Anthropology
By Oxford University
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Description
The Oxford Anthropology Podcast brings together talks by internationally renowned scholars and cutting edge researchers. Their lectures explore a wide range of human experience and feature case studies from around the world. We are grateful to the speakers and staff and students from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography who have made this podcast possible.
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The Moral Economy of Infrastructures in Everest Tourism | As social media posts from the slopes of Mount Everest become almost commonplace Dr Jolynna Sinanan (University of Manchester) focuses on digital media use amongst guides and porters and the impact of digital infrastructures in the area. | 6 2 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Pentecostalism, Deliverance and Queer Sexuality in Nigeria: Literary Representations | Professor Adriaan van Klinken takes us to the epicentre of Pentecostalism. | 6 2 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Stepping in, helping out, competing with…? State and civic actors in Ukraine’s wartime heritage work | Dr. Vonnak reflects on how socio historical events impact the definition, preservation, and sometimes neglect of cultural heritage. She draws from her extensive field work in Ukraine over the past eight years. | 25 1 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Parasites, Invention, and Grace: Taking Turns in a Streetcorner Bureaucracy | Michael Degani analyzes the styles of work and conflict amongst electrical contractors who congregate across the street from a power utility office in urban Tanzania. | 2 10 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Anthropology, Philosophy and Symmetrisation | Philippe Descola, one of Anthropology's most influential figures, invites us to go beyond the traditional boundaries of nature and culture and redefine our understanding of humanity's relationship with the world around us. | 2 10 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Intimate Rites: Ancestors and Queer Kinship in Zimbabwe | Raffaela Taylor-Seymourn examines the engagements with ancestral spirits among young queer Zimbabweans | 2 10 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Nutritional Anthropology | Stanley Ulijaszek discusses human dietary evolution, dietary flexibility and present day undernutrition and infection | 2 10 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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How to Stitch Ethnography | Feminist anthropologist Tania Perez-Bustos discusses how immersion in the act of embroidery affects the body and enables collective reflection and listening. | 2 10 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Rise and Fall of Generations | Does life take you any nearer to your ancestors or does it draw you ever further away from them? | 2 10 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Living in Tide: The Climate of the Urban Sea | How do fishers and scientists read the uncertain terrain of the city in the sea? What stories does the urban sea hold for the futures of the city? | 2 10 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Crude Sonics: Field Recordings from an Extractive Zone | Zsuzsanna Ihar leads us through field recordings captured in the marginal settlements of Baku, capital of Azerbaijan. She traces sounds that haunt, interrupt, and resist processes of gentrification, displacement, and capitalist profiteering. | 2 10 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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China in the global reproduction migration order | Peidong Yang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) presented this seminar as part of the COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar series on 14 January 2019 | 8 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Food insecurity of fatness: from evolutionary ecology to social science | This Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar was presented by Professor Daniel Nettle (Newcastle University) on 16 January 2019 | 8 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Intimate geopolitics: migration, marriage of citizenship across Chinese borders | This COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar was presented by Elena Barabantseva (University of Manchester) on 21 January 2019 | 8 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The dual burden of malnutrition and the obstetric dilemma | Professor Jonathan Wells (University College London) delivered this seminar as part of the Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health series on 23 January 2019 | 8 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Grandparenting migration: reproduction, care circulations and care ethics across borders | Elaine Ho (National University of Singapore) delivered this seminar as part of the COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group series on 28 January 2019 | 8 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Investment migration and social reproduction: the case of recent patterns of migration from China | Professor Gracia Liu-Farrer (Waseda University, Tokyo) delivered this seminar as part of the COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group series on 4 February 2019 | 8 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Iron, infection and anaemia: evolutionary viewpoint on a huge global health problem | Hal Drakesmith (Radcliffe Department of Medicine, Oxford) delivered this seminar as part of the Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health series on 6 February 2019 | 8 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Birth tourism from China and Taiwan to the United States: cosmopolitan strategies and aspirations | Sean Wang (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) delivered this seminar as part of the COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group series on 11 February 2019 | 8 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Stunting does not equal malnutrition: evolutionary perspective on human height variation applied to public health | An Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar delivered by Professor Barry Bogin (Loughborough University) on 13 February 2019 | 8 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Assisted reproductive technologies and medical travel | A COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar delivered by Professor