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Anthropod is a podcast detailing the WHYs of social-entrepreneurship by and with Suraj Shrestha, Founder of Nepal's 1st social eyewear brand -Anthropose, recounted as his personal account for Anthropose, entrepreneurship and everything in between.

Suraj Shrestha


    • Apr 19, 2022 LATEST EPISODE
    • monthly NEW EPISODES
    • 42m AVG DURATION
    • 78 EPISODES


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    66. The Sound of Borders, Pt. 2: Active Citizenship

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2022 19:13


    In part 2 of our series on sound and borders, cultural geographer Tom Western talks with Nick Smith about the work of the Syrian and Greek Youth Forum (SGYF) in Athens, Greece. Featuring sound clips created by the SGYF team, the discussion unpacks the concept of active citizenship and the ways that sound can challenge the static character of border regimes in Greece and throughout the Mediterranean. For show-notes visit

    65. What Solidarity Does

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2022 52:25


    This is the second episode in the series "What Concepts Do." In this episode, Contributing Editor Sharon Jacobs unpacks the concept of solidarity, alongside anthropologists Darryl Li, Amahl Bishara, Lesley Gill, and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos. What is solidarity, and who can practice it? Is solidarity something we do within communities, or beside allies? What are some of the shortcomings and challenges of solidarity? For show-notes and resources, visit https://culanth.org/fieldsights/what-solidarity-does

    64. The Sound of Borders, Pt. 1: Crossing

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2022 56:49


    In this episode, anthropologist and artist Alex Chavez talks about performance, migration and nationalism in the United States. For show-notes, please visit https://culanth.org/fieldsights/the-sound-of-borders-a-conversation-with-alex-chavez

    63. What Does Anthropology Sound Like: Performance

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2022 69:44


    Cassandra Hartblay, Cristiana Giordano, and Greg Pierotti discuss performance as ethnographic medium in the third installment of What Does Anthropology Sound Like, an Anthropod Series. For transcriptions, visual content, and other resources related to this episode of Anthropod, please visit: https://culanth.org/fieldsights/what-does-anthropology-sound-like-performance

    62. What Resilience Does

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2022 53:45


    In this episode, Contributing Editors Joyce Rivera-González and Michelle Hak Hepburn unpack the concept of resilience, alongside anthropologists Roberto Barrios, Elizabeth F.S. Roberts, Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux, Andrew Wooyoung Kim, and Jason Cons. Where did the concept of resilience originate from, and how is it so widespread? What are the benefits and shortcomings of the concept? And how do anthropologists engage with resilience ethnographically? For show notes, please visit https://culanth.org/fieldsights/what-resilience-does

    61. Radical Humanism and Decolonization: An Interview with Kamari Maxine Clarke

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2022 46:32


    Professor Kamari Clarke reflects on her ethnographic work in Africa, her thinking on the legacies of colonialism in the discipline of Anthropology, and her recent work with the Radical Humanism Initiative. For the transcription and show-notes of this episode, please visit: https://culanth.org/fieldsights/radical-humanism-and-decolonization-an-interview-with-kamari-maxine-clarke

    60. Portraits of Unbelonging - Special Crossover with Ottoman History Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2021 34:30


    The Ottoman archives contain just over a hundred photographs that look like old family portraits, but they were created for an entirely different purpose. They document the renunciation of Ottoman nationality, "terk-i tabiiyet," by Armenian emigrants bound for the US and elsewhere. As our guest Zeynep Devrim Gürsel explains, the photographs were "anticipatory arrest warrants for a crime yet to be committed"--the crime of returning to the Ottoman Empire. Gürsel's research goes far beyond the story of the small number of photographs that remain as she has documented over four thousand individuals who went through the process of "terk-i tabiiyet." In this Ottoman History Podcast-AnthroPod collaboration, we talk to Gürsel about her research project on the production, circulation and afterlives of these photographs titled "Portraits of Unbelonging." It is a double-sided history that explores not only the context of Armenian migration and policing during the late Ottoman period but also the experiences of those pictured and their descendants following their departure from the Ottoman Empire. (Recorded August 2019) In memory of Mary Lou Savage (née Khantamour) Contributors: Beth Derderian (AnthroPod), Zeynep Devrim Gürsel (Rutgers University), and Chris Gratien (Ottoman History Podcast).

    59. Socialism, Spies, and Serendipity: Verdery & Ghodsee on Anthro and Epistemic Change

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2020 53:22


    Katherine Verdery reflects on working through her Securitate file and ethnographers' positionalities, her research in Eastern Europe prior to the fall of communism, and what anthropology offers at moments when the episteme shifts.

