E25 Product Design Ethnography with Dr. Amy Goldmacher
Business anthropologist Dr. Amy Goldmacher discusses how her ethnographic work empowers product and software designers to better understand their user...
Anthropologist On The Street
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How many ways are there to be human? Each week Anthropologist on the Street Dr. Carie Little Hersh invites different cultural experts to illuminate the hidden ideas, practices, and power dynamics that make our lives both familiar and strange.
E24 Pubic Hair Grooming as Cultural Practice with Lyndsey Craig
Lyndsey Craig delves into the anthropology of pubic hair grooming, discussing sexual signaling, the symbolism of pubic hair with respect to hygiene, m...
E23 Psychiatric Culture Clashes with Dr. Beatriz Reyes-Foster
Dr. Beatriz Reyes-Foster is a medical anthropologist whose book Psychiatric Encounters explores how culture shapes the diagnosis, care, and outcomes o...
E22 Converting Belief at a Creationist Theme Park with Dr. James Bielo
Anthropologist of religion Dr. James Bielo explores the creationist theme park Ark Encounter, and how its carefully choreographed design seeks not sim...
E21 Antarctic Anthropology with Dr. Jessica O’Reilly
Environmental anthropologist Dr. Jessica O’Reilly works in the least populated continent on earth by far: Antarctica. Working with an array of scient...
E20 American Mosques with Jacqueline Fewkes
Researching the history and architecture of mosques in America, anthropologist Dr. Jacqueline Fewkes examines the relationship between local history, ...
E19 The Culture of Teeth with Dr. Julia Boughner
Why do modern humans in industrialized nations face dental problems that don’t affect primates, modern hunter-gatherers, and previous generations of h...
E18 Language, Time, and the Anthropology of Arrival with Dr. David Sutton
Cultural anthropologist Dr. David Sutton explains why fictional films and television sitcoms can be important in revealing hidden cultural rules, and ...
E17 The Folklore of International Adoption with Dr. Patricia Sawin
Adoption is a culturally and historically complicated process that we like to envision as purely altruistic, yet usually involves moving children from...
E16 Free Food in the Corporate World with Jesse Dart
At the intersection of business anthropology and the anthropology of food, Jesse Dart researches how and why tech companies offer their employees free...