Andrea Whittaker (Monash University) on 18 February 2019 | 8 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Childbearing as global security strategies | Professor Pei-Chia Lan (National Taiwan University) delivered this COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar on 25 February 2019 | 8 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Educational migration: youth, time and transformation | Professor Francis Collins (University of Waikato) delivered this COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar on 4 March 2019 | 8 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Science of Modelling Through | Professor Dan Sarewitz delivered this seminar at the Institute for Science Innovation and Society on 4 March 2019 | 8 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Is female health cyclical? Evolutionary perspectives on menstruation | Alex Alvergne (Oxford) delivered this seminar on 6 March 2019 as part of the Primate Conversations seminar series | 8 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Global householding: care migration and the question of gender inequality | A presentation by Professor Brenda Yeoh (National University of Singapore) for the COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar (11 March 2019) | 8 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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How war is shaping the Ukrainian HIV epidemic: A phylogeographic analysis | An Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar presented by Tetyana Vasylyeva (Department of Zoology, University of Oxford) on 24 October 2018 | 31 1 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Why are men muscular? Reproductive, hormonal, and ecological hypotheses to explain variation in human male muscularity within populations of Bangladeshi and British men | An Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar presented by Kesson Magid (Department of Anthropology, University of Durham) on 7 November 2018 | 31 1 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Life history, parental investment and health of Agta foragers | An Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar presented by Abigail Page (Department of Anthropology, University College London) on 14 November 2018 | 31 1 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Telomeres as integrative markers of exposure to stress and adversity: A systematic review and meta-analysis | An Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar presented by Dr Gillian Pepper (Centre for Behaviour and Evolution, University of Newcastle) on 28 November 2018 | 31 1 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Militant masks: youth and insecurity in the Niger Delta | David Pratten, the University of Oxford, presented the Anthropology Departmental Seminar on 9 November 2018 | 31 1 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Trials of the everyday: spaces of global health in South Africa | Michelle Pentecosts, King's College London, presented the Anthropology Departmental Seminar on 2 November 2018 | 31 1 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Precolonial Microbiome: how microbiologists access anthropology museums to contribute to the debate on restitution | Frederick Keck, Musée du quai Branly, presented this Anthropology Departmental Seminar on 26 October 2018 | 31 1 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Don't Bury the Famine Dead': how humanitarian intervention killed the most vulnerable in Ajiep, South Sudan, in 1998 | This Anthropology Departmental Seminar was given by Jok Madut Jok, SUNY Upstate Medical University, on 23 November 2018 | 31 1 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Social life of a license: caste and everyday struggles for work legitimacies in India | This Anthropology Departmental Seminar was given by Bhawani Buswala, University of Oxford, on 30 November 2018. | 31 1 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Studying the origins of human material culture in young chilldren | This Anthropology Departmental Seminar was delivered by Dr Eva Reindl (University of Oxford) on 2 February 2018 | 14 9 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The grey area: fascism between the general and the particular | This Anthropology Departmental Seminar was delivered by Dr Paolo Heywood (University of Cambridge) on 25 May 2018 | 14 9 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Why Are There Always Candomblés? Situated Knowledges of Miscegenation and Syncretism in Brazil | This Anthropology Departmental Seminar was delivered by Professor Marcio Goldman (National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) on 11 May 2018 | 14 9 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Rights and justice: reproductive politics and legal activism in India | This Anthropology departmental Seminar was delivered by Professor Maya Unnithan (University of Sussex) on 26 January 2018 | 31 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A petition to kill: efficacious appeals against big cats in India | Nayanika Mathur (Oxford) delivered this Anthropology Departmental Seminar on 5 May 2018 | 31 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The seven moral rules found all around the world | This Anthropology Departmental Seminar was delivered by Oliver Scott Curry (Oxford) on 18 May 2018 | 31 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Marett Memorial Lecture 2018. Individualism in the Wild: Oneness in Jivaroan Culture | The Marett Memorial Lecture for 2018 (27 April) was given by Professor Anne-Christine Taylor (emeritus; Director of Research at the CNRS) on the Amazonian 'Individualism' of the Jivaroan people of Ecuador and Peru | 31 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The promise of the (foreign) image: post-post-internet art from the Philippines (and other notes from the field) | An Anthropology Departmental Seminar delivered by Rafael Schacter (University College London) on 1 December 2017 | 27 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The concept of culture in cultural evolution | In his keynote speech for the Cultural Evolution Workshop (held in the Pitt Rivers Museum on 28 February 2017), Prof. Tim Lewens of Cambridge examines the concept of culture in cultural evolution. | 27 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sustaining one another: enset, animals, and people in the southern highlands of Ethiopia | An Anthropology Departmental Seminar delivered by Elizabeth Ewart and Wolde Tadesse (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford) on 13 October 2017 | 27 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Existential mobility, migrant imaginaries and multiple selves | An Anthropology Departmental Seminar by Michael Jackson (Emeritus Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School), 20 October 2017 | 27 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Words and Deeds - the Astor Visiting Lecture 19 October 2017 | Michael Jackson, Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School, delivered the Astor Visiting Lecture at Oxford on 19 October 2017. Introduced by Ramon Sarró (Oxford). | 27 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ebola: A biosocial journey | The inaugural Geoffrey Harrison Prize Lecture delivered in Oxford on 3 November 2017 by Melissa Parker, Professor of Medical Anthropology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | 27 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Possible Futures - Robert Foley | A talk by Robert Foley (University of Cambridge) for Possible Futures, an event held at the Oxford University Natural History Museum on 3 November 2016 that celebrated the relaunch of Biological Anthropology at the University of Oxford. | 15 9 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Possible Futures - Rebecca Sear | A talk by Rebecca Sear (Dept. of Population Health) for Possible Futures, an event held at the Oxford University Natural History Museum on 3 November 2016 that celebrated the relaunch of Biological Anthropology at the University of Oxford. | 15 9 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Possible Futures - Peter Walsh | A talk by Peter Walsh (University of Cambridge) for Possible Futures, an event held at the Oxford University Natural History Museum on 3 November 2016 that celebrated the relaunch of Biological Anthropology at the University of Oxford. | 15 9 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Possible Futures - Charlotte Roberts | A talk by Charlotte Roberts (University of Durham) for Possible Futures, an event held at the Oxford University Natural History Museum on 3 November 2016 that celebrated the relaunch of Biological Anthropology at the University of Oxford. | 15 9 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Possible Futures | Alexandra Alvergne and Nicholas Márquez-Grant introduce Possible Futures, an event held at the Oxford University Natural History Museum on 3 November 2016 that celebrated the relaunch of Biological Anthropology at the University of Oxford. | 15 9 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ebola Emergence is Predictable | This talk was given by Dr Peter Walsh (University of Cambridge) at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine on 3 November 2016/ | 15 9 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A War on People: The Drug War and the Hermeneutic Politics of Those who Resist it | This Anthropology Departmental Seminar was given by Jarrett Zigon (University of Virginia) on 2 December 2016. | 31 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Indian Village: Marx to Modi | In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Ed Simpson (SOAS) discusses the issues raised by the re-study of an Indian village. 25 November 2016. | 31 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Artist and the Stone: Ethnography of an Artistic Process | This Anthropology Departmental Seminar was given by Roger Sansi-Roca (Goldsmiths, University of London) on 18 November 2016. | 31 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Brilliant Jewel: Celibacy and its Malcontents in the Brazilian Catholic Church | In this Departmental Seminar, Maya Mayblin (University of Edinburgh) discusses the relatively late and most challenged rule in the Brazilian Catholic Church - celibacy. 4 November 2016. | 31 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Formalization as Development: Accounting for the Proliferation of Village Savings Associations | In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Maia Green (University of Manchester) discusses village savings associations and small-scale credit in Sub-Saharan Africa. 28 October 2016. | 31 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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‘I Can Feel the Mafia but I Can’t See it’: Investigatory Dilemma in Present-day Trapani | The opening Evans-Pritchard Lecture for 2017 given by Dr Naor Ben-Yehoyada (Columbia University) on 1 May. The theme of the series was: 'Getting Cosa Nostra: Knowledge and Criminal Justice in Southwestern Sicily'. | 31 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Gifts, entitlements, benefits and surplus: interrogating food poverty and food aid in the UK | The 2017 Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture was given in Oxford on 24 May by Prof. Pat Caplan of Goldsmiths, London. | 26 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Why do children doubt magic, but believe in the miraculous? | Prof. Paul Harris (Harvard Graduate School of Education) examines why children are skeptical about magical phenomena but are willing to believe in supposedly miraculous violations of everyday causal constraints. 12 May 2017. | 26 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transformation through Ritual: Bodies as Sacred Space | A seminar of the Anthropology Research Group at Oxford on Eastern Medicines and Religions. Dr Ann R. David (University of Roehampton) focuses on Tamil worshippers in the UK to discuss the role of ritual in religion and dance. 18 January 2017. | 26 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Climate, weather, culture | In this Departmental Seminar, Prof. Steve Rayner examines the blossoming of anthropological attention to climate change over the last ten years. 17 February 2017. | 26 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The great migration of summer 2015: trajectories, journeys and hubs | In this Departmental Seminar, Dr Franck Düvell (COMPAS) focuses on the great migration of 2015 when it is estimated that 12 million people were newly displaced. 20 January 2017. | 26 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Exhibiting violence and social change in Brazil | Prof. Elizabeth B. Silva (The Open University) discusses the role of staged events in remembering the establishment of dictatorship in Brazil in 1964. 19 May 2017. | 26 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Women in India’s waste economy | In this Departmental Seminar, Prof. Barbara Harriss-Whiten draws on anthropology, economics and politics to examine the role of women in Indian society. 