
Asian Ethnology Podcast
1) Interview with Peter Knecht, former editor of Asian Folklore Studies
Interviewer: Ben Dorman, co-editor Asian Ethnology Recorded 8 June 2017, Nagoya, Japan Peter Knecht was the editor of Asian Folklore Studies from 1980 until 2007. The journal changed its name to Asian...Show More
2) Interview with John Powers
Interviewer: Ben Dorman In this episode, John Powers (Deakin University) discusses an interdisciplinary project involving historians, anthropologists, scientists, and folklorists concerning rivers tha...Show More
3) Interview with Susanne Klien
Interviewer: Ben Dorman, co-editor Asian Ethnology Recorded 11 March 2011 In this episode, anthropologist Susanne Klien discusses her recent book Urban Migrants in Rural Japan: Between Agency and Anom...Show More
4) Interview with Steven Fedorowicz
Interviewer: Mark Bookman Recorded: Wednesday Feb 17th 2021 This episode features a discussion with Steven Fedorowicz, cultural anthropologist, visual anthropologist, and associate professor at Kansai...Show More
5) Interview with Frank Mondelli
Interviewer: Mark Bookman Date recorded: 26 October 2020 This episode of Asian Ethnology Podcast features Frank Mondelli, a doctoral candidate at Stanford University. Frank recently returned from rese...Show More
6) Interview with Mark Bookman
Interviewer: Ben Dorman Date recorded: 3 November 2020 In this episode, Mark Bookman discusses a new series of lectures entitled "Disability and Japan in the Digital Age," which is run through the Ant...Show More
7) Interview with Yoshiko Okuyama
In this episode Yoshiko Okuyama talks about her most recent monograph, Reframing Disability in Manga (University of Hawai’i Press, 2020). Okuyama explains that her work examines representations of dis...Show More
8) Interview with Andreas Riessland
In this episode anthropologist Andreas Riessland discusses his research on Japanese biker gangs (bĹŤsĹŤzoku) and a project involving ShugendĹŤ Buddhist and Shinto groups that ended in failure due to vari...Show More
9) Interview with David Faure and He Xi
Interviewer: Thomas David DuBois In this episode, we speak with China historians David Faure and He Xi of the Chinese University of Hong Kong about historical anthropology. Faure discusses the univers...Show More
10) Interview with Gopalan Ravindran
In this episode, Gopalan Ravindran, Professor and Head of Department of Journalism and Communication at the University of Madras, talks about media literacy in India in general, his initial interest i...Show More