The AnthroPod team is pleased to bring you a special crossover episode from the Australia-based blog and podcast The Familiar Strange. We aim to support other podcasts in hopes of building a wider community of anthropologically minded listeners.

In this episode, you’ll hear anthropologist Ian Pollock, host of The Familiar Strange, in conversation with Vijayendra Rao. Rao is an economist with the World Bank, and the two discuss the theory and practice of development, anthropology’s relationship to development, and how ethnography might help the disenfranchised engage with powerful institutions and effect social change.

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Intro: All the Colors in the World by Podington Bear