These three podcast episodes are from the podcast “Reaper Research”, a response to the anthropology course ANT-395: Afterlives of Empires.

From the course syllabus, “This course investigates how people across the globe care for the dead in the wake of mass violence, such as war, colonialism, slavery, and genocide. We will place frameworks from the anthropology of religion into conversation with the anthropology of care in order to extend a critique of biopower (the governance of life and populations) into the afterlife, grappling with forms of violence and care that exceed the life/death binary”.

This podcast was edited by Percie Thompson and written and recorded by Nia Dokes, Lilia Memarzadeh, and Percie Thompson.