Shapeshifting

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To The Best Of Our Knowledge is a nationally-syndicated, Peabody award-winning public radio show that dives headlong into the deeper end of ideas.

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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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