Hello and Welcome back to The Familiar Strange!
We are so happy to be back and we can’t wait to keep talking strange with you all!
We’re kicking off this new season with a panel with Familiar Strangers, Alex D’aloia, Carolyn West, Timothy Johnson and Simon Theobald. We’re trying out a new format for panels this season, so make sure you reach out and tell us what you think.
In this panel episode, we dive back into 2020 and the US elections. The Strangers discuss what we as anthropologists can contribute to the conversations around the US. How can the methods, attitudes and values of anthropology be applied? Are anthropologists still relevant in this modern context? What can we as anthropologists bring to the table?
Links and Citations
The Borat 2 analysis that Carolyn mentions:
The Wade Davis article Carolyn mentioned from the Scientific American:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-anthropology-matters/
The ethnography on the East-Berlin white supremacists that Alex mentioned:
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691171951/the-management-of-hate
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This anthropology podcast is supported by the Australian Anthropological Society, the ANU’s College of Asia and the Pacific and College of Arts and Social Sciences, and the Australian Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, and is produced in collaboration with the American Anthropological Association.
Music by Pete Dabro: dabro1.bandcamp.com
Shownotes by Matthew Phung
Podcast edited by Carolyn West and Matthew Phung
Feature Image: ‘Capitol Breach’ by Brett Davis (2021)
https://flic.kr/p/2kq367g
