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The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 94 Mohammed Nadeem Reviews The Jamaa and the Church: A Bantu Catholic Movement in ZaireThis book tells a story, an examination, a history, and social reflections on a seminal religious movement, which originated in Katanga, Zaire (Democratic Congo now) during the fanatically brutal period of Belgian occupation. In the backdrop of avid extraction of minerals like magnesium, gold, copper and so on, from the soil and establishment of industrial infrastructure for that purpose, there was a proliferating missionary indoctrination, and Catholic-based education. This forcible interaction of world views and cultural institutions, gave rise to the Jamaa movement in 1954, which was founded by Placeid Temple, a Flemish Catholic priest who was willing to engage...2021-05-1026 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 93 Esther Michael Reviews From Cuba with Love: Sex and Money in the Twenty-First CenturyThis book primarily focuses on Cuba’s society in the twenty-first century and how gender, sexuality, and ethics circle around it. Megan Daigle focuses on women’s sexuality and how men’s masculinity plays a huge factor in Cuba’s society. For instance, the emergence of jinetera is prostitution in Cuba that hasn't been officially illegal. Sex tourism has existed in the country both before and after the 1959 Cuban Revolution. In Cuban slang, female prostitutes are called jineteras and gay male prostitutes are called Jineteros or Pingueros. Daigle does a great job of incorporating various types of sexualtiy that are usua...2021-05-1015 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 92 Madi Harken Reviews Lydia's Open Door: Inside Mexico's Most Modern BrothelZona Galactica is a state-run brothel in Tuxtla Gutiérrez. This ethnography discusses the modernization of the sex industry and how the efforts of the government to modernize Chiapas are connected to its regulation of the sex industry. Patty Kelly examines how politics and economics impact sex work. She also looks at the concepts of gender and power by examining the government’s efforts to regulate the sex industry. There are cultural implications regarding sex work causing differences in power even outside of government control. Questions to eb asked include: is the government regulating sex or are they regulating wom...2021-05-0714 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 91 Peyton Wilkoski Reviews Outlawed: Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian CityPeter Kirby explores the wide variety of implications "waste" has in Japan. At first meant to be only about the contradictions between Japan's pollution problem and their fixation on nature, Kirby finds deeper roots in things like "racist self imaginings and wartime practice... contemporary outcasts, social exclusion, and ostracism." Kirby tells of his experiences in two places; firstly, the Azuma ward and its subsequent "Azuma Disease." A waste transfer facility leaked out harmful toxins, and the battle for awareness of this is recorded in depth by Kirby. The second place, Horiuchi, is a place used to being outside the...2021-05-0615 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 90 RJ Suey Reviews Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chunking Mansions, Hong KongThis is an ethnography that discusses one of the most diverse buildings in the world, the Chungking Mansions of Hong Kong. Due to the unique history of Hong Kong, and the economic opportunities that reside there, people from all over the world flock to the city to try out their luck. The Chungking Mansions have become a haven for those who need a financially conscious place to stay. These people range from sex workers to entrepreneurs, to backpackers. The rates for these rooms start at around $13 U.S. a night. The apartments are very modest, usually one room with...2021-05-0612 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 89 Marcus Fertig Reviews Dacha Idylls: Living Organically in Russia's CountrysideDacha life in Russia is a major part of Russian society. It is something that not many many people know about either. This book does an excellent job of introducing its readers about Russian summer culture. The tradition of the summer cottage in Russia explains Russian society in ways one would usually not consider. The dachas can correlate to life, politics, and society in Russia. The importance of going to the Dacha is very important for the people of Russia because it is a break from the routine of normal life. Also, after a long, cold, Russian winter the...2021-05-0610 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 88 Wren Shawhan Reviews Straight from the Heart: Gender, Intimacy, and the Cultural Production of Shojo MangaJapan is an epicenter for media, and the origin for a lot of these cultural exports is manga. It inspires toys, anime, video games, movies, and more. Manga has an even bigger impact on Japanese culture than any comic book does in the United States. Shojo manga is the “girls manga”, and it has been integral in forming the modern idea of a girl in Japan. Manga magazines form what is popular and promote consumerism for girls with prize incentives. Jennifer Prough conducts interviews and research at the heart of the shojo manga industry in Tokyo. She reveals the way...2021-05-0613 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 87 Izze Schwab Reviews The Spirit Ambulance: Choreographing the End of Life in ThailandThis ethnography is the accounts of medical and cultural anthropologist and physician Scott Stonington mainly in Nakhon Ping in Northern Thailand, but also in Bangkok and some surrounding areas in Southern Thailand. Stonington shares his research of the two phases of dying in the Thailand culture and the specifics in death in one place and how they relate to a broader world where death is changing for everyone. Through roots in Buddhism and some Hinduism he follows terminal patients in remote villages and caroming communities with urban hospitals and fully equipped technology. Through intimate stories of patients Stonington outlines...2021-05-0613 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 86 Charlie Look Reviews The Traveler - GypsiesIn the early 1970’s, anthropologist Judith Okely lived around and with several Gypsy families across Southern Britain in order to perform a case study. Before performing her study, however she attempted research on the history of Gypsies, which is a rather difficult task. Their history comes from either official government documentation, or from what they have written. Gypsies are not a group that records much of their own history, so there is little available coming from the latter source. There is also some written date coming from non-Gypsies, whom they call ‘Gorgios’, that anthropologists are able to use. One in the...2021-05-0614 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 85 Liam Joyce Reviews The Funeral Casino: Meditation, Massacre, and Exchange with the Dead in ThailandThe Funeral Casino is an ethnography that was written by Dr. Alan Klima during his time in Thailand after its military dictatorship had come to an end. In Thailand, the massacre of protestors spurred a coup that eventually instituted a new government, but three years later, most of the people had forgotten their sacrifice, having commemorating their deaths and moved. Having learned this, Klima researches and theorizes as to why that might be. In his ethnography, he explains the history of political protests, and violence committed against those protestors, and discusses why the Black May massacre led to the...2021-05-0614 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 84 Nathan Fricke Reviews Where the World Ended: Re-Unification and Identity in the German BorderlandThe ethnographic research by Daphne Berdahl takes place in the village of