Podcasts and Ethnography
ANT2214.01
Course Description
Summary
How can anthropology help us listen more critically and carefully? Each class session will consider one ethnographic approach, which students will apply to their listening. Following in the anthropological tradition, where concepts both reveal social processes and are themselves modified by the material at hand, students will consider how podcast episodes they listen to can be elucidated by and also place pressure on each class鈥檚 conceptual approach. For the duration of the course, students will consider one podcast series of their choosing, composing listening journals and working through a peer editing process with classmates. By the end of the class, students will write a full review piece covering their chosen podcast series.