Conversations in Anthropology
Deakin University
A podcast about life, the universe and anthropology produced by David Boarder Giles, Timothy Neale, Cameo Dalley, Mythily Meher and Matt Barlow. Each episode features an anthropologist or two in conversation, discussing anthropology and what it has to tell us in the twenty-first century. This podcast is made in partnership with the American Anthropological Association and with support from the Faculty of Arts & Education at Deakin University.
Episodes
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Apr 11, 2017 • 35min
Episode #2: Eben Kirksey
What happens when we pay close attention to critters and nonhumans? Why would an anthropologist make a fridge for a frog? In the second Anthropology@Deakin podcast, Tim Neale (Deakin), David Boarder Giles (Deakin) and guest Emma Kowal (Deakin) discuss the rise of multispecies ethnography, doing anthropology with scientists, bioart and much more with Eben Kirskey (UNSW). Eben is the author of two books — Freedom in Entangled Worlds (Duke, 2012) and Emergent Ecologies (Duke, 2015)— and is currently Senior Lecturer and the Environmental Humanities Convener at UNSW Australia. You can kind out more about his work at http://ebenkirksey.blogspot.com.au
Notes: the Anthropology@Deakin podcast is produced by David Boarder Giles and Tim Neale. Music supplied by Bradley Fafejta and Brand New Math.
Apr 11, 2017 • 29min
Episode #1: David Boarder Giles
Where do things go when they are lost, discarded, or forgotten? What social afterlives do they lead? And perhaps more importantly, whose lives are constituted among the detritus? In the first Anthropology@Deakin podcast, Tim Neale (Deakin) and guest Sabra Thorner (Deakin) discuss the anthropology of waste, food sharing, the Food Not Bombs movement, capitalism and much more with David Boarder Giles (Deakin). David is a Lecturer in Anthropology at Deakin University and you can kind out more about his work at https://dhboardergiles.wordpress.com/about/
Notes: the Anthropology@Deakin podcast is produced by David Boarder Giles and Tim Neale. Music supplied by Bradley Fafejta and Brand New Math.