Kella, Germany, in the early 1990s. Kella is a small village located directly on the former border between East and West Germany. This area of the world at the time was going through many social, political, and economic changes as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Throughout several years of close interactions with citizens of Kella and surrounding areas, Berdahl examines the newfound border identity that was beginning to take form as a result of the reunification of East and West Germany. This identity...2021-05-0620 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 83 Lily Bruner Reviews Life Without Lead: Contamination, Crisis and Hope in UruguayLife Without Lead discusses the crisis that started in La Teja, a neighborhood in Montevideo, Uruguay. Over many decades, a company that makes batteries caused lead to infect the water and grounds of many neighborhoods in Montevideo. After many children began to get sick, they were discovered to have lead poisoning and it was linked back to Radesca S.A. storage-battery company. This disaster caused a health crisis among families, destroyed agriculture and hope. In light of these events, many activists spoke out about the crisis and the Uruguayan government’s response. Renfrew details the changes in the government fr...2021-05-0613 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 82 Tyler Klems Reviews The Tango Machine: Musical Culture in the Age of ExpediencyIn this ethnography, the author Morgan James Luker explores the connection between the historically rich culture of Argentina and tango. Even though tango is not nearly as popular as it was back in the 1940’s and 1950’s, many Argentine people still value the preservation of tango. In fact many people still visit the grave of Carlos Gardel, and leave offerings for him such as cigarettes between the fingers of a statue of Gardel. In his ethnography Luker explores what he calls the simultaneous dual trend of detachment and connection to tango. This connection explains the different actions taken by peop...2021-05-0616 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 81 Hannah Jensen Reviews Behold the Black Caiman: A Chronicle of Ayoreo LifeIn 2004, one of the last remaining groups of voluntarily isolated native americans stumbled out of their woodland home in northern Paraguay, fleeing the bulldozers destroying their land, and stepped directly into the public eye. They thus became suddenly and violently inundated with a world that was incompatible with everything they previously knew, which eviscerated and forcibly eclipsed their former beliefs, leaving them without a ground to stand on. They were shamed and discriminated against by the locals and previously-contacted Ayoreo for being too primitive, and unconsciously discriminated against by NGOs and the anthropological world for not being primitive enough...2021-05-0517 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 80 Frances Rodriguez Caraballo Reviews Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine ShantytownThis book goes into detail about the daily lives of those who live in a shantytown called Flammable in Argentina. It mostly focuses on and goes into the environmental suffering they go through, since the area is very polluted. It discusses the health effects of being in such an area, why the area is like that in the first place, and how the people themselves live with/adapt to the place. It also goes into the roles of gender and class inequality, as well as the economy.This book shows you that there is no one simple answer as...2021-05-0514 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 79 Josie Guernsey Reviews The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist PolandGeneviève Zubrzycki is an assistant professor of Sociology that in 1989, spent over 36 months conducting fieldwork in Oświęcim, Poland where the remnants and museum of Auschwitz is located. The event labeled “The Crosses of Auschwitz” is what brought her to Poland in particular. In 1988, when a group Nuns were asked to move after setting up a convent outside Auschwitz, a local priest planted a tall cross in the gravel pit outside the gate as a protest to the relocation. The Jewish religion forbid followers to pray where “other Gods stand” meaning they were unable to pray for the victims...2021-05-0512 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 78 Ben Skoff Reviews Laura Odgen's Swamplife: People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the EvergladesThis book discusses the early practices of the everglades such as alligator hunting slowly became outlawed and the way of life in the everglades changed forever. She also discusses how over time the landscape was changed by rhizomes, and in turn, the inhabitants were affected by the changing land so severely that many aspects of their daily routines had to change. This brings up one of the main themes of the book which is the importance of treating landscapes as not just humankind's "progress", but as an active participant in humans' encounters with the environment. She also discusses a...2021-05-0513 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 77 Jacob Skretta Reviews Military Power and Popular Protest: The U.S. Navy in Vieques, Puerto RicoKatherine McCaffrey's research focuses on the interaction between the United states military, specifically the Navy, in an outlying island of Puerto Rico called Vieques. Vieques is a small island and home to only 10,000 or so residents. Since World War Two, the United States has used Vieques as a training site for bombings and amphibious landings. McCaffrey begins with a description of a history of the island. She then examines a similar grassroots movement against the Navy in the 1970's. Finally she discusses the events that took place during her fieldwork in the mid to late 1990's and concludes with...2021-05-0513 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 76 Sam Bennie Reviews Zora Neale Hurston's Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti And JamaicaZora Neale Hurston’s experience of daily life & voodoo/obeah rituals in Haiti And Jamaica. She learns about Jamaican burial rituals, visits the first freedmen settlement in the world, describes the Haitian people as extreme liars, writes about Haitian politics (specifically one president who practiced voodoo in office with the help of his daughter and her goat named Simalo), exposes a cannibalistic cult, describes many voodoo rituals & gods, lists multiple methods of poison used in Haiti, & hangs out with a white man well known in voodoo circles. She describes how the god Guede, who lives in ce...2021-05-0412 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 75 Ryan Wilson Reviews Troubled Natures: Waste, Environment, JapanPeter Kirby explores the wide variety of implications "waste" has in Japan. At first meant to be only about the contradictions between Japans pollution problem and their fixation on nature, Kirby finds deeper roots in things like "racist self imaginings and wartime practice... contemporary outcasts, social exclusion, and ostracism." Kirby tells of his experiences in two places; firstly, the Azuma ward and its subsequent "Azuma Disease." A waste transfer facility leaked out harmful toxins, and the battle for awareness of this is recorded in depth by Kirby. The second place, Horiuchi, is a place used to being outside the...2021-05-0411 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 74 Hayley Ramirez Reviews Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in DelhiThis ethnography depicts how a cancer diagnosis impacts the social lives of the patients and their families by exacerbating decades of martial abuse and fragile family relationships. Drawing on the ethnographical fieldwork conducted in 2011, Dwaipayan Banerjee highlights the familial strain and focuses on a not-for-profit organization that focuses on palliative care because of the lack of