What does it take to keep a public anthropology lab alive? In this episode, we talked with Giselle Figueroa about this. She is a PhD candidate at the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Founding Director of the Laboratorio de Antropología Abierta (Open Anthropology Lab). She is a SAPIENS Public Scholar Training Fellow and has received the Wenner-Gren Wadsworth International Fellowship, as well as support from the Colombian Ministry of Science and Technology.
Her academic interests are Economic Anthropology and the Anthropology of Globalisation, with a focus on natural resources.
Resources:
Open Anthropology Lab: https://www.antropologiaabierta.org/
SAPIENS Podcast: https://www.sapiens.org/culture/purification-gold-racialization-miners/
Kaleidos: https://www.kaleidos.ec/
Anthropology for Kids: https://a4kids.org/about/
The Ethnography Studio at USC: https://ethnographystudio.org/
Allegra Lab: https://allegralaboratory.net/
Music Credits:
"Study And Relax" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
About In the Thick of It and the Public Ethnography Lab: Welcome to In the Thick of It. On this podcast, we talk with researchers about how they do what they do, one method at a time. In the episodes, we dive into the behind-the-scenes of anthropology by explaining the choices, challenges, and creativity that go into qualitative methods. Our first season is hosted by Eva Rey, PhD Candidate at American University. This is a podcast is a project of the Public Ethnography Lab. The Public Ethnography Lab is a new center housed in the Department of Anthropology at American University that is focused on making ethnographic work matter beyond academia. The lab has three primary functions:
Want to know more? Visit the lab website: https://www.publicethnographylab.com/
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