The Emic - Anthropological stories from the field

The Emic is an audio platform produced by Roanne where anthropologists from all around the world share their most beautiful or insightful fieldwork stories.

The Emic - Anthropological stories from the field is a science podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 19 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts The Emic - Anthropological stories from the field, a science show with 19 episodes published.

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  18: Jason De León on having more in common with smugglers than he had ever imagined

  Jan 17, 20268 minS0

  <p>Welcome to The Emic, the podcast where anthropologists share a moment from their fieldwork in which they truly took on an emic perspective – seeing the world from the point of view of the people they study.</p> <p> </p> <p>In this episode, you'll hear from anthropologist and archaeologist Jason De León. De León is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, and the founder of the Undocumented Migration Project, a multidisciplinary research collective that investigates clandestine migration between Latin America and the United States using ethnographic, archaeological, and for...

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  17: Tim Ingold on seeing like a reindeer

  Aug 12, 20258 minS0

  <p>In the autumn of 1971,  when he just turned 23 years old, Tim was living in a tiny wooden cabin on the shores of lake Rautaperajärvi, in the far northeastern corner of Finnish Lapland. He was a few months into his doctoral fieldwork with the Skolt Sámi people. The Skolts had been resettled in this remote area following the loss of their homeland to the then Soviet Union in the aftermath of the Second World War. Tim's plan had been to study the micropolitics of their situation as a minority within a minority, but he quickly discovered that for the...

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  16: Gego (Muhammad Ashry Sallatu) on diving into blue water & big fears

  Jun 25, 202510 minS0

  <p>When Gego (that's what Muhammad is called by his friends) conducted his PhD-fieldwork in Indonesia, he entered multiple new worlds: the world of anthropology, a region with nature so pristine he did not know it existed, and the world of deep water diving. Only problem: he did not know how to dive. When he entered the water, he was touched by underwater beauty, but confronted with his biggest fears. In this episode, he shares the story of how he overcame his initial panic, and how his fieldwork under water changed him forever. </p> <p> </p> <p>Gego is a le...

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  15: Giovanna Parmigiani on paganism, magical cards and sisterhood

  Jun 10, 20255 minS0

  <p >In this episode, Giovanna talks about a moment in her fieldwork that she returns to often. A quiet moment shared with women that would become her sisters. A moment where something shifted for her.  </p> <p > </p> <p >Giovanna Parmigiani is an anthropologist of religion and magic, a scholar of Contemporary Paganisms, the co-chair of the Contemporary Pagan Studies Unit at the American Academy of Religion, and a founding co-convenor of the Network for the Anthropology of History at the European Association of Social Anthropologists. Her work is firmly grounded in ethnographic and auto-ethnographic practices, and her main focus of...

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  14: Willem van Schendel on embarrassing dinners

  Feb 12, 20253 minS0

  While conducting fieldwork in Bangladesh, renowned anthropologist and historian Willem van Schendel found himself at a dinner invitation. Initially a cozy evening, time seemed to stretch on forever until the food was finally served. But little did he know, his perception of time was about to be turned upside down.    Tune in to this episode of The Emic to hear Willem's remarkable, or in his words 'embarrassing' story and find out what it's really like to have a 'long' dinner in a completely different cultural context.   Find Professor Willem van Schendels' publications here: https://uva.academia.edu/WillemVanSchendel   If you want t...

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