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This episode is the second of a two-episode series on the production of archaeological knowledge in Lebanon produced by Nelly Abboud, contributing editor to the Archaeology Section at American Anthropologist. The series invokes the concept of an “open mic,” or a live show in which members of the audience–no matter their professional stature–take the stage to share their observations, critiques, and analysis. Nelly’s guests are early and mid-career archaeologists working in archaeology and museum worlds that remain elitist and exclusively reserved for members of a privileged and well-established social class. In each episode, she gives the metaphorical floor to a young voice in Lebanese archaeology and asks them to discuss their career within this system and the place of archaeology in contemporary Lebanese public life.
Today, we hear from Dr. Sarah Mady, lecturer in anthropology at Fordham University. Before moving to the United States in 2015, Sarah was a full-time field archaeologist and a research assistant at the University of Balamand, where she had been building a career since 2006. In this episode, Sarah connects the current state of the field of Lebanese archaeology to decades of colonialism, politics, sectarianism, and elitism.
Nelly Abboud is a freelance museum educator, founder, and director of Museolab, a cultural Lab that works on promoting cultural heritage through the use of experiential learning tools and methods. She is also a researcher interested in heritage and museum studies, cultural memory, public archaeology, and social collective impact.
Dr. Sarah Mady holds a Ph.D. from Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is an adjunct lecturer at Fordham University. Her research studies healing shrines in North Lebanon and the ways in which women and mothers have produced and used these spaces as a part of their daily lives and lived religion.
NB: Since this episode was recorded, Sarah Mady has successfully completed her doctoral studies and now holds a PhD in Archaeology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.Credits:
Writing, Production, & Editing: Nelly AbboudProduction Support: Anar ParikhThumbnail Image: Sarah MadyFeatured Music: ‘Hanging Moon’ by Le Trio JoubranExecutive Producer: Anar Parikh
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This episode is the first of a two-episode series on the production of archaeological knowledge in Lebanon produced by Nelly Abboud, contributing editor to the Archaeology Section at American Anthropologist. The series invokes the concept of an “open mic,” or a live show in which members of the audience–no matter their professional stature–take the stage to share their observations, critiques, and analysis. Nelly’s guests are early and mid-career archaeologists working in archaeology and museum worlds that remain elitist and exclusively reserved for members of a privileged and well-established social class. In each episode, she gives the metaphorical floor to a young voice in Lebanese archaeology and asks them to discuss their career within this system and the place of archaeology in contemporary Lebanese public life. The series begins with reflections from Lebanese archaeologist Lorine Mouawad about the nature of the archaeological field in Lebanon and how Ottoman and French colonial mentalities continue to inform how the field is managed. She shares her thoughts on the current state of the field and these sociopolitical entaglements in the context of her own experience as a field archaeologist.
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Producer: Nelly Abboud
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This episode features a conversation between Dr. Yannis Hamilakis and Dr. Naor Ben-Yehohada about Moria, once the largest refugee camp in Europe until it was completely destroyed by a fire in September 2020. Dr. Hamilakis had been researching, experiencing, and witnessing the materiality of contemporary migration on Lesvos, the Greek island where Moria was located, since 2016. And, in the aftermath of its destruction, he convened a cohort of archaeologists, social anthropologists, activists, teachers, and authors with direct connections to and experiences of Moria to reflect on what the place meant to them and possible directions for the future. These contributions came together in the form of a multimodal portfolio, “What Was Moria and What Comes Next?” comprising research and photo essays, ethnographic fiction, first-person accounts, lyrical prose, illustration, and more. Dr. Hamilakis’s introduction to the collection, was published in the February 2022 issue of American Anthropologist and the entirety of the collection is available open-access on the journal’s website. To round out the multimodal scope of this project, this episode contributes an oral and aural dimension to the reflections to “What Moria and What Comes Next?”
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What Was Moria and What Comes Next?
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In this episode, a professor-student pair, Dr. Atreyee Majumder and Manhar Bansal, provide a glimpse into their ongoing conversation on the enduring role of universal categories and their relationship to anthropological knowledge. In light of the discomfort around universals in contemporary social sciences, we offer the provocation: can there be universals beyond those of capitalist modernity? We talk about the dominant time-space compression account of modernity, the possibility of uncovering other, more liberating and revolutionary temporalities, and the fun of doing theory in anthropology. We argue for the need to revisit the question of universal categories to think through our time and politics, albeit on a broader canvas. Tune in to ask, along with us, who’s afraid of universals?
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Further Reading:
Bauman, Zygmunt. 2000. Liquid Modernity. Cambridge: Polity Press. “Time/Space” pp 91-129.
Li, Darryl. 2020. The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. “Introduction” pp 1-26.
Tsing, Anna L. 2005. Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton: Princeton University Press. “Introduction” pp 1-20.