    58. What Does Anthropology Sound Like: Poetry

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2020 39:36


    Writing ethnographic poetry with Darcy Alexandra and Ather Zia. This is the second installment in the What Does Anthropology Sound Like series, in which we ask anthropologists to share their work and insights with us on the different forms their anthropological practice takes. In this episode, the theme is poetry.

    57. Anthropology and/of Mental Health Part Two

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2020 77:28


    The "Anthropology and/of Mental Health" series is a two-part exploration of anthropologists' experiences with mental health. In this episode, Anar expands the conversation about mental health in anthropology through conversations and contributions about attention, grief, and unexpected changes to our plans for fieldwork and research.  For more information, as well as a transcript of the episode, visit the shownotes page at: https://culanth.org/fieldsights/anthropology-and-of-mental-health-pt-2 Musical intro and outro: All the Colors in the World by Podington Bear. Transitions: Entwined Oddities by Blue Dot Sessions. Sound Effects: Radio Transition by psyckoze. Logo designed by Janita van Dyk.

    Business Ideas: How do you find one?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2020 6:45


    Welcome to the 5th episode of Anthropod - the official podcast for Anthropose - Nepal's 1st social eyewear brand. In today's episode, I share with you an accidental technique I discovered to find new business ideas or opportunities. Learn more about Anthropose by clicking here. Find Anthropod on all your favorite podcast streaming services. Background score credits: "Spirit by Sappheiros" is under a Creative Commons ( cc-by ) license Music promoted by BreakingCopyright: https://youtu.be/KVIYvVjfnCs --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anthropod/message

    What a dying man & an old watch teach about value creation.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2020 5:10


    Welcome to the 4th episode of Anthropod - the official podcast for Anthropose - Nepal's 1st social eyewear brand. In today's episode, I share with you my view on a new beginning post covid-19 Learn more about Anthropose by clicking here. Find Anthropod on all your favorite podcast streaming services. Background score credits: "Spirit by Sappheiros" is under a Creative Commons ( cc-by ) license Music promoted by BreakingCopyright: https://youtu.be/KVIYvVjfnCs --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anthropod/message

    56. Children's carework in a global pandemic: Anthropology of childhood and infectious disease

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2020 53:51


    Hunleth and Yount-André discuss Hunleth's research on children's caregiving amid Zambia's tuberculosis (TB) outbreak and trace parallels with today's COVID19 pandemic. They look at the role of proximity, recognizing the different ways children offer care, how to discuss disease with children and problematize the idea of disclosure, and the moral valences that become attached to disease and the people who suffer from them - particularly around privilege and vulnerability.

    A new beginning post covid-19

    Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2020 5:21


    Welcome to the 3rd episode of Anthropod - the official podcast for Anthropose - Nepal's 1st social eyewear brand. In today's episode, I share with you my view on a new beginning post covid-19 Learn more about Anthropose by clicking here. Find Anthropod on all your favorite podcast streaming services. Background score credits: "Spirit by Sappheiros" is under a Creative Commons ( cc-by ) license Music promoted by BreakingCopyright: https://youtu.be/KVIYvVjfnCs --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anthropod/message

    3 things about cycling and entrepreneurship.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2020 7:13


    Welcome to the 2nd episode of Anthropod - the official podcast for Anthropose - Nepal's 1st social eyewear brand. In today's episode, I share with you my 3 personal learnings about cycling and entrepreneurship. Learn more about Anthropose by clicking here. Find Anthropod on all your favorite podcast players. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anthropod/message

    That 1 thing about social enterprise that makes it social.

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2020 4:49


    In this episode, I share with you that one thing that makes a social enterprise social. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anthropod/message

    55. Raciolinguistic Ideologies & Decolonizing Anthropologies: A Conversation With Jonathan Rosa

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2020 70:30


    Jonathan Rosa discusses raciolinguistic ideologies, a framework developed by Rosa and Professor Nelson Flores (University of Pennsylvania) to critique the racialization of various speaking subjects and their linguistic practices. The interview begins with a focus on this concept and related themes in Rosa’s book, then turns to a consideration of broader implications of this work for academia, anthropology in particular. A common thread throughout this interview is the issue of coloniality, both broadly construed and more specifically with regard to how it shapes and manifests within educational contexts. In particular, Rosa comments on the question of decolonizing or unsettling anthropology, reflecting in some closing remarks on the usefulness and concerns around platforms such as #AnthroTwitter for challenging the colonial logics within our own discipline. For more information and a transcript of this episode, visit: https://culanth.org/fieldsights/raciolinguistic-ideologies-and-decolonizing-anthropology-a-conversation-with-jonathan-rosa

    54. What Does Anthropology Sound Like: Activism

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2020 50:18


    Sophie Chao and Bianca Williams discuss activism, organizing, and anthropology in the first installment of a new Anthropod series: What Does Anthropology Sound Like.

