“It’s a pure joy to listen to these two humans, and old friends, explore the who’s, how’s and why’s of what it means to be Homo sapien, having thoughtful, well researched conversations which are never not hilarious and are often deeply ridiculous. I can listen to these guys forever. There’s no era, subject or arena of knowledge that I don’t want explained to me by John and John." -- Carlos Jacott
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
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Monday Jun 26, 2023
Monday Jun 26, 2023
Do harfoots really speak with Irish accents and wear sticks in their hair? Do dwarves really drink ale and shout in a Scottish burr? Why do elves speak in refined English accents? In this episode, the Two Humans travel to Middle Earth to confront the scourge of linguistic stereotyping.
Episode 2: It Don’t Mean A Ting If You Ain’t Got Dem Rings
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
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Resources:
Blake, John
2022 When “Wokeness” Comes to Middle-earth: Why Some Say Diverse Casting Ruins the New “Lord of the Rings” Series. CNN, September 5, 2022, www.cnn.com/2022/09/03/entertainment/lord-of-the-rings-amazon-controversy- blake-cec/index.html
Donnelly, Jerome
2018 Nazis in the Shire. Mythlore, Vol. 37, No. 1 (133) (Fall/Winter 2018), pp. 81-102.
Dragojevic, Marko, Dana Mastro, Howard Giles, and Alexander Sink
2016 Silencing Nonstandard Speakers: A Content Analysis of Accent Portrayal on American Primetime Television. Language in Society, Vol. 45, No. 1 (February 2016), pp. 59-85.
Edwards, John
2013 Sociolinguistics: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, New York, NY.
Grewell, Greg
2001 Colonizing the Universe: Science Fictions Then, Now, and in the (Imagined) Future. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, 2001, Vol. 55, No. 2 (2001), pp. 25-47.
Haugen, Einar
1966 Dialect, Language, Nation. American Anthropologist, August 1966, New Series, Vol. 68, No. 4 (Aug. 1966), pp. 922-935.
Hiley, Margaret
2004 Stolen Language, Cosmic Models: Myth and Mythology in Tolkien. Modern Fiction Studies, Winter 2004, Vol. 50, No. 4, J. R. R. Tolkien Special Issue (Winter 2004), pp. 838-860.
Holmes, Janet and Nick Wilson
2017 An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, Fifth Edition. Routledge, New York, NY.
Hostetter, Carl F. and Arden R. Smith
1992 A Mythology for England. Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Society, No. 33, Proceedings of the J. R. R. Tolkien Centenary Conference: Keble College, Oxford, 1992 (1995), pp. 281-290.
Kottak, Conrad Phillip
2011 Cultural Anthropology: Appreciating Cultural Diversity, Fourteenth Edition. McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.
Lippi-Green, Rosina
2011 English with an Accent: Language, Ideology, and Discrimination in the United States, Second Edition. Routledge, New York, NY.
Meeks, Barbara A. 2006 And the Injun Goes “How!”: Representations of American Indian English in White Public Space. Language in Society, February 2006, Vol. 35, No. 1 (February 2006), pp. 93-128.
Metz, Mike
2018 Challenges of Confronting Dominant Language Ideologies in the High School English Classroom. Research in the Teaching of English, May 2018, Vol. 52, No.4 (May 2018), pp. 455-477.
Moore, Robert
2011 “If I Actually Talked Like That, I’d Pull a Gun on Myself”: Accent, Avoidance, and Moral Panic in Irish English. Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 84, No. 1 (Winter 2011), pp. 41-64.
Power, Ed
2022 Rings of Power: The New Hobbits Are Filthy, Hungry Simpletons with Stage-Irish Accents. That’s $1bn Well Spent. The Irish Times, August 31, 2022, www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio/2022/08/31/rings-of-power-the-new-hobbits- are-filthy-hungry-simpletons-with-stage-irish-accents-thats-1bn-well-spent/.
Welch, Andy
2022 Irish People Have Faced Centuries of Discrimination: Why Are Lord of the Rings’ Accents So Offensively Bad? The Guardian, September 28, 2022, www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/sep/28/irish-people-have-faced- centuries-of-discrimination-why-are-lord-of-the-rings-accents-so-offensively-bad.
Wednesday May 10, 2023
Wednesday May 10, 2023
The Two Humans begin their journey of self-discovery by exploring the illicit liaisons between our Homo sapien and Neanderthal ancestors. This episode is hot, hot, hot!!
Episode 1: Let’s Get It On! Hominin Hookups and Prehistoric Baby Daddies
An Intro to Anthro with two Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
www.intro2anthro.podbean.com
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542
IG @introtoanthrowith2humans
Resources
2022 Skull Research Sheds Light on Human-Neanderthal Interbreeding. Popular Science (Popsci.com), August 24, 2022, www.popsci.com/science/human- interbreeding-neanderthals-skulls/.
Churchill, S.E. and A.H. Ross
2022 Midfacial Morphology and Neandertal–Modern Human Interbreeding. Biology 2022, 11, 1163. https://doi.org/10.3390/ biology11081163.
Devlin, Hannah
2022 Neanderthals and Modern Humans May Have Copied Each Other’s Tools. The Guardian, October 13, 2022, www.theguardian.com/science/2022/oct/13/ neanderthals-and-modern-humans-may-have-copied-each-others-tools.
Gallagher, James
2022 Nobel Prize Goes to Svante Paabo for Neanderthal Work. BBC News (BBC.com), October 3, 2022, www.bbc.com/news/health-63116304.
Haviland, William A., Dana Walrath, Harold E. L. Prins, and Bunny McBride
2011 Evolution and Prehistory: The Human Challenge, Nineth Edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Belmont, CA.
Kottak, Conrad Phillip
2011 Cultural Anthropology: Appreciating Cultural Diversity, Fourteenth Edition. McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.
Paabo, Svante
2018 A Neanderthal Perspective on Human Origins, lecture, 2018 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest, https://youtu.be/RIR8yrEGAgw.
Roberts, Allice2018 Evolution: The Human Story, Second Edition. Dorling Kindersley, New York, NY.
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John McCray has a BA in French and an MA in Southwest Studies/Anthropology and Archaeology. He has taught college-level anthropology and his graduate thesis was titled "Mycotoxins, Maize and Site Abandonment in the American Southwest." Over the years he has worked cleaning chimneys, answering questions about Italian tourism, guarding artworks that look like vaginas at the O'Keeffe Museum, and helping veterans. He has written for stage and television, including projects for VH1, Fox Studios, and Lookingglass Theater. He co-created A Series of Comedic Lectures and Addiction 101 with John Lehr and was the historical consultant on Hulu's Quickdraw. John enjoys looking at petroglyphs and pottery sherds and hanging out with John Lehr.
John Lehr is the star/creator/writer for “10 Items or Less” (TBS), “JailBait” (Sony/Crackle) and “Quickdraw” (Hulu). Lehr is one of the original Geico Cavemen from the wildly successful commercial campaign. Lehr’s critically acclaimed “Comedic Lectures” solo performances, directed and co-created by John McCray, have had sold out runs in LA and New York. He is also a respected improvisational performer having worked at the Organic Theater and Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago, the Montreal Comedy Festival, Chicago Improvisational Festival and multiple venues in Los Angeles and New York. Lehr regularly performs stand-up comedy and MC/Hosts events around the country. www.johnlehr.com