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]

AnthroBites: Disability

AnthroBites: Disability

AnthroBites is a series from the AnthroPod team, designed to make anthropology more digestible. Each episode tackles a key concept, text, or theme, and breaks i... More

What Does Anthropology Sound Like: Podcasts

What Does Anthropology Sound Like: Podcasts

Anthropology can be presented in various forms—what does it mean to share anthropology through podcasts? In the latest episode in the What Does Anthropology Sou... More

Anthropology Conferencing in Hybrid Space

Anthropology Conferencing in Hybrid Space

In early June 2022, the Society for Cultural Anthropology and the Society for Visual Anthropology held their biennial conference. Called the “Virtual Otherwise,... More

Conducting Fieldwork in the United States

Conducting Fieldwork in the United States

This episode is devoted to thinking through the specificity of the United States as a place in which to conduct fieldwork. Dr. Tali Ziv shares her insights base... More

AnthroPod Talks Abortion

AnthroPod Talks Abortion

Abortion is a topic that tends to engender passionate reactions. What’s behind our abortion anxieties? What are we really talking about when we talk about abort... More

The Sound of Borders Part 2: Active Citizenship

The Sound of Borders Part 2: Active Citizenship

In part 2 of our series on sound and borders, cultural geographer Tom Western talks with contributing editor Nick Smith about the work of the Syrian and Greek Y... More

What Solidarity Does

What Solidarity Does

This is the second episode in AnthroPod’s newest series, What Concepts Do. The aim of the series is to examine, from an anthropological perspective, how differe... More

The Sound of Borders Part 1: Crossing

The Sound of Borders Part 1: Crossing

What kind of narrative space do migrants enter when they cross the border to the United States? And how does musical performances conjure up pockets of convivia... More

What Does Anthropology Sound Like: Performance

What Does Anthropology Sound Like: Performance

This is the third episode in the What Does Anthropology Sound Like series. In it Dr. Cassandra Hartblay, Dr. Greg Pierotti, and Dr. Cristiana Giordano join cont... More

What Resilience Does

What Resilience Does

This episode kicks off AnthroPod’s newest series, What Concepts Do, which contextualizes national and international conversations in anthropological discourse. ... More