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2021-10-27 | With the arrival of home recording technology in the early 1980s, many Shi’i Muslims in Pakistan started to record the majlis mourning assemblies and processions that are central to their faith. Soon after, some established family-run religious media s... |
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2020-05-29 |
Episode 22. 30 years of German unity. Insights from fieldwork in Eastern Germany, by Laura Tradii On the 9th of November 2019, Germany celebrated the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Yet, the country appeared to be once more divided along political lines as the far-right party Alternative for Germany gained enormous success in the E... |
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2020-02-27 |
Episode 21. An Interview with Max Bolt, by Kevin Yildirim and Javier Ruiz In November 2019, Max Bolt came to the department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge to deliver the weekly senior seminar. Kevin Yildirim spoke with him beforehand to learn more about his recent work in Johannesburg, which concerns inheritance laws an... |
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2019-06-05 | Alisi Mekatoa and Nina Fudge are health researchers. They came to Cambridge to speak about how their undergraduate anthropology degree has informed their careers in and outside of academia. They spoke with Sian Lazar about general practice and primary ... |
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2019-02-20 |
Episode 19. Anthropology Beyond the Academy. A conversation with Gareth Ward Gareth Ward visited Cambridge just before he began his appointment as British Ambassador to Vietnam. He spoke with David Sneath about how anthropology has informed his career in the diplomatic service. (We are sorry that the recording quality of this ... |
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2018-11-15 | Tropes of 'running away' abound in popular notions of the circus, but how true is this to the lived experiences of circus folk? In this episode of the podcast, Laura Byng uses interviews with different members of a contemporary UK circus to explore the... |
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2018-02-02 | In November 2017, Michael Puett, Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology at Harvard University, gave two talks at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at Cambridge on the subject of neoliberalism in China. ... |
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2017-11-24 |
Episode 16. An interview with David MacDougall, by Rafael Dernbach David MacDougall visited Cambridge University this year for a series of talks and screenings and to open an exhibition of stills from his films at King's College. After the opening Rafael Dernbach met MacDougall to talk about the particular knowledge v... |
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2017-10-27 |
Episode 15. An interview with Ilana Gershon, by Oliver Balch Ilana Gershon visited Cambridge University this summer, and after her Senior Research seminar at the department, Oliver Balch caught up with her to talk about her research on new media and the contemporary world of work, and her latest book Down and Ou... |
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2017-03-10 |
Episode 14. Thinking about Vision, by Harsha Balasubramanian This podcast asks what vision means to those who describe theatre for blind and partially-sighted audiences. Harsha Balasubramanian shares some of the findings from her undergraduate dissertation, and argues that these audio describers' understandings ... |
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