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]

Nicholas D'Avella on Ecologies of Investment in Argentina

Nicholas D'Avella on Ecologies of Investment in Argentina

In this episode, Nicholas D'Avella, postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley's Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society, talks about the complex netw... More

Can Scholarship be Free to Read? Cultural Anthropology Goes Open Access

Can Scholarship be Free to Read? Cultural Anthropology Goes Open Access

On this episode of AnthroPod, the podcast of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, Bascom Guffin and Jonah S Rubin interview four leading voices pushing for op... More

Worlding with the Body

Worlding with the Body

In this episode of AnthroPod we return again to the annual American Anthropological Association meeting, held in Chicago in November 2013. Showcasing the Societ... More

Conversations on Right-Wing Activists, Algorithms, PTSD, and Drug Replacement Therapy

Conversations on Right-Wing Activists, Algorithms, PTSD, and Drug Replacement Therapy

For this episode of AnthroPod, we bring you four interviews of anthropologists who gave papers at the annual American Anthropological Association meeting that w... More

John Hartigan on Race, Genomics, and Biology

John Hartigan on Race, Genomics, and Biology

In this episode of AnthroPod, John Hartigan, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies, talks about his work on ... More

Saida Hodžić on Global Health Governance

Saida Hodžić on Global Health Governance

On today's podcast, Saida Hodžić, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University, discusses how a 2006 Wo... More

Kamari M. Clarke on Cultural Citizenship in the Black Atlantic World

Kamari M. Clarke on Cultural Citizenship in the Black Atlantic World

On today's show, Prof. Kamari Maxine Clarke discusses cultural citizenship in the black Atlantic world and her vision for the future of ethnographic research.... More

Richard Handler on Anthropology and Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Education

Richard Handler on Anthropology and Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Education

On today's show, Prof. Richard Handler discusses his role in founding the Global Development Studies program at the University of Virginia and the ways anthropo... More

Michael Fisch on Tokyo Commuter Train Suicides

Michael Fisch on Tokyo Commuter Train Suicides

We're happy to announce the launch of the Society for Cultural Anthropology's new podcast, AnthroPod! Each episode we'll be interviewing anthropologists about t... More