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This Anthro Life — 229 episodes
The Truth About AI & The Future of Humanity
How Psychedelics Are Changing Mental Health & Spirituality
The Evolution of Work: More Than Just a Paycheck
The Truth About Modern Motherhood
Stop Chasing Success—Find Fulfillment Instead
Urban Visionary: We Need to Redesign Our Cities
4th Generation Farmer: 45,000 Farms Vanish Every Year, But We Can Change That
Transform Your Life by Asking Better Questions
Stop Chasing Goals – Do THIS Instead
Design for the Future: Ethics, Evolution, and Anthropology with Michael Leube
Best of Cultural Capitalist series
How AI and Technology Are Redefining Work in the Post-Pandemic World with Claudia Strauss
The Value of Anthropology to Tech Investors
Building Inclusive Universities: Lessons from Shaun Carver
The Michigan Wolverines Cultural Advantage
Cultural Moats
A Guide to Designing a Thriving Future with Carissa Carter & Scott Doorley
Careers in Anthropology: Corporate Consulting
How to Heal Through Ayahuasca with Austin Mao
The Future of Reading: AI and Literature with Vihar Desu
Neuroplasticity: Transforming Learning Methods with Wynford Dore
What is Neurodiversity? The FIGHT for Integration with Ludmila Praslova
Deconstructing Masculinity with Ruth Whippman.
How To Re-think News in the AI Era
What is Forensic Psychiatry? with Mark Levy
Is Software Good Enough?
Microdosing & Leadership: How does it work? with Paul Austin
Reimagining Creativity and Management in a Remote Work Era
The Power and Manipulation Behind Free Platforms and Search Engines
Polyamory, Fidelity, and the Transforming Landscape of Sexual Norms With Leanne Wolfe
Disrupting Venture Capital and Government for Global Good
Reimagining Career Trajectories: Insights from Anthropology, UX, and the Written Word
The Anthro Poet: How Adrie Kusserow Weaves Stories with Science
The Ethics of Influence and Conversation with Michael Reddington
An Anthropologist's Perspective on Nonviolent Communication Through Art of Listening
Investigating Superorganisms and The Collective Intelligence of Humans
Turning Wounds into Wisdom: The Power of Storytelling with Sussi Mattsson
The Impact of Community-Centered Preservation on Micronesian Culture
The Fight To Save Cultural Memory With Charles Henry
Is Tech the Future of Funeral Services?
Black Grief, White Grievance: Power, Loss, and Political Mobilization in America
How Ethnographic Research is Shaping the Future of Insight in Business and Technology
From Taboo to Understanding: Carol Queen's Advocacy for Sex-Positive Mindset
Redefining Accessibility, Inclusion, and Human Rights with Victor Pineda
From Chaos to Clarity: How to Challenge Misinformation with James Mawhinney
The Path to Long-term Happiness: A New Theory on Mental Health and Neurodiversity
The Search for Dignity and Respect: An Exploration of Human Universals
The Trillion Dollar Plan to Transform Waste: Dan Nienhauser’s Vision for a Cleaner Future
How to Ensure Human Autonomy in the Age of Algorithms and AI with Brian Evergreen
Everyday War: How Small Intimate Moments Shape Wartime Realities in Ukraine with Greta Uehling
The Future is Speaking: Unveiling the Power of Voice Technology with Tobias Dengel
The Power of Collective Identity: Brad Deutser on Building Human-Centered Organizations
Interstellar Dreams vs. Earthly Realities: Rethinking Space Exploration With Savannah Mandel
Wisdom from the Edge: Writing Ethnography in Turbulent Times With Paul Stoller
From Automation to Revolution: Exploring the Future of Conversational AI
Navigating Uncertainty: Lessons from the Frontlines of COVID-19 Testing
Navigating the Labyrinth of Perception: Wisdom, Language, and Post-Trauma Growth
Understanding Tribal Signals: A Conversation with an Evolutionary Anthropologist
