Sources mentioned in this episode:

Code Bias and Social Dilemma streaming on Netflix;

Big Fish, streaming on HBO;

Star Trek – The original series – Season 2, Episode 8 “I,” Mudd, streaming on Netflix;

Friedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil, focus on Master Morality and Slave Morality (1886); and

Edward L. Bernays’s Propaganda (1928).

The topics linking these sources: categorization, storytelling, and power.

What do anthropology and power have in common? 

In this episode, I connect George Floyd Memorial, Ethnicity, Inc, and Michel Foucault's Power/Knowledge.

Here I begin my auto-ethnographic journey. I start with the definition of anthropology and anthropologists, to tease out the real from the ideal that anthropologists and anthropology dispel in the world. 

This is the introductory podcast by an anthropologist living in Southern California. In this first episode, (termed episode 0, season 1) The Anthropologist, Ariane Dalla Déa, introduces herself, the subjects she will be discussing in her podcasts, her location as an adjunct instructor in the US, and what motivated her to pursue a career in anthropology.