The Anthrogirl Podcast
Ghosts. Witchcraft. Harem Life. Revenge. Incest. Murder. Matricide. Explore the beliefs, practices, mythologies and obsessions of world cultures with The Anthrogirl Podcast. But don’t expect a lecture or academic conversation. Our intrepid Adventuress brings other societies to life through drama and storytelling, based on authentic, classic ethnographies.Brought to you by a screenwriter, an actress and a PhD in Anthropology.
The Anthrogirl Podcast
Pitjantjatjara Man
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The AnthroGirl
Despite the austerity of their environment and their meagre possessions, these aboriginal people of central Australia produced as lavish a body of myth and ritual as can be found anywhere in the world. It is a staggering cultural resource - but with the coming of the whitefella, everything changed.
Bibliography:
Gould, Richard, Yiwara, Foragers of the Australian Desert, Charles Scribner’s Sons, NY
Moorehead, Alan, Cooper’s Creek, The Opening of Australia, The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987
Sharp, Lauriston, Technological Innovation and Culture Change: An Australian Case, in Cultural and Social Anthropology, Peter B. Hammond, The MacMillan Company
Spencer and Gillen, The Native Tribes of Central Australia, Dover Publications, NY