treatment. Here the author portrays first-hand how shame, pride, adultery, domestic violence and the vastly different gender responsibilities, are either resurfaced or amplified by the cancer diagnosis. The strain of the diagnosis is aggravated the lack of public and private infrastructure to receive...2021-04-3014 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 73 Samantha Grove Reviews Back Stories: U.S. News Production and Palestinian PoliticsAmahl A. Bishara explores the influence and relationship journalists have with Palestinian people around Israel and the West Bank. She explores a number of anthropological ideas of power, use of language and globalization. Studying a group of people who are considered “stateless” introduces a power dynamic through both the interpretation of western media and the political struggle between Palestinians and Israelis. Bishara explains that Palestinians' social status often makes them rely on western media to accurately portray them and their cause. There are a number of obstacles that Palestinians face in their statelessness, both physical and metaphorical. The Israeli gove...2021-04-2814 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 21 Hanna Reynolds Reviews Burning at Europe's Borders: An Ethnography on the African Migrant Experience in MoroccoMigrants from areas south of the Maghreb are caught in transition on their way to Europe. Through the externalization policies of Spain and the EU, migrants are beaten down the fences of Spanish enclaves - Ceuta and Melilla - bordering Morocco. Alexander-Nathani’s ethnography explains that this physical beating by the Guardia Civil is the least of the burdens in their journey north. From their sending country, traveled usually through human smuggles or by foot, and in the climate of Morocco’s police enforced and citizen-spread racism toward black Africans through deplorable brutality, migrants see the three-layered fence as one...2021-01-1815 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 71 Kinli Miller Reviews Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and JamaicaThis ethnography navigates the social structures of the Caribbean which are deeply rooted in colonialism, sexism, and classism demonstrated by the taboo practice of Voodoo. During Hursten’s time in Haiti and Jamaica in the 1930’s, she explores the secrecy and mystery shrouding African rituals and knowledge of medicine and poisons brought by enslaved ancestors to the islands. The irony of a population majority black and mixed trying to attain white status and European features is not lost, but is highlighted by the fact that Voodoo has been driven underground. This work is meant to uncover the real Voodoo that...2020-11-2714 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 70 Jessica Schafer Reviews In the MetroIn the Metro presents an ethnography of the subway and public transportation, a place where you are alone, yet surrounded by other people. This creates an interesting social paradox which Auge analyzes throughout the book, through observation, philosophical analysis, and personal experience. Describing the average rider of the metro is impossible, there is no average rider. People of all classes use the metro, and each person has their own perceptions and memories associated with the metro, thus conclusions made about a rider by an observer can never be understood as average. Auge speaks of ethnography, and how this sort...2020-11-2714 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 69 Will Synowiecki Reviews A Year in the Life of a Shinto ShrineA Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine is an ethnography in which John K. Nelson experiences the practices and happenings in a Japanese Shinto Shrine. The Shrine Nelson does his studies at is the Suwa Shrine in Nagasaki, Japan. He observes Shinto practices by priests, as well as worshippers of the religion that visit the Shrine for prayer and or rituals. At the beginning of the book Nelson explains the basics of the Shinto religion, including how ancient it is, what the Gods/Spirits called Kami are, and how impactful this old religion has remained today. He...2020-11-2713 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 68 Miranda Ritchie Reviews Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of DeathSince the invention of the ventilator and the adaptation of defining death, "Western" countries have had to determine when and how to define death and organ transplants. The first heart transplant occurred in South Africa in 1967 sparking the beginning of the exploration of the organ transplant industry in other countries. In the United States, Canada, and Western Europe, society, medical professionals, the legal system, and the government were able to quickly come to a consensus on brain death and organ transplants. Overall, the leading opinion was that brain death was established when the person's brain had suffered irreversible brain...2020-11-2721 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 67 Abby Queen Reviews A Society without Fathers or Husbands: The Na of ChinaThe Na people, also called the Moso, live in Yunnan Province in southern China. Family is very important to the Na, but their families are different from the way we know family in the west. Brothers and sisters live together their whole lives, and the uncles take on the “father figure” in the children’s lives. There are no official marriages in the Na culture. Incest is prohibited and they respect that prohibition. Men visit women at night and they leave to work during the day. They have more flings. Long-term relationships are allowed and not unusual. They are called...2020-11-2720 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 66 Skyler Meyer Reviews Meeting the "Other:" Living in the Present, Gender and Sustainability in BhutanIn “Meeting the Other,” Crins introduces her unique journey into the small country of Bhutan. After a brief background and introduction to the country, she gives several details before diving into her observations and experiences. The author explains her 17 years of experience in Bhutan throughout the entire book, constantly using the term: the “other.” This word should be understood as the people and culture of Bhutan. Crins records several conversations between Bhutanese citizens that vary between ages, education, location, views, and opinions. Throughout the book, these conversations are referred to compare different topics and analyzes their ways of thinking compared...2020-11-2716 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP 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 EditionThis ethnography takes place in The Netherlands where euthanasia and physician assisted suicide is legal and a fairly common practice. The main points of this ethnography were: to identify the purpose and importance of huisartsen (general practitioners) in the end of life of Dutch people, to show the significance family has in end of life decisions, the relationship between social death and biological death, what euthanasia talk is and why it is necessary in order to carry out euthanasia requests, and why the people of the Netherlands seek an “ideal death” and how euthanasia can fulfill that desire. Death can...2020-11-2718 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 64 Valeria Facio-Lom Reviews Other-Worldly: Making Chinese Medicine through Transnational FramesThis ethnography focuses on the “worlding” of Chinese traditional medicine from Shanghai to the San Francisco Bay Area over a 10-year period between 1995-2005. Mei Zhan argues that what has become known as “Chinese Traditional Medicine” has shifted and changed as a result of the various encounters it has come across in the globalized world of the 20th / 21st century. In the ten years, Zhan follows the encounters of teachers, practitioners, and advocates of Chinese medicine through hospitals, schools, and grass root organizations