Anthropology on Air

Digestive Belonging, Trans-Species Sensing & Care in America’s Dairyland

In this episode, we speak with Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Copenhagen, Katy Overstreet. Katy is coordinator for the Landscapes, S

“Rurality 2.0”: How City Migrants are Reshaping Norway’s Rural Regions with Tom Bratrud

In today’s episode, we talk to Tom Bratrud about his ongoing, long-term work with city-dwellers who migrate to rural parts of Norway. This research forms the basis of Tom

#23 Amber, China & Geological Anthropology w/ Alessandro Rippa

In this episode, we speak with Alessandro Rippa about amber – a fossilised resin that not only allow us a glimpse into prehistoric lifeforms and climatic conditions milli

#22 Ethnographic Poetry & Migration w/ Hans Lucht

In this episode, we are in company with Hans Lucht to talk about ethnographic poetry. Hans is a senior researcher, and the head of migration research at the Danish Instit

#21 Slavery and Genocide: Jamaica, the US South & the Historical Sociology of Evil w/ Orlando Patterson

Welcome to a special two-episode series of Anthropology on Air!   In this and the previous podcast, you will listen to selected parts of a lecture series on the subject o

#20 The Paradoxes of Freedom: a Socio-Historical Approach w/ Orlando Patterson

In this and the following podcast, you will listen to selected parts of a lecture series on the subject of slavery and freedom with professor of Sociology at Harvard Univ

#19 Journeying anew, with or without knowledge w/ Marilyn Strathern

Welcome to a special episode of Anthropology on Air.In this episode you will hear the recordings of the 2024 Fredrik Barth Memorial Lecture, held by Professor Dame Marily

#18 Muskoxen, reindeer, and performing wilderness in Norway w/Karin Lillevold

In this episode, we speak with Karin Lillevold, a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies, and Religion at the Unive

#17 Theopolitical patchworks: Evangelical gangs in Rio de Janeiro w/Martjin Oosterbaan

In this episode we speak with Martjin Oosterbaan. Martjin is professor at the department of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University, with a chair in the Anthropology

#16 Birdwatching and loss in the Anthropocene w/Andrew Whitehouse

Welcome to season 4 of Anthropology on Air! With autumn on the way in Bergen, we kick off a new season with a resident of another North Sea city: dr. Andrew Whitehouse. A

#15 Public affection, morality police & gendered violence in Mumbai w/Atreyee Sen

In this episode, the finale to season 3, we speak with Atreyee Sen, Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. Our topic of di

#14 Technoscience & the limits of life w/Martin Eggen Mogseth & Fartein Hauan Nilsen

In this episode, we speak with Martin Eggen Mogseth and Fartein Hauan Nilsen about their first edited volume, Limits of Life: Reflections on Life, Death, and the Body in

#13 Nuclear waste management & the anthropology of infrastructures w/Penny Harvey

In this episode of Anthropology on Air, we speak with Penny Harvey, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester in the UK. Penny is a Fellow of the B

#12 Masculinity, far-right ideology & militarised policing in Rio de Janeiro w/Tomas Salem

In this special episode, we speak with Tomas Salem, a PhD fellow in our own department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. We do a deep dive on some of th

#11 Water justice, activism, and the Rights of Nature movement w/Andrea Muehlebach

To kick off season three of Anthropology on Air, we speak with Andrea Muehlebach. Andrea is Professor of Maritime Anthropology and Cultures of Water at the University of

#10 Sensing God, doing magic & kindling anomalous experience through transformative practice w/Tanya Luhrmann

 Tanya Luhrmann is Albert Ray Lang Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University, with a courtesy appointment in Psychology, and an elected member of the American Phil

#9 Rituals, social cohesion & the theory of modes of religiosity w/Harvey Whitehouse

In this episode, you will meet professor at the University of Oxford, Harvey Whitehouse. Harvey is the director of the Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion, he is Stat

#8 Contemporary hunter-gatherer communities, Ju/’hoansi, indigenous rights & knowledge systems w/Jennifer Hays

 In this episode you will meet Jennifer Hays, who is professor in social anthropology at the University of Tromsø (UiT) – the Arctic University of Norway. Jennifer has be

#7 Human Rights, Islam, Secularism & Sudan w/Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im

This episode is the second of two podcasts focusing on the longstanding partnership between Bergen and Khartoum. In the episode you will meet, Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im,

#6 Sudan & Norway Academic Collaboration: 60 years of Bonds and Beyond w/Munzoul Assal & Leif Manger

This episode is the first of two podcasts focusing on the longstanding partnership between Bergen and Khartoum. The first episode provides a historical view into some of