AnthroPod is the podcast of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, and is produced by a collaborative, nonhierarchical collective of Contributing Editors. Featuring conversations between anthropologists as well as experiments in sonic ethnography, the channel sees itself as a platform which amplifies the polyphony of voices within cultural anthropology. Our episodes explore conceptual, methodological, and pedagogical issues across the discipline, while striving to make anthropology more widely accessible to all publics.

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Questions and proposals for guest-produced episodes can be sent to section editors Michelle Hak Hepburn, Joyce Rivera-González, and Nick Smith at [email protected]

Portraits of Unbelonging: A Special Crossover Episode with Ottoman History Podcast

Portraits of Unbelonging: A Special Crossover Episode with Ottoman History Podcast

In memory of Mary Lou Savage (née Khantamour).The Ottoman archives contain just over a hundred photographs that look like old family portraits, but they were cr... More

Socialism, Spies, and Serendipity: Katherine Verdery and Kristen Ghodsee on Anthropology and Epistemic Change

Socialism, Spies, and Serendipity: Katherine Verdery and Kristen Ghodsee on Anthropology and Epistemic Change

This episode features Katherine Verdery in conversation with Kristen Ghodsee. They discuss Verdery's career in the context of her recent ASEEES award, including... More

What Does Anthropology Sound Like: Poetry

What Does Anthropology Sound Like: Poetry

This is the second episode in the What Does Anthropology Sound Like series. In it Dr. Darcy Alexandra and Dr. Ather Zia join contributing editor and producer, C... More

Anthropology and/of Mental Health Pt. 2

Anthropology and/of Mental Health Pt. 2

The “Anthropology and/of Mental Health” series is a two-part exploration of anthropologists' experiences with mental health. In this episode, Anar expands the c... More

Children's Carework in a Global Pandemic: Anthropology of Childhood and Infectious Disease

Children's Carework in a Global Pandemic: Anthropology of Childhood and Infectious Disease

During the current Covid-19 pandemic, much attention has focused on adult caregivers of young children. Flipping the focus, this episode focuses on children's r... More

Raciolinguistic Ideologies and Decolonizing Anthropology: A Conversation with Jonathan Rosa

Raciolinguistic Ideologies and Decolonizing Anthropology: A Conversation with Jonathan Rosa

Professor Jonathan Rosa (Stanford University) sits down with Contributing Editor Benjamin Bean to discuss raciolinguistic ideologies, a framework developed by R... More

What Does Anthropology Sound Like: Activism

What Does Anthropology Sound Like: Activism

In this episode, the first in a new series entitled "What Does Anthropology Sound Like," Dr. Sophie Chao and Dr. Bianca C. Williams join Contributing Editor Cor... More

Anthropology and/of Mental Health Part 1

Anthropology and/of Mental Health Part 1

In this episode, Contributing Editor Anar Parikh interviews Professor Beatriz Reyes-Foster (University of Central Florida) and Professor Rebecca J. Lester (Wash... More

Anthropologists as Public Intellectuals: Ruth Behar in Conversation with Kristen Ghodsee

Anthropologists as Public Intellectuals: Ruth Behar in Conversation with Kristen Ghodsee

This episode of AnthroPod features Ruth Behar in conversation with Kristen Ghodsee about how anthropologists can be public intellectuals: They discuss how can a... More

Cashlessness: A Look at Life on the Margins of a Digitalizing Economy

Cashlessness: A Look at Life on the Margins of a Digitalizing Economy

In this episode of AnthroPod, guest producers Camilla Ida Ravnbøl and Marie Kolling explore the impact that the global trend towards digitalizing economies has ... More