The Anthrogirl Podcast

May 17 2023

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Ghosts. Witchcraft. Harem Life. Revenge. Incest. Murder. Matricide. Explore the beliefs, practices, mythologies and obsessions of world cultures with The Anthrogirl Podcast. But don’t expect a lecture or academic conversation. Our intrepid Adventuress brings other societies to life through drama and storytelling, based on authentic, classic ethnographies.Brought to you by a screenwriter, an actress and a PhD in Anthropology.

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I Will Bring A Chicken

May 17 2023 20 mins

Octopus

Apr 21 2023 18 mins

Let’s begin with a question, the kind anthropologists love: are any customs universal? Found everywhere, in every culture, from frozen Nunavut to the blistering sands of the Sahara? Storytelling is a cultural universal. People snooze in classrooms and during religious services, but never when a spooky story is told around a campfire. These are some of my favorite stories, collect

Diary of a Tapirabe Shaman

Apr 19 2023 11 mins

Shamans are the go-to people when a family member gets sick - but what happens when the shaman fails?Bibliography: Wagley, Charles, Tapirabe Shamanism. In Readings in Anthropology, Vol 2, Holt,Rinehart and Winston Holt, Morton Fried, ed. Thomas Y. Crowell Co, 1968.

Zombies!

Mar 13 2023 15 mins

Very few anthropologists were as brave, daring and groundbreaking as Zora Neal Thurston - the only social scientist , Guggenheim fellow and Columbia PhD to photograph a real Zombie.Bibliography:Tell My Horse, Thurston, Zora Neal, HarperCollins, 2008.Folklore, memoirs, and other writings, Thurston, Zora Neale, NY, Library of America, 1995.Hitting a straight lick with a colored stick

Pitjantjatjara Man

Feb 08 2023 19 mins

Despite the austerity of their environment and their meagre possessions, these aboriginal people of central Australia produced as lavish a body of myth and ritual as can be found anywhere in the world. It is a staggering cultural resource - but with the coming of the whitefella, everything changed.Bibliography:Gould, Richard, Yiwara, Foragers of the Australian Desert, Charles Scrib

Storytelling

Jan 24 2023 18 mins

Everyone loves stories. People snooze in classrooms and during religious services, but never when a spooky story is told around a campfire. These are some of my favorites, collected by anthropologists during field research. Bibliography:Grimble, Arthur, A Gilbertese Creation Myth, In Reader in Comparative Religion, Lessa & Vogt, eds. Harper and Row, 1965.Beals, Allan, Gopalpur:

Ghosts, Part 2

Jan 18 2023 12 mins

Harem - Updated

Jan 11 2023 14 mins

The word harem brings to mind classic tales like The 10001 Arabian Nights - but did you know that harems still exist in the 21st century?Bibliography:Dreams of Trespass. Mernissi, Fatima. Perseus Books, 1994.Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village. Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock, Doubleday, 1965.

Ghosts

Jan 07 2023 15 mins

People die. In the end, we all have to face the Grim Reaper. But what do we do, when the dead come back to haunt us? Bibliography:Lee, Richard, The Dobe Kung, Holt, Rinehart and Winston,1984 Middleton, John, The Lugbara of Uganda, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965Opler, Morris, An Interpretation of Ambivalence of Two American Indian Tribes. Reader in Comparative Religion, Lessa &

Living Goddess

Jan 03 2023 15 mins

In the Kathmandu Valley, young Newari girls called kumaris are worshipped as omnipotent deities.