12 May 2017. | 26 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Gorongosa Restoration Project, Mozambique | Greg Carr, the President of the Gorongosa Restoration Project in Mozambique, gives an overview of how the Gorongosa National Park has evolved since Mozambique's civil conflict ended in 1992. 5 May 2017. | 26 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Exploring the city's 'sutures' | Filip De Boeck (KU Leiden) explores 'urban life between want and wish', drawing on examples from the DRCongo (4 March 2016) | 15 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Plantain island sirens | Jennifer Diggins (Oxford Brookes) discusses 'tales of poverty, fish, and seduction from maritime Sierra Leone' (26 February 2016) | 15 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Science, stories and indigenous wisdom: is the wider world waking up at last? | Joy Hendry (Oxford Brookes) examines indigenous knowledge and specific projects across the world, including Canada, Australia and New Zealand (13 May 2016) | 15 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The charm of 'things': ethnography and performance | Marta Rosa Jardim (UNIFESP, Brazil) examines the role of sculptures of Hindu gods in Mozambique and the influence of art history on her anthropological research (20 May 2016) | 15 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The certainty of futures lost | Lucy Lowe (Edinburgh) discusses motherhood, Caesarean sections and migration in 'Little Mogadishu', Mairobi (3 Fecember 2015) | 15 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The fragility of conviction | Mathijs Pelkmans (LSE)'s seminar is based on 'walking with the Tablighi Jammat in Kyrgyzstan (12 February 2016) | 15 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Profane relations: the irony of offensive jokes in India | Andrew Sanchez (Kent) discusses why a multi-ethnic workforce in eastern India exchanges jokes about each other's religion and cultures as a form of irony (19 February 2016) | 15 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The developmental origins of health and disease: adaptation reconsidered | Ian Rickard (Durham) places the origins of the science of health and disease within a framework of evolutionary theory and a medical anthropology perspective (18 January 2016) | 8 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Obstructed labour: the classic obstetric dilemma and beyond | Emma Pomeroy (Cambridge) places obstructed labour within an evolutionary perspective. A medical anthropology seminar given on 15 February 2016. | 8 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Inflammaging and its role in ageing and age-related diseases | Cristina Giuliani (Bologna) places inflammaging, and genetics, within an evolutionary perspective. A medical anthropology seminar given on 1 February 2016. | 8 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome | Charlotte K. Russell (Parent-Infant Sleep Lab, Durham) looks at how evolutionary anthropology and cross-cultural perspectives can have a huge impact on specific healthcare issues such as SIDS (22 February 2016) | 8 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The dawn of Darwinian critical care medicine | James G. Morgan (Dept of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care, Leeds General Infirmary) discusses how an evolutionary approach can help one understand medicine, such as adaptive defence mechanisms in the body (8 February 2016) | 8 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Maternal capital and offspring development | Jonathan Wells (UCL Institute of Child Health) presents an intergenerational perspective on the development origins of health and disease. A medical anthropology seminar given on 29 February 2016. | 8 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Tracing the origins of the HIV/AIDS pandemic | Nuno Fario (Oxford) investigates the development of HIV since the discovery of its first, and diverse, genomes in 1959 and 1960. A medical anthropology seminar given on 7 March 2016. | 8 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Agrarian change, climate stress and shifting class relations in the Nepal-Bihar borderlands | A special lecture by Dr Fraser Sugden, a Kathmandu-based social scientist at the International Water Management Institute (19 May 2016) | 1 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Marett Memorial Lecture 2016: The Creole world between inequality and difference | Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen (Oslo) delivered 2016's Marett Memorial Lecture on 29 April at Exeter College. The lecture examined controversies over Creole identity which are related to fundamental questions in anthropology. | 1 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Paying attention to the journey | In this Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar, Ginny Mounce (Oxford) discusses couples' experiences of investigating and starting infertility treatments, 19 October 2015 | 14 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Does 21st-century technology change the experience of early pregnancy and miscarriage? | In this Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar, Ingrid Gramme (Oxford) discusses how our basic understanding of pregnancy and miscarriage has changed enormously over the last eighty years, 9 November 2015 | 14 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Birds in heaven: social positioning of lost babies and their mothers in Qatar | In this Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar, Susie Kilshaw (UCL), discusses the impact of pregnancy and loss on mothers and fathers, and other family members, in Qatar, 2 November 2015 | 14 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Microbes and other spirits | In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, César Enrique Giraldo Herrera (Oxford) discusses the role of hallucinogenics in interpreting reality and the role of visions in Lowland South America, 23 October 2015 (the opening few seconds are missing) | 14 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Revisiting uncertainty: provisional electricity infrastructure and livelihoods in an African city | In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Idalina Baptista (Oxford), discusses the governance of electricity in urban sub-Saharan Africa, drawing on a case study focused on Maputo, Mozambique, 13 November 2015 | 14 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Negotiating