In this three-part series, Brown University PhD Students Benjamin Salinas and Adelaida Tamayo examine questions of art, activism, and identity in conversation with Jaguar Arreoloa, an Indigenous-Chicano rapper based in Los Angeles, California. 

In Part Three (The Debrief), Ben and Adelaida reflect on the interview with Jaguar, what they found inspiring, and each of their key takeaways from the process of creating the episode. 

Transcript: https://www.americananthropologist.org/podcast/season-4-episode-1-indigenous-not-mestizo-part-3
Close-Captioned:  https://youtu.be/Dsnx5AeBnio 

Credits: 
Production & Editing: Adelaida Tamayo and Benjamin Salinas
Executive Producer - Anar Parikh
Background Music: Benjamin Salinas
Intro/Outro: "Waiting" by Crowander"

S04 E01:  "I'm Indigenous, Not Mestizo": The Art & Activism of Rapper Jaguar Arreola - Part Three

In this episode, guest producer Laura Cirilo examines how the idea of closure configures into international applications of forensic anthropological practice in conversation with Dr. Sarah Wagner, Professor of Anthropology at the George Washington University, and Dr. Mercedes Salado, a member of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team. The episode was produced as a part of the Vital Topics Forum, "How Academic Diversity is Transforming Scientific Knowledge in Biological Anthropology" in Volume 121, Issue 2 of American Anthropologist. 

American Anthropologist Vital Topics Forum on Forensic Anthropology: https://www.americananthropologist.org/online-content/vital-topics-forum-how-academic-diversity-is-transforming-scientific-knowledge-in-biological-anthropology

Transcript: https://youtu.be/BEasaVg5BcQ
Close-Captioning: https://youtu.be/BEasaVg5BcQ 

Credits:
Production & Editing: Laura Cirilo
Writing: Jaymelee Kim, Cate Bird, and Davette Gadison
Thumbnail Image: Jaymelee Kim
Additional Editorial Support - Elaine Chu and Matt Go
Executive Producer - Anar Parikh
Intro/Outro: "Waiting" by Crowander"

S04 E02: The Myth of Closure

This episode is the first of a three-part series produced by Eleanor Neil, contributing editor at American Anthropologist and Anthropological Airwaves. From the African American Burial Ground in New York City to the memorialization of violence in Northern Ireland to professional archaeology in the eastern Mediterranean, Eleanor asks archaeologists with different regional and methodological specialties to choose a single object or site, and, in their own words describe how this this site or artefact speaks to the interaction between archaeology and political or social identity across time and place.

Here, Dr. Cheryl Janifer LaRoche discusses the African American Burial Ground in lower Manhattan and the influence it has had on public engagement, perceptions of slavery in the northern United States, and the empowerment inherent in recognizing one’s own past in the archaeological record. 

Dr. LaRoche’s is Associate Research Professor at the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Her research on 18th and 19th-century free Black communities, institutions, and spaces combines law, history, oral history, archaeology, geography and material culture to define Black cultural landscapes, often navigating the convergences of public, private, political and social interests.

Further Reading: 
LaRoche, Cheryl J. and Michael L. Blakey, ‘Seizing Intellectual Power: The Dialogue at the New York African Burial Ground’, Historical Archaeology, Vol. 31, No. 3 (1997), pp. 84-106.

Leone, Mark P. and Cheryl J. LaRoche, Jennifer J. Babiarz, ‘Archaeology of Black Americans in Recent Times’, Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 35 (2005), pp. 575-598.

Transcript: https://www.americananthropologist.org/podcast/archaeological-identities-part-01
Close-Captioning: https://youtu.be/XVlc4t1ZH8A 

Credits:
Writing, Production & Editing: Eleanor Neil
Production Support: Anar Parikh
Executive Producer - Anar Parikh
Thumbnail Image: Wally Gobetz, “NYC - Civic Center: African American Burial Ground National Monument” (2008) 
African American Burial Ground Memorial
Featured Music: “Spirit Blossom” by Roman Belov
Intro/Outro Music: "Waiting" by Crowander

S04E03: Archaeological Identities - Part One

This episode is the second of a three-part series produced by Eleanor Neil, contributing editor at American Anthropologist and Anthropological Airwaves. From the African American Burial Ground in New York City to the memorialization of violence in Northern Ireland to professional archaeology in the eastern Mediterranean, Eleanor asks archaeologists with different regional and methodological specialties to choose a single object or site, and, in their own words describe how this this site or artefact speaks to the interaction between archaeology and political or social identity across time and place.

