Podcasts by Anthropologist On The Street
How many ways are there to be human? Each week Anthropologist on the Street Dr. Carie Little Hersh invites different cultural experts to illuminate the hidden ideas, practices, and power dynamics that make our lives both familiar and strange.
Further podcasts by Carie Little Hersh: Teaching Professor, Blogger, Podcaster
Podcast on the topic Gesellschaft und Kultur
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E28 Housing, Advocacy,&Anthropology with Christin Reeder Young from 2022-06-15T09:00
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.
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E27 Politics of Greek Cooking with Dr. David Sutton from 2022-06-08T09:00
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 ...
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E26 Anthropology in Action with Dr. Dana Powell from 2022-06-01T09:00
Action Anthropologist Dr. Dana Powell collaborates with Navajo (Diné) energy activists and African-American environmental justice activists, using anthropological methods and perspectives to ass...
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E25 Product Design Ethnography with Dr. Amy Goldmacher from 2020-06-24T11:00
Business anthropologist Dr. Amy Goldmacher discusses how her ethnographic work empowers product and software designers to better understand their users and customers. Using anthropological resea...
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E24 Pubic Hair Grooming as Cultural Practice with Lyndsey Craig from 2020-06-17T11:00
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 i...
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E23 Psychiatric Culture Clashes with Dr. Beatriz Reyes-Foster from 2020-06-10T11:00
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 Yuc...
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E22 Converting Belief at a Creationist Theme Park with Dr. James Bielo from 2019-07-10T09:00
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...
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E21 Antarctic Anthropology with Dr. Jessica O’Reilly from 2019-06-12T10:00
Environmental anthropologist Dr. Jessica O’Reilly works in the least populated continent on ea...
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E20 American Mosques with Jacqueline Fewkes from 2019-05-29T10:00
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 showc...
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E19 The Culture of Teeth with Dr. Julia Boughner from 2018-06-15T11:52:39
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 B...
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E18 Language, Time, and the Anthropology of Arrival with Dr. David Sutton from 2018-05-31T00:22:22
Cultural anthropologist Dr. David Sutton explains why fictional films and television sitcoms can be important in revealing hidden cultural rules, and discusses what the movie Arrival ge...
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E17 The Folklore of International Adoption with Dr. Patricia Sawin from 2018-05-16T18:13:49
Adoption is a culturally and historically complicated process that we like to envision as purely altruistic, yet usually involves moving children from less- to more-advantaged communities. Folkl...
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E16 Free Food in the Corporate World with Jesse Dart from 2017-11-23T15:29:45
At the intersection of business anthropology and the anthropology of food, Jesse Dart researches how and why tech companies offer their employees free food. Looking at the same company’s practic...
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E15 Steampunk Archaeology&the Anthropology of Science Fiction with Gail Carriger from 2017-11-08T10:00
Gail Carriger is an archaeologist and bestselling author whose steampunk romance series reimagines the technology, social diversity, and moral rigidity of Victorian England. While her British Is...
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E14 Political Divisiveness&the Encouragement of Violence with Dr. Jennie Burnet from 2017-11-01T09:00
When leaders of multicultural societies emphasize ethnic division over national unity, assigning blame to the “other” and focusing on our differences rather than our similarities, the stage is s...
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E13 The Shifting Tides&Interpersonal Politics of Archaeology with Dr. Katie Kirakosian from 2017-10-25T09:00
By looking at the lives and changing politics of archaeologists studying New England shell middens, Dr. Kirakosian examines how meaning shifts over time, how knowledge is created, whose knowledg...
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E12 Friendship Beyond Dementia - The Anthropology of Aging with Dr. Janelle Taylor from 2017-10-04T09:00
Aging is a cultural phenomenon, made easier or harder depending on our expectations of friendships and families and our beliefs about what makes us a person. Medical Anthropologist Dr. Janelle T...
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E11 Prison Labor, Fighting Wildfires,&Crafting New Identities with Lindsey Raisa Feldman from 2017-09-28T20:02:24
To combat growing the wildfires in Arizona, select inmates are temporarily released from prison to battle the flames. In this episode, I talk with anthropology doctoral candidate Lindsey Raisa F...
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E10 Racism, Educational Anthropology,&Everyday Terror with Dr. Jeanine Staples from 2017-09-20T09:00
Dr. Jeanine Staples, Associate Professor at Penn State, researches the intersection of race, gender, education, and literature, revealing how young black girls internalize social messages about ...
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E9 The River is a Goddess - Environmental Anthropology with Dr. Georgina Drew from 2017-09-13T09:00
The Ganga River in India is a goddess – but does that mean she provides for her followers, or her followers need to protect her? Environmental Anthropologist Dr. Georgina Drew explains how a riv...
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E8 Understanding Transgender Health&Identity from 2017-08-30T16:09:44
Transgender politics have been everywhere lately, from North Carolina bathrooms to Presidential tweets, and sociology doctoral candidate Brett Nava-Coulter explains why the category of transgend...
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E7 Ancient Bones and Peaceful Coexistence with Dr. Sara K. Becker from 2017-08-23T15:34:47
Bioarchaeologist Dr. Sara K. Becker examines the patterns found on the skeletal remains of the Tiwanaku, a state that emerged in Peru and Bolivia 1000-1500 years ago. By understanding the life, ...
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E6 Bharat Babies Books&Business Anthropology with Sailaja Joshi from 2017-08-09T09:00
To combat misrepresentation (and lack of representation) of South Asian cultures in American children’s literature, Sailaja Joshi founded Bharat Babies, an independent publishing house that crea...
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E5 God, Politics,&Anthropology with Miranda Hassett from 2017-08-02T09:00
Rev. Dr. Miranda Hassett is an Episcopal priest and anthropologist who explores how political polarization drove a global wedge in the Anglican church, driving some conservative white American E...
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E4 A New Kind of Family with “The Guys Next Door” with Amy Geller and Allie Humenuk from 2017-07-26T02:38:55
Filmmakers Amy Geller and Allie Humenuk talk about kinship, gender roles, and parenting in their award-winning documentary. “The Guys Next Door” features Erik and Sandro, whose friend Rachel off...
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E3 Digging for Truth on a Cherokee Plantation with Dr. Lance Greene from 2017-07-19T12:33:25
Archaeologist Dr. Lance Greene digs up life on a nineteenth century plantation in North Carolina, where Cherokees, European-Americans, and enslaved Africans lived and worked together. Dr. Greene...
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E2 Breast Milk Sharing&"Good" Mommies with Dr. Beatriz Reyes-Foster from 2017-07-12T13:49:32
While it may be true that “breast is best”, it is not always easiest, particularly where women are struggling with overwork and lack of social support. Medical anthropologist Beatriz Reyes-Foste...
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E1 Beyond Indiana Jones with Dr. Angela Jenks from 2017-06-29T17:09:58
From Indiana Jones to Bones to that graduate student kidnapped by pirates on Archer, there are many different representations of anthropology in pop culture, but what ...
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