enemy lines | In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Lauren Greenwood (University of Sussex) discusses the complexities of collaboration with the British military, 29 May 2015 | 14 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Medical and psychological issues in the treatment of recurrent miscarriage | In this Fertility and Reproduction Seminar, Raj Rai (Imperial College and St Mary's Hospital) discusses the role of clinical trials and ways of addressing the potential exploitation of vulnerable couples, 26 October 2015 | 14 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Crossing religious borders: Jewish Cabo Verdeans | In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Alma Gottlieb (Illinois) discusses the blend of religious traditions that have developed on the Cape Verde islands, particularly early Jewish settlers, 6 November 2015 | 14 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Fat knowledge', epigenetics and the enchantment of relational biology | An Anthropology Departmental Seminar presented by Megan Warin (Adelaide) on the ways in which obesity is understood, embodied and enacted, 16 October 2015 | 14 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Evolutionary origins of technological behaviour: a primate archaeology approach to chimpanzees | An Anthropology Departmental seminar presented by Susana Carvalha (Oxford) on the archaeological sites of non-humans, 27 November 2015 | 14 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The 'Unfortunate Mesopotamian Foetus' | Pregnancy loss and miscarriage in the ancient Near East - a Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar, 30 November 2015 given by Marie-Françoise Besnier (University of Cambridge) | 14 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Limits of collaboration: attempting a reciprocal Gypsy/Roman life story | In this Anthropology departmental seminar, Paloma Gay y Blasco (St Andrews) evaluates a twenty-year collaborative project she has undertaken with her Gypsy informer (15 May 2015) | 4 8 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture 2015: The Societalization of Social Problems | Professor Jeffrey C. Alexander (Yale University) delivered the Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture on 3 June 2014 at Oxford. The lecture was 'The societalization of social problems: recent social crises and the civil sphere' | 4 8 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Stacking Ontologies: Mundane Technoscience in the Silk Mill | Dimitris Papadopoulos (University of Leicester) discusses different ways to think about technoscience beyond its core institutions (13 March 2015) | 27 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Obsessed by Love: Erotic Magic, Delirious Love and Female Power in Mozambique | Christian Groes-Green (Roskilde University Copenhagen) discusses the nature of being in love and how this is seen and discussed in Mozambique and written about in other African nations (6 March 2015) | 27 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, the Anthropology of Dance: Same Difference? | Andrée Grau (University of Roehampton) discusses the anthropology of dance and its development as a discipline of anthropology. The talk also reflects on the discipline's neglected figures (27 February 2015) | 27 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Agency of Eating: Mediation, Food and the Body in Highland Ecuador | This Anthropology departmental seminar by Emma-Jayne Abbots (University of Wales Trinity St David) aims to define and extend the theoretical boundaries of food studies | 27 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Lost objects, imaginary assemblages and the mass graves of the Spanish Civil War | Layla Renshaw (Kingston University London) discusses objects recovered during the exhumation of Civil War victims and considers their imaginative power and life cycle (6 February 2015) | 7 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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On representation and power: portrait of a Vodun leader in present-day Benin | An Anthropology Departmental Seminar by Emmanuelle Kadya Tall of IRD, Paris (30 January 2015) | 7 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Moving the cracks: motorcycle taxis, politics and the fragility of power in Bangkok | Claudio Sopranzetti (Oxford) discusses the Red Shirts, the motorcycle taxi drivers whose protests in 2010 brought Bangkok to a standstill (23 January 2015) | 7 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ecology of undernutrition and infection | Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (University of Oxford) presents a lecture on undernutrition and infection (14 November 2014) | 7 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Biocultural approaches to Type 2 diabetes | Stanley Ulijaszek (University of Oxford) presents a lecture on Type 2 diabetes from the Disease Ecology Lecture series (28 November 2014) | 7 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Obesity: epidemiology and biocultural factors | Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (University of Oxford) presents a lecture on obesity from the Disease Ecology Lecture series (21 November 2014) | 7 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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From Amazonian couvade to neo-couvade in cosmopolitan trends of co-parenting: a comparative analysis | In this Fertility and Reproduction Seminar Françoise Barbira-Freedman (Cambridge) examines ideas and behaviour that intimately associates a man with the birth of his child (1 Dec 2014) | 13 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Infant feeding and child health and survival in early twentieth-century England | A seminar for the Fertility and Reproduction Group by Alice Reid of the University of Cambridge (24 November 2014) | 13 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Revisiting breastfeeding in light of the gift logic. Is a comparison of Gogo and Italian women possible? | A seminar for the Fertility and Reproduction Group by Mara Mabilia of the University of Padua (17 November 2014) | 13 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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How to protect your newborn from neonatal death: spirits and infant feeding practices in the Gambia | A seminar for the Fertility and Reproduction Group by Sarah O'Neill of the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp (10 November 2014) | 13 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Bangladeshi