in Shanghai and the San Francisco Bay Area. This ethnography explores the encounters of Chinese medicine and the...2020-11-2713 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 63 Ana Facio-Lom Reviews The Biopolitics of Beauty: Cosmetic Citizenship and Affective Capital in BrazilAlavo Jarrín explores a variety of topics in his ethnographic research, The Biopolitics of Beauty: Cosmetic Citizenship and Affective Capital in Brazil. The ethnography can be summarized by one quote. “Não tem feio, só tem pobre” or in other words There are no ugly people, only poor people. Jarrin touches on the subjects of gender identity, colorism, sexuality, race, social class, and health. The author explores these themes and carefully winds up dissecting Brazilian culture, society, politics, and the economy. Beauty is conceptualized as a tangible and metaphysical series of opportunities. Physical beauty is desired by many Brazili...2020-11-2713 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 62 Dellante Clark-Brown Reviews City of Darkness: Life In Kowloon Walled CityIan Lambot and his co-illustrator Greg Girad travel to Hong Kong’s “Walled City of Kowloon”. They conduct many interviews with people who have lived within the city or were a part of the seedy dealings taking place within it. They live in Hong Kong doing research for four years talking to locals, living in Hong Kong, and getting a real understanding of the city as well as the culture. They cover issues of the youth, drugs, poverty, and mostly the eventual demolition of the city itself, and the impact that it would have in the Hong Kong. The two of...2020-11-2716 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 61 Ashley Ciccarelli Reviews Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant TrailThe Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail is an ethnography that uses photography, forensic anthropology, archeology, and linguistics to educate the public about illegal immigration from Mexico to the United States. The book mostly focuses on the journey of illegal immigration through the Sonoran Desert. The book is split into three interesting parts and talks about Prevention through Deterrence, people’s personal experiences in crossing the Sonoran Desert and how people crossing the desert had an impact on the environment of the desert. Jason De Leon talks a lot about how the United States go...2020-11-2715 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 60 Sam Biaggi Reviews Learning Capoeira: Lessons in Cunning from an Afro-Brazilian ArtIn Brazil, African slaves developed capoeira, an acrobatic and deceptive martial art designed to disguise itself as a dance to allow slaves to practice without suspicion. Throughout the centuries, capoeira has evolved and grown into an essential part of Afro-Brazilian culture. From its use by freedmen and street gangs as a weapon, the Capoeira Regional focus on self defense, to the more contemporary vision of the art, capoeira has always been a ritual that focuses on fluidity, rhythm, and cunning above all. In Learning Capoeira, anthropologist Greg Downey uses over ten years of experience with capoeira to look at...2020-11-2714 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 59 Lucy Parizek Reviews My Father’s Wars: Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a CenturyMy Father’s Wars: Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century is an “intimate ethnography” involving an anthropologist’s vivid account of her father’s journey across continents, countries, cultures, generations, and wars. Waterstone creates a “moving portrait” of her father as a charming, funny, wounded, and difficult man. Providing a scholarly reflection which discusses the dramatic forces of history, the experiences of exile and immigration, the legacies of culture, and the enduring power of memory. “I am a daughter who chronicled a family narrative, and I am an anthropologist who contextualized the story.” (Waterston 2013:XV). The ethnography successfully combi...2020-11-2412 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 58 Erin O'Connor Reviews Unity of Heart: Culture and Change in a Polynesian Atoll SocietyAnne Chambers and her husband, Keith Chambers, recount the experiences they had when encountering the small island community of Nanumea over 25 years. Their first visit lasted for two years from 1973-75 as part of a British colonial project to learn about island communities. The second in 1983 was also for research but lasted just a few months, and the third in 1996 was not primarily for research and was only for two months. With their deep understanding of the community through living there for years and seeing it change across a quarter of a decade, the two write about how the...2020-11-2425 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 57 Trinity Mozingo Reviews The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to WatchIn his late-thirties, Jonathan Gottschall unhappy about his current job as an adjunct community college professor who decides to join a mixed martial arts (MMA) gym. Throughout the book, we follow as Gottschall trains to fight in a cage match. As he is training, he also goes into detail about the history of fighting as leisure or sport. Gottschall dives into how fighting culture has come along throughout history along with why people enjoy fighting and watching fights. Gottschall covers all the nuances of fight culture from how strategies in fighting have developed, how fights are broken down, how...2020-11-2415 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 56 Jack Sokolik Reviews The Strange Child: Education and the Psychology of Patriotism in Recessionary JapanThe Strange Child: Education and the Psychology of Patriotism in Recessionary Japan, details the changing landscape of the Japanese youth and education system in an ever changing modern Japan. This evolution, one of rapid modernization and industrialization, has made Japan one of the most economically and technologically proficient nations in the whole world, yet has had a drastic impact on the overworked youth, who's whole being is devoted to the prospect of finding a career in the nation's gargantuan economy. But the larger something is, the harder it falls, and the Japanese economy is no different. During the 1990s...2020-11-2425 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 55 Clair Jantz Reviews Empowering Women in Russia: Activism, AID, and NGOsIn Empowering Women in Russia, Julie Hemment explores the different phases of women’s groups had to go through after the fall of the Soviet Union. She explains how Russian women’s groups, such as Zhenskii Svet, were influenced by the United States and Western European organizations' ideals to establish democracy in a country that was under state socialism. Hemment tells about how she wanted to explore the participatory action research style in efforts to learn more about Zhenskii Svet. In this form of research, Hemment took equal parts in observing her target group and lending a hand to help...2020-11-2414 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 54 Cassandra Corral Reviews The Death Rituals of Rural GreeceThe Death Rituals of Rural Greece written by Loring M. Danforth in 1982.2020-11-2410 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 53 Michael Day Reviews Joyriding in RiyadhJoyriding in Riyadh perfectly encapsulates the youth subculture in Saudi Arabia. The author, Pascal Menoret identifies key youth ideologies through a web of informants that he connected with over years of work. Traveling throughout Saudi Arabia, Pascal discovers many complex relationships between the youth, the economy, and the government. In his journey, many issues arise as he tries to investigate the unique relationship between elders and the youth in the steppe of Saudi Arabia. The radicalized youth force Pascal to flee from the steppe to the city of Riyadh. In Riyadh, Pascal