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Digestive Belonging, Trans-Species Sensing & Care in America’s Dairyland
In this episode, we speak with Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Copenhagen, Katy Overstreet. Katy is coordinator for the Landscapes, Senses, and Ecological…
“Rurality 2.0”: How City Migrants are Reshaping Norway’s Rural Regions with Tom Bratrud
In today’s episode, we talk to Tom Bratrud about his ongoing, long-term work with city-dwellers who migrate to rural parts of Norway. This research forms the basis of Tom’s forthcoming book project,…
S6E23 #23 Amber, China & Geological Anthropology w/ Alessandro Rippa
In this episode, we speak with Alessandro Rippa about amber – a fossilised resin that not only allow us a glimpse into prehistoric lifeforms and climatic conditions millions of years ago but also…
S5E22 #22 Ethnographic Poetry & Migration w/ Hans Lucht
In this episode, we are in company with Hans Lucht to talk about ethnographic poetry. Hans is a senior researcher, and the head of migration research at the Danish Institute for International Studies…
S5E21 #21 Slavery and Genocide: Jamaica, the US South & the Historical Sociology of Evil w/ Orlando Patterson
Welcome to a special two-episode series of Anthropology on Air! In this and the previous podcast, you will listen to selected parts of a lecture series on the subject of slavery and freedom with…
S5E20 #20 The Paradoxes of Freedom: a Socio-Historical Approach w/ Orlando Patterson
In this and the following podcast, you will listen to selected parts of a lecture series on the subject of slavery and freedom with professor of Sociology at Harvard University, Orlando Patterson.…
S4E19 #19 Journeying anew, with or without knowledge w/ Marilyn Strathern
Welcome to a special episode of Anthropology on Air.In this episode you will hear the recordings of the 2024 Fredrik Barth Memorial Lecture, held by Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern. The episode…
S4E18 #18 Muskoxen, reindeer, and performing wilderness in Norway w/Karin Lillevold
In this episode, we speak with Karin Lillevold, a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies, and Religion at the University of Bergen. As part of…
S4E17 #17 Theopolitical patchworks: Evangelical gangs in Rio de Janeiro w/Martjin Oosterbaan
In this episode we speak with Martjin Oosterbaan. Martjin is professor at the department of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University, with a chair in the Anthropology of Religion and Security. He…
S4E16 #16 Birdwatching and loss in the Anthropocene w/Andrew Whitehouse
Welcome to season 4 of Anthropology on Air! With autumn on the way in Bergen, we kick off a new season with a resident of another North Sea city: dr. Andrew Whitehouse. Andrew is a multispecies,…
S3E15 #15 Public affection, morality police & gendered violence in Mumbai w/Atreyee Sen
In this episode, the finale to season 3, we speak with Atreyee Sen, Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. Our topic of discussion is a talk Atreyee…
S3E14 #14 Technoscience & the limits of life w/Martin Eggen Mogseth & Fartein Hauan Nilsen
In this episode, we speak with Martin Eggen Mogseth and Fartein Hauan Nilsen about their first edited volume, Limits of Life: Reflections on Life, Death, and the Body in the Age of Technoscience…
S3E13 #13 Nuclear waste management & the anthropology of infrastructures w/Penny Harvey
In this episode of Anthropology on Air, we speak with Penny Harvey, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester in the UK. Penny is a Fellow of the British Academy, of the…
S3E12 #12 Masculinity, far-right ideology & militarised policing in Rio de Janeiro w/Tomas Salem
In this special episode, we speak with Tomas Salem, a PhD fellow in our own department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. We do a deep dive on some of the themes covered in Tomas’s…
S3E11 #11 Water justice, activism, and the Rights of Nature movement w/Andrea Muehlebach
To kick off season three of Anthropology on Air, we speak with Andrea Muehlebach. Andrea is Professor of Maritime Anthropology and Cultures of Water at the University of Bremen in Germany, where she…
S2E10 #10 Sensing God, doing magic & kindling anomalous experience through transformative practice w/Tanya Luhrmann
Tanya Luhrmann is Albert Ray Lang Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University, with a courtesy appointment in Psychology, and an elected member of the American Philosophical Society. Her work…
S2E9 #9 Rituals, social cohesion & the theory of modes of religiosity w/Harvey Whitehouse
In this episode, you will meet professor at the University of Oxford, Harvey Whitehouse. Harvey is the director of the Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion, he is Statutory Chair of Social…
S2E8 #8 Contemporary hunter-gatherer communities, Ju/’hoansi, indigenous rights & knowledge systems w/Jennifer Hays
In this episode you will meet Jennifer Hays, who is professor in social anthropology at the University of Tromsø (UiT) – the Arctic University of Norway. Jennifer has been working with…
S2E7 #7 Human Rights, Islam, Secularism & Sudan w/Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im
This episode is the second of two podcasts focusing on the longstanding partnership between Bergen and Khartoum. In the episode you will meet, Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, who visited Bergen in October…
S2E6 #6 Sudan & Norway Academic Collaboration: 60 years of Bonds and Beyond w/Munzoul Assal & Leif Manger
This episode is the first of two podcasts focusing on the longstanding partnership between Bergen and Khartoum. The first episode provides a historical view into some of the main characteristics and…
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Anthropology on Air has published 25 episodes since March 2023, covering topics in Science, Social Sciences.
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