Episodes
How Humans Cope
How do humans cope in the face of uncertainty, challenges, and trauma. Join your friendly neighborhood co-hosts Adam and Ryan as …
Genderless Gingerbread Figures and the Custom of Costumes
Ryan and Adam explore genderless gingerbread cookies in Australia – do these cookies reveal something about shifting gender parad…
Ebola: The Passion and the Politics (Virology pt 2)
Join us for part two in our series on Ebola. This episode we discuss recent moves and displays by journalists and media outlets t…
Ecologies of Happiness
Smile! What is the relationship of happiness to place? What is the where of happiness? In part one of our series on happiness, we…
iPhone, Therefore I am.
With the yearly release of new mobile phones, companies like Apple and Samsung have to sell the idea that we need a new device. W…
Police Militarization, Race, Trust, Violence and Ferguson, MO
Join Amy, Ryan, Aneil and Adam and special guest Delande Justinvil for an important episode of This Anthropological Life as we ta…
Humans as a Playful Species w/ Michael D’Angelo, Host of Old School G…
Join us for our funnest episode yet! Amy, Aneil, Ryan and Adam Exploring humans as a playful species through the world of gamesho…
The Burning Man Experience w/ Ben Gebo Part 2!
Join us for our first ever extended conversation, part of our new “This Anthropological Life After Hours” extended episode series…
The Burning Man Experience w/ Ben Gebo
Episode 41, Season 4 Join Adam, Aneil, and Ryan with returning guest expert and commentator Ben Gebo as we dive into the rabbit h…
Ebola and Virology
Episode 38, Season 3 Amy and Adam are joined in studio again by season 1-2 host Ryan Collins, recently returned from fieldwork in…
Long Haul: The Lives of China’s Truckers w/ Rachel Katz
Episode 37, Season 3 Join us for a special episode with guest researcher, consultant, and author Rachel Katz for an intimate look…
Urban Cycling
Episode 36, Season 3, Aired 7/29/14 Urban cycling is both a global and local phenomenon. From Boston to Bombay to Beijing, bike c…
Access Denied: Protests, Urban Green Spaces, and Changing Transportat…
Episode 35, Season 3. Aired 7/22/14 From Access Denied to Transforming Access, numerous cases of the re-appropriation of space fr…
Lost in Space: From the Universe to the Space Between Atoms
Episode 34, Season 3 This week Aneil and Adam tackle Space in all of its complexity and multi forms, from the universe to the spa…
Stress Test w/ Luke Hanlin
Episode 33, Season 3 Feeling Stressed? Join Aneil and special Guest Luke Hanlin, Psychology PhD student, as they discuss the psyc…
Reproducing Rights and Wrongs: Personhood, Religious and Reproductive…
Episode 32, Season 3 Special Episode on the Supreme Court’s rulings over religious freedom and freedom of speech. On this week’s …
The Beautiful Game: World Cup 2014
Episode 31, Season 3, Aired 6/24/14 Gooooooooooolllllll!!!!! Today we turn our anthropological lens towards the most popular spor…
The Power of Vulnerability
Episode 29, Season 3 Vulnerability evokes multiple feelings simultaneously-intense discomfort, respect and awe, intimacy, and fea…
Up in the Cloud: Computing in the 21st Century (so far)
Episode 28 Season 3 “Up in the Cloud: Computing in the 21st Century (so far)” online now! The idea of a cloud evokes an immateria…
A House to Make a Home? w/ Mengqi Wang
“A House to Make a Home?” Season 3, Episode 27 Aired 5/27/14 We are joined by guest expert Mengqi Wang to delve into the fascinat…
Let There Be Light!
Season 3, Episode 26 – Aired 5/20/14 Light is all around us, but we don’t often think about it. Light comes to us as energy, as n…
Special Conversation: Reflections on Anthropology: Why do we do what …
For our 25th episode we bring you a special, raw moment in the show in which we turn the conversation more directly to ourselves …
Environmental Anthropology, pt 1. Nature, Culture, Power
Are nature and culture separate things? How do our definitions of land, space, and place affect how we view the environment? Tree…
The Politics of Difference and Relatedness
Episode 39, Season 3 Join us this week for a trip to the ancient…present? This week Ryan, Aneil, and Adam cover the politics of d…