investigates the connection between the youth, urban...2020-11-2414 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 52 Maggie Riekman – It's All Greek to Me!Maggie Reickman Reviews Making Modern Mothers: Ethics and Family Planning in Urban Greece Through thick description, statistical research, interviews, her own narrative, and inclusivity of Greek voices and language, Paxson explores motherhood and femininity in contemporary Athens, Greece. Athens is a changing city, stuck between ancient familial tradition, religious values, and patriarchal stigmas and modernization due to the globalization of Western ideology through tourism, media, legal system, economy, etc. Paxson tracks and interprets change through evolving abortion regulation, family planning in birth control, biomedicine in fertility technology, capitalism advertising pregnancy, etc. This ethnography focuses on the...2020-11-2414 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 50 Evan Melchior Reviews The World of Lucha Libre: Secrets, Revelations, and Mexican National IdentityThis book covers the sport of Lucha Libre wrestling in the country of Mexico, form the time of its inception until the modern age. Author Heather Levi studies all aspects of the sport: the wrestlers themselves, officials/referees, spectators and fans, and media members. She examines themes of national identity, unity, class differences and structure, gender roles, and issues with how entertainers navigate everyday life.2020-11-2414 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 51 Austin Ash Reviews Life beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic Life beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic by Lisa Stevenson 2020-11-2414 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 49 Emma Hanson Reviews Improving Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer EpidemicLivingston describes the cancer ward in terms of politics, need, power, biomedical science, death, and hope that shape contemporary experience in southern Africa. She talks of her time in the death and desolation of the overworked, understaffed, and in need of aid hospital. As she writes she talks about her experiences and how they affect each life around her. She interviews patients and nurses while doing a lot of work herself. Livingston writes about how nurses on the oncology ward show deep empathy for patients during failing times, but Livingston does not allow these nurses to become angered and...2020-11-2409 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 48 Zach Markussen Imagined Olympians: Body Culture and Colonial Representation in RwandaThis book by John Bale dives into the body culture of Rwanda, and how it was used during the colonization of Rwanda during the 1900's to set the ethnic groups against each other, to elevate one above the others, and how it was reflected in and changed by Europe. The specific body culture being gusimbuka-urukiramende, a form of jumping. The book also discusses the ways that European and American travelers took photos of gusimbuka-urukiramende and how that reflected, or was intended to reflect the power dynamic between the colonizers and the colonized. Overall, diving into body culture, sport vs...2020-11-2411 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 47 Robert Stenzel Reviews My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of WarcraftWorld of Warcraft, a massively-multiplayer-online role-playing game set in the Warcraft universe, has been a major player in the gaming industry since its inception. It has captivated millions of dedicated players from all over the world and all walks of life with its expansive game world and in-depth character progression system. In this book by Bonnie Nardi, emeritus professor of the Department of Informatics at the University of California, she explores World of Warcraft through an anthropological lense in order to find what draws people back again and again. Nardi delves deep into the many facets of WoW’s wo...2020-11-2316 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 46 Matthew Stennes Reviews Merchants in the City of Art: Work, Identity, and Change in a Florentine NeighborhoodThis book focuses on the world of street markets in Florence, Italy, specifically in the neighborhood of San Lorenzo. It focuses on certain vendors that have been working in the street vending business for many years. The book attempts “to explore how cultural identities are formed in periods of profound economic and social change” (Schiller 2016), and examines the street vending culture in the area as a whole. It breaks this discussion into specific chapters, focusing on the San Lorenzo neighborhood specifically and its history, how street vendors in the neighborhood came upon the job, the nuances of how the stre...2020-11-2317 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 45 Blake Mann Reviews Death Without WeepingDeath Without Weeping is an ethnography written by Nancy Scheper-Hughes about the high infant mortality rates in Northeastern Brazil and the social, psychological, political, and cultural factors behind it. The author begins by giving a background of the region such as the major industry (sugar), and the class breakdown. The rest of the book analyzes the poorest class, particularly the mothers and their children. The overall health of the people is very bad. Hunger is always present in the lives of the people of Alto do Cruzeiro. The constant hunger has turned into a part of the culture. Due...2020-11-2314 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 44 Allison Saddler Reviews Number Our DaysBarbara Myerhoff’s ethnography sheds light on the life of a small Jewish community who frequently gather at the Aliyah Senior Citizens’ Center. Myerhoff joins this group to begin her understanding of what cards life has delt these individuals, many of whom journeyed to America to escape the Holocaust. As a practicing Jew herself, she begins to understand what is in store for her in the future, as she looks to the past and present conditions of others. Her ethnography documents the lives of many who join her ‘Living History’ class to share their struggles, achievements, and knowledge of how to e...2020-11-2215 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 43 Jaidan Payer Reviews A Different Kind of War StoryA Different Kind of War Story is an ethnography by Carolyn Nordstrom. Her research takes her to the frontline s of the most brutal wars in recent history. The setting takes place in Mozambique located in East Africa. The war took a million lives, mostly civilians, and destroyed homes, crops, hospitals , schools, and even water access. Nordstrom explores the nature and culture of violence experienced and the remarkable creativity that ordinary people bring to surviving violence and rebuilding humane worlds. When it comes to writing people’s experiences it begins to make up the cultures of violence and survival th...2020-11-2212 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 42 Odess Ohrt Reviews Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice BoxerBody and Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice boxer covers one anthropologist’s dive into the all-encompassing boxing world located within the black American ghetto in Southern Chicago. Wacquant covers all of the lessons that he learned through the sport both about himself and about how the culture of the boxer works as a whole and what it does for the members of the gym. He highlights the inner workings of the gym he was a part of and how the community he found in three sections of text. The first section delves into the relationship of the street and th...2020-11-2214 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 41 Dylan Hiser Reviews Sugarball: The American Game, the Dominican DreamAlan M Klein is an American anthropologist who studied the relationship between baseball in the Dominican Republic