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The Anthrogirl PodcastI Will Bring A Chicken2023-05-1820 minThe Anthrogirl PodcastOctopus Let’s begin with a question, the kind anthropologists love: are any customs universal? Found everywhere, in every culture, from frozen Nunavut to the blistering sands of the Sahara? Storytelling is a cultural universal. People snooze in classrooms and during religious services, but never when a spooky story is told around a campfire. These are some of my favorite stories, collected by anthropologists.Bibliography:Grimble, Arthur, A Gilbertese Creation Myth, In Reader in Comparative Religion,Lessa & Vogt, eds. Harper and Row, 1965.Beals, Allan, Gopalpur: A South Indian Village. Holt, Rinehart and Winsto...2023-04-2118 minThe Anthrogirl PodcastDiary of a Tapirabe ShamanShamans are the go-to people when a family member gets sick - but what happens when the shaman fails?Bibliography: Wagley, Charles, Tapirabe Shamanism. In Readings in Anthropology, Vol 2, Holt,Rinehart and Winston Holt, Morton Fried, ed. Thomas Y. Crowell Co, 1968.2023-04-2011 minThe Anthrogirl PodcastZombies!Very few anthropologists were as brave, daring and groundbreaking as Zora Neal Thurston - the only social scientist , Guggenheim fellow and Columbia PhD to photograph a real Zombie.Bibliography:Tell My Horse, Thurston, Zora Neal, HarperCollins, 2008.Folklore, memoirs, and other writings, Thurston, Zora Neale, NY, Library of America, 1995.Hitting a straight lick with a colored stick: stories from the Harlem Renaissance, Thurston, Zora Neale, NY, Harper Collins, 2020Every tongue got to confess: Negro folktales from the Gulf States, NY, HarperCollins, 20012023-03-1315 minThe Anthrogirl PodcastPitjantjatjara ManDespite the austerity of their environment and their meagre possessions, these aboriginal people of central Australia produced as lavish a body of myth and ritual as can be found anywhere in the world. It is a staggering cultural resource - but with the coming of the whitefella, everything changed.Bibliography:Gould, Richard, Yiwara, Foragers of the Australian Desert, Charles Scribner’s Sons, NYMoorehead, Alan, Cooper’s Creek, The Opening of Australia, The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987Sharp, Lauriston, Technological Innovation and Culture Change: An Australian Case, in Cultural and Social Anthropology, Peter...2023-02-0819 minThe Anthrogirl PodcastStorytellingEveryone loves stories. People snooze in classrooms and during religious services, but never when a spooky story is told around a campfire. These are some of my favorites, collected by anthropologists during field research. Bibliography:Grimble, Arthur, A Gilbertese Creation Myth, In Reader in Comparative Religion, Lessa & Vogt, eds. Harper and Row, 1965.Beals, Allan, Gopalpur: A South Indian Village. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962Chagnon, Napolean, Yanomamo, The Fierce People. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 3rd edition. 1983Pierce, Joe, Life in a Turkish Village. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964....2023-01-2418 minThe Anthrogirl PodcastGhosts, Part 22023-01-1812 minThe Anthrogirl PodcastHarem - UpdatedThe word harem brings to mind classic tales like The 10001 Arabian Nights - but did you know that harems still exist in the 21st century?Bibliography:Dreams of Trespass. Mernissi, Fatima. Perseus Books, 1994.Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village. Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock, Doubleday, 1965.2023-01-1214 minThe Anthrogirl PodcastGhostsPeople die. In the end, we all have to face the Grim Reaper. But what do we do, when the dead come back to haunt us? Bibliography:Lee, Richard, The Dobe Kung, Holt, Rinehart and Winston,1984 Middleton, John, The Lugbara of Uganda, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965Opler, Morris, An Interpretation of Ambivalence of Two American Indian Tribes. Reader in Comparative Religion, Lessa & Vogt, eds. Harper and Row, 1965.2023-01-0715 minThe Anthrogirl PodcastThe AnthroGirl Podcast trailerIntroducing a brand new podcast. Join the AnthroGirl as she explores the myths and the magic, ghost lore and spirit possession, witchcraft and sorcery, on her world-wide journeys to exotic cultures. 2023-01-0300 minThe Anthrogirl PodcastHaremHarems conjure the antique stories of Scheherazade and the Thousand and One Arabian Nights - but did you know the seclusion of women behind high walls is still practiced today?2023-01-0313 minThe Anthrogirl PodcastLiving GoddessIn the Kathmandu Valley, young Newari girls called kumaris are worshipped as omnipotent deities. 2023-01-0315 min