This episode we’re talking about Anthropology Non-Fiction! We discuss culture, society, linguistics, and more! Plus: Teeth, teeth, teeth!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston
• Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo by Mary Douglas
• Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind, vol. 1 by Yuval Noah Harari, David Vandermeulen, and Daniel Casanave
• Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century by Charles King

Other Media We Mentioned

• The History of Eastern Europe for Beginners by Paul Beck, Edward Mast, and Perry Tapper
• Bury Me Standing by Isabel Fonseca
• Cafe Europa: Life After Communism by Slavenka Drakulić
• The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky by Ellen Meloy
• The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
• The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (Wikipedia)
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Wikipedia)
• Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
• Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex edited by Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith
• From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
• The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow
• Evolution’s Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins by Peter Ungar 
• Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas by Jennifer Raff
• Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo by Mary Douglas

Links, Articles, and Things

• Four-field approach (Wikipedia)
  • “known jocularly to students as “stones”, “tones”, “bones” and “thrones””
• Anthropologie (Wikipedia)
• Lidar (Wikipedia)
• Episode 144 – What is a Book?
• I read all 337 books in Skyrim so you don’t have to | Unraveled
• Franz Boas (Wikipedia)
• Data dredging (Wikipedia)
• Ella Cara Deloria (Wikipedia)

15 Anthropology Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• The Power of Style: How Fashion and Beauty Are Being Used to Reclaim Cultures by Christian Allaire
• Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang
• Dakota Texts by Ella Cara Deloria
• Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields
• Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran by Niloofar Haeri
• Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica by Zora Neale Hurston
• Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts by Margaret Kovach
• Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana by Kwame Edwin Otu
• Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun: Portraits of Everyday Life in Eight Indigenous Communities by Paul Seesequasis
• Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
• On the Margins of Urban South Korea: Core Location as Method and Praxis edited by Jesook Song and Laam Hae
• Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science by Kim TallBear
• Desi Hoop Dreams: Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity by Stanley Thangaraj
• From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai’i by Haunani-Kay Trask
• Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods by Shawn Wilson

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