and baseball in the United States. He studied how baseball is seen as an opportunity to all of the Dominican Republic. It represents hope and ambition to leave the poverty and lack of true freedom seen in the Dominican Republic. Baseball is also a form of America's colonial rule over Dominicans. This complex relationship is better understood through Klein's interviews, surveys, & observations in the Dominican Republic. He primarily conducted his research at Quisqueya, the MLB academies in the country, and through...2020-11-2218 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 40 Morgan Brown Reviews Renaissance Festivals: Merrying the Past and PresentIn the book Renaissance Festivals: Merrying the Past and Present, author Kimberly Tony Korol-Evans dives into the Maryland Renaissance Festival. She explores how it differs from smaller fairs and discusses what the atmosphere of the fair looks like as a whole. Also in this book, she discusses how the festival was affected by the events of September 11, 2001. Since this was during the time of her research, the attack had a big impact on her experiences. The majority of this book focuses on how the actors and directors use the five senses to create an unforgettable experience for the guests...2020-11-2217 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 39 Will Anderson Reviews In Hip Hop Times: Music, Memory, and Social Change in Urban SenegalIn Hip Hop Times: Music, Memory, and Social Change in Urban Senegal is an ethnography about how the influence of hip hop music changed the culture and affected the people of Senegal and the surrounding countries. Catherine M. Appert, the author of the book, spent 4 years in Senegal studying the ways that hip hop affects the lives of musicians and non-musicians alike. They also learned a lot about the history of music in Senegal including traditional styles, how hip hop made its way to Senegal, and how it was altered to fit the musical styles and traditions of the...2020-11-2118 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 38 Eric Mustard Reviews With the Boys: Little League Baseball and Preadolescent CultureGary Alan Fine went around to five little league baseball leagues around the United states. There were three leagues in Minnesota, one in Massachusetts, and one in Rhode Island. He was interested in studying different aspects of Little League and how they affect preadolescent culture. One of the main areas of study Fine focused on was parental and adult involvement in the leagues and in the boys’ lives. Pretty much every aspect of the leagues are controlled by adults. Adult parents are the audience watching the games. Adult coaches are teacher and being examples. Adult umpired regulate the game. An...2020-11-2113 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 37 Emma Todd Reviews They All Want MagicThis ethnography aims to see the practices of folk healing in the borderlands through an anthropological lens. Elizabeth De La Portilla is a native anthropologist discovering the meaning and responsibility of being a healer primarily in San Antonio, Texas. She also looks back to historical trauma and people’s inner turmoil to fully encompass the important cultural lengths that Curanderos go to in order to protect and heal their society. This book is a mix of memoir, history, and ethnography as the reader weaves their way through this exciting new world view.2020-11-2014 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEp Episode 36 Matt Price Reviews Being Young, Male, and SaudiHow do young men in Saudi Arabia view themselves in the world? This book aims to uncover the identities young men hold and how these identities affect their everyday lives. Mark C. Thompson conducted his field work in focus groups of young Saudi men from across the kingdom. Each group was asked about several important topics. These topics include Preserving Islamic and Saudi Socio-Cultural Values, The Social Contract in an age of 'Austerity,' Relationship between the Governing and the Governed, Educational Reform, Gender Issues, Marginalization and Fault Lines, and Participation in Decision-Making Processes. The insight the young men...2020-11-2012 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 35 Thara Michaelis Reviews At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast BrazilAnthropologist Tobias Hecht explores, in this book, how the street kids in Recife, Brazil view themselves and compares this to the perception of the kids by the world. Whereas street children believe their escape to the street is a sign of their independence and initiative in taking care of themselves, many see these same children as victims of circumstance with parents who abandoned or abused them. This is not always true. Examples of several instances where caring mothers take their kids off the streets and back into the home are repeatedly shown; however, the kids will most likely flee...2020-11-1819 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 34 Marissa Krause Reviews Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Ever SeenIn Born to Run, award-winning journalist Chris McDougall sets off to find the secret of the Tarahumuara Indians after years of his own running injuries and asking the question, why does my foot hurt? The Tarahumara Indians are a secluded, ancient tribe who lead a simple life in the Copper Canyons of Mexico and are somehow able to run hundreds of miles at a time despite living the opposite lifestyle of a typical elite runner, most notably by the fact that they wear thin sandals with little to no cushioning. This discovery makes McDougall question the current state of...2020-11-1616 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 33 Edgar Torres Reviews The Making of a Human Bomb: An Ethnography of Palestinian ResistanceIn Nasser Abufarha’s ethnography on Palestinian resistance, he explores three areas with respect to the martyrdom operations (suicide bombings) in Palestine: the cultural poetics of political violence in Palestine; the nature of state and violence (by Israel) and the mimetic violence carried out by resistance groups; and the relevance of globalization, modernity, and the consequent resurgence of traditions in shaping this form of violence. Abufarha does this by using ethnographic observations (details about the quantities of attacks observed, examining materials, interviews, and conducting a literature review of the region. Abufarha also explains the culture of Palestinians and how Pa...2020-11-1615 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 32 Morgan Noble Reviews Gut Check! A Wild Ride into the Heart of College FootballIn Gut Check! An Anthropologist’s Wild Ride into the Heart of College Football, Dr. Robert Sands goes back to college in California at Santa Barbara City College. Dr. Sands wanted to dive deep into the heart of college football, so he did what he thought was the best way to do that – join the team and experience it firsthand. The book tells of his last game in his two year career against the best team in the state. In between telling us what happened in the game, he fills us in about people on the team and describes thei...2020-11-1613 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 31 Brenna Mazour Reviews Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent MealHanna Garth experienced and shared the difficulties of food acquisition for families in Cuba, a place where food and meals are so valued. From outsiders, people living in other countries, Cuba looks well off in regards to food due to their low rates of the hungry, but that doesn’t take into account the amount of time and work it takes to find and prepare food without the ability of using refrigeration. Women are typically the ones who find and walk to markets, get the best deal and prepare it all, while also usually having another job. There are ce...2020-11-1513 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 