    53. Anthropology and/of Mental Health Pt. 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2019 46:49


    In this episode, AnthroPod Contributing Editor Anar Parikh talks to Prof. Beatriz-Reyes Foster and Prof. Rebecca Lester about their blog series "Trauma and Resilience in Ethnographic Fieldwork" on Anthrodendum. For more, visit https://culanth.org/fieldsights/contributed-content/anthropod

    52. Anthropologists as Public Intellectuals: Kristen Ghodsee & Ruth Behar in conversation

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2019 62:33


    Ruth Behar speaks with Kristen Ghodsee about how anthropologists can be public intellectuals: They discuss how can anthropologists maintain credibility as scholars within the academy while also speaking to broader audiences; the necessity of patience and thinking of a career over the long duree; the productive spaces and possibilities within the discipline to reach out; and tips and suggestions for how to write in ways that appeal to non-academic audiences.

    51. Cashlessness: A Look at Life on the Margins of a Digitalizing Economy

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2019 26:40


    Guests Camilla Ida Ravnbøl and Marie Kolling explore the impact that digitalizing economies have on communities that are poor and highly cash dependent. The episode features Ravnbøl's research with Roma migrants at the Roskilde Festival, a music festival in Denmark that went cashless in 2017 but has developed accommodations for cash-dependent Roma migrants who collect bottles for refunds. Rich soundscapes anchor the listener in the ethnographic context of this research.

    AnthroBites: Anthropology of NGOs

    Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2019 19:56


    Mark Schuller on anthropological work in, with, and on NGOs.

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    50. Walking amid Wonder: Tulasi Srinivas and Namita Dharia in Conversation

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2019 46:24


    Guests Namita Dharia and Tulasi Srinivas discuss the possibilities for an anthropology of wonder. Their conversation builds out from Srinivas’s latest book, "The Cow in the Elevator: An Anthropology of Wonder," and explores questions of positionality in the field, canonical inheritances, and experiments with ethnographic writing. Sonic landscapes from Srinivas’s fieldsite weave in and out of their discussion, opening listeners to encounters with ritual and aesthetic practices and renewing Srinivas’s assertion that “deep listening is the quality of a great ethnographer.”

    49. When Fieldwork Breaks Your Heart

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2019 39:10


    In "When Fieldwork Breaks Your Heart," guest producer Aisha Sultan considers the question: what do you do when fieldwork threatens to break your heart? While graduate seminars and methodological reflections within anthropology often focus on the possibilities ethnography affords as the cornerstone of the discipline, Sultan here contends with its bleaker and more difficult dimensions: the toll it takes on the minds and bodies of ethnographers; experiences of mental illness; persistent feelings of distrust, frustration, and exhaustion. Sultan’s conversation with Helen Lee and Shoshanna Williams is interspersed with excerpts of poetry and fieldnotes from each of their fieldwork experiences. Together, these reflections offer a candid, vulnerable, and realistic insight into the quotidian experience of doing ethnographic fieldwork.

    48. (W)Rap on Gender Sexuality

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2019 47:56


    “(W)Rap on: Gender/Sexuality” is the third episode of the (W)Rap On series at AnthroPod, which brings anthropologists into conversation with artists, activists, and scholars from other disciplines and perspectives. The series is loosely inspired by James Baldwin and Margaret Mead’s 1970 conversation Rap on Race, and was conceived by Hilary Leathem in collaboration with AnthroPod. Our format attempts to identify and confront some of the problems that Mead and Baldwin’s conversation embodied, such as white fragility, complicity with power structures, and the struggle to create space for different groups to speak openly. We provide a platform for thoughtful and incisive discussions that highlight solidarities and shared commitments. We also highlight frictions and tensions between anthropological and other approaches. In this episode, anthropologist Mary Weismantel discusses writing about bodies, relating to readers, memory, and truth with fiction writer Samuel Delany. V Chaudhry moderates the conversation.

