{"podcast":{"title":"New Books in Anthropology","slug":"new-books-in-anthropology-901932","podcast_index_feed_id":901932,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/LIT5223487889","website_url":"https://newbooksnetwork.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/c4c2fb9a-effd-11e8-b747-3397cd40d5ab/image/15368bdb812ba6d54c395a6f26d57913.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"New Books Network","episode_count":1000,"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","last_synced_at":"2026-09-12T12:18:17.867506+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-anthropology-901932"},"episode":{"title":"Marisa Karyl Franz, \"Near and Desired Things: Shamanism in Late Imperial Local Siberian Museums\" (Cornell UP, 2026)","slug":"marisa-karyl-franz-near-and-desired-things-shamanism-in-late-imperial-local-siberian-museums-cornell-up-2026","published_at":"2026-08-09T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-anthropology-901932/marisa-karyl-franz-near-and-desired-things-shamanism-in-late-imperial-local-siberian-museums-cornell-up-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-anthropology-901932","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK3492270846.mp3","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK3492270846.mp3","summary":"Near and Desired Things: Shamanism in Late Imperial Local Siberian Museums (Cornell University Press, 2026) reveals nineteenth-century Siberian museums, built on Indigenous land and increasingly populated by political exiles, as active sites of ethnographic knowledge-making and centers of scientific research, regional identity, and colonial authority. Rather than collecting from distant colonies, these institutions concentrated on surrounding communities, their tools, beliefs, and everyday lives, to configure ideas about what counted as legitimate knowledge. Dr. Marisa Karyl Franz traces how Siberian museums helped construct shamanism as an ethnographic category. Shamans, while familiar and embedded in local space, were recast as icons of cultural otherness or representatives of an imagined primitive past. Through the evolving languages of science, anthropology, and empire, the local was abstracted and exported, feeding global museum networks and shaping modern anthropology. Yet, the museums held onto the intimacy of place, preserving tensions between familiarity and spectacle, documentation and desire. By placing Siberia at the center of a broader intellectual and political history, Near and Desired Things challenges assumptions about where modern knowledge is made and redefines provincial spaces as sites of innovation and as forces that reshape the terms of empire. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. You can find Miranda’s interviews on New Books with Miranda Melcher, wherever you get your podcasts. Support our show by becom…","meta_description":"Near and Desired Things: Shamanism in Late Imperial Local Siberian Museums (Cornell University Press, 2026) reveals nineteenth-century Siberian museu…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3371,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/new-books-in-anthropology-901932/episodes/marisa-karyl-franz-near-and-desired-things-shamanism-in-late-imperial-local-siberian-museums-cornell-up-2026/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-anthropology-901932/marisa-karyl-franz-near-and-desired-things-shamanism-in-late-imperial-local-siberian-museums-cornell-up-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}