Anthropologist On The Street

Carie Little Hersh: Teaching Professor, Blogger, Podcaster

How many ways are there to be human? Each week Anthropologist on the Street Dr. Carie Little Hersh invites different cultural experts to illuminate the hidden ideas, practices, and power dynamics that make our lives both familiar and strange.

  • 1 hour 2 minutes
    E28 Housing, Advocacy, & Anthropology with Christin Reeder Young

    Applied Anthropologist Chris Reeder Young employs her background in urban and medical anthropology to advocate for lower-income homebuyers and older homeowners who wish to age in place.

    15 June 2022, 9:00 am
  • 1 hour 15 minutes
    E27 Politics of Greek Cooking with Dr. David Sutton

    Dr. David Sutton returns to explore the politics of food and commensality, or eating together, on the Greek island of Kalymnos, both as a way of connecting the past and present and as a form of resistance against external cultural pressures.

    8 June 2022, 9:00 am
  • 1 hour 18 minutes
    E26 Anthropology in Action with Dr. Dana Powell

    Action Anthropologist Dr. Dana Powell collaborates with Navajo (Diné) energy activists and African-American environmental justice activists, using anthropological methods and perspectives to assist in defining and resolving social problems.

    1 June 2022, 9:00 am
  • 40 minutes 11 seconds
    E25 Product Design Ethnography with Dr. Amy Goldmacher

    Business anthropologist Dr. Amy Goldmacher discusses how her ethnographic work empowers product and software designers to better understand their users and customers. Using anthropological research methods, she helps design new and improved products, software, and experiences that better meet people’s needs.

    24 June 2020, 11:00 am
  • 54 minutes 47 seconds
    E24 Pubic Hair Grooming as Cultural Practice with Lyndsey Craig

    Lyndsey Craig delves into the anthropology of pubic hair grooming, discussing sexual signaling, the symbolism of pubic hair with respect to hygiene, marital status, or fertility, how body hair is tied to beauty aesthetics, and how the removal of hair is both an intimate practice and a form of identity communication.

    17 June 2020, 11:00 am
  • 1 hour 11 minutes
    E23 Psychiatric Culture Clashes with Dr. Beatriz Reyes-Foster

    Dr. Beatriz Reyes-Foster is a medical anthropologist whose book Psychiatric Encounters explores how culture shapes the diagnosis, care, and outcomes of mental illness in a mental hospital in Yucatan, Mexico.

    10 June 2020, 11:00 am
  • 1 hour 31 minutes
    E22 Converting Belief at a Creationist Theme Park with Dr. James Bielo

    Anthropologist of religion Dr. James Bielo explores the creationist theme park Ark Encounter, and how its carefully choreographed design seeks not simply to entertain, but to transform the minds of attendees.

    10 July 2019, 9:00 am
  • 51 minutes 46 seconds
    E21 Antarctic Anthropology with Dr. Jessica O’Reilly

    Environmental anthropologist Dr. Jessica O’Reilly works in the least populated continent on earth by far: Antarctica. Working with an array of scientists, she turns the anthropological gaze on science itself, helping to demystify the scientific process and how scientists come to know what they know.

    12 June 2019, 10:00 am
  • 1 hour 19 minutes
    E20 American Mosques with Jacqueline Fewkes

    Researching the history and architecture of mosques in America, anthropologist Dr. Jacqueline Fewkes examines the relationship between local history, physical space, and social practice to showcase the incredible diversity of contemporary Muslim communities.

    29 May 2019, 10:00 am
  • 1 hour 8 minutes
    E19 The Culture of Teeth with Dr. Julia Boughner

    Why do modern humans in industrialized nations face dental problems that don’t affect primates, modern hunter-gatherers, and previous generations of humans? Biological Anthropologist Dr. Julia Boughner explains how cultural practices affect the development of our teeth and jaws.

    15 June 2018, 11:52 am
  • 1 hour 20 minutes
    E18 Language, Time, and the Anthropology of Arrival with Dr. David Sutton

    Cultural anthropologist Dr. David Sutton explains why fictional films and television sitcoms can be important in revealing hidden cultural rules, and discusses what the movie Arrival gets right, and wrong, about language, time, and anthropology.

    31 May 2018, 12:22 am
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