The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri: Recent Episodes
KERI J SANSEVERE
A podcast for Dr. Keri's anthropology students.
Season 01: Culture and Social Life (Cultural Anthropology) Season 02: The Fundamentals of Archaeology Season 03: Pottery Analysis in Archaeology
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The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri: Ep. 01, What is Anthropology? A podcast for Rutgers University's Culture and Social Life course.
Topics: Anthropology past and present; holism, the four subfields, suspending judgement; EB Tylor; unilineal evolution; Frans Boas; historical method; globalization; Jason DeLeon; migration; contemporary archaeology.
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri--Season 02: Archaeology--Ep. 12: Cultural Resource Management
Topics: sites as non-renewable resources; threats to sites; urbanization; looting; private property; cultural resource management; Antiquities Act; National Monuments; National Historic Preservation Act; National Register; ARPA; UNESCO; NAGPRA.
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri—Season 03: Pottery--Ep. 11: Pottery and Provenience
Topics: provenience; sourcing; fingerprinting; mineral analyses; petrographic analysis; x-ray diffraction; chemical analyses; instrumental neutron activation analysis; laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry; x-ray fluorescence; radiolaria; Mississippian pottery; redwares; Barbados; Jamaica.
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri--Season 02: Archaeology--Ep. 11: Historical Archaeology
Topics: historical archaeology; history of historical archaeology; James Hall; Felix Martin; Ivor Noel Hume; Monticello, Mulberry Row, African Burial Ground, Battle of Little Bighorn.
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri—Season 03: Pottery--Ep. 10: Dating Pottery
Topics: aadiocarbon-dating; accelerator mass spectrometry; dating lipids; thermoluminescence; classifications; typology; types; Marcey Creek type; pearlware; maker's marks; English transfer print; seriation; mean ceramic dating.
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri--Season 02: Archaeology--Ep. 10: Gender and Status
Topics: sex vs. gender; androcentrism; Indian Knoll; Hooker's Division; status; achieved vs. ascribed status; Moundville: William Paca's Power Garden.
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri—Season 03: Pottery--Ep. 09: Direct Evidence of Pottery Function
Topics: residues; sooting; attrition; contamination; cutlery marks; fermentation; herbal wines; GC/MS; phosphate analysis; phytoliths; starch grains; pollen; lipids; vinegars; combining multiple lines of evidence.
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri--Season 02: Archaeology--Ep. 09: Bioarchaeology
Topics: bioarchaeology; ethics; NAGPRA; burial population; cemeteries; charnel house; bundle burial; biological sex; age; disease; iron deficiency anemia; workload; osteoarthritis; diet; tooth wear; paleodemography; Stillwater marsh.
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri—Season 03: Pottery--Ep. 08: Inferring Form and Function through Indirect Evidence
Topics: form vs. function; intended vs. actual use; archaeological context; pots as tools; performance characteristics; storage vessels; processing vessels; cooking vessels; serving vessels; transport vessels; refitting vessels; estimating orifice diameter.
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri--Season 02: Archaeology--Ep. 08: Floral and Faunal Analysis.
Topics: fauna; taxon; element; size class; comparative collection; bone modifications; MNI; NISP; Chauvin de Huantar; Ch'arki; flora; palynolgy; Shanidar Cave; Lehner Ranch; Stillwater Marsh; phytoliths Hidden Cave; coprolites
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri--Season 02: Archaeology--Ep. 07: Taphonomy, Experimental Archaeology, and Ethnoarchaeology
Topics: Middle Level research; principle of uniformitarianism; analogy; taphonomy; Hudson-Meng bonebed; experimental archaeology; flintknapping; ethnoarchaeology; kivas.
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri—Season 03: Pottery--Ep. 07: Firing Pottery.
Topics: a risky step; changes to the clay body; updraft kilns; downdraft kilns; kiln furniture; bonfiring; pit firing; fuel; pyrometric cones; firing mishaps; thermal shock; dunting; fireclouding; firecracking; overfiring; cooling; post-fire treatments.
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri--Season 02: Archaeology--Ep. 06: Labwork
Topics: culling; washing; labeling; mending; cataloging; conservation; conserving wood; desalinating metal; conserving ephemera.
