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Oct 12, 2018

Crowdsourcing the Conversation: On the Future of Podcasting, Public Engagement, and Exercising the Anthropological Tool Kit

by Adam Gamwell and Ryan Collins We explore the This Anthro Life Podcast project through three themes: anthropology as a conversation, the contemporary need for generalists, and why we see podcasting as a means to public engagement, but not an end in and of itself. In all retrospective likelihood, what…

Anthropology

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Crowdsourcing the Conversation: On the Future of Podcasting, Public Engagement, and Exercising the…
Crowdsourcing the Conversation: On the Future of Podcasting, Public Engagement, and Exercising the…
Anthropology

11 min read


Aug 1, 2018

Playing our way to conservation? Experimental games in the Andean countryside

Experimental games, or field experiments, are a common tool deployed by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and economists to measure when, why, and how people make different kinds of choices. This data, in turn, is used to inform public policy and generate development projects. In 2016 Adam ran a series of experimental…

Behavioral Economics

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Playing our way to conservation? Experimental games in the Andean countryside
Playing our way to conservation? Experimental games in the Andean countryside
Behavioral Economics

13 min read


Apr 24, 2018

Consulting Podcasters: Prototyping a Democratic Tool for Multiple Voices, Storytelling and Solution Finding

Thanks to the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) for having Matt Artz and I of This Anthro Life present at the annual meeting in Philadelphia. We presented as part of the New Methods, Interventions And Approaches session. Our paper title was Consulting Podcasters: Prototyping a Democratic Tool for Multiple Voices…

Podcast

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Consulting Podcasters: Prototyping a Democratic Tool for Multiple Voices, Storytelling and Solution…
Consulting Podcasters: Prototyping a Democratic Tool for Multiple Voices, Storytelling and Solution…
Podcast

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Aug 16, 2017

Cooking Up an International Market for Quinoa

On a warm April morning, agronomist Alipio Canahua and Executive Chef José Maguiña prepare to plant quinoa in the gardens outside the Hotel Libertador in Puno, Peru, which sits on a picturesque island just off the coast of Lake Titicaca. The lush gardens are an experiment in sustainable horticulture-providing herbs…

Quinoa

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Cooking Up an International Market for Quinoa
Cooking Up an International Market for Quinoa
Quinoa

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Jun 8, 2016

The Lowdown on Peru’s ‘Golden Grain’

By Adam Gamwell and Corinna Howland This story was originally published at Beacon Reader with my colleague Corinna Howland earlier this year. We are experimenting with storytelling and trying our hand at what we call anthropological journalism, where we bring you news-formatted stories we break ourselves as well as a…

Agriculture

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The Lowdown on Peru’s ‘Golden Grain’
The Lowdown on Peru’s ‘Golden Grain’
Agriculture

7 min read

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