From the Archives

This week I'm talking about Farmers and Fishermen by Daniel Vickers (1994). How ya like dem apples? For a full list of reviewed books, check out our Goodreads page. https://www.goodreads.com/group/invite/1170143-reading-round-up?invite_token=YjMzNzk4YTctNGViZC00YmJmLTllNmMtMmE3NzQyMGY0NjBm&utm_medium=email&utm_source=copypastegroup Follow our telegram channel for other updates: https://t.me/anthropologyarchives --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

This week I'm talking about Sarah Osborn's World by Catherine Brekus (2013). For a full list of reviewed books, check out our Goodreads page. https://www.goodreads.com/group/invite/1170143-reading-round-up?invite_token=YjMzNzk4YTctNGViZC00YmJmLTllNmMtMmE3NzQyMGY0NjBm&utm_medium=email&utm_source=copypastegroup Follow our telegram channel for other updates: https://t.me/anthropologyarchives --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

I'm back from a long hiatus! I've read a lot of books, and I'm excited to talk about them! This week I'm talking about Natchez Country by George Milne (2015). For a full list of reviewed books, check out our goodreads page. We even have a group now! https://www.goodreads.com/group/invite/1170143-reading-round-up?invite_token=YjMzNzk4YTctNGViZC00YmJmLTllNmMtMmE3NzQyMGY0NjBm&utm_medium=email&utm_source=copypastegroup Follow our telegram channel for other updates: https://t.me/anthropologyarchives --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

This week, Kristin and I talk about second languages in books, when to give up on a book, and The Selection by Kiera Cass For a full list of reviewed books, check out our goodreads page. We even have a group now! https://www.goodreads.com/group/invite/1170143-reading-round-up?invite_token=YjMzNzk4YTctNGViZC00YmJmLTllNmMtMmE3NzQyMGY0NjBm&utm_medium=email&utm_source=copypastegroup Follow our telegram channel for other updates: https://t.me/anthropologyarchives --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

This week, Kristin and I talk about car books, The Eternal Frontier, and other books we are reading. For a full list of reviewed books, check out our goodreads page. We even have a group now! https://www.goodreads.com/group/invite/1170143-reading-round-up?invite_token=YjMzNzk4YTctNGViZC00YmJmLTllNmMtMmE3NzQyMGY0NjBm&utm_medium=email&utm_source=copypastegroup Follow our telegram channel for other updates: https://t.me/anthropologyarchives --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

This week, co-host Kristin Tripi and I talk about books we've been reading currently, and a book from our library. This week's library book is After the Quake by Haruki Murakami. For the full list of books reviewed so far on the podcast, check out my goodreads profile: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/128713595-eric If you have questions, comments, send me an email at anthropologyarchives@gmail.com! For news and updates about projects, upcoming books, and news, join the telegram channel: https://t.me/anthropologyarchives. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

This week I talk about my odd copies of the United States Department of Agriculture's Yearbook of Agriculture. The following are links to sources discussed in the episode: Victory Horticultural Library: http://www.saveseeds.org/library/holdings/yoa.html USDA National Agricultural Library: https://naldc-legacy.nal.usda.gov/naldc/search.xhtml?start=0&seriesFacet=Yearbook+of+agriculture Archive.org 1940 Yearbook of Agriculture: https://archive.org/details/yoa1940 For the full list of books reviewed so far on the podcast, check out my goodreads profile: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/128713595-eric If you have questions, comments, send me an email at anthropologyarchives@gmail.com! For news and updates about projects, upcoming books, and news, join the telegram channel: https://t.me/anthropologyarchives. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

This week I talk about Biodiversity (1986), edited by E. O. Wilson. To read more about Wilson, check out this article by Claudia Dreifus: https://www.quantamagazine.org/edward-o-wilson-finds-hope-in-selfless-ants-and-ecology-studies-20190515/. For the full list of books reviewed so far on the podcast, check out my goodreads profile: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/128713595-eric If you have questions, comments, send me an email at anthropologyarchives@gmail.com! For news and updates about projects, upcoming books, and news, join the telegram channel: https://t.me/anthropologyarchives. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

