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The World Ethnography Project — 94 episodes

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WEP Episode 94 Mohammed Nadeem Reviews The Jamaa and the Church: A Bantu Catholic Movement in Zaire

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WEP Episode 93 Esther Michael Reviews From Cuba with Love: Sex and Money in the Twenty-First Century

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WEP Episode 92 Madi Harken Reviews Lydia's Open Door: Inside Mexico's Most Modern Brothel

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WEP Episode 91 Peyton Wilkoski Reviews Outlawed: Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City

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WEP Episode 90 RJ Suey Reviews Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chunking Mansions, Hong Kong

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WEP Episode 89 Marcus Fertig Reviews Dacha Idylls: Living Organically in Russia's Countryside

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WEP Episode 88 Wren Shawhan Reviews Straight from the Heart: Gender, Intimacy, and the Cultural Production of Shojo Manga

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WEP Episode 87 Izze Schwab Reviews The Spirit Ambulance: Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand

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WEP Episode 86 Charlie Look Reviews The Traveler - Gypsies

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WEP Episode 85 Liam Joyce Reviews The Funeral Casino: Meditation, Massacre, and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand

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WEP Episode 84 Nathan Fricke Reviews Where the World Ended: Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland

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WEP Episode 83 Lily Bruner Reviews Life Without Lead: Contamination, Crisis and Hope in Uruguay

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WEP Episode 82 Tyler Klems Reviews The Tango Machine: Musical Culture in the Age of Expediency

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WEP Episode 81 Hannah Jensen Reviews Behold the Black Caiman: A Chronicle of Ayoreo Life

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WEP Episode 80 Frances Rodriguez Caraballo Reviews Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown

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WEP Episode 79 Josie Guernsey Reviews The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland

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WEP Episode 78 Ben Skoff Reviews Laura Odgen's Swamplife: People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades

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WEP Episode 77 Jacob Skretta Reviews Military Power and Popular Protest: The U.S. Navy in Vieques, Puerto Rico

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WEP Episode 76 Sam Bennie Reviews Zora Neale Hurston's Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti And Jamaica

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WEP Episode 75 Ryan Wilson Reviews Troubled Natures: Waste, Environment, Japan

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WEP Episode 74 Hayley Ramirez Reviews Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi

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WEP Episode 73 Samantha Grove Reviews Back Stories: U.S. News Production and Palestinian Politics

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WEP Episode 72 Hanna Reynolds Reviews Burning at Europe's Borders: An Ethnography on the African Migrant Experience in Morocco

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WEP Episode 71 Kinli Miller Reviews Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica

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WEP Episode 70 Jessica Schafer Reviews In the Metro

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WEP Episode 69 Will Synowiecki Reviews A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine

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WEP Episode 68 Miranda Ritchie Reviews Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death

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WEP Episode 67 Abby Queen Reviews A Society without Fathers or Husbands: The Na of China

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WEP Episode 66 Skyler Meyer Reviews Meeting the "Other:" Living in the Present, Gender and Sustainability in Bhutan

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WEP Episode 65 Heather Martin Reviews The Maintenance of Life: Preventing Social Death through Euthanasia Talk and End-of-Life Care—Lessons from The Netherlands, Second Edition

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WEP Episode 64 Valeria Facio-Lom Reviews Other-Worldly: Making Chinese Medicine through Transnational Frames

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WEP Episode 63 Ana Facio-Lom Reviews The Biopolitics of Beauty: Cosmetic Citizenship and Affective Capital in Brazil

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WEP Episode 62 Dellante Clark-Brown Reviews City of Darkness: Life In Kowloon Walled City

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WEP Episode 61 Ashley Ciccarelli Reviews Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail

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WEP Episode 60 Sam Biaggi Reviews Learning Capoeira: Lessons in Cunning from an Afro-Brazilian Art

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WEP Episode 59 Lucy Parizek Reviews My Father’s Wars: Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century

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WEP Episode 58 Erin O'Connor Reviews Unity of Heart: Culture and Change in a Polynesian Atoll Society

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WEP Episode 57 Trinity Mozingo Reviews The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch

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WEP Episode 56 Jack Sokolik Reviews The Strange Child: Education and the Psychology of Patriotism in Recessionary Japan

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WEP Episode 55 Clair Jantz Reviews Empowering Women in Russia: Activism, AID, and NGOs

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WEP Episode 54 Cassandra Corral Reviews The Death Rituals of Rural Greece

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WEP Episode 53 Michael Day Reviews Joyriding in Riyadh

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WEP Episode 52 Maggie Riekman – It's All Greek to Me!