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri—Season 03: Pottery--Ep. 06: Secondary Forming Techniques, Surface Treatment, Decoration, and Other Finishing Techniques.
Topics: beating; paddling; scraping; smoothing; burnishing; wash; slip; glazes; colorants; pigments; dyes; metal oxides; cutting; carving; piercing; impressing; stamping; rouletting; Why Pots are Decorated; human-as-pot-analogy.
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri: Ep. 15, Art and Media
Topics: defining art; early artistic expression; Blombos Cave; Lascaux Cave; Chauvet Cave; preservation challenges; museum exhibits; ethnomusicology; indie fashion designers.
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri--Season 02: Archaeology--Ep. 05: Dating Methods
Topics: relative dating; index fossil concept; law of superposition; Pueblo San Cristobal; Nels Nelson; seriation; Deetz and Dethlefsen; absolute dating; dendrochronology; radiocarbon dating; accelerator mass spectrometry; trapped charge dating techniques.
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri—Season 03: Pottery--Ep. 05: Primary Forming Techniques
Topics: primary forming techniques and archaeological correlates; the workspace; supports; bats; hand-building; coil method; pinching; drawing; slab-building; molding, throwing; potter's wheel; kick wheel; stick wheel; parting agents.
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri--Season 02: Archaeology--Ep. 04: The Basics of Archaeological Fieldwork
Topics: fieldwork; preservation; site formation processes; test excavations; stratigraphy; stratum; screening; context; an archaeologist's toolkit.
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri—Season 03: Pottery--Ep. 04: Preparing Materials and the Pottery Production Sequence
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The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri--Season 02: Archaeology--Ep. 03: Archaeological Sites and How to Find Them
Topics: sites; naming a site; finding a site; Smithsonian numbers; sampling; surveys; shovel testing; auger; remote sensing; magnetometry; soil resistivity; ground penetrating radar, metal detecting.
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri—Season 03: Pottery--Ep. 03: Clay and Temper
Topics: clays; granulometry; primary vs secondary; plasticity; kaolinite; smectite; "fat" clays; aged clays; improving clay qualities; aplastics; AMS dating; temper; drying; shrinkage; Western systems of knowing vs. traditional systems of knowing
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri--Season 02: Archaeology--Ep. 02: The Structure of Archaeological Inquiry
Topics: Anthropology; four-field approach; cultural anthropology; linguistics; physical anthropology; archaeology; archaeology as a science; Squire and Davis; Moundbuilders; theoretical frameworks of archaeology; processual archaeology; post-processual archaeology; processual-plus archaeology.
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri—Season 03: Pottery--Ep. 02: The Origins of Pottery and Ceramic Technology.
Topics: archaeological pottery; pottery bodies; terra-cotta; earthenware; stoneware; porcelain; softwares; objects of clay; a global history of ceramic and pottery technology; Old World and New World pottery; detecting other invisible crafts by proxy through pottery; textiles and impressions; journeymen repairers.
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri--Season 02: Archaeology--Ep. 01: Meet Some Real Archaeologists.
Topics: fact from fiction; archaeology in pop culture; archaeology's "Hall of Fame"
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri--Season 03: Pottery--Ep. 01: The Value of Pottery Analysis
Topics: "art" vs. "craft"; learning craft + becoming a potter; broken things; mending and repairing, site formation processes; objects of "humility" vs. objects of "value"; the potential of pottery analysis in archaeology; an endangered craft; globalization; cash economies; capitalism; deforestation, multidisciplinary modes of knowing,
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri: Ep. 14, Health + Illness. A podcast for Rutgers University's Culture and Social Life course.
Topics: Medical anthropology; conventional biomedicine; health; power + health; illness; ethnomedicine; Reiki; Laurent Pordier; Tibet; amchis; health disparities; Khiara Bridges; racism; Lower Manhattan; structural violence + health; South Africa; the experience of pain + illness.
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri: Ep. 13, Religion. A podcast for Rutgers University's Culture and Social Life course.
Topics: Religion; Karl Marx; spirituality; New Age movement; crystals and gemstones; shamanism; Laurel Kendall; magic; imitative magic; contagious magic; Voodoo dolls; witchcraft; baseball magic; George Gmelch
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri: Ep. 12, Environment + Sustainability. A podcast for Rutgers University's Culture and Social Life course.
