AnthroPod

Society for Cultural Anthropology

AnthroPod is produced by the Society for Cultural Anthropology. In each episode, we explore what anthropology teaches us about the world and people around us.

  1. 11/06

    88. Iranian Diaspora Perspectives

    Iran has dominated the US news cycle throughout 2026 so far. The U.S. and Israeli war of aggression in Iran just passed its 100th day, having come on the heels of the Islamic Republic regime’s brutal repression of protests around the country in January. Among other things, these events have thrust a spotlight on the complex relationship between Iran and its diaspora, and the varied and contradictory perspectives diasporic Iranians hold when it comes to events inside Iran. In this episode, we speak with anthropologist Amy Malek about her book, Culture Beyond Country: Strategies of Inclusion in the Global Iranian Diaspora (NYU Press, 2025) and its resonances in our current moment.

    88. Iranian Diaspora Perspectives

  2. 10/06

    89. A Dialogue on Love 2: How to Live with Violent Love?

    Content warning: This episode contains discussion of sexual violence, sexual assault, imprisonment, and intimate partner violence. This episode is the second installment of our mini-series on love and anthropology. What happens when love and violence are not experienced as opposites but as deeply entangled? In dialogue with Dr. Luisa Schneider, whose work examines love, violence, and legal intervention in Sierra Leone, we explore how intimate relationships are negotiated under conditions of insecurity, inequality, and post-conflict rebuilding. Through the striking local metaphor of teeth and tongue jammed together, Dr. Schneider reveals how love operates as something frictional, relational, and irreducible to simple narratives, and what is at stake when legal systems attempt to govern it. Her research also reveals how laws designed to protect can, without local grounding, produce new forms of harm by criminalizing the relationships they claim to safeguard and silencing the voices they intend to amplify. We hope this conversation deepens the investigation of love within our discipline begun in our first episode, and illuminates the importance of grounded and contextual understandings of love and its entanglements.

    89. A Dialogue on Love 2: How to Live with Violent Love?

  3. 21/05

    87. AAA 2025 Part 1: Storytelling, Performance, History

    This is the first of a three-part miniseries covering the 2025 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in New Orleans. The conference presentations we’ll share with you today revolve around the stories people tell themselves about themselves; the ways people come to connect with and understand history; how people carry and transmit cultural traditions; and the emotional performances that help people process and move forward. We’ll move from political activist spaces to sports performances, from diasporic family histories to more recent narratives around forced migration—guided along the way by music and sound recordings from some of this episode’s interlocutors.

    87. AAA 2025 Part 1: Storytelling, Performance, History

  4. 7/05

    86. Linguistic Anthropology and Anthropologists in Mexico: Part 2

    This is the second episode of the two-part miniseries on linguistic anthropologists working with indigenous communities in Mexico. In this episode, Emiliana Cruz, a native Chatino speaker and scholar based at CIESAS, reflects on her research, her career, and the realities of Indigenous education in contemporary Mexico.

    86. Linguistic Anthropology and Anthropologists in Mexico: Part 2

  5. 3/05

    85. Linguistic Anthropology and Anthropologists in Mexico: Part 1

    This episode is the first part of a two-part miniseries on linguistic anthropologists working with Indigenous communities in Mexico. In conversation with Mario Chávez Peón (CIESAS) and Carolyn O’Meara (UNAM), the episode introduces their research on Indigenous languages, their community-engaged fieldwork, and the activism that grows out of it, from developing writing systems alongside speakers to advocating for the rights and visibility of the communities they work with.

    85. Linguistic Anthropology and Anthropologists in Mexico: Part 1

  6. 2/04

    84. Thinking through Problems Together: Comparison and Collaboration in Anthropology Today

    Rethinking anthropological research through tension, comparison, transparency, and shared knowledge-making around notion of collaboration.

    84. Thinking through Problems Together: Comparison and Collaboration in Anthropology Today

  7. 12/03

    83. Playing Fieldwork - Rewiring the Field: Digital Ethnography Today

    Explores fieldwork through digital ethnography today through gaming, social media and digital life.

    83. Playing Fieldwork - Rewiring the Field: Digital Ethnography Today

  8. 3/02

    82. More than a Game: A Black Feminist Look at the Anthropology of Sports

    A Black feminist anthropology of college football, race, labor, and care.

    82. More than a Game: A Black Feminist Look at the Anthropology of Sports
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AnthroPod is produced by the Society for Cultural Anthropology. In each episode, we explore what anthropology teaches us about the world and people around us.

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  • Autoria
    Society for Cultural Anthropology
  • Anos em atividade
    2013 - 2026
  • Episódios
    95
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