On this episode of Anthropological Airwaves, we sat down with Stephanie Mach of the Penn Museum for two conversations, the first with Monique Scott of Bryn Mawr College and the second with Salam Al Kuntar of the Penn Cultural Heritage Center. Both of our interviewees discuss their museum work, whether ethnographic research or exhibition design & curation and the role of the museum in today's society, both as it currently exists and as it should be going forward. Full episode transcript.
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Anthropological Airwaves is the official podcast of American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association. It is a venue for highlighting the polyphony of voices across the discipline’s four fields and the infinite—and often overlapping—subfields within them. Through conversations, experiments in sonic ethnography, ethnographic journalism, and other (primarily but not exclusively) aural formats, Anthropological Airwaves endeavors to explore the conceptual, methodological, and pedagogical issues that shape anthropology’s past, present, and future; experiment with new ways of conversing, listening, and asking questions; and collaboratively and collectively push the boundaries of what constitutes anthropological knowledge production. Anthropo...