This week I review Folk Medicine of the Delaware by Gladys Tantaquidgeon. The book was originally published 1942, but my copy is a reprint from 1977. To learn more about the Mohegan Tribe, of which the author is a member, check out their webpage: https://www.mohegan.nsn.us/. For the full list of books reviewed so far on the podcast, check out the book bin: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vReMmvG9p-PQ_jGhgAaGsKRZ2ZYAj6V5cbk46TzNcHUk78m_ZFzOiMF5eHjqy5UMUTYgyak17AA9a6F/pubhtml. If you have questions, comments, send me an email at anthropologyarchives@gmail.com! For news and updates about projects, upcoming books, and news, join the telegram channel: https://t.me/anthropologyarchives. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

In this episode, I review the Tom King classic Cultural Resource Laws and Practice (2012), which many archaeologists in private practice should know about or have already read. For the full list of books reviewed so far on the podcast, check out the book bin: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vReMmvG9p-PQ_jGhgAaGsKRZ2ZYAj6V5cbk46TzNcHUk78m_ZFzOiMF5eHjqy5UMUTYgyak17AA9a6F/pubhtml. If you have questions, comments, send me an email at anthropologyarchives@gmail.com! For news and updates about projects, upcoming books, and news, join the telegram channel: https://t.me/anthropologyarchives. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

This week, I talk about my old binoculars and my 1984 copy of Reader's Digest North American Wildlife, edited by Susan Wernert. For the full list of books reviewed so far on the podcast, check out the book bin: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vReMmvG9p-PQ_jGhgAaGsKRZ2ZYAj6V5cbk46TzNcHUk78m_ZFzOiMF5eHjqy5UMUTYgyak17AA9a6F/pubhtml. If you have questions, comments, send me an email at anthropologyarchives@gmail.com! For news and updates about projects, upcoming books, and news, join the telegram channel: https://t.me/anthropologyarchives. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

This week is the premier of season two! There's a loose through-line or "theme" this season, and I'm kicking things off by talking about some books written by people named David. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1854), Thoreau's Country by David Foster (1999), and Great Possessions by David Kline (1990). This season, I'll be talking about a lot of nature and the environment. It's green where I'm at, and I felt inspired. What can I say. For the full list of books reviewed so far on the podcast, check out the book bin: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vReMmvG9p-PQ_jGhgAaGsKRZ2ZYAj6V5cbk46TzNcHUk78m_ZFzOiMF5eHjqy5UMUTYgyak17AA9a6F/pubhtml. If you have questions, comments, send me an email at anthropologyarchives@gmail.com! For news and updates about projects, upcoming books, and news, join the telegram channel: https://t.me/anthropologyarchives. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

This week is the season finale! I sit down with Jack Trusler to talk about three diet and nutrition books: The Paleolithic Prescription (1988) by S. Boyd Eaton, Marjorie Shostak, and Melvin Konner; Fat Land (2003) by Greg Critser; Eating Animals (2009) by Johnathan Safran Foer. For the full list of books reviewed so far on the podcast, check out the book bin: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vReMmvG9p-PQ_jGhgAaGsKRZ2ZYAj6V5cbk46TzNcHUk78m_ZFzOiMF5eHjqy5UMUTYgyak17AA9a6F/pubhtml. If you have questions, comments, send me an email at anthropologyarchives@gmail.com! For news and updates about projects, upcoming books, and news, join the telegram channel: https://t.me/anthropologyarchives. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

This week, I review the 1980 book The Viking World by Jacquelin Simpson. For the full list of books reviewed so far on the podcast, check out the book bin: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vReMmvG9p-PQ_jGhgAaGsKRZ2ZYAj6V5cbk46TzNcHUk78m_ZFzOiMF5eHjqy5UMUTYgyak17AA9a6F/pubhtml. If you have questions, comments, send me an email at anthropologyarchives@gmail.com! For news and updates about projects, upcoming books, and news, join the telegram channel: https://t.me/anthropologyarchives. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

This week I am talking about the numerous intro to anthropology textbooks I have and some patterns I noticed about them. If you want a full list of all the books reviewed so far on the podcast, check out the book bin: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vReMmvG9p-PQ_jGhgAaGsKRZ2ZYAj6V5cbk46TzNcHUk78m_ZFzOiMF5eHjqy5UMUTYgyak17AA9a6F/pubhtml. If you have questions, comments, or if you want a book from the book bin, send me an email at anthropologyarchives@gmail.com! For news and updates about projects, upcoming books, and news, join the telegram channel: https://t.me/anthropologyarchives. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

