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Greetings anthropologists,</div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">As you prep for the holidays, why not spend 47 minutes and 16 seconds learning about the labor behind that ubiquitous oil in your chocolate and other processed foods? That's
right: in the December installment of the </span><span style="color: black;"><b><i>Is Talk Cheap?</i></b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> series for Mergers & Acquisitions, we're talking about palm oil.</span></div>
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<a href="https://econanthro.org/podcasts/is-talk-cheap-making-palm-oil-sustainable-a-conversation-with-montserrat-perez-castro/" id="OWA775979c6-26a4-d232-f7bd-c06911c0c6be" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://econanthro.org/podcasts/is-talk-cheap-making-palm-oil-sustainable-a-conversation-with-montserrat-perez-castro/">"Is
Talk Cheap? Making Palm Oil ‘Sustainable’: A Conversation with Montserrat Pérez Castro"</a></div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><i>Mergers and Acquisitions is a podcast of the Society for Economic Anthropology, produced in collaboration with the American Anthropological Association. We feature quarterly thematic collections
on topics that range from climate change and digital capitalism to entrepreneurship, waste, and energy.</i></div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">In the <i><a href="https://econanthro.org/category/podcasts/is-talk-cheap/" id="OWA703be22b-6e77-6d5c-0024-a46a1c55be53" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://econanthro.org/category/podcasts/is-talk-cheap/">Is
Talk Cheap? </a></i><a href="https://econanthro.org/category/podcasts/is-talk-cheap/" id="OWA84626e46-8c91-2165-81d7-fcfd626cb018" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://econanthro.org/category/podcasts/is-talk-cheap/">series</a>, PhD student Ariana Gunderson
and I are bringing economic anthropology and linguistic anthropology together to explore language and value. We are hosting interviews with anthropologists thinking critically about qualia, evaluation, authenticity, and circulation, tracing the ways that value
is semiotically negotiated and constructed.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Be sure to subscribe so you catch the third and final installment in this series–</div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">January 1:
</span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Is Talk Cheap? Language, Tourism, and Landscape with Thea Strand</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Happy listening,</div>
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<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Kathryn E. Graber</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Associate Professor,
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Department of Anthropology</a> and <a href="https://ceus.indiana.edu/people/current-faculty/graber-kathryn.html" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
Department of Central Eurasian Studies</a></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Co-Director,
<a href="https://ssrc.indiana.edu/facilities/quallab/index.html" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
Qualitative Data Analysis Lab</a></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Indiana University</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Member at Large, Society for Linguistic Anthropology (2023-2026)</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">publications:
<a href="https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501750519/mixed-messages/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
Mixed Messages</a> | <a href="https://brill.com/display/title/38668?language=en" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
Storytelling as Narrative Practice</a> | <a href="https://indiana.academia.edu/KathrynGraber" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
downloadable things</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><i>I wish to acknowledge and honor the myaamiaki, Lënape, Bodwéwadmik, and saawanwa people, on whose ancestral homelands and resources Indiana University Bloomington is built.</i></span></p>
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