Your Local Anthropologist with Elina
Episodes
Practice of Freedom - bodied intelligence
25 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What does a body know that a textbook can't hold?This episode is about the knowledge that lives in female bodies: in hormones, pain, pregnancy, in the...
Practice of Freedom - bodies, bodies, bodies
30 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The conversation delves into the impact of the masculine script on individuals and society, exploring the silence around male pain and the consequence...
Practice of Freedom - what's the default?
21 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The conversation delves into the power dynamics of language and the impact of institutional structures on learning. It explores the inscriptions of po...
Practice of Freedom - transforming minds and bodies
21 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The conversation explores the relationship between movement, learning, and education, highlighting the significance of the body in genuine learning. I...
Utopia of Play: after the dream
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this season finale, we summarise all the ideas and themes explored throughout the season and land on the question: what is the power we are fightin...
Utopia of play: a history of the commons - the new enclosures (part 2)
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of "Utopia of Play," Elina continues the history of the commons into present day and examines the new enclosures in the digital age. F...
Utopia of Play: a history of the commons - the theft of the world (part 1)
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode delves into the intricate history of the commons and its enclosure, a pivotal transformation that reshaped social relations and laid the ...
#BONUS - We Got Union Busting Before GTA6 (Part 2)
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Elina explores the dynamics of the gift economy in the workplace, the challenges of union busting, and the nature of authority and solidarity within c...
BONUS Utopia of Play: we got union busting before GTA6 (part 1)
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode explores the concept of collective action through the lens of recent events at Rockstar Games, highlighting the contradictions within the...
Utopia of Play: the gift
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What would it look like if instead of owing 1s and 0s we built reputation and social capital through generosity and constant exchange of giving - of t...
Utopia of Play: rethinking debt
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Debt isn't just what you owe - it's an architecture of obedience. It colonises your time and keeps you trapped in bullshit jobs. But in ancien...
Utopia of Play: bodies on the altar
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We all live inside the cage of modern work culture, but that cage doesn't confine everyone equally. This episode asks: whose exhaustion counts as ...
Utopia of Play: the altar of exhaustion
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why are we so exhausted we can only imagine how to hustle harder rather than imagine alternatives? In this episode, i explore how corporate culture tr...
Utopia of Play: games we're forced to play
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What makes play different from games? In this episode of Your Local Anthropologist, i explore the concept of play versus games, emphasising the invisi...
Utopia of Play: playing with the gods
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is historical - what was the role of work in early societies? How did Christianity influence labour and play? And what does the modern wo...
Utopia of Play: in the beginning there was labour
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why do we work this much? Even hunters and gatherers had shorter work days than us. Play is the crucial ingredient for breakthroughs and new ideas, so...
Introducing: Your Local Anthropologist with Elina
28 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Elina's been dying to figure out why we don't construct better worlds. Armed with a politics of hope and knowledge of our histories, she's hoping to f...