Bridging the Gap: Bringing Science to the Public Imagination
Building Regenerative Experiences: How Cognitive Data can Revolutionize Design
Exploring Pedagogy and Teaching for a Post-Racist Imagination
Anthropology Meets Journalism: How Two Fields Can Save Each Other
Entrepreneurship and Ethics in the Age of AI with Ahmed Reza
Developing Responsible AI with David Gray Widder and Dawn Nafus
This Anthro Life 2023 trailer
How Disability Teaches Us to Change the World with Brooke Ellison
The Complex Roots of Patriarchy with Angela Saini
Embodied Robotics and the Future of Humanity with Lora Koycheva
On Finding Awe and Being a Human in the Cosmos with Sasha Sagan
Designing Resilience - Behavioral Science Meets Humanitarian Action with Britt Titus
Creating Anthropologists on the Public Stage with Elizabeth Briody & Phil Surles
How to Keep Brands Human in the 21st Century - with Matt Johnson
Why the World Needs Tricksters with Shepherd Siegel
Designing the Future of Global, Remote Work with Fredrik Thomassen
How Tech can Democratize Scientific Knowledge with Eric Olson
How Humans Learned to See the Future with Byron Reese
Growing Roots as a National Cultural Anthropologist with Ashley Meredith
The Fight to Save Cultural Memory with Charles Henry
On Being Heard and Learning to Listen with Nethra Samarawickrema
Bitcoin and the Cryptocurrency Revolution with Mick Morucci
Deep Storytelling: Bicultural History and Fiction with Andrew Rowen
Build Better Worlds: Anthropology for Game Design, Film and Writing
Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness with Charles Foster
Podcasting and the Other Side of Storytelling - Reflecting on TAL's 8th Birthday
Learning Forensics, Applying Anthropology with Gabriella Campbell
Don't Sell Yourself Short: How to Create a Career Plan
Transforming Market Research with Qualitative Consciousness in post-liberalization India w/ Dr. Meena Kaushik and Madhuri Karak
From Art School to Industry: Passion, Ethics, and Business Impact with Phil Surles
So tell me about yourself: Storytelling and the Science of Love with Helen Fisher
Dead People Tell Tales: Segregated Cemeteries in Richmond Virginia w Dr. Ryan Smith
The surprising truths wild horses teach us about the power of ritual, social durability, and surviving the Anthropocene with John Hartigan J
The Ghost in the Machine is Not Who You Think: Human Labor and the Paradox of Automation with Mary L Gray
Becoming a Business Anthropologist and Mastering the Tools of the Trade w/ Oscar Barrera
They're not Binging TV, they're Feasting: Rethinking Media, Honor and American Culture with Grant McCracken
How to Manage Social Conflict, Communicate Effectively and Find Common Ground with Jeremy Pollack
The Hidden World of Sh*t (a farewell to 2020)
More than a Game: Sports, Race, and Masculinity in Diaspora w/ Vyjayanthi Vadrevu and Stanley Thangaraj
Life in the Age of Social Media and Smartphones with Daniel Miller and Georgiana Murariu
Getting Down to Business and Making a Career with Anthropology: Guest Podcast w Adam Gamwell on Anthro Perspectives
Death Work: The Life and Culture of Forensics with Lilly White
How to Study Meaning at Scale: AI and Big Data Ethnography, Microcultures and the Future of Innovation w/ Ujwal Arkalgud
Cyberpsychology: How Life Online Shapes our Minds and What We Can Do About It w Julie Ancis
A Neuroscientist and Marketer walk into a bar: Neuromarketing and the hidden ways marketing reshapes our brains with Matt Johnson and Prince
The Connected Cup: Coffee, Tea, Happiness and Visual Storytelling Around the Globe with Documentarian Brooke Bierhaus
Beyond the Prototype: Navigating that Fuzzy Area between Ideas and Outcomes with Douglas Ferguson
How Do You Make a 2.4 Billion Dollar Observatory Disappear?