Walker, Gavin, and Naoki Sakai. 2019. “The End of Area.” Positions: Asia Critique 27(1): 1–31.
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Writing, Production & Editing: Atreyee Majumder
Executive Producer - Anar Parikh
Thumbnail Image: "Railroad Sunset" by Edward Hopper (1929)
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This episode is the third (final) installment of a three-part series produced by Eleanor Neil, contributing editor at American Anthropologist and Anthropological Airwaves. From the African American Burial Ground in New York City to the memorialization of violence in Northern Ireland to professional archaeology in the eastern Mediterranean, Eleanor asks archaeologists with different regional and methodological specialties to choose a single object or site, and, in their own words describe how this this site or artefact speaks to the interaction between archaeology and political or social identity across time and place. Here, Eleanor, an archaeologist herself, takes up the very prompt she posed to Dr. Cheryl Janifer LaRoche and Dr. Laura McAtackney in first two episodes of the series: to consider the role archaeology plays in the creation of contemporary political social discourses in the context of her own research on community archaeology on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus.
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Further Reading:
Counts, Derek B., and Elisabetta Cova, P. Nick Kardulias, Michael K. Toumazou. “Fitting In: Archaeology and Community in Athienou, Cyprus.” Near Eastern Archaeology 76, no. 3 (2013): 166-177.
Counts, D.B. “A History of Archaeological Activity in the Athienou Region.” In Crossroads and Boundaries: The Archaeology of Past and Present in the Malloura Valley, Cyprus, Annual of ASOR 65, edited by M. K. Toumazou, P. N. Kardulias, and D. B. Counts, 45–54. Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research, 2012.
The Kallinikeo Museum
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Writing, Production & Editing: Eleanor Neil Editorial
Production Support: Anar Parikh
Thumbnail Image: Eleanor Neil
Featured Music: “Westlin’ Winds” by Eoin O’Donnell
Intro/Outro Music: "Waiting" by Crowander
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This episode is the second of a three-part series produced by Eleanor Neil, contributing editor at American Anthropologist and Anthropological Airwaves. From the African American Burial Ground in New York City to the memorialization of violence in Northern Ireland to professional archaeology in the eastern Mediterranean, Eleanor asks archaeologists with different regional and methodological specialties to choose a single object or site, and, in their own words describe how this this site or artefact speaks to the interaction between archaeology and political or social identity across time and place. In this episode, Dr. Laura McAtackney, discusses the materiality of violence and partition, the nature of commemoration and how archaeology of the recent past has an integral role in our understandings of politics, society and conflict. Dr. McAtackney is an associate professor at Aarhus University and her research centres on the historical and contemporary archaeologies of institutions and colonialism in Ireland.
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Further Reading:
Flanagan, Eimear. “McGurk’s Bar Bombing: I just want justice for my grandparents.” BBC News: Northern Ireland, 12 December 2021.
McAtackney, Laura. “Materials and Memory: Archaeology and Heritage as Tools of Transitional Justice at a Former Magdalen Laundry.” Éire-Ireland 55, nos. 1 & 2, (Spring/Summer 2020): 223-246.
MacAirt, Ciarán. "Corporate memory and the McGurk's Bar Massacre: CQ&A automatically added to new episodes on Spotifiarán MacAirt writes about the murder of his grandmother and 14 other civilians in a Belfast bar 43 years ago, and the families’ on-going campaign for truth." Criminal Justice Matters 98, no. 1 (2014): 6-7.
Justice for Magdalenes Research - an online resource associated with the NGO, Justice for Magdalenes.
Credits:
Writing, Production & Editing: Eleanor Neil
Production Support: Anar Parikh
Executive Producer - Anar Parikh
Thumbnail Image: Photo by Freya McClements for the Irish Times
Featured Music: “Westlin’ Winds” by Eoin O’Donnell
Intro/Outro: "Waiting" by Crowander
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This episode is the first of a three-part series produced by Eleanor Neil, contributing editor at American Anthropologist and Anthropological Airwaves. From the African American Burial Ground in New York City to the memorialization of violence in Northern Ireland to professional archaeology in the eastern Mediterranean, Eleanor asks archaeologists with different regional and methodological specialties to choose a single object or site, and, in their own words describe how this this site or artefact speaks to the interaction between archaeology and political or social identity across time and place. Here, Dr. Cheryl Janifer LaRoche discusses the African American Burial Ground in lower Manhattan and the influence it has had on public engagement, perceptions of slavery in the northern United States, and the empowerment inherent in recognizing one’s own past in the archaeological record. Dr. LaRoche’s is Associate Research Professor at the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Her research on 18th and 19th-century free Black communities, institutions, and spaces combines law, history, oral history, archaeology, geography and material culture to define Black cultural landscapes, often navigating the convergences of public, private, political and social interests.
