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Growing Up and Becoming an Anthropologist: 60 Lectures
An introduction to anthropology through birth, aging, illness, and death
Completed · 66 episodes
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Yang Zhao: Anthropology Gave Me a Special Way of Seeing Other Cultures Liu Qing: As We Live in Ever More Artificial Environments, Does Human Nature Remain Unchanged? Leung Man-tao: Life History Is a Recent Focus of Anthropology Yuan Changgeng: Anthropology Makes Us Uncomfortable by Turning the Other into a Challenge to the Self 1. Anthropology as Life History: What Does It Mean to Become an Anthropologist? 2. Who Am I, Who Are We, and Who Are They? Beginning with Gauguin's Tahitians 3. Capuchin Monkeys and the Human Desert-Island Game: Are We Biological or Cultural Beings? 4. Gathering Wild Fruit or Planting Rice: How Should Humans Live? Shared Human Nature and Evolutionary Anthropology 5. A Romantic History of Gender Stereotypes about Egg and Sperm: Reproduction as Cellular Politics 6. Political Controversies over the Right to Life: Is a Fetus a Person, and When? 7. A Childhood That Never Was and Adulthood That Cannot Be Avoided: Beginning with Guayaki Children 8. How Do I Become Myself? Feral Children, Cognitive Innatism, and Nurture 9. What Is Wrong with Imagining Only Two Genders? New Guinea Tribes and Facebook's 56 Genders 10. Why Do Humans Speak Different Languages? Language and Ethnicity after Babel 11. “You Are What You Do”: The Fluid, Changing Lives of the Sea-Faring Vezo 12. “I Am What I Eat”: How What, When, and How We Eat Defines Identity 13. Where Do Humans Come From? Returning to Genesis to Ask What Made Us 14. How Do We Find Our Place? Nüwa's Creation of Humanity and the Meaning of Being Human 15. Is Unity between Humanity and Nature Only a Beautiful Fantasy? Folk Tales in the Present 16. Ask the Cyborg: Has the Boundary between Human and Machine Disappeared? 17. “Growing” and “Growing Up”: Human Change and Possibility through the Life Course Do Human Differences Persist in a Uniform Society of Coexistence? | Listener Q&A 18. Are There Unorthodox Paths to Love? Love as Passion 19. Is a Performed Wedding a Rite of Passage into Society? Weddings as a Sign of Maturity 20. Is Being Trapped and Alone in the Family a Bodily Prison? Gender Roles and Housework 21. Fatherhood and Motherhood: A Vast Challenge of Reality and Imagination 22. “You Are the Future of the Nation”: Must Children Grow Up in the “Scientifically” Correct Way? 23. “Everyone Is Born in Debt”: Can Money Ever Be Fully Repaid? A History of Debt 24. “No Money to Spend” May Be the Best Time to See Consumption's Complexity 25. Can Work Still Have Meaning in an Age of Bullshit Jobs? Marx, Bauman, and Graeber 26. How Easily Can a Life Be Ruined? The Good Life and the Middle-Class Role 27. Can Street Life Still Be Found? Sidewalk Records Marginal Lives amid Urban Renewal 28. How Many Dreams Ride the Journey to a Place with Wind? Returning Home and Class Mobility 29. Young People Buying Pensions Early: Can Insurance Protect Us from Uncertainty? 30. Are We Afraid of Aging? Longer Lives and the Possibility of Quality Care 31. Will We Live a Life That Makes Us Say “This Is Wonderful”? Attempts to Delay Aging 32. Have You Noticed That You Tire More Easily? Signs of Human Damage in Body and Culture 33. What Is Hygiene? Could You Drink Soup from a Sterile Shoe? Symbols of Clean and Dirty 34. “Why Me?” How Do We Live with Illness? A History of Medicine and Disease 35. Illness as Rhetoric: Moral Judgment and Political Oppression behind Social Metaphor 36. Masculine Fantasies and Efforts to “Rise”: An Ethnography of Impotence 37. Are We Free to Control Our Bodies? Exploring and Understanding Multiple Bodies 38. In an Impaired World, Have I Lost Interest in Everything? Losing and Rebuilding Bodily Perception 39. Human Interaction: A Warm Process of Gift Exchange? An Age without Care 40. Mental Health in the Emo Age: How Psychotherapy Tries to Save Modern Life 41. From Elation to the Depths of Depression: How Do I Understand Myself? An Autoethnography of Bipolar Disorder 42. Can Personal Pain Be Translated? The Rise and Fall of “Neurasthenia” in China 43. Spiritual Practice and Mysticism: Personal Illness or Social Illness in Urban Life? 44. Do “Ghostly Things” Really Happen in Spirit Mediumship? Mediumship and Folk Medicine 45. Drugs, AIDS, and the Individual: My Story with Brothers in Liangshan 46. Inequality in Health and Medicine: Haiti's Desperate Cycle of Epidemic, Poverty, and Disease 47. Does Discussing Death Answer How We Should Live Now? Examining Bodily, Social, and Symbolic Death 48. Which Matters More: Living with Clarity or Dying with Clarity? Death as a Cultural Idea 49. Are We Filled with Fear of Death? A Date in a Cemetery and the Fear We Are Taught 50. Does Not Crying Mean Not Caring? Death and Grief among Mothers and Infants in Brazil 51. “Why Did You Leave Me Alone?” Anger after Bereavement and Ilongot Headhunting 52. When Human Dignity Is Gone, Are We Already Dead? The Birth of “Social Death” 53. A Good Death: How Should We Leave This World? 54. Is Life Just a Breath? When People Choose to End Their Lives 55. Lonelier in a Crowd? Solitary Death: Dying Home Alone 56. What Is the Final Farewell? Death of Body and Soul 57. What Are We Really Burning When We Burn Spirit Money? Material and Spiritual Exchange between Worlds 58. What Does a “Ghost Bride” Have to Do with Romantic Love? Ghost Marriage and Burial Customs 59. How Much Does a Funeral Cost? Commercialization and Urban Order 60. How Can a “Joyous Funeral” Be Justified? Funeral Carnival and the Relationship between Life and Death 61. Do Immortality and an Afterlife Exist? Religious Views of Life and Death (Finale)