    47.(W)rap on Immigration

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2019 51:18


    Anthropologist Jason De León and journalist Maria Hinojosa discuss migration, U.S. border militarization, and teaching and writing in political times. Journalist Julio Ricardo Varela moderates the conversation. This episode is part of the (W)rap On: Series, inspired by the original 1970 conversation between writer James Baldwin and anthropologist Margaret Mead.

    46. Reading List for a Progressive Environmental Anthropology

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2018 41:12


    This roundtable discussion explores the recently published Reading List for a Progressive Environmental Anthropology. The crowdsourced reading list is a project organized by Bridget Guarasci (Franklin and Marshall College), Amelia Moore (University of Rhode Island), and Sarah Vaughn (University of California, Berkeley). Crafting this reading list around themes such as toxicity, globalization, waterscapes, and economies, Guarasci, Moore, and Vaughn aim to offer theoretical and regional breadth that pushes at the intellectual and practical boundaries of environmental anthropology. In this roundtable discussion held at the 2018 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Guarasci and Moore are joined by collaborators Jessica Cattelino (University of California, Los Angeles), Eleana Kim (University of California, Irvine), and Laura Ogden (Dartmouth College) for a conversation on how the reading list came about, the motivations behind it, and possible applications and future directions. As well as offering insightful commentary on environmental anthropological theory over the years, the discussion highlights the political implications of who we choose to read now and what concepts and discourses we engage in our conversations about the environment—in other words, why citation matters.

    AnthroBites: Queer Anthropology

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2018 18:49


    Margot Weiss explores the origins, presents and futures of queer anthropology.

    45. (W)Rap on Race

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2018 35:31


    “(W)Rap On: Race” features anthropologist Shalini Shankar discussing race, social activism, and pedagogy with Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson. Christien Tompkins moderates the conversation. (W)Rap on Race is the inaugural episode of the new (W)Rap On series at AnthroPod, which brings anthropologists into conversation with artists, activists, and scholars from other disciplines and perspectives. The series is loosely inspired by James Baldwin and Margaret Mead’s 1971 conversation Rap on Race. Yet the format attempts to identify and confront some of the inherent problems that this conversation embodied and only further crystallized, such as white fragility, difficulties with confronting complicity in larger power structures, and struggles to create space for different groups to speak openly (instead of being spoken over or spoken for). Our goal for this series is to provide a platform for thoughtful and incisive discussions that highlight solidarities and shared commitments but also, and perhaps more importantly, highlight where frictions might emerge between anthropological approaches and those of different disciplines or of work outside the academy.

    44. Sounds of Economic Collapse in Egypt

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2018 26:54


    Maria Frederika Malmstrom on the Sound of Economic Collapse in Egypt

    43. AnthroPod Crossover Post: The Familiar Strange with Vijayendra Rao

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2018 48:21


    Vijayendra Rao, an economist with the World Bank, talks with anthropologist Ian Pollock about the theory and practice of development, anthropology’s relationship to development, and how ethnography might help the disenfranchised engage with powerful institutions and effect social change.

    AnthroBites: Hunters & Gathers

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2018 17:00


    Graeme Warren explains what we can learn about histories and cultures through Hunter & Gatherer research.

    42. Schools, Prisons, and Blackness in America: A Conversation with Damien Sojoyner

    Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2018 57:10


    Damien Sojoyner on race, education, imprisonment, and their intersection in the United States.

    41. Teresa Caldeira on Urban Practices and Ethnographic Intimacy

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2018 24:41


    Teresa Caldeira discusses her recent research on urban practices and forms of cultural production from the peripheries of São Paulo, Brazil that are reshaping public space, including rap music, graffiti, ostentation funk, and pixação Producer: Liliana Gil Music: Excerpts from “Soldado Sem Bandeira” by Emicida (00:00, 08:20), “Fim de Semana no Parque” by Racionais MC’s (06:25), a birthday song recorded at the Jardim das Camélias’s Parish Church (14:05), and “Se Identifica” by A’s Trinca (17:20, 23:05). Thanks to the artists for granting permission to use these excerpts in the episode.

    AnthroBites: Feminist Anthropology

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2018 15:14


    Christa Craven discusses feminist anthropology in this episode of AnthroBites, the podcast that makes key concepts in anthropology more digestible.