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Further Reading:
LaRoche, Cheryl J. and Michael L. Blakey, ‘Seizing Intellectual Power: The Dialogue at the New York African Burial Ground’, Historical Archaeology, Vol. 31, No. 3 (1997), pp. 84-106.
Leone, Mark P. and Cheryl J. LaRoche, Jennifer J. Babiarz, ‘Archaeology of Black Americans in Recent Times’, Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 35 (2005), pp. 575-598. Transcript:
Credits:
Writing, Production & Editing: Eleanor Neil
Production Support: Anar Parikh
Executive Producer - Anar Parikh
Thumbnail Image: Wally Gobetz, “NYC - Civic Center: African American Burial Ground National Monument” (2008) African American Burial Ground Memorial
Featured Music: “Spirit Blossom” by Roman Belov
Intro/Outro: "Waiting" by Crowander
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In this episode, guest producer Laura Cirilo examines how the idea of closure configures into international applications of forensic anthropological practice in conversation with Dr. Sarah Wagner, Professor of Anthropology at the George Washington University, and Dr. Mercedes Salado, a member of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team. The episode was produced as a part of the Vital Topics Forum, "How Academic Diversity is Transforming Scientific Knowledge in Biological Anthropology" in Volume 121, Issue 2 of American Anthropologist.
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Credits:Production & Editing: Laura Cirilo
Writing: Jaymelee Kim, Cate Bird, and Davette Gadison
Thumbnail Image: Jaymelee Kim
Additional Editorial Support - Elaine Chu and Matt Go
Executive Producer - Anar Parikh
Intro/Outro Music: "Waiting" by Crowander"
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In this three-part series, Brown University PhD Students Benjamin Salinas and Adelaida Tamayo examine questions of art, activism, and identity in conversation with Jaguar Arreoloa, an Indigenous-Chicano rapper based in Los Angeles, California. In Part Three (The Debrief), Ben and Adelaida reflect on the interview with Jaguar, what they found inspiring, and each of their key takeaways from the process of creating the episode.
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Production & Editing: Adelaida Tamayo and Benjamin Salinas
Executive Producer: Anar Parikh
Background Music: Benjamin Salinas
Intro/Outro: "Waiting" by Crowander"
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In this three-part series, Brown University PhD Students Benjamin Salinas and Adelaida Tamayo examine questions of art, activism, and identity in conversation with Jaguar Arreoloa, an Indigenous-Chicano rapper based in Los Angeles, California. In Part Two (The Interview), Adelaida and Ben interview Jaguar Arreola about his music and his activism.
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Production & Editing: Adelaida Tamayo and Benjamin Salinas
Executive Producer - Anar Parikh
Featured Music:
"Easy Does" It - Ez E
"Fuerza Guerrera II" - Jaguar Arreola, produced by Accosta the Man
Another Day by Kozmik Force feat. Azomali, produced by Acosta the Man.
Background Music: Benjamin Salinas
Intro/Outro Music: "Waiting" by Crowander"
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In this three-part series, Brown University PhD Students Benjamin Salinas and Adelaida Tamayo examine questions of art, activism, and identity in conversation with Jaguar Arreoloa, an Indigenous-Chicano rapper based in Los Angeles, California. In Part One (The Planning), the series begins with a conversation between Adelaida and Ben as they prepare for their interview with Jaguar.
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Production & Editing: Adelaida Tamayo and Benjamin Salinas
Executive Producer: Anar Parikh
Background Music: Benjamin Salinas
Intro/Outro Music "Waiting" by Crowander"
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Anthropological Airwaves will be back soon for Season 4!
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Associate Editor / Executive Producer: Anar Parikh
Intro/Outro Music: "Waiting" by Crowander
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This is the second of two episodes based on interviews recorded at the 2019 African Critical Inquiry Workshop: African Ethnographies conference that was held at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa by Sara Rendell and Dina Asfaha from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. In the the first part of this episode, you will hear a conversation between Dina Asfaha and Kharnita Mohamed – a lecturer at the University of Cape Town. Her research focuses on issues of race, gender, disability, and identity in post-Apartheid South Africa. She is also a novelist, publishing her debut “Called to Song” in 2018 with Kwela Books. In the second half, Sara Rendell returns for an interview with Dominique Santos – a Lecturer at Rhodes University, whose work explores the nexus of music, play, dreaming and heritage practices as they intersect with intimate experiences of the self, space and social change, as well as on dreams and the role of dreaming in refusing the conditions of oppression.
NB: Due to circumstances out of our control, there are parts of this recording with less than ideal sound quality. The episode transcript and close-captioned versions of the episode (linked below) may be a useful resource for following along with the conversation should you have a hard time making out any part of the recording.
