Episodes
Art is a Movement
Welcome to CultureMade: Heritage Enterprise in a World on the Move, an audio collaboration series from the Smithsonian Folklife F…
EPIC Evidence with Dawn Nafus and Tye Rattenbury
This Anthro Life is opening the conversation with EPIC (the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Community) on the theme of Evidence. …
The Awe is Shared: Evolution and Public Science with Andrea Eller - T…
Andrea Eller is a biological anthropologist driven by a question of how do our bodies continue to react to things today? In other…
Its Only an Evil Cactus if Donkeys Chase You: Ethics and Psychedelics…
When TAL first interviewed Hamilton Morris , it was shortly after he and his production team had finished season 1 of Hamilton’s …
Tech Ethnography, Data and Social Justice w/ Dr. Tricia Wang
Dr. Tricia Wang sees her work consulting as sitting at the crossroads of data and social justice. As a global tech ethnographer, …
EPIC Innovation w/ Dr. Alexandra Mack - This Anthro Life
Welcome back listeners! Adam and Ryan have taken some time away as of late to finish and defend their dissertations. Now that Rya…
Consulting Podcasters: Prototyping a Democratic Tool for Multiple Voi…
Thanks to the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) for having Adam Gamwell and Matt Artz of This Anthro Life present at the an…
Marching for Science w/Valorie Aquino
On this episode of This Anthro Life, hosts Ryan Collins and Adam Gamwell are joined by TAL correspondent and guest host Astrid Co…
Brave Community: Teaching Race in the American Classroom w/ Janine de…
Welcome listeners to the second installment of our Diversity and Inclusion crossover series , bringing together This Anthro Life …
#MeToo: Stories in the Age of Survivorship by Emma Backe: Story Slamm…
Welcome to Story Slamming Anthropology . This series features both innovative narrative and audio performance drawing on the deep…
Carving a Niche between Software and Social Science: Anthropology in …
Design and anthropology have been seen together with increasing frequency over the last few years, but how do design and anthro…
Diversity + Inclusion in Higher Education, part 1
Welcome listeners to the first installment of our Diversity and Inclusion crossover series, bringing together This Anthro Life wi…
Encounters Unforeseen: A Bicultural Retelling of 1492 with Andrew Row…
In this Conversations episode, This Anthro Life hosts Adam Gamwell and Ryan Collins are joined by author Andrew Rowen to discus…
Coming to Our Senses
In this Conversations episode of This Anthro Life, Adam Gamwell and Ryan Collins explore the subject of sensory ethnography – …
Are Emojis and Hieroglyphs Universal Language?
Will Emojis be the death of writing? Are emojis modern day hieroglyphs? Is the increased use of emojis in textual conversations a…
The Yin and Yang of Design Anthropology with Dr. Elizabeth Dori Tunst…
In this Conversations episode of This Anthro Life, Adam Gamwell and guest host/TAL correspondent Matt Artz explore the world of D…
Fall for This Anthro Life: Back in Action, New Content, and our Patre…
Hey Listeners! Adam and Ryan are back from their brief summer hiatus (a time filled with fieldwork, dissertation writing, and tra…
The Happiness Fetish Revisited
In response to several surveys that attempt to quantify happiness, Ryan, Adam, and Aneil spend this episode of This Anthro Life e…
Conversations and Podcasting as Social Technology
This episode is a little different from our normal content. In it we feature a presentation Adam gave for Pivotal Labs in which h…
The Stories Bones Tell w/ Kristina Killgrove
This Anthro Life has teamed up with Savage Minds to bring you a special 5-part podcast and blog crossover series. While thinking …
Anthropology + Science Journalism = A New Genre? w/ Daniel Salas of S…
This Anthro Life has teamed up with Savage Minds to bring you a special 5-part podcast and blog crossover series. While thinking …
Anthropology has Always been Out There w/ Ed Liebow and Leslie Walker…
In the second conversation of the TAL + SM crossover series, Ryan and Adam were joined by AAA Executive Director Ed Liebow and Pr…
Writing “in my Culture” w/ Zoe Wool and Alex Golub of Savage Minds
This Anthro Life has teamed up with Savage Minds to bring you a special 5-part podcast and blog crossover series. While thinking …
Visual Anthropology Revisited, pt 2
We like to bring you some of our favorite conversations from our catalogue as we think about new ways to explore the topic. This …