Talking Culture

In Talking Culture's final full episode in season one, Alejandra, Meghan, and Daniel explore the work of Zora Neale Hurston. They discuss the boundaries she came up against in her pursuit of anthropology as well as the disciplinary boundaries between anthropology and folklore studies and where much of her work sits on the line of fiction and nonfiction. Throughout the episode the point to the debt anthropology owes to Hurston, and how her work paved the way for much of what anthropology strives to do today.
Sources:
Bascom, William R. 1953 Folklore and Anthropology. The Journal of American Folklore 66(262):283-290. https://www.jstor.org/stable/536722.

Ben-Amos, Dan.1971 Toward a Definition of Folklore in Context. The Journal of American Folklore 84(331):3-15. https://www.jstor.org/stable/539729.
Boyd, Valerie. 2003. Wrapped in rainbows: the life of Zora Neale Hurston. New York: Scribner.

Darnell, Regna. 1973 American Anthropology and the Development of Folklore Scholarship: 1890-1920, Journal of the Folklore Institute 10(1/2):23-39. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3813878.

Dorson, Richard M. 1963 Current Folklore Theories. Current Anthropology 4(1):93-112. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2739820.

Hemenway, Robert. 1976 Folklore Field Notes from Zora Neale Hurston. The Black Scholar 7(7):39-46. DOI: 10.1080/00064246.1976.11413814.

Hurston, Zora Neale. 1939 Sound Recordings by Zora Neale Hurston. Library of Congress.
Hurston, Zora Neale, Franz Boas, Arnold Rampersad, Henry Louis Gates, and Miguel Covarrubias. 2008. Mules and Men 1St Harper Perennial Modern Classics ed. Harper Perennial Modern Classics. New York: Harper Perennial.

Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Zora Neale Hurston." Encyclopedia Britannica, January 24, 2021. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Zora-Neale-Hurston.

Pooley, William G. 2018 Native to the Past: History, Anthropology, and Folklore. Past and Present 239(1): e1–e15. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtv038.

Russell, Mary Catherine. 2017 Zora Neale Hurston: Scientist, Folklorist, Storyteller. Pursuit - The Journal of Undergraduate Research at the University of Tennessee 8(1):124-138. http://trace.tennessee.edu/pursuit/vol8/iss1/13.

In academia, like in so many industries currently, day to day work is done online. What does this mean for our learning and teaching when we are separated from professors, students, and peers by our screens? And what does it mean that those same screens that separate us also bring us together? Host Alejandra Melian talks with Drs. Setrag Manoukian and Samuele Collu as well as colleague Segolene Guinard about what the Zoom classroom has meant for education.

Alejandra and Daniel talk about the farmers' protests in India and the Golden Globe's snub of the show "I May Destroy You." We bring these topics to anthropology through race, class and the internet.

Host Alejandra Melian takes a stab at ethnographic storytelling. She brings listeners with her back to her MA fieldwork in New Mexico and talks about ecological teaching and learning in the desert breaking down the boundaries between beings and even between species.

In this episode, Daniel interviews Marielle Aithamon, a PhD student from Université de Montréal. They discuss what would it mean to queer anthropology, from creating research questions, to the field, and the classroom.
You can read more of her exciting work by looking at her article: "Silence: A predicament for feminist anthropology and social innovation" (Feminist Anthropology, 3: 373-380. https://doi.org/10.1002/fea2.12096).