The St. Magnus Street Tapes
A reflection of 40 years of intermittent ethnographic research on the Shetland Islands. This is an experiment in intimate ethnography. Each episode of the "A-sides" follows a single theme. The same theme is explored on the "B-sides" but through contemporary fiction based on a tale found in Lawrence Tulloch's Shetland Folk Tales.
Episodes
10 episodes
Episode 10 B-Side: Community
This is the final episode of season one of The St. Magnus Street Tapes This palm of the hand story is loosely based on material found in Lawrence Tulloch’s Shetland Folk Tales, especially the enigmatic tale, “The Poisoned Six-Pence.” Episode 10...
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Episode 9 B-Side: Memory
This is the penultimate episode of the first season of The St. Magnus Street Tapes."The body was found in the Old Cemetery in Lerwick by two young German tourists who were wandering around the Knab, just a bit turned around in the fog. ...
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Episode 8 - B-Side: Loss
"There was both panic and resignation in his voice. He was so alone, and had been for what seemed like a long time, for twenty years tramping from one continent to another, looking for knolls, and only finding the standing stones of stories and...
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Episode 7 - B-Side: Disguise
"When They had recovered enough. The bruises on their face healed. Their hair no longer silver, but a gray shade of blue, they traveled to Lerwick in his old Toyota Hillux. When he stopped them from filching in stores with a gentle “Dey ken me ...
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Episode 6 - B-Side: Energy
After 40 years of intermittent ethnographic research on the Shetland Islands, this podcast is an experiment in intimate ethnographic storytelling. Each episode of the "A-sides" follows a single theme. The same theme is explored in the...
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Episode 5 - A-Side: Community
When I was being trained, if you can call it that, as an anthropologist years ago, there was a focus on kinship and family, however, constructed, because, in these relations, it was imagined, were conjured obligations of gift-giving, aid, and...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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Episode 4 - A-Side: Memory
This episode explores memory and confabulation. We gather each other up in forms of recollection and retrospection, finding a place for each other in collective remembrances. Sometimes we argue over the details, but less so the genre of the sto...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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Episode 3 - A-Side: Loss
Does the past require so much attention because the present is haunted by the constant possibilities of loss? Is a "way of life" only known because one suspects it has already passed?The Saint Magnus Street Tapes are a Confabulate...
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Episode 3
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