Anthropologist On The Street

Carie Little Hersh: Teaching Professor, Blogger, Podcaster

4.8 (20)
SOCIETY & CULTURE

How many ways are there to be human? Each week Anthropologist on the Street Dr. Carie Little Hersh invites different cultural experts to illuminate the hidden ideas, practices, and power dynamics that make our lives both familiar and strange.

06/15/2022

Housing, Advocacy, & Anthropology with Christin Reeder Young

Applied Anthropologist Chris Reeder Young employs her background in urban and medical anthropology to advocate for lower-income homebuyers and older homeowners who wish to age in place.

1h 3m
06/08/2022

Politics of Greek Cooking with Dr. David Sutton

Dr. David Sutton returns to explore the politics of food and commensality, or eating together, on the Greek island of Kalymnos, both as a way of connecting the past and present and as a form of resistance against external cultural pressures.

1h 15m
06/01/2022

Anthropology in Action with Dr. Dana Powell

Action Anthropologist Dr. Dana Powell collaborates with Navajo (Diné) energy activists and African-American environmental justice activists, using anthropological methods and perspectives to assist in defining and resolving social problems.

1h 18m
06/24/2020

Product Design Ethnography with Dr. Amy Goldmacher

Business anthropologist Dr. Amy Goldmacher discusses how her ethnographic work empowers product and software designers to better understand their users and customers. Using anthropological research methods, she helps design new and improved products, software, and experiences that better meet people’s needs.

40 min
06/17/2020

Pubic Hair Grooming as Cultural Practice with Lyndsey Craig

Lyndsey Craig delves into the anthropology of pubic hair grooming, discussing sexual signaling, the symbolism of pubic hair with respect to hygiene, marital status, or fertility, how body hair is tied to beauty aesthetics, and how the removal of hair is both an intimate practice and a form of identity communication.

55 min
06/10/2020

Psychiatric Culture Clashes with Dr. Beatriz Reyes-Foster

Dr. Beatriz Reyes-Foster is a medical anthropologist whose book Psychiatric Encounters explores how culture shapes the diagnosis, care, and outcomes of mental illness in a mental hospital in Yucatan, Mexico.

1h 12m
07/10/2019

Converting Belief at a Creationist Theme Park with Dr. James Bielo

Anthropologist of religion Dr. James Bielo explores the creationist theme park Ark Encounter, and how its carefully choreographed design seeks not simply to entertain, but to transform the minds of attendees.

1h 32m
06/12/2019

Antarctic Anthropology with Dr. Jessica O’Reilly

Environmental anthropologist Dr. Jessica O’Reilly works in the least populated continent on earth by far: Antarctica. Working with an array of scientists, she turns the anthropological gaze on science itself, helping to demystify the scientific process and how scientists come to know what they know.

52 min

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4.8

out of 5

20 Ratings

So good

05/08/2018

Spoon Slayer

Well researched, well presented, academic but not dry, a great insight into anthropology.
Shows loads about anthropology

10/24/2017

Yep okay so bout that

As a hobby anthropologist but with no time or idea how to learn about it on my own this podcast is the light that guides me to the shrine of knowledge

How many ways are there to be human? Each week Anthropologist on the Street Dr. Carie Little Hersh invites different cultural experts to illuminate the hidden ideas, practices, and power dynamics that make our lives both familiar and strange.

Creator

Carie Little Hersh: Teaching Professor, Blogger, Podcaster
Years Active

2017 - 2022
Episodes

28
Rating

Clean
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Anthropologist On The Street

Anthropologist On The Street

Housing, Advocacy, & Anthropology with Christin Reeder Young

Politics of Greek Cooking with Dr. David Sutton

Anthropology in Action with Dr. Dana Powell

Product Design Ethnography with Dr. Amy Goldmacher

Pubic Hair Grooming as Cultural Practice with Lyndsey Craig

Psychiatric Culture Clashes with Dr. Beatriz Reyes-Foster

Converting Belief at a Creationist Theme Park with Dr. James Bielo

Antarctic Anthropology with Dr. Jessica O’Reilly

So good

Shows loads about anthropology

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Anthropologist On The Street

Episodes

Housing, Advocacy, & Anthropology with Christin Reeder Young

Politics of Greek Cooking with Dr. David Sutton

Anthropology in Action with Dr. Dana Powell

Product Design Ethnography with Dr. Amy Goldmacher

Pubic Hair Grooming as Cultural Practice with Lyndsey Craig

Psychiatric Culture Clashes with Dr. Beatriz Reyes-Foster

Converting Belief at a Creationist Theme Park with Dr. James Bielo

Antarctic Anthropology with Dr. Jessica O’Reilly

Ratings & Reviews

So good

Shows loads about anthropology

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