Podcast

New Books in Anthropology

Author: New Books Network
Feed episode count: 1000
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Summary

This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

Episodes

Sep 12, 2026 · not_requested

John Charles Simon and Jennalee Donian, "Understanding Laughter and Humor: Why We Laugh, Why We Don’t, and Why It Matters" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2026)

Duration seconds: 4070
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Sep 7, 2026 · not_requested

Francesca Sbardella, "Inhabiting Silence: An Anthropologist in the Cloister" (Berghahn Books, 2025)

Duration seconds: 2303
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Sep 6, 2026 · not_requested

Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer et al eds., "Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century" (Rutgers UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3436
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK8427667288.mp3

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Sep 6, 2026 · not_requested

Janaka Jayawickrama and Jerome Wright, "Under the Gaze of Global Mental Health: A Critical Reflection" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)

Duration seconds: 3829
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK9833637786.mp3

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Sep 5, 2026 · not_requested

Relative Strangers: Romani Kinship and Palestinian Difference

Duration seconds: 3394
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK7292360701.mp3

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Sep 4, 2026 · not_requested

Chika Watanabe, "Play to Survive: Disaster Preparedness Along the Ring of Fire" (Stanford UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3339
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK3641341264.mp3

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Sep 4, 2026 · not_requested

Piergiorgio Di Giminiani, "Alterhumanism: Becoming Human on a Conservation Frontier" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

Duration seconds: 3527
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK6349657914.mp3

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Sep 3, 2026 · not_requested

Sarah M. Rios, "Diseases Have No Eyes: Valley Fever and Environmental Health Justice" (Temple UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 1588
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK2509130460.mp3

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Sep 2, 2026 · not_requested

Elizabeth Anne Davis, "Artifactual: Forensic and Documentary Knowing" (Duke UP, 2023)

Duration seconds: 4011
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Sep 2, 2026 · not_requested

Linguistic Unease in Healthcare

Duration seconds: 2382
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK1374449705.mp3

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Aug 31, 2026 · not_requested

Karin Barber, "Much Matter in a Penny Paper: Early Yoruba Print Culture in Lagos, 1910–1930" (Ohio UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2632
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK5370075939.mp3

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Aug 28, 2026 · not_requested

An Honest Death: Life's End and Humanist Funerals with Matthew Engelke

Duration seconds: 3288
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK9688724144.mp3

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Aug 21, 2026 · not_requested

Ashanté M. Reese, "Gather: Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness" (W. W. Norton, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2326
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK7297490446.mp3

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Aug 19, 2026 · not_requested

A Cure for Loneliness: On Homecoming with Ian Marcus Corbin

Duration seconds: 3391
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK6876350602.mp3

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Aug 17, 2026 · not_requested

Ting Hui Lau, "Decolonial Endurance: Lisu Worldmaking Against Chinese Settler Colonialism" (Stanford UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3830
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK1381040043.mp3

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Aug 16, 2026 · not_requested

Máximo Badaró, "Pedagogies of Value: Marketing Foreign Goods in China" (Berghahn, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3091
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK9527190173.mp3

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Aug 15, 2026 · not_requested

Sophie Chao, "Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger" (Duke UP, 2025)

Duration seconds: 3734
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK6978294334.mp3

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Aug 10, 2026 · not_requested

Dalit Studies with Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana and Sanal Mohan

Duration seconds: 4072
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Aug 10, 2026 · not_requested

Margaret E. Farrar and Adam Kaul, "Becoming Utopia: History, Heritage, and Sustainability in the American Midwest" (U Nebraska Press, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2210
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK5663916356.mp3

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Aug 9, 2026 · not_requested

Ka-ming Wu, "Infrastructural Urbanism in Contemporary China: Volunteering, Infrastructures and Civic Imaginations" (Leiden UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3147
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK4289504256.mp3

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Aug 9, 2026 · not_requested

Beyond Free Speech: Why AI Governance Demands Freedom of Thought

Duration seconds: 3484
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK6074258255.mp3

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Aug 9, 2026 · not_requested

Marisa Karyl Franz, "Near and Desired Things: Shamanism in Late Imperial Local Siberian Museums" (Cornell UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3371
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK3492270846.mp3

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Aug 7, 2026 · not_requested

The Microbiopolitics of Novel Foods

Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK7687129797.mp3

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Aug 3, 2026 · not_requested

Magdalena E. Stawkowski, "Atomic Collective: Radioactive Life in Kazakhstan" (U Toronto Press, 2025)

Duration seconds: 3363
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK4067091594.mp3

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Aug 1, 2026 · not_requested

Katie Barclay, "The Kiss: A History of Passion and Power" (Reaktion Books, 2025)

Duration seconds: 1890
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK8943855309.mp3

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Jun 1, 2026 · not_requested

Dougald O’Reilly, "Empires of the Southern Ocean: Early Civilizations of Mainland and Insular Southeast Asia" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2734
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK2292974252.mp3

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May 31, 2026 · not_requested

