To start 2021, an interview about one of my favourite non-fiction books of last year: The Next Great Migration by Sonia Shah. Sonia is a science journalist and prizewinning author,… Read More
Sonia Shah on lemmings, Linnaeus, and human migration
Category: anthropology
Camilla Townsend on the Aztecs (video)
Tim Ingold: ‘Anthropology’s subject is humanity unsliced’
‘Anthropology should be an ethical project which is dedicated to the problem of how on earth we are all going to live together in this world of ours, now and… Read More
Meghan Warner Mettler: how America learned to love Japan
This week my guest is Meghan Warner Mettler, who’s an assistant professor of history at Upper Iowa University. Meghan is the author of the recent book, How to Reach… Read More
Thomas Laqueur on the work of the dead
This programme features an interview with Berkeley cultural historian Thomas Laqueur. We spoke recently about his latest book, The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains, a… Read More
Pat Shipman: “We turned wolves into dogs”
In Pat Shipman’s book, The Invaders (Harvard University Press), she argues that our last close relative, the Neanderthals, were driven to extinction not solely by climate change – though that… Read More