Slightly Problematic: Recent Episodes
Slightly Problematic
Slightly Problematic is a team of anthropologists critically engaging with their field and actively exploring anthropology as a valuable service to industries and organizations. We create researched content that is driven by passion, empathy, and activism as we explore the multitude of ways anthropology can provide context for our contemporary realities.
We aim to share new anthropological ideas, apply our work both within and beyond an academic context, and to fck sht up, anthropologically speaking.
In which, Emily defines her role as a local, applied anthropologist with a camera. She brings examples from her own research, and explains the importance hyper-local storytelling, place-making and self-ethnography.
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In which, Emily describes the roots of visual anthropology and the three types of visual data: ethnographic film, research film, and visual ethnography.
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In which, Madison continues to provide context for Western museums and how they shift for audiences throughout time.
Text version with citations: https://www.slightlyproblematic.net/post/museums-racist-and-non-neutral-part-2
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In which, Sarah and Jacelle Ramon-Sauberan talk about the American Southwest as the iconic setting for Westerns.
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Washington Post "Saving the West’s most iconic cactus from climate change"
Saguaro National Park
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Tohono O’odham Nation
City of Tucson
In which, Sarah talks about her research at Old Tucson Studios, and invites Jacelle Ramon-Sauberan to talk about the American Southwest as the iconic setting for Westerns.
CORRECTION: In Arizona (1940), Jean Arthur's character personally goes after the guys who slander her reputation. They didn't get anywhere near her cattle.
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Washington Post "Saving the West’s most iconic cactus from climate change"
Saguaro National Park
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Tohono O’odham Nation
City of Tucson
In which, Lucor describes the transition from damage based research to desire based research.
Text version with citations: https://www.slightlyproblematic.net/post/theories-of-change
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In which, Madison explains how museums can get it right with decolonization and critical museology.
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In which, Sarah explains intersectional theory through history, meaning, and examples.
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In which, Lucor talks about the problematic process of knowledge generation from field work, archival research, or synthesis of non-western and Indigenous scholarship.
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In which, Madison explains how museums can be racist and non-neutral places for education. She also explains how she and others are working to fix it.
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In which, Sarah rapidly defines many tourism vocabulary terms that popped up during her research.
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In which, Lucor explains 5 key points to ethical research.
- Who is hiring you
- Freely given informed consent
- Do no harm
- Don't reinvent the wheel
- Culture change can be a zero-sum game
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