    40. Anthropology's Politics: A Conversation with Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2018 44:57


    Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar discuss their recent book, Anthropology's Politics: Disciplining the Middle East (2015). They touch on how political and economic pressures shape how U.S.-based scholars research and teach about the Middle East, how certain topics and regions are embraced or pushed back on, and how those pressures and incentives impact scholars working in the Middle East from graduate school to teaching and public engagement. Producer: Beth Derderian Music: Sweeter Vermouth by Kevin MacLeod

    39. Podcasts and Pedagogy: Audio in the Anthropology Classroom

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2018 24:09


    Angela Jenks shares her approach to anthropological pedagogy and offers thoughtful insights into how anthropologists might begin thinking about how to incorporate podcasts into their syllabi.

    38. The Anthropology of Media in a Post-Truth Era

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2017 47:08


    Anthropologists of media and journalism reflect on the current post-truth era in the United States means for research and teaching. This episode features a panel from the the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association with Naomi Schiller, Robert Samet, Natalia Roudakova, Alexandra Juhasz, Amahl Bishara, and Faye Ginsburg. Music: “Bit Rio” and “Caravan” by Podington Bear

    37. More-than-Human Politics

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2017 62:00


    Guest producers Stine Krøijer and Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen take up a debate that is central to current environmental and political anthropology: namely, how ethnographers can identify and describe the political when earth beings, spirits, or nonhuman others become part of the ethnographic equation? Marisol de la Cadena’s 2015 book _Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds_ is the point of departure for the conversation. The episode is built around a recording of a workshop on “More than Human Politics,” which was held in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen in April 2015.

    AnthroBites: Sovereignty

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2017 15:11


    Yarimar Bonilla discusses the concept of sovereignty and its anthropological applications in this episode of AnthroBites, the podcast that makes key concepts in anthropology more digestible.

    36. Drone: Anthropology, Poetry, Military

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2017 34:02


    Hugh Gusterson, Kim Garcia, and a U.S. military drone operator on active duty discuss the representation of drone warfare. Their conversation engages the ways we think about communities of expertise and war, as well as how we represent the experiences of others.

    AnthroBites: Scientific Racism

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2017 16:42


    Rachel Watkins discusses the origins and legacies of scientific racism for AnthroBites, the podcast that makes key concepts in anthropology more digestible.

    35. Ethnography and Design 3: Labor in the Gig Economy

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2017 25:40


    Lilly Irani discusses the human labor behind artificial intelligence technology. Irani helped create a platform called Turkopticon to support workers on Amazon Mechanical Turk, a website that outsources micro data processing work. Irani also talks about her current book project on entrepreneurialism and national development in India.

    34. Ethnography and Design 2: Swedish Design and Ethnocharrettes

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2017 34:24


    Keith Murphy discusses the anthropology of design through his work on Swedish design as well as bringing design methods into ethnography through ethnocharrettes.

    33. Ethnography and Design 1: Disability, Design, and Performance

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2017 29:01


    Cassandra Hartblay discusses design and ethnography through her work on disability in Russia.

    32. Animals and Anthropology

    Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2017 29:27


    Theory, method, and politics of studying human-animal relations from anthropological perspectives with Nikhil Anand, Philippe Descola, Radhika Govindrajan, Laura Ogden, and Paige West.

    31. Socializing Through Technology: Pokémon GO in Downtown Detroit

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2017 44:16


    Guest podcaster David Lein examines the impact of Pokémon GO on communities, both digital and physical, in conversation with Michigan-based scholars John Cheney-Lippold, Eric Montgomery, and individuals in Detroit who are using Pokémon GO.

    30. Outer Space Trilogy 3: Ice Cream And Architecture

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2017 46:07


    In the third and final episode in our trilogy on outer space, anthropologist Valerie Olson discusses systems thinking in the Anthropocene, off-world architecture and garbage, as well as food and health beyond Earth.

    29. Outer Space Trilogy 2: Moon Dust And Cosmo/politics

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2017 42:04


    In the second episode in our trilogy on outer space, anthropologist Debbora Battaglia discusses cosmo/politics, the diary of a space zucchini, and the social life of moon dust. For more, visit culanth.org.

    28. The 2016 U.S. Presidential Election: Anthropologists Reflect on What Just Happened

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2017 84:25


    The role of race, class, gender, neoliberalism, and more in the 2016 election discussed by leading anthropologists.

    27. Outer Space Trilogy 1: Haircuts And Billionaires

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2017 44:25


    In the first episode in our trilogy on outer space, anthropologist David Valentine discusses haircuts in space, the colonization of Mars, the rise of the billionaire-led NewSpace community. For more, visit culanth.org.

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