Best Salem Bergen Podcasts (2024)

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#15 Public affection, morality police & gendered violence in Mumbai w/Atreyee Sen 45:36

17d ago45:36

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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 discussion is a talk Atreyee gave at our department entitled, ‘No city for lovers: Urban poverty, public romance and violent moral policing of lower-class female youth in Mumbai’, wh…

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#14 Technoscience & the limits of life w/Martin Eggen Mogseth & Fartein Hauan Nilsen 1:03:03

1M ago1:03:03

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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 the Age of Technoscience (Berghahn Books, 2024). The book explores how fundamental concepts such as life, birth, selfhood, religion, death, and ancestry are being reshaped in an er…

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#13 Nuclear waste management & the anthropology of infrastructures w/Penny Harvey 1:01:08

2M ago1:01:08

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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 British Academy, of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and the Academia Europaea. Penny is a highly influential thinker on the topic of infrastructures. She is well known…

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#12 Masculinity, far-right ideology & militarised policing in Rio de Janeiro w/Tomas Salem 57:06

3M ago57:06

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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 the themes covered in Tomas’s first book, Policing the Favelas in Rio de Janeiro: Cosmologies of War and the Far-Right (Palgrave Macmillian, 2024), which is released this week. Based…

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#11 Water justice, activism, and the Rights of Nature movement w/Andrea Muehlebach 43:06

3M ago43:06

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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 Bremen in Germany, where she also leads the Bremen NatureCultureLab. She was visiting Bergen to deliver a talk entitled, “Do Waves Have Rights?” The Rights of Nature movement insis…

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#10 Sensing God, doing magic & kindling anomalous experience through transformative practice w/Tanya Luhrmann 41:28

7M ago41:28

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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 Philosophical Society. Her work focuses on the edge of experience: on voices, visions, the world of the supernatural and the world of psychosis. She has conducted ethnographic work amon…

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#9 Rituals, social cohesion & the theory of modes of religiosity w/Harvey Whitehouse 38:02

8M ago38:02

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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 Statutory Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, and a Professorial Fellow of Magdalen College. Harvey has worked extensively with rituals since his first long-term …

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#8 Contemporary hunter-gatherer communities, Ju/’hoansi, indigenous rights & knowledge systems w/Jennifer Hays 40:03

8M ago40:03

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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 been working with hunter-gatherer San Populations in southern Africa for 25 years, as a researcher, and as a consultant for governmental bodies and local and international NGOs. She i…

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#6 Sudan & Norway Academic Collaboration: 60 years of Bonds and Beyond w/Munzoul Assal & Leif Manger 49:19

9M ago49:19

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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 the main characteristics and effects of the academic collaborations between these two cities. The second episode features an interview with Sudanese professor of law, Abdullahi Ahm…

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#7 Human Rights, Islam, Secularism & Sudan w/Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im 46:54

9M ago46:54

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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, who visited Bergen in October 2023 to give the keynote lecture at a 3-day symposium that marked the 60-year anniversary of this collaboration. An-Na’im is Charles Howard Candler Pro…

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#5 Queer objects & intimate citizenship in Kenya w/George Paul Meiu 44:35

1y ago44:35

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This episode’s guest, George Paul Meiu, is professor of anthropology and chair of the institute of social anthropology at the University of Basel and associate in the departments of anthropology and African and African American studies at Harvard University. George’s research and teaching focus on sexuality, gender, and kinship; ethnicity, belongin…

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#4 Water beings, human-nature relations, & the environmental crisis w/Veronica Strang 45:57

1y ago45:57

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In this episode you will meet Veronica Strang, who is a professor of anthropology currently affiliated with Oxford University. Her research focuses on human-environmental relations, and in particular, societies’ engagements with water, encompassing conflicts over ownership and governance; cultural beliefs and values; human and non-human rights; and…

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#3 Friendship, love, and grief in the Moroccan High Atlas w/Matthew Carey 41:01

1y ago41:01

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In this episode, you will meet Matthew Carey who is associate professor at the Department of Anthropology at Copenhagen University. Matthew’s main field site is in the Moroccan High Atlas where he has done recurring fieldwork since 2002. His work here has, among other things, focused on mistrust, complicity, egalitarianism, sincerity, subjectivity,…

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#2 Kinship & Gender in Iraqi Kurdistan w/Diane E. King 38:44

1+ y ago38:44

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In this episode you will meet associate professor at the University of Kentucky, Diane King. Diane’s research focuses on Kurdistan, which is the ethnic homeland of the Kurds encompassing parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria. Since the mid 1990s, Diane has done extensive fieldwork in the Kurdish communities in Iraq, and her work explores themes su…

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#1 Ghost rivers and composite ethnography w/Kregg Hetherington 32:17

1+ y ago32:17

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In this very first episode of AoA, we speak with Kregg Hetherington about his project on “ghost rivers” in Montreal, Canada. Kregg is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University, where he specialises in environment, infrastructure and the bureaucratic state. He is the author of the multi-award-winning 2020 book, The Go…

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Anthropology on Air

Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen

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#15 Public affection, morality police & gendered violence in Mumbai w/Atreyee Sen 45:36

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#14 Technoscience & the limits of life w/Martin Eggen Mogseth & Fartein Hauan Nilsen 1:03:03

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#13 Nuclear waste management & the anthropology of infrastructures w/Penny Harvey 1:01:08

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#12 Masculinity, far-right ideology & militarised policing in Rio de Janeiro w/Tomas Salem 57:06

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#11 Water justice, activism, and the Rights of Nature movement w/Andrea Muehlebach 43:06

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#10 Sensing God, doing magic & kindling anomalous experience through transformative practice w/Tanya Luhrmann 41:28

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#9 Rituals, social cohesion & the theory of modes of religiosity w/Harvey Whitehouse 38:02

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#8 Contemporary hunter-gatherer communities, Ju/’hoansi, indigenous rights & knowledge systems w/Jennifer Hays 40:03

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#6 Sudan & Norway Academic Collaboration: 60 years of Bonds and Beyond w/Munzoul Assal & Leif Manger 49:19

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#7 Human Rights, Islam, Secularism & Sudan w/Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im 46:54

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#5 Queer objects & intimate citizenship in Kenya w/George Paul Meiu 44:35

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#4 Water beings, human-nature relations, & the environmental crisis w/Veronica Strang 45:57

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#3 Friendship, love, and grief in the Moroccan High Atlas w/Matthew Carey 41:01

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#2 Kinship & Gender in Iraqi Kurdistan w/Diane E. King 38:44

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#1 Ghost rivers and composite ethnography w/Kregg Hetherington 32:17

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