The Familiar Strange Your Familiar Strangers
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The Familiar Strange is a podcast about doing anthropology: that is, about listening, looking, trying out, and being with, in pursuit of uncommon knowledge about humans and culture. Find show notes, plus our blog about anthropology's role in the world, at https://www.thefamiliarstrange.com. Twitter: @tfsTweets. FB: facebook.com/thefamiliarstrange. Instagram: @thefamiliarstrange.
Brought to you by your familiar strangers: Ian Pollock, Jodie-Lee Trembath, Julia Brown, Simon Theobald, Kylie Wong Dolan; produced by Deanna Catto and Matthew Phung, and with support from the Australian Anthropological Society, the Australian National University’s Schools of Culture, History and Language and Archeology and Anthropology, and the Australian Centre for Public Awareness of Science, and produced in collaboration with the American Anthropological Association.
We acknowledge and celebrate the first Australians on whose traditional lands we record this podcast, and pay our respects to the elders of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples, past, present, and emerging.
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World Anthropology Day With Dr Noel Salazar
This week Sean Heath sat down with Noel B. Salazar, Professor of Anthropology at KU Leuven to discuss the celebration of Anthropology Day(s). Their conversation covered the initiation of world anthropology day by the American Anthropological Association and touched on national celebrations of anthropology day, as well as the potential for a World Anthropologies Days. They also discussed Noel’s latest work on emplaced mobilities and mobile places.
Noel B. Salazar is Professor in Social and Cultural Anthropology and Founder of the Cultural Mobilities Research (CuMoRe) cluster at KU Leuven. His research interests include anthropologies of mobility and travel, heritage and tourism, discourses and imaginaries of Otherness, world anthropologies, and endurance locomotion.
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TFS 2024 Update: We are Recruiting!
A brief update on the state of TFS project and a call for new contributors to the team.
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Ep#106: MeTooAnthro and the Witch Hunt trope
Trigger Warning: Please note that this episode makes mention of Sexual Assault and sexual violence.
In this episode we walk about MeToo anthropology from the lens of fieldwork and within the academy itself.
Familiar Stranger Emma Quilty sat down with anthropologists Holly Walters and Margaret Czerwienski to talk about the MeToo collective and its incredible array of resources as well as what it means to do activist work within the academy.
We also covered the prevalence of the witch hunt trope so often leveraged against those who make accusations against powerful individuals and institutions. Are MeToo accusations modern day witch hunts? Listen to find out. -
Ep#105 Podstudies: Dr Ian Cook on the Future of Academia & Podcasts
The podcast is back!
This week, we've challenged ourselves to be as meta as possible, with a podcast, about podcasting, released by an academic podcast! Try saying that after a wine or two.
Familiar Stranger Tim and Sean sat down with Dr Ian Cook, who has recently released his book "Scholarly Podcasting
Why, What, How?", which actually interviewed some Familiar Strange alumni, keep your ears peeled for the name drops!
It was a really interesting conversation about the future of podcasting, and how academia is shaping podcasting and vice versa.
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Ep#104 We let ChatGPT write this title: ""ChatGPT: The Future of AI-Assisted Conversations"
It’s been a while…
We’re back, this time with Familiar Strange Emma leading a panel on AI and specifically Chat GPT.
This week, Emma is joined by Familiar Strangers Matt and Sean to discuss some of the advancements of ChatGPT and what it means for us as academics and human creativity. Matt dives into how his poetry has been informed by AI and Sean reveals his ultimate AI betrayal.
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Ep#103 Handwraps & Hijabs: Dr Jasmijn Rana on Kickboxing & Piety in the Netherlands
Welcome back to the Familiar Strange.
We’re kicking off 2023 with an interview with Dr Jasmijn Rana from Leiden University. Dr Jasmijn’s research interests include, gender, race-ethnicity, religion, embodiment and movement. Jasmijn is currently (2022-2023) a Marie-Sklodowska Curie Global Fellow at University of California, Berkeley.
This week, Familiar Stranger Sean discusses Dr Rana’s latest ethnographic study “Punching Back - Gender, Religion and Belonging in Women-Only Kickboxing”. Sean and Dr Rana dive into the physical practices of femininity, physicality and how slacking is actually a good thing…kind of.
Thank you to Dr Jasmijn Rana for taking time out of their schedule to discuss their ethnography.
Head over to our website for a full list of links and citations!
Customer Reviews
Insightful discussions on intriguing topics
As a student of anthropology, this podcast keeps me thinking about various topics that I encounter in academia in a more humane and dialectical context!
Substance is lacking, disappointing
There are so few podcasts out there about anthropology, so admittedly my review comes from a place of disappointment being that this isn't what I was hoping it to be.
This podcast, while one of the few of its kind, has a lot of insider speak. The topics are less about the cultures and people that anthropology studies, and more about the field and its inner workings (which interests me not at all). I find the interviews dull. The substance / storytelling lacking, the introspection stuck in an echochamber of the field itself.
Provocative thought pieces
We’re not anthropologists but after every episode my husband and I discuss the topic for another hour. So much to think about — that we never thought about before!