30 Jun Kyu Shin Reviews POP CITY - Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of PlaceThis enthography examines the use of Korean television dramas and K-pop music to promote urban and rural places in South Korea. Building on the phenomenon of Korean pop culture.2020-05-1110 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 29 Connor Zamastil Reviews Lila Abu Lughod's Veiled SentimentsThis ethnography explores the nomadic Bedouin tribes of northern Egypt, and the importance of poetry in expressing individual feelings. Transcript;2020-05-0906 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 28 Craig Mathieson Reviews Permitted & Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in JapanThis ethnography examines gender and sexuality of Japanese Pop Culture Transcript: 2020-05-0916 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 27 Batool Ibrahim Reviews Black Women Against the Land Grab by Kiesha Khan PerryProfessor "Kiesha Khan Perry" makes a "guest appearance" 2020-05-0917 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 26 Zoe Cole reviews Rachel Newcomb's The Women of Fes Transcript:2020-05-0910 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 25 Grace Pilker Reviews An Ethnography of a Vodu Shrine in Southern Togo: Of Spirit, Slave and Sea“An Ethnography of a Vodu Shrine in Southern Togo Of Spirit, Slave and Sea” depicts the religious traditions, values, and practices of the Ewe people in the community of Gbedala, a small beach fronted fishing village off the coast of Togo and near the town of Lomé. Gorovodu, a sub-sect of vodu, is practiced in the region where performative rituals and shrines are common. Within this ethnography specific focus is given to religious shrines found in the households and other areas of the community. These shrines not only reflect the religious values of Gorovodu but also the past and prese...2020-05-0617 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 24 Reece Hasselbalch Davison Reviews The Political Lives of SaintsThis ethnography paints a picture of the centuries-long interactions between Coptic Christians and Muslims in Egypt, specifically after the 2011 Arab Spring Transcript: 2020-05-0617 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 23 Abbie Moore Reviews Songs of Seoul: An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South KoreaThis ethnography examines the difference between traditional and Christian singing in South Korea. Songs of Seoul is an ethnography that studies the voice that is associated with Evangelical Christian worship. Harkness argues that the European-style classical voice has become a specifically Christian emblem of South Korean prosperity. The ethnography also goes into the economic relations that is associated with this religion. It goes into detail about the relationship of the transformation of voices to emotion and wanting of a voice that does not sound like pain and suffering 2020-05-0510 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 22 Brianna Hoyt Reviews Embodying Honor: Fertility, Foreignness, and Regeneration of eastern SudanThis ethnography gives the readers an inside look into the lives of Hadendowa women, their daily lives, their beliefs, and how fertility affects all of it. Amal Hassan Fadlalla talks to many different women, from varying backgrounds and ages about their lives. The Hadendowa people are pastoralists that live in the very rural part of Sudan. They are the most affected by droughts and famines, they are the people who are harmed the most. Because of their lifestyle, children are vital to their community. The ultimate goal for a woman is to have multiple children. Boys are preferred, but...2020-05-0514 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 21 Evan Cada Reviews Soccer, Culture, and Society in SpainThe ethnography focuses on a spanish soccer club who's roster is only filled with local individuals. Despite this unique strategy, the football club has never been relegated from the top league. The author explores the different themes of ethnicity, nationality, kinship, etc. and their relationships to football. Transcript: 2020-05-0422 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 20 Samantha Williams Reviews Don't Sleep, There are SnakesThis ethnography follows the author Daniel Everett on his journey to central Brazil. He originally came as a missionary to attempt to translate the bible to a tribe called the Pirahas. He quickly learned that learning to speak their language was going to be an immense challenge to overcome as the Piraha language is like no other. He came there to show them god and he never really left. He continued to move his wife and children there and lived amongst the Pirahas for many years on and off. He faced many more challenges than just learning their language...2020-05-0415 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 19 Ayla Volante Reviews Elizabeth Warnock Fernea's Guests of the SheikThis ethnography follows the daily life of Elizabeth Fernea, known as Beeja by the village folk of El Nahra, while she learns how to adapt to life in a polygamist village that has never been exposed to a white woman. In her two years there, she learns the customs and traditions and adapts to living a veiled life and with separation from the men. Transcript: 2020-05-0414 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 18 Quin Sleddens Reviews Embracing the Witch and the Goddess; Feminist Ritual Makers in New ZealandThis ethnography is a detailed survey of present-day feminist witches in New Zealand. It examines the attraction of witchcraft for its practitioners, and explores witches rituals, views, and beliefs about how magic works. The book provides a portrait of undocumented section of the growing Neo-pagan movement, and compares the special character of New Zealand witchcraft with its counterparts in the United States. Kathryn Rountree traces the emergence and history of feminist witchcraft, and links witchcraft with the contemporary Goddess movement. She reviews scholarly approaches on the study of witchcraft and deal with the key debates which have engaged the...2020-05-0411 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 17 Jessie Reed Reviews Tragic Spirits: Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary MongoliaIn this ethnography, Manduhai Buyandelger focused a subset of the population in Mongolia. The Mongolian Buryats, who reside in the northeastern region of the country, have a long and complicated relationship with both Mongolia and their ancestral homelands in Russia. There have been repeated incidents of persecution, migration, and a part of their people who were separated from the Mongolian people after their expulsion from Russia. Several, however, were able to remain in the region of their origins and have continued their practices since. Buyandelger concentrates on the relationship of shamanic practices within the context of communism. She asks...2020-05-0416 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 16 Sasha Ramer Reviews Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural IrelandSaints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in rural Ireland is an ethnographic study of Irish bachelors and others in the small rural community. This ethnography takes the reader into the landscape of rural Ireland in the late ’70s. In the 20th anniversary edition, author Nancy Scheper-Hughs discusses the reception of the book after publication and the impact of honest ethnography on the people that are being analyzed, she describes the impact on the community of her work and the fact that the community has largely read her critical analysis of their lives. Her research is centered around mental illness in...2020-05-0411 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 15 Zuha Qadeer Reviews Lila Abu-Lughod's Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin StoriesThis ethnography follows the lives