87. AAA 2025 Part 1: Storytelling, Performance, History

About this episode

This episode explores storytelling and performance in relation to history and cultural traditions as part of a miniseries on the 2025 AAA annual meeting.

This is the first of a three-part miniseries covering the 2025 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in New Orleans. The conference presentations we’ll share with you today revolve around the stories people tell themselves about themselves; the ways people come to connect with and understand history; how people carry and transmit cultural traditions; and the emotional performances that help people process and move forward. We’ll move from political activist spaces to sports performances, from diasporic family histories to more recent narratives around forced migration—guided along the way by music and sound recordings from some of this episode’s interlocutors.

People in this episode

Host: Society for Cultural Anthropology

Topics covered

• storytelling
• performance
• history
• cultural traditions
• emotional performances
• migration narratives

Keywords

• storytelling
• performance
• history
• cultural traditions
• migration
• emotional processing
• activism
• sports
• diaspora

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: American Anthropological Association

Places: New Orleans

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