Cultural Competence Isn’t One-Size-Fits-All: Talking culturally responsive teaching with Dr Remy Low

Source: https://soundcloud.com/culturalcompetence/ep-2-remi-final

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May 30, 2026 · not_requested

Christos Lynteris, "How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2951
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May 30, 2026 · not_requested

“You Sound So Australian”: From Being Read to Rewriting the Room with guest Zindzi Okenyo

Source: https://soundcloud.com/culturalcompetence/you-sound-so-australian-from

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May 29, 2026 · not_requested

Yiddish Ethnography and An-ski

Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK2891833426.mp3

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May 29, 2026 · not_requested

Radio ReOrient 14:9: Racializing the Ummah, with Rhea Rahman, hosted by Saeed Khan and Claudia Radiven

Duration seconds: 3828
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK4867191842.mp3

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May 28, 2026 · not_requested

Patrick S. D. McCartney, "Sanskrit-Speaking' Villages, Linguistic Utopias and the Metaphysics of Development" (Routledge, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2147
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK8908950531.mp3

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May 24, 2026 · not_requested

Daniela Soto-Hernández, "Lithium Extraction in Chile: Ontological, Ecological and Economic Dimensions" (Routledge, 2025)

Duration seconds: 3306
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK8979351897.mp3

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May 22, 2026 · not_requested

Radio ReOrient 14:8: Dutch Islamophobia and Muslim Exceptionalism, with Martijn de Koning, hosted by Marchella Ward and Amina Easat-Daas

Duration seconds: 3287
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK1308446248.mp3

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May 21, 2026 · not_requested

Erica Bornstein, "A Revolution of Rules: The Regulatory Reform of India's Nonprofit Sector" (Stanford UP, 2025)

Duration seconds: 2515
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK3480122004.mp3

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May 20, 2026 · not_requested

George Baylon Radics, "Emotional Filipinos: The American Myth of the 'Lazy Native' and Islamic Separatism in the Philippines" (U Georgia Press, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2741
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK8535368890.mp3

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May 19, 2026 · not_requested

Georgia C. Ennis, "Rainforest Radio: Language Reclamation and Community Media in the Ecuadorian Amazon" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

Duration seconds: 2159
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK8894620946.mp3

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May 19, 2026 · not_requested

Mengqi Wang, "Anxious Homes: Inflexible Demand and China's Housing Market" (Cornell UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3887
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK8664752271.mp3

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May 17, 2026 · not_requested

Alice von Bieberstein, "Temptations in Ruin: Sovereign Accumulation and the Making of Post-Genocide Turkey" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

Duration seconds: 2231
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK3069289492.mp3

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May 15, 2026 · not_requested

Radio ReOrient S14:7: Surveilling Muslimness in Denmark, with Amani Hassani, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Amina Easat-Daas

Duration seconds: 3366
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK2929646412.mp3?updated=1778660605

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May 11, 2026 · not_requested

Caste and Urbanization with Malini Ranganathan and Juned Shaikh

Duration seconds: 4349
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK7033238965.mp3

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May 7, 2026 · not_requested

Edith Szanto, "Twelver Shi'i Self-flagellation Rites in Contemporary Syria: Mourning Sayyida Zaynab" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

Duration seconds: 345
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK8474333128.mp3?updated=1777964235

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May 3, 2026 · not_requested

Arely M. Zimmerman, "Contentious Citizenship: Salvadoran Activism and Belonging Across Borders" (U Arizona Press, 2026)

Duration seconds: 1404
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK6675643942.mp3

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May 2, 2026 · not_requested

Richard Ivan Jobs and Steven Van Wolputte, "In the Land of the Lacandón: A Graphic History of Adventure and Imperialism" (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2025)

Duration seconds: 2931
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK4798338701.mp3?updated=1777538051

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Apr 29, 2026 · not_requested

Elena Foulis, "Embodied Encuentros: Oral History Archives of Latina/o/e Experiences" (Ohio State UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3489
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK3161614388.mp3?updated=1777376611

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Apr 29, 2026 · not_requested

Vindhya Buthpitiya, "A Volatile Picture: War and the Political Work of Photography in Sri Lanka" (U Washington Press, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2605
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK7271939633.mp3?updated=1777374913

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Apr 28, 2026 · not_requested

Francisco Martínez, "The Future of Hiding: Secrecy, Infrastructure, and Ecological Memory in Estonia's Siberia" (Cornell UP, 2025)

Duration seconds: 3293
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK1194538257.mp3?updated=1777348941

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Apr 27, 2026 · not_requested

Caste and Race: Ambedkar and King with the Ambedkar King Study Circle

Duration seconds: 3410
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK6308432667.mp3

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Apr 27, 2026 · not_requested

Susanna Elm and Kristina Sessa, "War and Community in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 6691
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK1712318625.mp3?updated=1777224924

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Apr 25, 2026 · not_requested

Justin Bailey, "An Anthropology of Wandering: How Adventure Can Alleviate a Fearful Culture" (2026)

Duration seconds: 3227
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK3636181869.mp3?updated=1776973420

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