women's experiences of infant feeding in Tower Hamlets | This Fertility and Reproduction Seminar by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Public Health Team looks at why so many Bangladeshi women in the borough are mix feeding with breast and bottle (3 Nov 2014) | 13 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Breastpump technology and 'natural' motherly milk in Enlightenment France | In this Fertility and Reproduction Seminar Margaret Carlyle (Cambridge) discusses developments in breastpump technology in 18th-century France (27 October 2014) | 13 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Hiring a wetnurse in seventeenth-century England | In this Fertility and Reproduction Seminar Leah Astbury (Cambridge) discusses the increase of maternal breastfeeding in 17th-century England (20 October 2014) | 13 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Negotiating nutrition: from baby to toddler in the Peruvian Andes | In this Fertility and Reproduction Seminar Bronwen Gillespie (Sussex) examines the the use of Sprinkles, a multiple-micronutrient product recommended by the state, in Peru (13 October 2014) | 13 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Can there be an anthropology of Hinduism? | A discussion of the anthropology of Hinduism and the difficulties of categorizing religion. Anthropology Departmental Seminar by David Gellner of Oxford (5 December 2014) | 29 1 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cleaning up and moving on | A discussion of Kazakhstan's 'nuclear renaissance' and the transformation of the region from nuclear test site to wasteland to a centre for civilian research. Anthropology Departmental Seminar by Catherine Alexander of Durham (28 November 2014) | 29 1 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Biosecurity practices in labs and museums: sentinels, simulation, stockpiling | A discussion of the relationship between the anthropology of biosecurity and the rationality of risk as well as the anthropology of human-animal relationships. Anthropology Departmental Seminar by Frédéric Keck, Musée de quai Branly (21 November 2014 | 29 1 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ways of speaking, ways of knowing | A discussion of the ethnolinguistic identity of the Inugguit based on 12 months of fieldwork in NW Greenland. Anthropology Departmental Seminar by Stephen Leonard of the University of Oxford (14 November 2014) | 29 1 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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On forms of mental discipline and understanding of national psyche in contemporary Serbia | An ethnography of mental hygiene and neuro-security in contemporary Serbia. Anthropology Departmental Seminar by Maja Petrović-Šteger of the ISRF and Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (31 October 2014) | 29 1 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Martyrs, militants and emotions | A discussion of Albanian radicalisation in Kosovo begore 1999. Anthropology Departmental Seminar by Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers of the University of Bournemouth (17 October 2014). | 29 1 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Water, human evolution and diet | This public lecture on the role of water in human evolution took place at Somerset House in London as part of its 'Month of Water'. 17 June 2014. | 2 10 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Marett Memorial Lecture 2014: How to capture the wow. Awe and the study of religion | Professor Birgit Meyer delivered the 2014 Marett Memorial Lecture on the interplay of religious things and bodily sensations. Introduced by James Grant. 2 May 2014 | 2 10 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Choreographing lived experience: the stories that dancing bodies tell | This Anthropology seminar looks at the role of dance and movement of the body as a theme in itself; using dance to understand embodied experience. 21 February 2014 | 2 10 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Models, muddles and metaphors | This seminar, on the theme of Models in Anthropology, draws on examples from the fields of Amazonian and obesity studies. 9 May 2014 | 2 10 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Social anthropology of the arts: expression, genre and agency | This seminar, on the theme of Art and Creativity, explores the anthropology of artistic and imaginative processes, a field that is interdisciplinary by nature. 23 May 2014. | 2 10 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Intersections: an ethnography of everyday togetherness and intensified diversity in Elephant and Castle | This Anthropology seminar, on the theme of Diasporas and Migration, presents emerging findings from a collaborative ethnography in a 'super-diverse' South London area. 30 May 2014 | 2 10 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Photo archives as historical resources: the Jeffrys and Dalrymple archives compared | Professor Verkijika G. Fanso of Yaounde University in Cameroon compares two photo archives both taken around the same time, which are now held in Cambridge and South Africa | 29 4 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Fifty years of Cameroon unification: controversies and archival echoes | A special lecture in Oxford by Professor Verkijika G. Fanso from the University of Yaounde in Cameroon | 29 4 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Inspirations for publications - ISCA Anthropology Book Launch | Anthropologists from ISCA discuss the research and inspiration behind six recent publications | 29 4 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Native Life', or, Being outside the carbon imagery | Professor Elizabeth Povinelli of Columbia University examines contemporary scientific discussions of the Anthropocene and climate change and theoretical theories of New Vitalism, New Animism and Relational Ontology | 29 4 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Inequality, insecurity and obesity | A seminar for the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek of ISCA, Oxford | 29 4 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cultural understandings of roles and responsibilities in addressing obesity | Emily Henderson of Durham University discusses the causes of obesity, those responsible for it and how it should be addressed. | 29 4 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Culture and motivation: long distance running in Japan and the UK | Anthropologist