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Episode 2 Breast Milk Sharing and "Good" Mommies with Dr. Beatriz Reyes-Foster
Jul 5, 2017 •
Human breast milk has become a hot commodity in the U.S., and parents have become creative in networking among moms who have milk to spare. Yet health officials, who continue to promote the standard that “breast is best”, are characterizing informal milk sharing as dangerous and risky; a depiction based not in fact…
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Episode 5 God, Politics, and Anthropology - with Rev. Dr. Miranda Hassett
Jul 28, 2017 •
Rev. Dr. Miranda Hassett received her Ph.D. in anthropology before becoming an ordained priest in the Episcopal Church. In her book, Anglican Communion in Crisis: How Episcopal Dissidents and Their African Allies are Reshaping Anglicanism, she explores how political polarization drove a global wedge in the Anglican church, driving some…
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Episode 3 Digging for Truth on a Cherokee Plantation - with Dr. Lance Greene
Jul 15, 2017 •
Looking at a complex moment in American history, when Cherokee were being forced off their land by President Andrew Jackson, Dr. Lance Greene’s research brings to life a nineteenth century plantation in North Carolina, where Cherokees, whites, and enslaved Africans lived and worked together. Dr. Greene pieces together life on…
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Episode 4 A New Kind of Family with "The Guys Next Door" with Amy Geller and Allie Humenuk
Jul 21, 2017 •
The Guys Next Door, an award-winning feature-length documentary film features Erik and Sandro, whose friend Rachel offers to be a surrogate for their two children. Although filmmakers Amy Geller and Allie Humenuk are not anthropologists, their film sparks conversation about core anthropological issues of kinship, social networks and gift giving,…
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Episode 1 Anthropology Beyond Indiana Jones with Dr. Angela Jenks
Jun 22, 2017 •
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 do real anthropologists do? Anthropology is the study of what it means to be human. Which means that anthropologists study pretty much everything, including…
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Episode 6 "Bharat Babies" Books & Business Anthropology with Sailaja Joshi
Aug 4, 2017 •
Sailaja Joshi is the CEO and founder of Bharat Babies, an independent publishing house that “designs and produces developmentally appropriate books for young children that tell stories about India’s Heritage.” She was inspired to launch her business when she struggled to find books for her young daughter that would represent…
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Episode 7 Ancient Bones & Peaceful Coexistence with Dr. Sara K. Becker
Aug 21, 2017 •
1000 years before the Inca civilization emerged in Peru and Bolivia, there were the Tiwanaku–a large nation consisting of a complex and ethnically diverse community of people. Today, amid the vestiges of Tiwanaku architecture, pottery, lithics, and other artifacts, Dr. Sara K. Becker’s focus is on the human remains. However,…
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Episode 8 Understanding Transgender Health & Identity with Brett Nava-Coulter
Aug 25, 2017 •
Transgender politics have been everywhere lately, from North Carolina bathrooms to Presidential tweets, yet many are still confused about what exactly it means to be transgender. It’s not surprising there is confusion, as the category of transgender is both diverse and complicated. To help unpack these issues and politics, Brett…
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Episode 9 The River is a Goddess: Environmental Anthropology with Dr. Georgina Drew
Sep 8, 2017 •
The Ganga River in India is a goddess, who has a long history of protecting and caring for her followers. But as a source of water, how do followers balance their respect for the goddess amid the various ways they are supported by her? The practical needs of the surrounding…
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Episode 10 Racism, Educational Anthropology, & Everyday Terror with Dr. Jeanine Staples
Sep 18, 2017 •
The effects of racism are tangible and physical. They are carried in the bodies of their victims. But how does racism work? Why can it be hard to see? How do we combat racist messages that are woven into the very fabric of our social institutions? Dr. Jeanine Staples works…
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Episode 28 Housing, Advocacy, and Anthropology with Christin Reeder Young
Christin Reeder Young has a Master's degree in Applied Anthropology, focusing on medical and urban anthropology, and works as a… Read more… -
Episode 27 Politics of Greek Cooking with Dr. David Sutton
Dr. David Sutton returns to AOTS, this time to talk about his long career’s work on the anthropology of food.… Read more… -
Episode 26 Anthropology in Action with Dr. Dana Powell
Dr. Dana Powell has spent the last twenty years working to transform anthropology from its original purpose, of primarily European… Read more…