Talk On - Debates in Anthropology

By: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
  • Summary

  • “Talk On!” is a monthly podcast of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany. In each episode of this podcast, one of our two hosts, Christoph Brumann or Jovan Maud, talks to the guest about their publications, research, and current debates in the field of social anthropology.
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Episodes
  • An Anthropology of Nonreligion? w/ Mascha Schulz
    Aug 1 2024

    In this episode, Christoph Brumann talks to Mascha Schulz about her research on nonreligion in Bangladesh. Further, they discuss the special issue "An Anthropology of Nonreligion?" published in the Berghan journal "Religion and Society" edited by Mascha and Stefan Binder. They touch on topics like why Anthropology is a latecomer in Nonreligious Studies, why it is no less important, forms of organised nonreligion, and the Satanic Temple. https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/religion-and-society/14/1/religion-and-society.14.issue-1.xml

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    33 mins
  • Documenting the Undocumented w/ Romm Lewkowicz
    Jul 4 2024

    In this episode, Jovan Maud talks to Romm Lewkowicz about his research on how migration specifically in Europe became a laboratory for experimentation in documentation and documentation technologies.

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    29 mins
  • Self as Method — Thinking through China & the World w/ Xiang Biao
    Jun 6 2024

    In this episode, Christoph Brumann talks to our director Biao Xiang about his bestselling book 'Self as Method — Thinking through China and the World'. During the conversation, they touch on topics such as Chinese youth, the gentry, Hannah Arendt, how failure can lead to success, why language is more important than theory, and why everyone is a stranger.

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    34 mins

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