Anime is (Not) Cult: Gainax and the Limits of Cult Cinema
Japanese anime, a global phenomenon and a locally powerful industry, has a tendency to be viewed...
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Anime is (Not) Cult: Gainax and the Limits of Cult Cinema
Japanese anime, a global phenomenon and a locally powerful industry, has a tendency to be viewed...
01:06:41
Aesop’s Fables in Early Modern Japan
Aesop’s fables bookend early modern Japan’s image of a “closed country”. Their appearance in the...
01:20:57
“Unhappy” and Isolated Youth: Representations and Experiences of Hikikomori in Contemporary Japan
Hikikimori is a category coined in the late 1990s to refer to 'youth social withdrawal,' and has...
01:05:04
Empathy, Social Realism, or just Love Troubles? On Japanese “Little Songs”
The Edo-period Japan (1603–1868) saw the emergence of an art music genre called Jiuta-s?kyoku....
02:03:58
The Men Who Came In from the Cold Japanese Captives in Siberia and the Making of Postwar Japan
On 15 August 1945, Emperor Hirohito announced Japan’s defeat in the Second World War to millions...
01:30:53
Great Thinkers: Richard Fardon FBA on Mary Douglas FBA
'Purity and Danger', a book exploring the concepts of pollution and taboo in societies around the...
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Living with Breathlessness, Learning from Experience
SUBSCRIBE: iTunes | Stitcher | Pocket Casts | RSS Discover the work our researchers are...
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Falling Back in Love With Technology
In this episode, James speaks to Payal Arora, professor and chair of technology, values, and...
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Introduction and overview of talk by Jonathan Goodman
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Spatial Design, Society and Maps – Miriam Sode
Design, psychology, and anthropology maybe don’t spring to mind when thinking about maps....
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#22 Payal Arora: Falling Back in Love With Technology
In this episode, James speaks to Payal Arora, professor and chair of technology, values, and...
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The Social Ideas Podcast: the social of anthropology and innovation
In this episode of The Social Ideas Podcast, Dr Joana Nascimento discuss the meaning and purpose...
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Sacred Trash, Trash Talks, And Personhood
Bo Wang discussing the practice of depositing garments as offerings to sacred mountains in...
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Art and Anthropology with Jen Clarke
This is part two of an edited interview with Dr Jen Clarke of Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen,...
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Instead of chippin' away today, let's stack some stones! ;) What does the Iron Age in South...
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202 - Anthropologist and Psychic Medium Kenneth Joholske - Big Seance
Have you witnessed an armoire levitating and moving a distance of four feet before...
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Learning from our ancestors, with Alice Roberts
Alice Roberts, one of the UK’s leading public scientists, talks to Samira Shackle about what we...
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THE MOST IMPORTANT LESSON WE WERE NEVER TAUGHT - ethnocentrism vs cultural relativism | episode 7
Who gets to tell the world what’s right or wrong? Ethnocentrism definition Can everyone just do...
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Junk safety is bad for our health + CULTURAL PERFECTIONISM vs RISK | podcast episode 6
Illness and death Risk and safety Conversation shutdown Long term risks of junk safety
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THE SAFETY PARADOX - Why do we feel so insecure & how to regulate our nervous | episode 4
Why do we feel unsafe? How did our ancestors deal with danger? How to regulate our nervous...
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