The Anthrogirl Podcast
Episodes
11 episodes
Octopus
Let’s begin with a question, the kind anthropologists love: are any customs universal? Found everywhere, in every culture, from frozen Nunavut to the blistering sands of the Sahara? Storytelling is a cultural universal....
Diary of a Tapirabe Shaman
Shamans are the go-to people when a family member gets sick - but what happens when the shaman fails?Bibliography: Wagley, Charles, Tapirabe Shamanism. In Readings in Anthropology, Vol 2, Holt,R...
Zombies!
Very few anthropologists were as brave, daring and groundbreaking as Zora Neal Thurston - the only social scientist , Guggenheim fellow and Columbia PhD to photograph a real Zombie.Bibliography:Tell My Horse, Thurston, Zor...
Pitjantjatjara Man
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...
Storytelling
Everyone loves stories. People snooze in classrooms and during religious services, but never when a spooky story is told around a campfire. These are some of my favorites, collected by anthropologists during field research. ...
Harem - Updated
The word harem brings to mind classic tales like The 10001 Arabian Nights - but did you know that harems still exist in the 21st century?Bibliography:Dreams of Trespass. Mernissi, Fatima. Perseus Books, 1994.Gu...
Ghosts
People die. In the end, we all have to face the Grim Reaper. But what do we do, when the dead come back to haunt us? Bibliography:Lee, Richard, The Dobe Kung, Holt, Rinehart and Winston,1984 Middleton, J...