Beste The Anthrogirl podcasts (2024)

Let’s begin with a question, the kind anthropologists love: are any customs universal? Found everywhere, in every culture, from frozen Nunavut to the blistering sands of the Sahara? Storytelling is a cultural universal. People snooze in classrooms and during religious services, but never when a spooky story is told around a campfire. These are some…

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Diary of a Tapirabe Shaman 11:00

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Shamans are the go-to people when a family member gets sick - but what happens when the shaman fails? Bibliography: Wagley, Charles, Tapirabe Shamanism. In Readings in Anthropology, Vol 2, Holt, Rinehart and Winston Holt, Morton Fried, ed. Thomas Y. Crowell Co, 1968.Door The AnthroGirl

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Zombies! 15:22

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Very few anthropologists were as brave, daring and groundbreaking as Zora Neal Thurston - the only social scientist , Guggenheim fellow and Columbia PhD to photograph a real Zombie. Bibliography: Tell My Horse, Thurston, Zora Neal, HarperCollins, 2008. Folklore, memoirs, and other writings, Thurston, Zora Neale, NY, Library of America, 1995. Hittin…

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Pitjantjatjara Man 19:46

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Despite the austerity of their environment and their meagre possessions, these aboriginal people of central Australia produced as lavish a body of myth and ritual as can be found anywhere in the world. It is a staggering cultural resource - but with the coming of the whitefella, everything changed. Bibliography: Gould, Richard, Yiwara, Foragers of …

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Storytelling 18:38

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Everyone loves stories. People snooze in classrooms and during religious services, but never when a spooky story is told around a campfire. These are some of my favorites, collected by anthropologists during field research. Bibliography: Grimble, Arthur, A Gilbertese Creation Myth, In Reader in Comparative Religion, Lessa & Vogt, eds. Harper and Ro…

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Ghosts, Part 2 12:50

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Harem - Updated 14:58

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The word harem brings to mind classic tales like The 10001 Arabian Nights - but did you know that harems still exist in the 21st century? Bibliography: Dreams of Trespass. Mernissi, Fatima. Perseus Books, 1994. Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village. Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock, Doubleday, 1965.…

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Ghosts 15:26

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People die. In the end, we all have to face the Grim Reaper. But what do we do, when the dead come back to haunt us? Bibliography: Lee, Richard, The Dobe Kung, Holt, Rinehart and Winston,1984 Middleton, John, The Lugbara of Uganda, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965 Opler, Morris, An Interpretation of Ambivalence of Two American Indian Tribes. Reader…

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The AnthroGirl Podcast trailer 0:50

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Introducing a brand new podcast. Join the AnthroGirl as she explores the myths and the magic, ghost lore and spirit possession, witchcraft and sorcery, on her world-wide journeys to exotic cultures.Door Edithe