Episodes
Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
Conversations on ethnography: Yasmine Musharbash
Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
In Conversations on ethnography, I talk to various anthropologists and other social scientists about ethnography.
Today I'm joined by Yasmine Musharbash, an anthropologist at the Australian National University (ANU). She speaks to us from Alice Springs.
Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
Rice pounding in Sarawak
Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
January 2010 in a Penan longhouse in what was then the community of Long Singu (now submerged by the Murum Dam), Sarawak, Malaysia: the sounds of men, women, and children pounding rice — boom, boom, boom, boom, all day long, first from one side then from another, some on the shared verandah and some inside their apartments...
Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
Conversations on ethnography: Soon Chuan Yean
Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
In this series, I talk to various anthropologists and other social scientists about ethnography.
My guest today is Soon Chuan Yean, a Senior Lecturer in Political Science and colleague of mine at USM. He speaks to us from Penang – where he, like me, is in lockdown. As a political scientist, Soon’s research interests revolve around the intersections of culture, art, and religion, politics from below, Philippines local politics, and Malaysian cultural politics. He was introduced to ethnography in the course of his doctoral studies in Singapore, and his work combines ethnographic insights with political analyses. These are edited excerpts from our conversation.
Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
Gibbon establishing a new territory
Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
A lar gibbon (male, juvenile) establishing his territory, 7 February 2020. This happened as my team of Batek observers and I were breaking camp. This is one of the first recordings of this particular animal's voice. Later we decided to track his progress. We've returned to the same campsite several times up until September 2020. I've been able to record changes in his voice as he's grown and become a more confident singer.