar Lewis's long-standing interest in revolutions and his focus on studying the dynamics of wealth redistribution in Cuba.
Susan M. Rigdon, "Oscar Lewis in Cuba: La Partida Final" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
Q: Could you tell us a little bit about the origin stories of their respective work?
There were significant controversies and inaccuracies regarding the Cuba Project; Dr. Rigdon aimed to clarify these and unravel the narrative's complexities.
Susan M. Rigdon, "Oscar Lewis in Cuba: La Partida Final" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
Q: Could you tell us a little bit about that?
Dr. Rigdon discusses her close ties to the Lewis family and her lengthy experience researching their work, which motivated her to write the book as a means of clearing misconceptions and solving the mystery of the project's downfall.
Nidhi Mahajan, "Moorings: Voyages of Capital across the Indian Ocean" (U of California Press, 2025)
Q: Could you explain the idea of geopolitical arbitrage as the dhows move about the Indian Ocean?
Geopolitical arbitrage involves maneuvering geopolitical conditions of war and sanctions to generate profit, allowing smaller boats to fill gaps that larger vessels cannot due to their size or political conditions.
Nidhi Mahajan, "Moorings: Voyages of Capital across the Indian Ocean" (U of California Press, 2025)
Q: Can you talk about the context for the book and what these dhows are?
In the book, I follow these dhows or these itinerant seafaring communities that sail across the Indian Ocean to and from different ports.

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