Emma Coleman-Jones and distance runner Mara Yamauchi compare their experiences of running in the UK and Japan | 29 4 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Intellectual property and informal economy: a commodity chain from China to Brazil through Paraguay | Rosana Pinheiro-Machado (of ODID, Oxford)'s anthropology departmental seminar focuses on the transmission of diverse goods in a commodity chain that was formed in the 1980s. | 29 4 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Claiming resources, honouring debts: miners, herders and the land masters of Mongolia | Rebecca Empson of UCL discusses the form of capitalism emerging in Mongolia's mineral economy. An anthropology departmental seminar. | 29 4 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Do not resuscitate orders in a UK hospital: an ethnography of the future-present | Simon Cohn of Cambridge University looks at the ways health professionals and their activities construct an understanding of the human body according to particular temporal framings. An anthropology departmental seminar. | 29 4 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The sharia as a vocation: Islam, law and civility in Lebanon | This discussion of sharia discourse in different contexts focuses on the experiences of four individuals. An anthropology departmental seminar by Morgan Clarke (ISCA, Oxford) | 28 4 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Victor Turner, anthropology and Christianity | Timothy Larsen (Wheaton College, Illinois) discusses the impact of Christianity on the research and careers of Victor and Edith Turner, looking in particular at their work in Rhodesia. An anthropology departmental seminar. | 28 4 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Discovering 'justice': the magic of law in the Upper Amazon | An anthropology departmental seminar on legal anthropology in lowland South America given by Harry Walker of the LSE. | 28 4 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The end of history? What follows the demographic transition? | An overview of the demographic transition, and the demographic regime, since its development in the 1940s. An anthropological departmental seminar by Chris Wilson of ISCA (Oxford) | 28 4 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Political ecology of disease | This lecture by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek of ISCA, the University of Oxford, is part of the Disease Ecology series and was delivered on 22 November 2013 | 3 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Disease transitions | This lecture by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek of ISCA, the University of Oxford, is part of the Disease Ecology series and was presented on 13 November 2013. | 3 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Generational change and continuity amongst British mothers | Angela Davis of the University of Warwick discusses the sharing of beliefs, knowledge and practice amongst British mothers between 1940 and 1990 (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 14 October 2013) | 3 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Contextualising the 'new parenting culture' | Charlotte Faircloth of the University of Kent presents historical and sociological perspectives on adult-child relations (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 21 October 2013) | 3 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Caring and being cared for in north-western Amazonia | Elizabeth Rahman of the University of Oxford discusses the perinatal practices of a small group of Amazonian Indians with whom she lived (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 4 November 2013) | 3 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Don't worry, you'll be a grandmother soon!' | In this Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 18 November 2013, Robert Pralat of the University of Cambridge investigates how non-heterosexual people discuss becoming a parent with their own parents | 3 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'I did not know how to tell my parents, so I thought I would have to have an abortion' | Ekaterina Hertog of the University of Oxford explores the negotiations between premaritally pregnant women and their parents in Japan (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 25 November 2013) | 3 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Be(com)ing papa: kinship senescence and the ambivalent inward journeys of ageing men in the Antilles | Adom Philogene Heron of the University of St Andrews investigates grandfatherhood in the Antilles (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 2 December 2013) | 3 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Of untold riches and unruly homes: gender and property in neoliberal middle-class Kolkata | In this Anthropology departmental seminar from 1 November 2012, Henrike Donner of Oxford Brookes University looks at how different kinds of property and ownership arrangements affect relationships between people among the urban middle classes of Kolkata | 3 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Experimenting with field experiments: moving the lab into the field in ethnographic research | In this Anthropology departmental seminar from 8 November 2013, Dimitris Xygalatas (Aarhus and Masaryk Universities) investigates ritual behaviour, bringing it into the lab, to work out why people put themselves through such ordeals | 3 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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New York stories: the lives of other citizens | In this Anthropology departmental seminar from 22 November 2013, Andrew Irving of the University of Manchester investigates memories, thoughts and reminiscences about New York City. | 3 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The adoption of modern contraception in rural Ethiopia: a biocultural approach | A School of Anthropology departmental seminar from 29 November 2013 by Alexandra Alvergne of ISCA, University of Oxford | 3 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Gift, sacrifice, and deadly rumours (3 May 2013) | In this seminar, Dr Julien Bonhomme (École normale supérieure, Paris) discusses the cultural significance of rumours of deadly alms and gift giving that first appeared in Senegal in 2010. | 13 11 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Geology, potentiality, speculation: on the indeterminacy of natural resources (10 May 2013) | In this seminar, Dr Gisa