Anthropology on the Radio

image© Ala'a Ali Reda A great way to engage with Anthropology is by listening to debates, discussions, and interviews with anthropologists on radio programmes. The following section provides links to audio podcasts categorised by subject matter or specialist area within anthropology.

Academia

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/2001_50_fri_04.shtml -
Professor Adam Kuper and June Goodfield, reflect on Margaret Mead’s career and her impact on anthropology. ( Recorded in 2001)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1150399 - Host Howard Berkes talks to author Ellen Meloy about her new book, The Anthropology of Turquoise. The book reflects on the ways in which colour (in particular the colour turquoise) unites different communities around the world. (Recorded in 2002)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6541080 – Debbie Elliot reflects on the life and work of Clifford Geertz, a world-renown anthropologist and founder symbolic anthropology or interpretive anthropology. (Recorded in 2006)

Archaeology

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/making_history/makhist10_prog4d.shtml
"When is it not ethical for archaeologists to dig up old bones? Is it to do with how long they've been in the ground or where they are buried? At what point do human remains lose their right to rest in peace?" All of these questions and more are answered when “Making History” consults Simon Mayes on the topic of Archaeology and law. (Recorded in 2004)

Biological Anthropology

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4178922 - Researchers in Spain say they've made a fossil find that could be close to the last common ancestor of all great apes and humans. We'll find out about the new member of the family tree. (Recorded in 2004)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100648070 - Scientists in Germany say they have drawn up a map of about 60 percent of the genetic "letters" in the genome of Neanderthals. (Recorded in 2009)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1126937 - Recent fossil finds in Ethiopia of bone remnants over five million years old may make scientists redraw the human family tree yet again. (Recorded in 2001)

Business and Anthropology

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4210830 - NPR's Eric Weiner reports on the emerging field of corporate anthropology, where researchers dissect consumer appetites and help engineers build user-friendly products.

BBC- Radio 4 – Listen to a talk on Anthropology in Business: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/shoptalk/shoptalk_20050920.shtml

Development Anthropology

http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-119208-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html - Professor David Mosse discusses the role of Anthropology in International Development

Environmental Anthropology

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ml2r5 - Geoff Watts talks to anthropologist Professor Tim Ingold, about his previous work living amongst reindeer herders in Lapland, and his new project on architecture and conservation. (Recorded in 2009)

International Relations

http://wamu.org/programs/dr/07/10/10.php - Anthropologists and War- The United States is sending teams of anthropologists to current war zones, sparking a debate of ethics of anthropology vs. patriotism during a time of war. (Recorded in 2007)

Medical Anthropology

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111379908 - With tens of thousands of Americans on a waiting list for donations, there is a thriving international black market for organs. Lindy Washburn, senior writer at The Record, and Nancy Scheper-Hughes, director of Organs Watch (as well as a professor of medical anthropology at UC- Berkeley), explain the exchange of money for human organs.(Recorded in 2009)

Race and Ethnicity

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1128156 - As delegations gather in South Africa for the U.N. conference on racism, NPR's Christopher Joyce looks at how humans classify each other. August 29, 2001

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