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WEP Episode 50 Evan Melchior Reviews The World of Lucha Libre: Secrets, Revelations, and Mexican National Identity

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WEP Episode 51 Austin Ash Reviews Life beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic

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WEP Episode 49 Emma Hanson Reviews Improving Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic

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WEP Episode 48 Zach Markussen Imagined Olympians: Body Culture and Colonial Representation in Rwanda

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WEP Episode 47 Robert Stenzel Reviews My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft

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WEP Episode 46 Matthew Stennes Reviews Merchants in the City of Art: Work, Identity, and Change in a Florentine Neighborhood

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WEP Episode 45 Blake Mann Reviews Death Without Weeping

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WEP Episode 44 Allison Saddler Reviews Number Our Days

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WEP Episode 43 Jaidan Payer Reviews A Different Kind of War Story

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WEP Episode 42 Odess Ohrt Reviews Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer

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WEP Episode 41 Dylan Hiser Reviews Sugarball: The American Game, the Dominican Dream

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WEP Episode 40 Morgan Brown Reviews Renaissance Festivals: Merrying the Past and Present

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WEP Episode 39 Will Anderson Reviews In Hip Hop Times: Music, Memory, and Social Change in Urban Senegal

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WEP Episode 38 Eric Mustard Reviews With the Boys: Little League Baseball and Preadolescent Culture

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WEP Episode 37 Emma Todd Reviews They All Want Magic

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WEp Episode 36 Matt Price Reviews Being Young, Male, and Saudi

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WEP Episode 35 Thara Michaelis Reviews At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil

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WEP Episode 34 Marissa Krause Reviews Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Ever Seen

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WEP Episode 33 Edgar Torres Reviews The Making of a Human Bomb: An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance

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WEP Episode 32 Morgan Noble Reviews Gut Check! A Wild Ride into the Heart of College Football

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WEP Episode 31 Brenna Mazour Reviews Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal

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WEP Episode 30 Jun Kyu Shin Reviews POP CITY - Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place

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WEP Episode 29 Connor Zamastil Reviews Lila Abu Lughod's Veiled Sentiments

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WEP Episode 28 Craig Mathieson Reviews Permitted & Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan

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WEP Episode 27 Batool Ibrahim Reviews Black Women Against the Land Grab by Kiesha Khan Perry

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WEP Episode 26 Zoe Cole reviews Rachel Newcomb's The Women of Fes

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WEP Episode 25 Grace Pilker Reviews An Ethnography of a Vodu Shrine in Southern Togo: Of Spirit, Slave and Sea

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WEP Episode 24 Reece Hasselbalch Davison Reviews The Political Lives of Saints

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WEP Episode 23 Abbie Moore Reviews Songs of Seoul: An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South Korea

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WEP Episode 22 Brianna Hoyt Reviews Embodying Honor: Fertility, Foreignness, and Regeneration of eastern Sudan

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WEP Episode 21 Evan Cada Reviews Soccer, Culture, and Society in Spain

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WEP Episode 20 Samantha Williams Reviews Don't Sleep, There are Snakes

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WEP Episode 19 Ayla Volante Reviews Elizabeth Warnock Fernea's Guests of the Sheik

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WEP Episode 18 Quin Sleddens Reviews Embracing the Witch and the Goddess; Feminist Ritual Makers in New Zealand

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WEP Episode 17 Jessie Reed Reviews Tragic Spirits: Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia

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WEP Episode 16 Sasha Ramer Reviews Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland

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WEP Episode 15 Zuha Qadeer Reviews Lila Abu-Lughod's Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories

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WEP Episode 14 Logan Hawkins Reviews Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India

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WEP Episode 13 Garrett Sharman Reviews Live and Die Like a Man: Gender Dynamics in Urban Egypt

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WEP Episode 12 Guadalupe Esquivel reviews God's Laboratory: Assisted Reproduction in the Andes

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WEP Episode 11 Emma Lyness Reviews Growing Artefacts, Displaying Relationships: Yams, Art and Technology amongst the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea

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WEP Episode 10 Asa DeWitt Reviews Chocolate and Corn Flour: History, Race, and Place in the Making of 'Black' Mexico

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WEP Episode 09 Grant Bosley Reviews Queer Women in Urban China: An Ethnography

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WEP Episode 08 Elijah Herbel Reviews An Ethnography of English Soccer Fans: Cans, Cops, and Carnivals

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WEP Episode 07 Graham Garvin reviews David B. Edwards' Caravan of Martyrs: Sacrifice and Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan

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WEP Episode 06: Jordan Malzer Reviews Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation

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WEP Episode 05 Michael Morey reviews Island of anthropology: studies in past and present (Iceland)

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WEP Episode 04: Rachel Smith reviews Social Media in Industrial China

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WEP Episode 03: Sarah Spaeth reviews Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians

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WEP Episode 02: Nora Santelman Reviews Becoming Tongan

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WEP Episode 01: The Example Review: Everyday Life in Global Morocco by Rachel Newcomb. Podcast by Gwyneth Talley, Ph.D