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Podcast by Cambridge Anthropology
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Camthropod shows how artists and anthropologists think through authorship, ethics, place, and responsibility from inside the creative process.
Camthropod turns conversations between anthropologists and artists into close examinations of how creative work carries responsibility. The Artery episodes pair researchers with practitioners, then stay with the choices beneath the finished work: who can claim authorship, what…
A restorer's tiny dots make you wonder who gets to call an artwork finished.
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A patient conversation about art, authorship, religion, and Northern Ireland.
Camthropod hosts Artery with a steady hand, giving Kayla Rush and artist Brona Lawson room to talk through art, authorship, and responsibility without rushing past the hard parts.
A patient conversation about authorship, restoration, and the line between making and mending.
Camthropod, hosting episode 4 of Artery, keeps its attention on art, authorship, and anthropology. Alana Kant and Jesus Guevara Rico circle back to restoration, intervention, and the hard job of telling what was made first from what was added later.
A reflective conversation about art, authorship, sincerity, and how meaning moves between artist, work, and audience.
Camthropod's Artery episode stays focused on art, authorship, and anthropology without trying to turn the subject into something larger than it needs to be.
A slow, reflective conversation about Beirut, poetry, and the strain of making art after loss.
The episode moves between Rebecca Appleton's research on women's poetry in Beirut and Rabab Jamsuddin's thoughts on authorship, performance, destruction, and what it means to keep writing after loss.
A measured arts discussion linking collaboration, opera, history, and cultural diplomacy through responsibility.
Camthropod, with Artery hosting Nazli, stays close to questions of authorship and responsibility. The episode treats ethical practice as part of collaboration, not a side note, and it gives EDI frameworks enough room to matter without turning them into slogan.
A careful study of how politics can be carried by sound, discipline, and belonging.
Camthropod follows Sean French's 2021 fieldwork with two Protestant marching bands in Derry and uses it to look at identity, noise, and public space.
A patient art-and-anthropology conversation where process, place, and performance stay closely entwined.
Camthropod episode 28 opens Artery, a podcast centered on art, authorship, and anthropology, with Hermione Spriggs, an anthropologist at University College London and an artist, in conversation with Tugelder Jan Jan Jans.
A patient conversation where butoh, authorship, and research meet in a thoughtful discussion of responsibility.
A conversation with Japanese butoh dancer and choreographer Emiko Agatsuma gives the episode a calm, reflective pace. It moves through art, authorship, and anthropology with steady attention to responsibility, and it is most interesting when it stays close to her working…
Long-form questions for serious curious minds.
Research conversations without the shortcut.
Policy books, examined with care.
Serious China scholarship, lecture by lecture.
Human origins, close to the evidence.
Camthropod hosts episode 3 of Artery.
Camthropod’s Episode 31 of Artery pairs an anonymous anthropologist with artist, leadership consultant, and soon-to-be PhD Nazli Tabatabai Khatambakhsh.
Camthropod episode 33 hosts Artery episode 7 with Iza Kavedžija and guest Emiko Agatsuma, a Japanese butoh dancer and choreographer who says she has practiced butoh for about 20 years.
Camthropod episode 34 hosts Artery episode 8, a conversation between Rebecca Appleton and poet Rabab Jamseddine about poetry, Beirut, and authorship.
Sean French’s Camthropod episode follows 14 months of fieldwork with two Protestant marching bands in Derry, Northern Ireland, where he learned the flute after starting in a learner’s room with two ten-year-old beginners.
Episode 35 of Camthropod, Origin Stories Part One, follows how anthropologists end up in the field sites they study.
Ayala Gazit built You Don't Say (her School of Visual Arts senior project) after learning her grandmother's mother-in-law was named Adolfina, and recorded relatives whose accounts contradicted each other.
Episode 36 of Camthropod features origin stories from Cambridge anthropologists explaining how they selected field sites.
Kayla Rush speaks with artist Brona Lawson about her practice.
An anthropologist interviews an Oaxacan artist-conservator about the intersection of art creation and preservation.
Jeannine Madeleine Fischer hosts a conversation with Mjuzilem Duduzik-Zakaza about art, authorship, and anthropology.