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]

Alma Gottlieb on Experiments in Ethnographic Writing

Alma Gottlieb on Experiments in Ethnographic Writing

AnthroPod is back from several months of hiatus! In this episode, Alma Gottlieb discusses her approach to ethnographic writing. Over the summer, AnthroPod spoke... More

Anna Tsing on Landscapes and the Anthropocene

Anna Tsing on Landscapes and the Anthropocene

In this episode of AnthroPod, we bring you Anna Tsing’s keynote address at the 2015 Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, which was entitl... More

Charlene Makley on Tibetan Self-Immolation Protests

Charlene Makley on Tibetan Self-Immolation Protests

On this episode of AnthroPod, we talk with Charlene Makley (Reed College) about her article “The Sociopolitical Lives of Dead Bodies: Tibetan Self-Immolation Pr... More

Fieldwork and Morality

Fieldwork and Morality

For this episode of AnthroPod, contributing editor Ea Arnoldi interviewed Sverker Finnström, a senior lecturer in the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Et... More

Helena Wulff on Writing Anthropology

Helena Wulff on Writing Anthropology

On this episode of AnthroPod, Helena Wulff discusses the practice of writing in anthropology and differences between writing for academic and popular audiences.... More

Livia Stone on Contested Walls And Natural Forces

Livia Stone on Contested Walls And Natural Forces

In this episode, we talk with Livia Stone, who is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Illinois State University. Livia, to... More

Paolo Favero on Visual Methods

Paolo Favero on Visual Methods

In this episode we talk with Paolo Favero about applying visual methods in the field. Favero has devoted the core of his work to the study of visual culture in ... More

#BlackLivesMatter: Anthropologists on Protest, Policing and Race-Based Violence

#BlackLivesMatter: Anthropologists on Protest, Policing and Race-Based Violence

On today’s show, we’re going to be hearing interviews with three leading anthropologists on the Black Lives Matter protest. Earlier this year, Sean Furmage spo... More

Tobias Rees on Global Health and Humanity

Tobias Rees on Global Health and Humanity

On today's show, Tobias Rees discusses current understandings of humanity in global health and calls for us to rethink our categories of analysis. Last year, St... More

Kevin Lewis O'Neill: An Interview with the Winner of the 2014 Cultural Horizons Prize

Kevin Lewis O'Neill: An Interview with the Winner of the 2014 Cultural Horizons Prize

In the June 2015 installment of AnthroPod, we speak with Kevin Lewis O'Neill, the winner of the 2014 Cultural Horizons Prize for his essay, "Left Behind: Securi... More