Topics: Global warming; greenhouse gas emissions; environmental justice, Bob Bullard; environmental racism; Benjamin Chavis; Melissa Checker; MInamata Bay; Flint, MI; Dakota Access Pipeline; Donna Harraway; "critters as kin"; commercial livestock operations; Paul Hawkens; drawing down emissions; plant-based diet.
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri: Ep. 11, Politics + Power. A podcast for Rutgers University's Culture and Social Life course.
Topics: Politics; power; political anthropology; Eric Wolf; Elman Service; the state; Praxis test; Max Weber; hegemony; Antonio Gramsci; war and violence; WWII; Margaret Mead; Occupy Wall St.; Jeffrey Juris.
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri: Ep. 10, The Global Economy. A podcast for Rutgers University's Culture and Social Life course.
Topics: The global economy; economic anthropology; modes of subsistence; industrial agriculture, sustainability; environmental footprint; world systems; Immanuel Wallerstein; neoliberalism; flexible accumulation; offshoring; Elizabeth Dunn; Fordism; Taylorism; Poland, Gerber baby food.
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri: Ep. 09, Kinship, Marriage, + Family. A podcast for Rutgers University's Culture and Social Life course.
Topics: Kinship; function of kinship; kinship networks; creating kinship; choosing kin; biological descent, marriage; family; nuclear family and the Euro-American ideal; plural marriage; polyandry; fraternal polyandry; culture shock; Melvyn Goldstein; Nepal; globalization; Donna Haraway; Anthropocene; Chthulucene, kinship on a global scale.
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri: Ep. 08, Sexuality. A podcast for Rutgers University's Culture and Social Life course.
Topics: Sexuality + the Social Sciences; culture + sexuality; flexible sexuality vs. binary categories; regulated sexuality; Victorian ideals; early 20th-century erotica; Mae West; Margaret Mead; Denise Brennan; sex work; sex tourism; Dominican Republic; Bobby Benedicto; gay scene; Manila; Phillipines; sexuality + class.
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri: Ep. 07, Gender. A podcast for Rutgers University's Culture and Social Life course.
Topics: sex vs. gender; gender as a social construct; transgender; non-binary; gender stereotypes; gender + fashion; Emily Martin; egg and sperm; ethnography of professions; toxic masculinity + archaeology; gender + sexual harassment; #MeToo.
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri: Ep. 06: Ethnicity. A podcast for Rutgers University's Culture and Social Life course.
Topics: Ethnicity; ethnic boundary markers; "ethnography in anger;" globalization; American Indian; Native American; First Nation; Mohawk; Audra Simpson; ethnicity + kinship; ethnicity + identity; Johanna Lessinger; Polish Euroethnics; Greenpoint, Brooklyn; immigration + ethnicity; state + ethnicity.
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri: Ep, 05, Race and Racism. A podcast for Rutgers University's Culture and Social Life course.
Topics: race + racism; white supremacy, Charlottesville; Charleston; BLM; European colonialism; archaeology of the NYC African Burial Ground; enslavement of BIPOC in the American Northeast; 2020 Presidential debate; hashtag ethnography.
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri: Ep, 04., Language A podcast for Rutgers University's Culture and Social Life course.
Topics: communication vs. symbolic language; origins of human language; FOXP2; linguistic anthropology; sociolinguistics; gendered language; language extinction; language preservation; National Museum of Brazil; love letters; Laura Ahern; Nepal; historical archaeology; Michael Gall et. al.; Doane Academy, Burlington City, NJ; hidden transcripts.
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri: EP 03, Fieldwork and Ethnography. A podcast for Rutgers University's Culture and Social Life course.
Topics: fieldwork; ethnography; observation; participant observation; ethnographic interviewing; reflexivity; polyvocality; ethnographic writing style; thick description; rave culture; Hillary Agro; Himalayan healers (amchis); Sienna Craig; ethics.
The Cultural Corner with Dr. Keri: Ep. 02, Culture. A podcast for Rutgers University's Culture and Social Life course.
Topics: Science or Humanity?, Nacirema, Horace Miner, veganism, mainstream culture, subculture, personal learning goals.