A Virus Without Borders: The Design of Public Health, Inequality, and Hope
The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity w/ Byron Reese
Will We Find God with this Machine? Introducing Starstruck
Brands and the Business of Relationships with Bill Fleming
Happiness and the Good Life According to the Aztecs w/ Dr. Ryan Collins
Robots, Science Fiction, and the Anthropological Imagination: a Guest Podcast TAL's Adam Gamwell on Trending in Education
Why More Security Never Feels Like Enough, by Astrid Countee: Storyslamming Anthropology Series #3
100 Years of Beauty and the Beast of YouTube with Chris Chan
Design Research is Anthropology Applied with Amy Santee
Backpacks and Toe tags: Life and Death on the US-Mexico Border w/ Jason de León
Where Qualitative Meets Quantitative Data w/ Delve co-founders LaiYee Ho and Alex Limpaecher
GUEST PODCAST: AnthroDish 49: Exploring Quinoa Production through Design Anthropology with Dr. Adam Gamwell
The Surprising Connections between Climate Finance, Sacrifice and the Spirit of Capitalism
Fear and Loathing in Truth or Consequences, performed by Taylor Genovese: Storyslamming Anthropology Series #2
EPIC 2019: Agency in the Digital Age with Julia Haines and Lisa diCarlo
How to Think like an Ethnographer with Jay Hasbrouck
Don't Yuck My Yum w/ Julie Lesnik (Edible Insects, pt 3)
A Bugless Life w/ Julie Lesnik (Edible Insects, pt 2)
Why Don't You Eat Bugs?
The Social Life of Robots, pt 2: Sex and Temperament in Three Cyborg Societies
Heritage Survival Across Borders: Identity, Language and Migration
The Social Life of Robots, pt 1: Spoiler Alert
The Craft of Curation
Switched on Pop
Weaving Social Fabric: The Craft of African Fashion
Sharing Sonic Space: Music as Home, Soul and Connector
Art is a Movement
EPIC Evidence with Dawn Nafus and Tye Rattenbury
The Awe is Shared: Evolution and Public Science with Andrea Eller - This Anthro Life
Its Only an Evil Cactus if Donkeys Chase You: Ethics and Psychedelics with Hamilton Morris - This Anthro Life
Tech Ethnography, Data and Social Justice w/ Dr. Tricia Wang
EPIC Innovation w/ Dr. Alexandra Mack - This Anthro Life
Consulting Podcasters: Prototyping a Democratic Tool for Multiple Voices, Storytelling and Solution Finding
Marching for Science w/Valorie Aquino
Brave Community: Teaching Race in the American Classroom w/ Janine de Novais
#MeToo: Stories in the Age of Survivorship by Emma Backe: Story Slamming Anthropology #1
Carving a Niche between Software and Social Science: Anthropology in Industry w/ Natalie Hanson
Diversity + Inclusion in Higher Education, part 1
Encounters Unforeseen: A Bicultural Retelling of 1492 with Andrew Rowen
Coming to Our Senses
Are Emojis and Hieroglyphs Universal Language?
The Yin and Yang of Design Anthropology with Dr. Elizabeth Dori Tunstall
Fall for This Anthro Life: Back in Action, New Content, and our Patreon Campaign
The Happiness Fetish Revisited
Conversations and Podcasting as Social Technology
The Stories Bones Tell w/ Kristina Killgrove
Anthropology + Science Journalism = A New Genre? w/ Daniel Salas of SAPIENS
Anthropology has Always been Out There w/ Ed Liebow and Leslie Walker of the AAA
Writing “in my Culture” w/ Zoe Wool and Alex Golub of Savage Minds
Visual Anthropology Revisited, pt 2
Visual Anthropology Revisited, pt 1
On the Craft of Writing w/ Dr. Anita Hannig
Free Think 6 – Who Are the 13,000?
Dating your Ancestors is Complicated: The Strange Case of Homo Naledi
Culinary Catalysts and Scientific Shifts: Peruvian Quinoa in the Age of Genetics and Gastronomy
FreeThink 5: Finding Balance in the Midst of Burnout
The Power of Vulnerability Revisited
FreeThink #4: On Art, Creativity, and Bringing Awe back to Anthropology
Investigating the Untethered Journey between Psychedelic Science, Medicine, and Drug Scheduling with Hamilton Morris
Waiting w/ Serra Hakyemez
D+A #2: What Makes a Protest Successful and How do I get involved?
