Shapeshifting
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There are old folktales and legends of people who can become animals. Animals who can become people. And there’s a lesson for our own time in those shapeshifting stories — a recognition that the membrane between what's human and more-than-human is razor thin.
Original Air Date: November 20, 2021
Guests:
Sharon Blackie — David Abram — Chris Gosden — Stephen Graham Jones
Interviews In This Hour:
Reclaiming the fierce women who are shapeshifters — How a man turned into a raven — Shapeshifters, shamans and the 'New Animism' — Horror author Stephen Graham Jones on what our monsters say about us
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