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Episode 7: Great Giants of the Middle World: Sakha Khapsagai

Episode 7: Great Giants of the Middle World: Sakha Khapsagai

The Sakha Republic, also known as Yakutia, is the coldest place on Earth outside of Antarctica. A 3-million-km2 expanse of unforgiving taiga...

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Episode 1: Irish Collar and Elbow

Episode 1: Irish Collar and Elbow

The first in a series of podcasts looking at some of the obscure folk-wrestling styles from around the world. This one explores...

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A Phone Call to the Inner Mongolian Steppe

A Phone Call to the Inner Mongolian Steppe

Lavell Marshall is a world champion and 5-time US national champion in Shuai Jiao, a form of Chinese jacket wrestling. For the...

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Episode 2: Beyond the End of the World: Yaghan and Selk’Nam Wrestling of Tierra del Fuego

Episode 2: Beyond the End of the World: Yaghan and Selk’Nam Wrestling of Tierra del Fuego

The Yaghan are - were - the southernmost people in the world; a scattered group of nomadic hunters living on the sub-antarctic...

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Episode 6: The Roar of the Rain: Ritualized Jaguar Combat in Guerrero, Mexico

Episode 6: The Roar of the Rain: Ritualized Jaguar Combat in Guerrero, Mexico

The region of the world stretching from Mexico to Costa Rica - traditionally referred to as “Mesoamerica” - was, in its pre-Columbian...

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Chipewyan Wrestling: A Grappling Isolate?

Chipewyan Wrestling: A Grappling Isolate?

The Chipewyan (Dënesųłı̨né), a First Nations people of northern Canada, historically had a deeply ingrained - and in many ways highly unique...

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