This week I am talking about the numerous intro to archaeology textbooks I have and some patterns I noticed about them. If you want a full list of all the books reviewed so far on the podcast, check out the book bin: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vReMmvG9p-PQ_jGhgAaGsKRZ2ZYAj6V5cbk46TzNcHUk78m_ZFzOiMF5eHjqy5UMUTYgyak17AA9a6F/pubhtml. If you have questions, comments, or if you want a book from the book bin, send me an email at anthropologyarchives@gmail.com! For news and updates about projects, upcoming books, and news, join the telegram channel: https://t.me/anthropologyarchives. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

This week I'm talking about Arthur Dunn's 1920 textbook Community Civics and Rural Life. You can read this book online either as a kindle ebook, or at the project gutenburg library: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5088. If you want a full list of all the books reviewed so far on the podcast, check out the book bin: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vReMmvG9p-PQ_jGhgAaGsKRZ2ZYAj6V5cbk46TzNcHUk78m_ZFzOiMF5eHjqy5UMUTYgyak17AA9a6F/pubhtml. If you have questions, comments, or if you want a book from the book bin, send me an email at anthropologyarchives@gmail.com! For news and updates about projects, upcoming books, and news, join the telegram channel: https://t.me/anthropologyarchives. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

This week I'm changing pace again. I know, I know, I should only be reading ethnographies, archaeology reports, and textbooks, right? Well, this week I read Italo Calvino's Difficult Loves (1984). This is a shorter episode since it's the end of the semester, and I got my second COVID vaccine the evening before my normal live stream. If you want a full list of all the books reviewed so far on the podcast, check out the book bin: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vReMmvG9p-PQ_jGhgAaGsKRZ2ZYAj6V5cbk46TzNcHUk78m_ZFzOiMF5eHjqy5UMUTYgyak17AA9a6F/pubhtml. If you have questions, comments, or if you want a book from the book bin, send me an email at anthropologyarchives@gmail.com! For news and updates about projects, upcoming books, and news, join the telegram channel: https://t.me/anthropologyarchives. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

In this episode, I wanted to talk about atlases (though I think atli sounds better), and why I think you should have an atlas! For a complete list of the books reviewed on the podcast, check out the google sheet (aka the "book bin") Anything labeled "book bin" is up for grabs! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vReMmvG9p-PQ_jGhgAaGsKRZ2ZYAj6V5cbk46TzNcHUk78m_ZFzOiMF5eHjqy5UMUTYgyak17AA9a6F/pubhtml If you have questions, comments, or want a book that is up for grabs, send me an email at anthropologyarchives@gmail.com. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

n this episode, I discuss two books on very different sides of the Disney Corporate coin. The Mouse that Roared by Henry Giroux (1999), and Lessons from the Mouse by Dennis Snow (2010). Since I am recording on Tri-C day, it would be great if you donated to the Tri-C Foundation to help support Community College student scholarships (https://www.tri-c.edu/give/give-to-tri-c.html). The blog about Adorno and Horkheimer's perspective on laughter: https://schlemielintheory.com/2015/01/18/stop-laughing-max-horkheimer-and-theodor-adorno-on-laughter-false-happiness-and-the-culture-industry/. For a complete list of the books reviewed on the podcast, check out the google sheet below (aka the "book bin") Anything labeled "book bin" is up for grabs! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vReMmvG9p-PQ_jGhgAaGsKRZ2ZYAj6V5cbk46TzNcHUk78m_ZFzOiMF5eHjqy5UMUTYgyak17AA9a6F/pubhtml If you have questions, comments, or what a book that is up for grabs, send me an email at anthropologyarchives@gmail.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

