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Welcome to CultureMade: Heritage Enterprise in a World on the Move , an audio collaboration from the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, the American Anthropological Association and This Anthro Life Podcast “I mean a lot of my experience is in Senegal, with fashion or the way that things are made there. You know you buy your fabric in […] The post Weaving Social Fabric: The Craft of African Fashion appeared first on This Anthro Life.

“I hope that more people will listen to more music outside of their own little comfort zone. I think that we enrich ourselves, we are better human beings when you open up your heart to other cultures, other music, to other worlds to other points of view. Because ultimately, as I said in the very […] The post Sharing Sonic Space: Music as Home, Soul and Connector appeared first on This Anthro Life.

“Money cannot be the reason why you make art. Artwork can be sold and should be sold because artists need to make a living. But they should not, and should never, make art to make money. That kind of defies the entire purpose of making art. I said, I always say this and probably it’s […] The post Art is a Movement appeared first on This Anthro Life.

Exploring Evidence This Anthro Life is opening the conversation with EPIC (the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Community) on the theme of Evidence. Taking center stage at this year’s Annual EPIC Conference (in Honolulu, Hawaii from October 9th through the 12th) “Evidence” is a subject of increasing social importance in today’s political climate. What constitutes evidence […] The post EPIC Evidence: with Dawn Nafus and Tye Rattenbury appeared first on This Anthro Life.

We’ve partnered with the March for Science to help raise awareness and support for the movement. Help us help them through a donation to MFS or TAL or grab some awesome swag on their discounted Capsule Collection. Andrea Eller is a biological anthropologist driven by a question of how do our bodies continue to react […] The post The Awe is Shared: Evolution and Public Science with Andrea Eller appeared first on This Anthro Life.

When TAL first interviewed Hamilton Morris, it was shortly after he and his production team had finished season 1 of Hamilton’s Pharmacopoeia. Now, Morris has completed two seasons of his critically acclaimed show on VICE. This time on TAL, Morris has a more reflective tone. With Adam Gamwell and Ryan Collins, Morris shares his experiences […] The post Its Only an Evil Cactus if Donkeys Chase You: Ethics and Psychedelics with Hamilton Morris appeared first on This Anthro Life.

Dr. Tricia Wang sees her work consulting as sitting at the crossroads of data and social justice. As a global tech ethnographer, Dr. Wang is obsessed with how technology and humans shape each other. In her own words, she wants to know, “How do the tools we use enable us to do more of what […] The post Consulting, Big Data and Social Justice w/ Dr. Tricia Wang appeared first on 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 Ryan is done, and Adam defends in just one week (so close!), TAL is getting back into gear with new content in the development and production stages. Now, another key detail, several episodes […] The post EPIC Innovation w/ Dr. Alexandra Mack appeared first on This Anthro Life.

Thanks to the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) for having Adam Gamwell and Matt Artz of This Anthro Life present at the annual meeting in Philadelphia. We presented as part of the New Methods, Interventions And Approaches session. Our paper title was Consulting Podcasters: Prototyping a Democratic Tool for Multiple Voices, Storytelling and Solution Finding. […] The post Consulting Podcasters: Prototyping a Democratic Tool for Multiple Voices, Storytelling and Solution Finding...

On this episode of This Anthro Life, hosts Ryan Collins and Adam Gamwell are joined by TAL correspondent and guest host Astrid Countee and by a very special guest, Valorie Aquino. They joined us to talk about the 2017 March for Science. Valorie is one of the key organizing 30’s something scientists who helped make […] The post Marching for Science w/Valorie Aquino appeared first on This Anthro Life.

Welcome listeners to the second installment of our Diversity and Inclusion crossover series, bringing together This Anthro Life with Brandeis University. For those of you who are new to the show, This Anthro Life (TAL) was launched as a scholar-practitioner program designed to bring anthropological and social science research and thinking to interdisciplinary and public […] The post Brave Community: Teaching Race in the American Classroom w/ Janine de Novais appeared first on This Anthro...

Welcome to Story Slamming Anthropology. This series features both innovative narrative and audio performance drawing on the deep toolkit and methods of anthropology. The goal with Story Slamming Anthropology is to invoke the public facing spirit of Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, Melville Herskovits and many others to speak to 21st century concerns from a comparative […] The post #MeToo: Stories in the Age of Survivorship by Emma Backe appeared first on This Anthro Life.

Design and anthropology have been seen together with increasing frequency over the last few years, but how do design and anthropology fit together in relation to industry? And, how does this pairing create insight? Adam and Matt (a guest host at This Anthro Life) are joined by Dr. Natalie Hanson to explore these questions and […] The post Carving a Niche between Software and Social Science: Anthropology in Industry w/ Natalie Hanson appeared first on This Anthro Life.

Welcome listeners to the first installment of our Diversity and Inclusion crossover series, bringing together This Anthro Life with Brandeis University. For those of you who are new to the show, This Anthro Life (TAL) was launched as a scholar-practitioner program designed to bring anthropological and social science research and thinking to interdisciplinary and public […] The post Diversity + Inclusion in Higher Education, part 1 appeared first on This Anthro Life.

In this Conversations episode, This Anthro Life hosts Adam Gamwell and Ryan Collins are joined by author Andrew Rowen to discuss his new novel, Encounters Unforeseen: 1492 Retold. Coming in the months trailing the 525th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s (or Cristobal Colon’s) voyage to the America’s, Rowen’s novel seeks to add some much needed depth […] The post Encounters Unforeseen: A Bicultural Retelling of 1492 with Andrew Rowen appeared first on This Anthro Life.

In this Conversations episode of This Anthro Life, Adam Gamwell and Ryan Collins explore the subject of sensory ethnography – a focus in anthropology that tends to deemphasize the written word to explore visual, acoustic, and other sensory perceptions. Today, researchers explore senses increasing in the media through virtual simulations, visual and auditory stimuli that cause […] The post Coming to Our Senses appeared first on This Anthro Life.

Will Emojis be the death of writing? Are emojis modern day hieroglyphs? Is the increased use of emojis in textual conversations a sign of the end of language as we know it? Join us for one of our most popular conversations revisited! Your trusty hosts Ryan and Adam discuss the origin of emojis as well as the […] The post Are Emojis and Hieroglyphs Universal Language? appeared first on This Anthro Life.

In this Conversations episode of This Anthro Life, Adam Gamwell and guest host/TAL correspondent Matt Artz explore the world of Design Anthropology with the help of Dr. Elizabeth “Dori” Tunstall. Design Anthropology is a subject near and dear to our hosts, who have been excited to devote an entire episode to the subject. But, what […] The post The Yin and Yang of Design Anthropology with Dr. Elizabeth Dori Tunstall appeared first on This Anthro Life.

Hey Listeners! Adam and Ryan are back from their brief summer hiatus (a time filled with fieldwork, dissertation writing, and travels abound) with new content, a fresh Patreon campaign, lined up interviews, an upcoming limited series on diversity in the university setting and much more! Support our new campaign on Patreon! Go ahead a click […] The post Fall for This Anthro Life: Back in Action, New Content, and our Patreon Campaign appeared first on This Anthro Life.

In response to several surveys that attempt to quantify happiness, Ryan, Adam, and Aneil spend this episode of This Anthro Life exploring happiness through the lens of fetishism. They discuss Daniel Gilbert’s Stumbling on Happiness, the film Happy, and more! They seek to answer the following questions: What kinds of things make us happy? How […] The post The Happiness Fetish Revisited appeared first on This Anthro Life.