A Taste of Anthropology with Professor Burlingame

Intolerance still getting you down?  In this the third episode of the tolerance podcast series, Professor Burlingame gives you more ways to counteract this toxic behavior in your life.  You will gain more positive tolerance skills to support your intellectual and relationship growth while understanding why, for humans, there just can't be only one...

Are you sick and tired of intolerant people?  In this the second episode of the tolerance podcast series, Professor Burlingame helps you take your tolerance skills to the next level by teaching you some basic anthropology truths about humans.  You can then use this wisdom to better deal with intolerance in others and in yourself.

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This new podcast is the beginning of a series on the life skill of tolerance.  Using anthropological insight and wisdom, Professor Burlingame challenges intolerance and encourages you to see how tolerance can be used to better your own life and promote personal growth.

(9 minutes and 41 seconds)

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Don't listen to this one alone!  As a part of an annual event, Professor Burlingame shares Shakira Roman’s short story The Crooked Woman to help enhance your Halloween celebration.

(7 minutes and 57 seconds)


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The Anthropology Retreat in Bali

(Originally aired on June 30, 2019). Just how tech savvy are you?  In this, the final episode of Season 3, Professor Burlingame challenges your technology knowledge and encourages you to expand your understanding and use of tools.  Up your technology game by boosting your awareness of some of the meaning behind why you love tools...

(Originally aired on November 15, 2018)  Have you ever thought about the importance of parenting … yourself?  Well, maybe you should!

In this podcast, Professor Burlingame breaks down how humans are lifelong learners and, as such, we need parental care throughout our lives.  This can certainly come from your parent but, ideally, you should be taking on this responsibility once you enter adulthood...

(Originally aired on March 31, 2019)  Do you think biology alone can decide any aspect of your identity?  In this podcast, Professor Burlingame uses anthropology to challenge the inaccurate notion that genes define ethnicity and race.  Using Native Americans as a broad cultural and historical example, Prof B breaks down what genes can, and cannot, tell you about your racial or ethnic identity...

Professor Burlingame answers fun educational questions for kids -- as well as curious adults! -- using the knowledge and wisdom of anthropology.  In this podcast, Professor Burlingame talks about why humans grow up in families and why family is so important to being human.

This podcast is appropriate for any human aged 8 and above.

(6 minutes and 18 seconds)

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In this podcast, Professor Burlingame recommends a classic work of medical anthropology -- Brigitte Jordan's Birth in Four Cultures: A Crosscultural Investigation of Childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden and the United States.  This book highlights how  humans are biocultural using a common human rite of passage - birth...

n this podcast, Professor Burlingame questions common wisdom that all human females experience menopause at the same time and in the same ways.  While this podcast mostly focuses on menopause, males can still learn a few things they can apply to what American people say and believe about males, reproduction and aging.  This is a challenging podcast with plenty of food for thought and personal action...