Anthropology
Jude Rogers: how popular music gets woven into our lives
British music journalist Jude Rogers explores music as a portal to "new places and new feelings or places to put feelings" in her new book The Sound of Being Human. Video, Audio
The Week in Detail: Museums, Mittens and the Mill
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio
Why do we mourn for people we've never met?
When Princess Diana died, millions were compelled to travel to her home and leave flowers. Why? Audio
The Social Stigma of Hungry Children
Anthropologist and Child Health researcher, Dr Julie Spray spent 2015 eating lunch with primary school students in a disadvantaged part of South Auckland, where she learned that providing free school… Audio
DNA in fossil bone fragments reveals NZ's lost world
Bags of bone fragments are casting a genetic spotlight on New Zealand's lost natural world, and on the impact of early Polynesians on its biota. Audio
Audit Culture: the creeping problem of our age
Professor Cris Shore has looked at the rise of 'audit culture' and isn't a big fan. In fact, he calls the use of accountancy techniques and metrics to manage our universities, health services, and… Audio
Prof Michael Jackson - The wherewithal of life
Professor Michael D Jackson is a New-Zealand-born anthropologist and creative writer. He has published 30 books of poetry, fiction, ethnography and memoir, and is internationally known for his vast… Audio
The ancient size-10 footprints that could rewrite history
Chris Smith on the amazing discovery of some size-10 footprints in Tanzania. No big deal? Well, these prints date back 3.6 million years and could fundamentally change our thinking about human… Audio, Gallery
Hair of the kuri or Maori dog
Ecologist Cilla Wehi hopes that the hair and bones of kuri, or now extinct Maori dog, might hold clues to what they ate Audio
Primates of Park Avenue
Anthropologist Wednesday Martin has examined the wealthy "stay-at-home Moms" of Manhattan's Upper East Side like any other primate group. Her book Primates of Park Avenue was written after she… Audio
Curvology
The British science writer David Bainbridge turns his attention to the origins of female body shape in his new book 'Curvology'. Audio
Taste and flavour
From children who won't try a new food even once, to adults who enjoy foods so spicy that the pain of eating them drowns out the taste, why we like some foods, and are disgusted by others, is a… Audio
What food wastage tells us with Dr David Boarder Giles
Anthropologist Dr David Boarder Giles has been investigating our cultural relationship to food consumption and wastage and he says the trash talks. What what we throw out tells us about our cultural… Audio
Genevieve Bell - Intel's anthropologist
Genevieve Bell is an Australian anthropologist and researcher, and is the director of Intel Corporation's Interaction and Experience Research. Intel dominates the PC chip industry. As well as tablets… Audio
Michael Jackson - An Anthropologist in the Antipodes
Road Markings, an eBook written by expatriate anthropologist Michael Jackson. Audio