In this episode, Dr. Laura McAtackney, discusses the materiality of violence and partition, the nature of commemoration and how archaeology of the recent past has an integral role in our understandings of politics, society and conflict. 

Dr. McAtackney is an associate professor at Aarhus University and her research centres on the historical and contemporary archaeologies of institutions and colonialism in Ireland.

Further Reading: 
Flanagan, Eimear. “McGurk’s Bar Bombing: I just want justice for my grandparents.” BBC News: Northern Ireland, 12 December 2021. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-59569348/. 

McAtackney, Laura. “Materials and Memory: Archaeology and Heritage as Tools of Transitional Justice at a Former Magdalen Laundry.” Éire-Ireland 55, nos. 1 & 2, (Spring/Summer 2020): 223-246.

MacAirt, Ciarán. "Corporate memory and the McGurk's Bar Massacre: Ciarán MacAirt writes about the murder of his grandmother and 14 other civilians in a Belfast bar 43 years ago, and the families’ on-going campaign for truth." Criminal Justice Matters 98, no. 1 (2014): 6-7.

Justice for Magdalenes Research, an online resource associated with the NGO, Justice for Magdalenes. http://jfmresearch.com/aboutjfmr/

Transcript: https://www.americananthropologist.org/podcast/archaeological-identities-part-02
Close captioning:  https://youtu.be/Ca8TmrXZ2jw 

Credits:
Writing, Production & Editing: Eleanor Neil
Production Support: Anar Parikh
Executive Producer - Anar Parikh
Thumbnail Image: Photo by Freya McClements for the Irish Times
Featured Music: “Westlin’ Winds” by Eoin O’Donnell
Intro/Outro: "Waiting" by Crowander

Westlin' Winds

S04E04: Archaeological Identities - Part Two

This episode is the third (final) installment of a three-part series produced by Eleanor Neil, contributing editor at American Anthropologist and Anthropological Airwaves. From the African American Burial Ground in New York City to the memorialization of violence in Northern Ireland to professional archaeology in the eastern Mediterranean, Eleanor asks archaeologists with different regional and methodological specialties to choose a single object or site, and, in their own words describe how this this site or artefact speaks to the interaction between archaeology and political or social identity across time and place.

Here, Eleanor, an archaeologist herself, takes up the very prompt she posed to Dr. Cheryl Janifer LaRoche and Dr. Laura McAtackney in first two episodes of the series: to consider the role archaeology plays in the creation of contemporary political social discourses in the context of her own research on community archaeology on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus.

Eleanor Neil is a PhD candidate in the Classics department at Trinity College Dublin. She is also a recipient of an AG Leventis educational scholarship and a Long Room Hub Early Career Researcher.

*Special thanks to to Professor Michael Toumazou (Davidson College) and Professor Derek Counts (UW Miluakee) for their generosity of time and conversation. 

Further Reading:
Counts, Derek B., and Elisabetta Cova, P. Nick Kardulias, Michael K. Toumazou. “Fitting In: Archaeology and Community in Athienou, Cyprus.” Near Eastern Archaeology 76, no. 3 (2013): 166-177.

Counts, D.B. “A History of Archaeological Activity in the Athienou Region.” In Crossroads and Boundaries: The Archaeology of Past and Present in the Malloura Valley, Cyprus, Annual of ASOR 65, edited by M. K. Toumazou, P. N. Kardulias, and D. B. Counts, 45–54. Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research, 2012. 

The Kallinikeo Museum website: https://www.athienou.org.cy/en/episkeftheite/kallinikeio-dimotiko-mouseio/

Transcript: https://www.americananthropologist.org/podcast/archaeological-identities-part-03
Close-Captioning:  https://youtu.be/5wkOD6hfhtM 

Credits:
Writing, Production & Editing: Eleanor Neil
Editorial and Production Support: Anar Parikh
Executive Producer - Anar Parikh
Thumbnail Image: Eleanor Neil
Featured Music: “Westlin’ Winds” by Eoin O’Donnell
Intro/Outro: "Waiting" by Crowander

S04E05 - Archaeological Identities Pt. 3

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