and experiences of the women of the Bedouin Awlad Ali tribe in Egypt's Western Desert. Lila Abu-Lughod adopts a storytelling style in this ethnography, allowing the readers to be completely immersed by the stories of the Bedouin women. The ethnography explores patrilineality, polygyny, reproduction, patrilateral parallel cousin marriage, honor, and shame as they occur within Bedouin society exclusively from the point of view of the women of the tribe. The ethnography is intended to explore how cultural norms within Bedouin society and women's interactions with them intersect with ideas of feminism and how different...2020-05-0417 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 14 Logan Hawkins Reviews Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of IndiaThis ethnography uses an anthropological lense to examine the hijras of India, with a focus on major questions in gender studies. This ethnography is based on the fieldwork Serena Nanda did in India between 1981 and 1986. The ethnography follows four hijras: Kamladevi, Meera, Sushila, and Salima. Transcript: 2020-05-0416 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 13 Garrett Sharman Reviews Live and Die Like a Man: Gender Dynamics in Urban EgyptThis ethnography focuses on the topic of gender in urban Egypt. It also focuses specifically how masculinity is constructed by both men and women under changing norms. Transcript:2020-05-0412 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 12 Guadalupe Esquivel reviews God's Laboratory: Assisted Reproduction in the AndesThis ethnography offers a glimpse at different aspects of assisted reproduction in Ecuador, through a series of vignettes that highlight the personal relationship to the procedure. The seemingly ironic tie between science and religion permeates all parts of the experience, and Roberts seeks to uncover how such a conservative state embraces assisted reproduction, as well as understand the quiet race project occuring. Transcript:2020-05-0413 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 11 Emma Lyness Reviews Growing Artefacts, Displaying Relationships: Yams, Art and Technology amongst the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea"This ethnographic study of the decorated long yams made by the Nyamikum Abelam in Papua New Guinea examines how these artefacts acquire their specific properties through processes that mobilise and recruit diverse entities, substances and domains. All come together to form the ‘finished product’ that is displayed" (Google Books). Coupaye investigates the long yams through the lens of: having lives and agency, being valuable and having ancestral representations, as a botanical species, as food, having agricultural dimensions, and aesthetics and art. Transcript: 2020-05-0412 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 10 Asa DeWitt Reviews Chocolate and Corn Flour: History, Race, and Place in the Making of 'Black' MexicoIn this ethnography, Laura Lewis explores the formation of identity in ‘Moreno’ or ‘Afromestizo’ or ‘Afromexican’ or ‘Mexicans of African descent’ populations, and works to delineate how each of those terms are a function of Mexican culture and how they came to be. ‘Moreno’ is the self-ascribed term of the communities she worked most closely with, so that term is what she used for most of the book. The ethnographic portrait that she paints is based in the Costa Chica area where the states of Guerrero and Oaxaca meet, and the majority of the moreno population of Mexico resides, and gave the most pe...2020-05-0414 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 09 Grant Bosley Reviews Queer Women in Urban China: An EthnographyThis ethnography follows the interactions of the lala community of Beijing China. Transcript: 2020-05-0413 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 08 Elijah Herbel Reviews An Ethnography of English Soccer Fans: Cans, Cops, and CarnivalsTRANSCRIPT: 2020-05-0115 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 07 Graham Garvin reviews David B. Edwards' Caravan of Martyrs: Sacrifice and Suicide Bombing in AfghanistanCaravan of Martyrs: Sacrifice and Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan is an ethnography by the anthropologist, David B. Edwards. Edwards taught in Kabul, Afghanistan from 1976-1978 and was shocked by the changes he saw when he returned in 1982, after the Soviet invasion in 1979 and the rise of freedom fighters. This ethnography was published in 2017, yet it draws from Edwards previous experiences in Afghanistan, dating back to the 1970’s. Edwards examines when and why the shift regarding sacrifice and martyrdom took place in Afghan culture, and it’s ties to honor, Fedayeen, virtue and vice. Transcript: 2020-05-0113 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 06: Jordan Malzer Reviews Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western CivilisationBook description: This ethnography looks at the adolescent girls in Samoa. Mead explores the daily life in Samoa and how young girls grow up in this society. Each chapter has a specific focus such as how they are educated, what households look like, how girls interact with others in their age group, how they engaged in sexual relations, how they engage in conflict and more. The book offers criticism to how America interacts with their adolescent girls and the great stress they are put under. This ethnography was very influential in the field of Anthropology and its effects can...2020-04-3011 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 05 Michael Morey reviews Island of anthropology: studies in past and present (Iceland)Transcipt: 2020-04-2914 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 04: Rachel Smith reviews Social Media in Industrial ChinaTranscript: 2020-04-2920 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 03: Sarah Spaeth reviews Chronicle of the Guayaki IndiansTranscript:2020-04-2910 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 02: Nora Santelman Reviews Becoming TonganTranscript: 2020-04-2914 min

The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 01: The Example Review: Everyday Life in Global Morocco by Rachel Newcomb. Podcast by Gwyneth Talley, Ph.DFor those listening, this is the original example I gave to my students in Spring 2020 for them to model their podcasts. This podcast reviews Rachel Newcomb's book Everyday Life in Global Morocco (2017), published by Indiana University Press.2020-04-2729 min

Maghrib in Past & Present | PodcastsGunpowder Women: A Generation Galloping Past the MudawanaEpisode 45: Gunpowder Women: A Generation Galloping Past the Mudawana In this podcast, Gwyneth Talley, Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology at the University of California at Los Angeles, presents Morocco's little known tradition of women troupes who perform the famous tbourida (Fantasia) equestrian ceremony. A Fulbright scholar in Morocco (2017-2018), Gwyneth Talley shared insights into how the revival in women's equestrian sports, in particular the tbourida, coincided with the 2004 Moroccan personal status code, the Mudawana. This podcast was recorded on 23 April 2018 at the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM). 2018-08-1544 min

Fashion 411BHL Fashion 411 – Teni Panosian – December 6th, 2013BHL: Fashion 411 - In this episode Black Hollywood Live host Diona Vaughan, Erika Garcia-Rojas and Courtney Stewart discuss fashion for the week of December 6th, 2013. Also joining the conversation is special guest Teni Panosian. Diona opens up with a Who/What/Where Splurge vs. Steal: boots, winter floral jackets and puffer jackets. Erika switches to talk about this weeks Style Scoop featuring Alexander Wang and Beats by Dre, Zappos and Andre Leon Talley, The Year of the Selfie, and Kanye and Adidas. Next they discuss this week's haute or haute mess featuring Evangeline Lily, Alicia Keys, Marion Cottiard, Gwyneth Paltrow...2013-12-0848 min