Anthropologist On The Street Podcast
1) E28 Housing, Advocacy, & Anthropology with Christin Reeder Young
Applied Anthropologist Chris Reeder Young employs her background in urban and medical anthropology to advocate for lower-income homebuyers and older homeowners who wish to age in place.
2) E27 Politics of Greek Cooking with Dr. David Sutton
Dr. David Sutton returns to explore the politics of food and commensality, or eating together, on the Greek island of Kalymnos, both as a way of connecting the past and present and as a form of resist...Show More
3) E26 Anthropology in Action with Dr. Dana Powell
Action Anthropologist Dr. Dana Powell collaborates with Navajo (Diné) energy activists and African-American environmental justice activists, using anthropological methods and perspectives to assist in...Show More
4) E25 Product Design Ethnography with Dr. Amy Goldmacher
Business anthropologist Dr. Amy Goldmacher discusses how her ethnographic work empowers product and software designers to better understand their users and customers. Using anthropological research me...Show More
5) E24 Pubic Hair Grooming as Cultural Practice with Lyndsey Craig
Lyndsey Craig delves into the anthropology of pubic hair grooming, discussing sexual signaling, the symbolism of pubic hair with respect to hygiene, marital status, or fertility, how body hair is tied...Show More
6) E23 Psychiatric Culture Clashes with Dr. Beatriz Reyes-Foster
Dr. Beatriz Reyes-Foster is a medical anthropologist whose book Psychiatric Encounters explores how culture shapes the diagnosis, care, and outcomes of mental illness in a mental hospital in Yucatan, ...Show More
7) E22 Converting Belief at a Creationist Theme Park with Dr. James Bielo
Anthropologist of religion Dr. James Bielo explores the creationist theme park Ark Encounter, and how its carefully choreographed design seeks not simply to entertain, but to transform the minds of at...Show More
8) E21 Antarctic Anthropology with Dr. Jessica O’Reilly
Environmental anthropologist Dr. Jessica O’Reilly works in the least populated continent on earth by far: Antarctica. Working with an array of scientists, she turns the anthropological gaze on science...Show More
9) E20 American Mosques with Jacqueline Fewkes
Researching the history and architecture of mosques in America, anthropologist Dr. Jacqueline Fewkes examines the relationship between local history, physical space, and social practice to showcase th...Show More
10) E19 The Culture of Teeth with Dr. Julia Boughner
Why do modern humans in industrialized nations face dental problems that don’t affect primates, modern hunter-gatherers, and previous generations of humans? Biological Anthropologist Dr. Julia Boughne...Show More