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Producer & Editor: Kyle Olson
Executive Producer - Anar Parikh
Thumbnail Image: Madison Paulk
Transition Music: Huku by Sho Madjozi
Intro/Outro Music: "Waiting" by Crowander"
Sound Effects: Mike Koenig Episode
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This is the first of two episodes based on interviews recorded at the 2019 African Critical Inquiry Workshop: African Ethnographies conference that was held at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa by Sara Rendell and Dina Asfaha from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. In this installment, Sara Rendell interviews Nosipho Mngomezulu, a lecturer at University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg whose research focuses on national and transnational youth cultures, nation-building projects in post-colonial societies, and community engaged learning and teaching.
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Credits:
Producer & Editor: Kyle Olson
Executive Producer: Anar Parikh
Episode Thumbnail: Madison Paulk
Transition Music: Huku by Sho Madjozi
Intro/Outro Music: "Waiting" by Crowander"
Sound Effects: Mike Koenig
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Anthropological Airwaves is pleased to present “Voices to Remember: Conversation on the Digital Archive of Indigenous America” a conversation between Massimo Squillacciotti - Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and the founder of the first Italian course of Cognitive Anthropology at the University of Siena; Luciano Giannelli - Professor of Glottology and South American Indigenous Languages at the University of Siena, and Paola Tine - PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. This episode was originally recorded in Italian, and we are excited to be able to make both the Italian version and in English. For the original conversation in Italian, please look for the title "S03-ish E05: Voci da Ricordare" in your Anthro Airwaves podcast feed.
Transcript:
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Supplemental Dossier
Credits:
Producer/Editor/Engineer: Paola Tine
Executive Producer: Anar Parikh
Intro/Outro: "Waiting" by Crowander"
Sound Effects: Mike Koenig
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Anthropological Airwaves is pleased to present “Voices to Remember: Conversation on the Digital Archive of Indigenous America” a conversation between Massimo Squillacciotti - Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and the founder of the first Italian course of Cognitive Anthropology at the University of Siena; Luciano Giannelli - Professor of Glottology and South American Indigenous Languages at the University of Siena, and Paola Tine - PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. This episode was originally recorded in Italian, and we are excited to be able to make both the Italian version and in English. For the dubbed version in English, please look for the title "S03-ish E05: Voices to Remember" in your Anthro Airwaves podcast feed.
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Dossier Supplementare
Credits:
Producer/Editor/Engineer: Paola Tine
Executive Producer: Anar Parikh
Intro/Outro: "Waiting" by Crowander"
Sound Effects: Mike Koenig
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In the fourth episode of this mini-season, "Crossover," Anar Parikh chats with Daniel Chiu Castillo, Meghan McGill, and Alejandra Melian-Morse, the trio behind Talking Culture--an anthropology podcast that looks at issues in the world through the lens of anthropology as well as issues within the discipline of anthropology itself.
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What We Talked About:
Barbash, Ilisa & Lucien Castaing-Taylor. 2009. Sweetgrass.
Castaing-Taylor, Lucien. Véréna Paravel. 2012. Levianthan.
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Associate Editor / Executive Producer: Anar Parikh
Intro/Outro: "Waiting" by Crowander"
Sound Effects: Mike Koenig
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In the third episode of this mini-season, "Crossover," Anar Parikh chats with Sarah Duignan, of Anthro Dish--a weekly show about the intersections between our foods, cultures, and identities.
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What we talked about:
AnthroDish Episode 10
AnthroDish Episode 86: Seedkeeping and Land Back with Tiffany Traverse of 4th Sister Farm
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Associate Editor / Executive Producer: Anar Parikh
Intro/Outro: "Waiting" by Crowander"
Sound Effects: Mike Koenig
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In the second episode of this mini-season, "Crossover," Anar Parikh chats with Alyssa James and Brendane Tynes, the creators of Zora's Daughters--a society and culture podcast that uses Black feminist anthropology to think about race, politics, and popular culture.
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What We Talked About:
Tynes, Brendane. 2020. "How Do We Listen to the Living." Anthropology News, August 31.
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Zora's Daughters Semester 2 Episode 16 - "The Empire Claps Back"
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Associate Editor / Executive Producer - Anar Parikh
Intro/Outro: "Waiting" by Crowander"
Sound Effects: Mike Koenig
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In the latest episode of Anthropological Airwaves, Anar Parikh talks to Anuli Akanegbu, a PhD student at NYU and a transdisciplinary scholar, about her project BLK IRL -- a podcast that explores the business of "influencing" and the power dynamics at play in the act of cultural exchange.
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What We Talked About:
Akanegbu, Anuli. 2021. "Podcasts As A Form of Scholarship." American Anthropologist website.
Briggs, Charles. 1986. Learning How to Ask. Cambridge: Cambrige University Press.
Credits:
Associate Editor / Executive Producer: Anar Parikh
Intro/Outro: "Waiting" by Crowander"
Sound Effects: Mike Koenig
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