Squid Game is back, and so is Player 456. In the gripping Season 2 premiere, Player 456 returns with a vengeance, leading a covert manhunt for the Recruiter. Hosts Phil Yu and Kiera Please dive into Gi-hun’s transformation from victim to vigilante, the Recruiter’s twisted philosophy on fairness, and the dark experiments that continue to haunt the Squid Game. Plus, we touch on the new characters, the enduring trauma of old ones, and Phil and Kiera go head-to-head in a game of Ddakjji. Finally, our resident mortician, Lauren Bowser is back to drop more truth bombs on all things death. SPOILER ALERT! Make sure you watch Squid Game Season 2 Episode 1 before listening on. Let the new games begin! IG - @SquidGameNetflix X (f.k.a. Twitter) - @SquidGame Check out more from Phil Yu @angryasianman , Kiera Please @kieraplease and Lauren Bowser @thebitchinmortician on IG Listen to more from Netflix Podcasts . Squid Game: The Official Podcast is produced by Netflix and The Mash-Up Americans.…
Ghosts. Witchcraft. Harem Life. Revenge. Incest. Murder. Matricide. Explore the beliefs, practices, mythologies and obsessions of world cultures with The Anthrogirl Podcast. But don’t expect a lecture or academic conversation. Our intrepid Adventuress brings other societies to life through drama and storytelling, based on authentic, classic ethnographies.Brought to you by a screenwriter, an actress and a PhD in Anthropology.
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Let’s begin with a question, the kind anthropologists love: are any customs universal? Found everywhere, in every culture, from frozen Nunavut to the blistering sands of the Sahara? Storytelling is a cultural universal. People snooze in classrooms and during religious services, but never when a spooky story is told around a campfire. These are some…
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Shamans are the go-to people when a family member gets sick - but what happens when the shaman fails? Bibliography: Wagley, Charles, Tapirabe Shamanism. In Readings in Anthropology, Vol 2, Holt, Rinehart and Winston Holt, Morton Fried, ed. Thomas Y. Crowell Co, 1968.Di The AnthroGirl
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Very few anthropologists were as brave, daring and groundbreaking as Zora Neal Thurston - the only social scientist , Guggenheim fellow and Columbia PhD to photograph a real Zombie. Bibliography: Tell My Horse, Thurston, Zora Neal, HarperCollins, 2008. Folklore, memoirs, and other writings, Thurston, Zora Neale, NY, Library of America, 1995. Hittin…
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Despite the austerity of their environment and their meagre possessions, these aboriginal people of central Australia produced as lavish a body of myth and ritual as can be found anywhere in the world. It is a staggering cultural resource - but with the coming of the whitefella, everything changed. Bibliography: Gould, Richard, Yiwara, Foragers of …
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Everyone loves stories. People snooze in classrooms and during religious services, but never when a spooky story is told around a campfire. These are some of my favorites, collected by anthropologists during field research. Bibliography: Grimble, Arthur, A Gilbertese Creation Myth, In Reader in Comparative Religion, Lessa & Vogt, eds. Harper and Ro…
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The word harem brings to mind classic tales like The 10001 Arabian Nights - but did you know that harems still exist in the 21st century? Bibliography: Dreams of Trespass. Mernissi, Fatima. Perseus Books, 1994. Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village. Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock, Doubleday, 1965.…
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People die. In the end, we all have to face the Grim Reaper. But what do we do, when the dead come back to haunt us? Bibliography: Lee, Richard, The Dobe Kung, Holt, Rinehart and Winston,1984 Middleton, John, The Lugbara of Uganda, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965 Opler, Morris, An Interpretation of Ambivalence of Two American Indian Tribes. Reader…
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Introducing a brand new podcast. Join the AnthroGirl as she explores the myths and the magic, ghost lore and spirit possession, witchcraft and sorcery, on her world-wide journeys to exotic cultures.Di Edithe
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In the Kathmandu Valley, young Newari girls called kumaris are worshipped as omnipotent deities.Di Edithe
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