How do anthropologists use curiosity to see and support people to make change in the world? And what is an anthropologist anyway?

In this conversation we talk with Nikita Simpson about how she came to work as an anthropologist, having worked up a curiosity about the similarities and differences between communities and cultures from growing up in a bi-racial family in Australia. She takes us to the Himalayas where she has worked with communities to understand the complex dynamics of care in communities subject to radical change, and to the pandemic in the UK, where anthropologists played a critical role in helping government create new supports for communities in crisis.

If you have ever thought of yourself as curious - then this is an episode for you.

Nikita mentions a range of groups and work in the podcast, which are linked here:

SHM Foundation - https://www.shmfoundation.org/
Publications - https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/nikita-simpson
Nikita's work on ghar ki tension - https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9655.13956
And on Kamzori - https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/maq.12707
Dhaarchidi Collective - https://dhaarchidi.wordpress.com/
Nikita's work with Laura Bear on Covid and Care - https://www.lse.ac.uk/anthropology/research/COVID-and-Care-Research-Group
The Call Centre - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MARYRua5E4A

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