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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.

Episodes

  1. 05/17/2023

    I Will Bring A Chicken

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    20 min

  2. 04/21/2023

    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. People snooze in classrooms and during religious services, but never when a spooky story is told around a campfire.  These are some of my favorite stories, collected by anthropologists. Bibliography: Grimble, Arthur, A Gilbertese Creation Myth, In Reader in Comparative Religion, Lessa & Vogt, eds. Harper and Row, 1965. Beals, Allan, Gopalpur: A South Indian Village. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962 Chagnon, Napolean, Yanomamo, The Fierce People. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 3 rd edition. 1983 Pierce, Joe, Life in a Turkish Village. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964. John Middleton Hyena and Rabbit: A Kaguru Representation. In Myth and Cosmos, John Middleton, ed. University of Texas Press, 1967

    19 min

  3. 04/20/2023

    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, Rinehart and Winston Holt, Morton Fried, ed. Thomas Y. Crowell Co, 1968.

    11 min

  4. 03/13/2023

    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, Zora Neal, HarperCollins, 2008. Folklore, memoirs, and other writings, Thurston, Zora Neale, NY, Library of America, 1995. Hitting a straight lick with a colored stick: stories from the Harlem Renaissance, Thurston, Zora Neale, NY, Harper Collins, 2020 Every tongue got to confess: Negro folktales from the Gulf States, NY, HarperCollins, 2001

    15 min

  5. 02/08/2023

    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 - 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

    20 min

  6. 01/24/2023

    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. Bibliography: Grimble, Arthur, A Gilbertese Creation Myth, In Reader in Comparative Religion, Lessa & Vogt, eds. Harper and Row, 1965. Beals, Allan, Gopalpur: A South Indian Village. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962 Chagnon, Napolean, Yanomamo, The Fierce People. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 3rd edition. 1983 Pierce, Joe, Life in a Turkish Village. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964. John Middleton Hyena and Rabbit: A Kaguru Representation. In Myth and Cosmos, John Middleton, ed. University of Texas Press, 1967

    19 min

  7. 01/18/2023

    Ghosts, Part 2

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    13 min

  8. 01/12/2023

    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. Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village. Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock, Doubleday, 1965.

    15 min

  9. 01/07/2023

    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, John, The Lugbara of Uganda, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965 Opler, Morris, An Interpretation of Ambivalence of Two American Indian Tribes.  Reader in Comparative Religion, Lessa & Vogt, eds. Harper and Row, 1965.

    15 min

  10. 01/03/2023

    Living Goddess

    In the Kathmandu Valley, young Newari girls called kumaris are worshipped as omnipotent deities.

    15 min

  11. 01/03/2023

    The AnthroGirl Podcast trailer

    Introducing a brand new podcast.   Join the AnthroGirl as she explores the myths and the magic, ghost lore and spirit possession, witchcraft and sorcery, on her world-wide journeys to exotic cultures.

    1 min
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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.

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    The AnthroGirl
  • Episodes
    11
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