Protesting the Powers that Be and Being the Power that Protests w/ Jara Connell
D+A Minisode 1: How to Deal with Change w/ Dr. Andi Simon
When your Business Stalls, it’s time to Evolve: Unpacking Corporate Anthropology with Dr. Andi Simon
FreeThink 3: PRX Podcast Garage Meetups, Building Bridges, and Expanding the Podcast
Don’t Panic! The Neuroscience behind falling into Balance w/ Vivek Pandey Vimal
On Kindness and What the World Needs Now w/ Hannah Brencher
Multi-species and non-Human Centered Anthropology: Conversations Revisited
Myths of American Democracy: Contradictions, Troubling Numbers, and Searching for Sense in the System
FreeThink #2 – Moving Beyond the Mic: On Collaborations and Working Across Disciplines
Beer Revisited
FreeThink #1: TaL Back in the Studio! What’s Next??
Is Corporate Anthropology Selling Out? A Conversation on Consulting with Vyjayanthi Vadrevu
Making Sense of Finance: Boundaries, Institutions, and Power with Caitlin Zaloom
Guest Podcast: Food Futures: Playing our Way to Conservation? Experimental Economics in the Andean Countryside
Stewardship and Heritage: Bringing Archaeology to the Public with Emily Jane Murry
Faded Paint and Yellowed Photos: On, Image, Inspiration, and Memory with Javier Urcid
A Business for the Future? Redefining Value, Quinoa and the Quest of Pachakuti Foods w/ Alexander Wankel
Exploring Boundaries: From Access to Female Sexworkers to the Question of Research
Mate: The Drink Beyond a Drink w/ Guilherme Heiden
Anthropology without Borders? Bringing the Study of People to the People 5
History, Power, and a Mapuche Bible: A Shaman’s Story with Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
The Thrill of Discovery
Return of the Ethnographers: Life After Fieldwork
Back from the Field: Syncing into Holly Walter’s Research Part 2
Applying, Designing, and Bringing Anthropology to the Public
Syncretism in the Land of Sacred Stones w/ Holly Walters
Unearthing the Past: Interview w/ Ryan Collins
Human Endurance w/ Ben Gebo
Buried in Snow! Thinking about landscapes as they change
The World According to Quinoa w/ Adam Gamwell
How Humans Cope
Genderless Gingerbread Figures and the Custom of Costumes
Ebola: The Passion and the Politics (Virology pt 2)
Ecologies of Happiness
iPhone, Therefore I am.
Police Militarization, Race, Trust, Violence and Ferguson, MO
Humans as a Playful Species w/ Michael D’Angelo, Host of Old School Game Show
The Burning Man Experience w/ Ben Gebo Part 2!
The Burning Man Experience w/ Ben Gebo
Ebola and Virology
Long Haul: The Lives of China’s Truckers w/ Rachel Katz
Urban Cycling
Access Denied: Protests, Urban Green Spaces, and Changing Transportation
Lost in Space: From the Universe to the Space Between Atoms
Stress Test w/ Luke Hanlin
Reproducing Rights and Wrongs: Personhood, Religious and Reproductive Freedoms, Gender, and SCOTUS
The Beautiful Game: World Cup 2014
The Power of Vulnerability
Up in the Cloud: Computing in the 21st Century (so far)
A House to Make a Home? w/ Mengqi Wang
Let There Be Light!
Special Conversation: Reflections on Anthropology: Why do we do what we do?
Environmental Anthropology, pt 1. Nature, Culture, Power
The Politics of Difference and Relatedness
Non-Human Rights
Visual Anthropology Revisited
Coffee Cultures
Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Visual Storytelling
The Crisis in Crimea with guest Dr. Emily Canning
Garbology, Space Junk and Digital Dumping
Altered States, part 2 with Ben Gebo
Altered States of Consciousness