PUAN Podcast
Public Anthropologist podcast (PUAN Pod) features ideas and thoughts about issues that concern the public. Researchers are encouraged to translate complex social idea or theory into intelligible language, which is grounded in empirical research.
The podcast series is hosted by Antonio De Lauri and Saumya Pandey.
PUAN Pod is an opportunity to speak about scholarship for a broader public. While there is no singular way of defining the anthropological public, speakers are encouraged to think about what kind of knowledge they produce, who gets to be part of their knowledge system, and to whom does the discipline owe responsibility.
In the 1st episode of PUAN podcast, co-host Saumya Pandey interviews Anthropologist Tania Murray Li on the history and future of palm oil plantation in Indonesia and other parts of the world. Professor Li explains what monocrop palm oil plantation may be revealing about economic inequality and why is it so important to pay attention …
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