In this episode, I am review the book Stone Age Economics. This is specifically the 2017 reprint with foreword by David Graeber and a new preface by the author, Marshall Sahlins. A short article by Sahlins referenced in the episode: https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/04/why-economics-is-an-impossible-science-in-one-paragraph/. The video clip comes from the following lecture by Marshall Sahlins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13vX9VbPbkA&t=728s. For a complete list of the books reviewed on the podcast, check out the google sheet. Anything in the book bin is up for grabs if you want it! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vReMmvG9p-PQ_jGhgAaGsKRZ2ZYAj6V5cbk46TzNcHUk78m_ZFzOiMF5eHjqy5UMUTYgyak17AA9a6F/pubhtml --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

This week, I talk about The Hatchet's Blood: Separation, Power, and Gender in Ehing Social Life (1992) by Marc Schloss. This ethnography focuses on the lives of a small group of people (about 2,500 population) in rural Senegal. Every episode is recorded live on YouTube (Anthropology Archives) at 11 AM EST. For a complete list of books reviewed on the podcast, check out the "book bin" here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vReMmvG9p-PQ_jGhgAaGsKRZ2ZYAj6V5cbk46TzNcHUk78m_ZFzOiMF5eHjqy5UMUTYgyak17AA9a6F/pubhtml. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

This week, I talk about a few coffee table books, and what is a coffee table book. For a full list of books reviewed on the podcast, past and present, check out the google sheet or "book bin." Join the book club convo every Thursday at 11 AM EDT on youtube at Anthropology Archives. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

In this week's episode, I sit down with guest Kristin Tripi to talk about two Young Adult novels, Jet-Set by Carrie Karasyov and Jill Kargman, and Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover by Allie Carter. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

In this week's episode, I talk about the 1966 ethnography by Oscar Lewis (and uncredited co-author Rosita Gonzales) La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty - San Juan and New York. Join the book conversation every Thursday, 11 AM EST over on the Anthropology Archives YouTube channel! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

Hey there bibliophiles! Trying out a few new things this episode, like YouTube live! This week, I talk about a short little read, James Deetz' Invitation to Archaeology (1967). I swear I own non-archaeology/anthropology books, but I couldn't pass up on such a quick read. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

In this week's episode, I talk about an educational book from 1963 about the first peopling of the North America: William Scheele's The Earliest Americans. I am also switching the format of the live stream to exclusively be on YouTube on Thursday's at 11 AM instead of Twitch. Join the archive conversation here if you want to talk about books! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

This week, I take a different direction from our usual book reviews to talk about all the dictionaries on my bookshelf and why dictionaries are fun. Join the conversation every Thursday at 11 AM EST at twitch.tv/anthropologyarchives. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

Ever wonder what it's like to be a real archaeologist in the United States? Do you enjoy historic fiction? Then this might be the edutainment for you! This week, I talk about Creekside: An Archaeological Novel (2010) by Kelli Carmean. If you enjoy talking books, consider joining the conversation every Thursday at 11 AM EST at twitch.tv/anthropologyarchives. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

Ever wonder about Daniel Boone? Or who Tecumseh was? Well that is just the tip of the iceburg in Colin Calloway's 2007 book The Shawnees and the War for America. If you enjoy talking books, consider joining the conversation during live stream recordings of episodes every Thursday at 11 AM EST at twitch.tv/anthropologyarchives. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

Have you wanted to know more about the history of the Midwest, Native Americans, and the great lakes? Then this is the book for you! This week, I talk about Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes by Susan Sleeper-Smith. If you enjoy talking books, consider joining the conversation during live stream recordings of episodes every Thursday at 11 AM EST at twitch.tv/anthropologyarchives. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

In this episode, I discuss the short little 1982 ethnography by Bernard Wong Chinatown: Economic Adaptation and Ethnic Identity of the Chinese. If you enjoy talking books, then consider joining the live recording sessions every Thursday at 11 AM EST at twitch.tv/anthropologyarchives. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

In this episode I talk about the 1935 page-turner (sarcasm) Who Pays? by Ernest Greenwood. If you enjoy talking about books, consider joining the live recording session every Thursday at 11 AM EST at twitch.tv/anthropologyarchives. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support

On my first episode, I discuss a book near and dear to my heart. The second edition of Indian Mounds of the Middle Ohio Valley was an inspiration to my archaeology career! If you want to discuss books with me, you can join the live conversation every Thursday at 11 AM EST for live episode recordings at twitch.tv/anthropologyarchives. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthropologyarchives/support