Antropologforeningens Podcast
Antropologforeningen’s Podcast is produced by The Danish Association for Anthropology. Each episode invites anthropologists of all types to explore anthropological themes, questions and debates through the discussions of live-recorded events with anthropologists, students and participants of all types. Learn more at (http://www.antropologforeningen.dk). The podcasts are produced by the association board. Music by Kristoffer Søndergaard.
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Monday Dec 03, 2018
Monday Dec 03, 2018
In this episode of the Monographic Happy Hour Podcast you will meet Professor and Director General of the National Museum of Denmark, Rane Willerslev presenting his monograph published in 2007 called Soulhunters: Hunting Animism and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs. The monograph explores the hunting culture of the Yukaghirs, a group of indigenous hunters in the Upper Kolyma region of northeastern Siberia. Learn more about the monograph by following the link below.
Critical comments and questions are given by associate professor and senior lecture in the department of Anthropology on Copenhagen University, Inger Sjørslev.
The Anthropological Happy Hour Podcasts are based on recordings from the Monographic Happy Hour events, which the Anthropological Association of Denmark cohost with the department of Anthropology at Copenhagen University. The aim of the Monographic Happy Hour events is to honor the classic, anthropological genre – the monograph. The Monographic Happy Hour event in this podcast was hosted on the University of Copenhagen on the 9th of April 2018.
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520252172/soul-hunters
Monday Dec 03, 2018
Monday Dec 03, 2018
This episode of Antropologforeningens Podcast – Anthropological Happy Hour is a recording of a Theoretical Happy Hour held on the 6th of June 2018 in Ethnographic Exploratory at the University of Copenhagen. This type of event aims at presenting and discussing paradigmatic turns within anthropology, using anthropological texts as point of departure. The event of this podcast addresses a dialogical debate between two books circulating around the theoretical approaches known as the ontological turn and critical hermeneutics.
In this episode you will meet Jarrett Zigon, professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Virginia, and Morten Axel Pedersen, professor in the Department of Anthropology at Copenhagen University.
The podcast begins with Jarrett Zigon giving a short review of Morten Pedersen’s book titled The Ontological Turn: An Anthropological Exposition. Hereafter, Morten Pedersen gives a review of Jarrett Zigon’s latest book called Disappointment: Toward a Critical Hermeneutics of Worldbuilding. Finishing of, the two embark on an open discussion, engaging the audience as well.
Find more information and buy the books here:
Jarrett Zigon – Disappointment: Toward a Critical Hermeneutics of Worldbuilding
Morten Axel Pedersen & Martin Holbraad – The Ontological Turn: An Anthropological Exposition