Talk On — Debates in Anthropology

“Talk On — Debates in Anthropology” is a podcast of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany.
In each episode of this podcast, one of our three hosts, Christoph Brumann, Xenia Cherkaev, or Jovan Maud, talks to the guest about their publications, research, and current debates in social anthropology.

Amiel Bize is sitting in front of a podcast microphone.

Who gets the Remainder?

S3E4 | 31 min | eng
Guest: Amiel Bize
Host: Xenia Cherkaev
Jagat Sohail sits in the right-hand third of the picture, in front of a podcast microphone.

Shadows of the Long Summer

S3E3 | 42 min | eng
Guest: Jagat Sohail
Host: Christoph Brumann
Visiting researcher Alice von Bieberstein in conversation with Xenia Cherkaev

Temptations in Ruin

S3E2 | 44 min | eng
Guest: Alice von Bieberstein
Host: Xenia Cherkaev
Visiting researcher Anna-Lena Wolf in conversation with Jovan Maud

Labor on the Line

S3E1 | 41min | eng
Guest: Anna-Lena
Host: Jovan Maud
Back to the ‘30s?

Back to the ‘30s?

S2E5 | 42min | eng
Guest: Jeremy Rayner
Host: Jovan Maud
Gleaning for Communism

Gleaning for Communism

S2E4 | 40min | eng
Guest: Xenia Cherkaev
Host: Christoph Brumann
Sleeping with Strangers

Sleeping with Strangers

S2E3 | 34min | eng
Guest: Julia Vorhölter
Host: Christoph Brumann
In this episode, Christoph Brumann talks to Philipp Demgenski about his book "Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City". The conversation centers around Demgenski's fieldwork in the Qingdao neighborhood of Dabaodao, a former German colony, where he explores the transformation from a slum to a heritage site. Demgenski's research aims to answer a crucial question: why do urban redevelopment projects in China often go wrong, stagnate, or fail? His book delves into this issue, focusing on the city's urban redevelopment projects that have stalled due to a preservation mandate imposed by the government. Through ten years of ethnographic fieldwork, Demgenski sheds light on the diverse experiences of local residents, migrant workers, preservationists and government officials, revealing a bureaucracy that is often scattered and ineffective, leading to deadlocks and stalled redevelopment projects.

Seeking a Future for the Past

S2E2 | 34min | eng
Guest: Philipp Demgenski
Host: Christoph Brumann
 
Everyday Economics of Debt

Everyday Economics of Debt

S2E1 | 33min | eng
Guest: Marek Mikuš
Host: Jovan Maud
Migrants and Masculinity

Migrants and Masculinity

S1E5 | 35min | eng
Guest: Mario Schmidt
Host: Christoph Brumann
Frontiers of Belonging

Frontiers of Belonging

S1E4 | 29min | eng
Guest: Annika Lems
Host: Jovan Maud
An Anthropology of Nonreligion?

An Anthropology of Nonreligion?

S1E3 | 34min | eng
Guest: Mascha Schulz
Host: Christoph Brumann
Documenting the Undocumented

Documenting the Undocumented

S1E2 | 30min | eng
Guest: Romm Lewkowicz
Host: Jovan Maud
Self as Method

Self as Method

S1E1 | 34min | eng
Guest: Biao Xiang
Host: Christoph Brumann
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