Weszkalnys (London School of Economics) focuses her study of the indeterminacy of natural resources on the small island state of São Tomé and Príncipe in the Gulf of Guinea. | 13 11 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conceptualizing new age and neopagan ritual (17 May 2013) | In this seminar, Professor Michael Houseman (l'École pratique des hautes études, Paris) presents a brief analysis of several small ceremonies to make a theoretical argument about ritual in a new age and neopagan context. | 13 11 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Brazilian serialities: imagining persons (24 May 2013) | In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Professor Joao de Pina-Cabral (University of Kent) discusses the creative use of personal names in Brazil. | 13 11 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dorr-e Dari (The Pearl of Dari): An Ethnography of Poetry as a Social Practice among Afghans in Iran (23 May 2013) | This lecture formed part of the 2013 Evans-Pritchard Lecture series held at All Souls College, Oxford, in which Zuzanna Olszewska discussed 'Authentic Voices, Modern Selves: An Ethnography of Afghan Refugee Poetry and Personhood in Iran'. | 13 11 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Provocations for digital anthropology (30 May 2013) | David Zeitlyn discusses parallels between visual and digital anthropology and the dangers of historical myopia. It is too easy to disregard earlier parallels because of the mistaken claim that everything is new and different. | 13 11 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Looking forward looking back (18 May 2013) | Professor David Zeitlyn (University of Oxford) argues for a pluralisation of past, present and future. There are many unconnected or only partially connected literatures on time related issues. | 13 11 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Alternative Utopias and the Crisis of Imagination (20 June 2013) | Professor Alexander Kiossev (University of Sofia in Bulgaria)drawing on his background in cultural studies, spoke about the ways in which 'alternative utopias' can enable creative imaginaries for the types of futures we are able to realise or create. | 13 11 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Divine kingdoms in the western Himalayas | This Anthropology Departmental Seminar (22 February 2013) by William Sax of the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, focuses on 'oracular authority and distributed agency' in the western Himalayas. | 18 4 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Capital's new frontier | Dr Catherine Dolan of the Saïd Business School, Oxford, discusses 'yoghurt mamas, solar sisters and the remaking of 'unusable Africa' at the bottom of the pyramid'. An Anthropology Departmental Seminar from 15 February 2013. | 18 4 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Re-making the dead, uncertainty and the torque of human materials in northern Zimbabwe | This Anthropology Departmental Seminar (8 February 2013) by Joost Fontein from the Department of Social Anthropology at Edinburgh focuses on northern Zimbabwe fieldwork and research. | 18 4 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Unexplored agencies: the case of Donna Sebastiana | Carlo Severi (CNRS, Paris) presents an Anthropology Departmental Seminar (1 February 2013). | 18 4 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Re-thinking 'Untamed Thoughts' Fifty Years On | In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar (25 January 2013), Dr Laura Rival discusses 'Claude Lévi-Strauss and the science of the concrete'. | 18 4 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Synchrony and Similiarity in Human Cooperation | This Anthropology Departmental Seminar (30 November 2012) is presented by Emma Cohen of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, Oxford. | 18 4 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Evolution of Human Egalitarianism | This Anthropology Departmental Seminar (9 November 2012) is by Dr Frank Marlowe (University of Cambridge, Department of Biological Anthropology) and is on the theme of evolutionary anthropology. | 18 4 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Digital Heritage Technologies and Issues of Community Engagement and Cultural Restitution in 'New Style' Ethnographic Museums | This Anthropology Departmental Seminar (2 November 2012) is by Professor Mike Rowlands (University College London), in collaboration with Graeme Were (Brisbane). Its theme is material anthropology. | 18 4 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Scientists as Abstainers | Matei Candea (University of Durham) presents 'An ethnography of inter-species trust without belief'. An Anthropology Departmental Seminar (26 October 2012) with a theme of science and technology studies. | 18 4 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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City Dwelling and the Cultures of Migrant Urbanism | This Anthropology Departmental Seminar (19 October 2012), is presented by Professor Michael Keith, the Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, Oxford. | 18 4 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Biography of the Holy Ghost | In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar (12 October 2012), Dr Ramon Sarró explores a prophetic landscape in Lower Congo. | 18 4 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Ethnographic Dream | In this seminar for the anthropology research group at Oxford on Eastern Medicines and Religions (10 October 2012), Dr Katherine Swancutt discusses 'doing fieldwork among native scholars and shamans', focusing on southwest China. | 18 4 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Learning that emerges in 'Times of Trouble' | In this Ethnicity and Identity Seminar, Professor Joy Hendry (Oxford Brooks University) presents a few cases from Japan. 2 March 2012. | 27 6 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Epidemiological crises, epistemological divisions | In this seminar held by the Anthropology Research Group at Oxford on Eastern Medicines and Religions (ArgO-EMR), Assoc. Professor Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University) discusses 'the new discourse on epidemics in 17th-18th century China'. 7 March 2012 | 27 6 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Collective Effervescence as Embodied Intoxication | Philip Mellor, Professor of Religion and Social Theory at the University Leeds, presented this paper at a workshop held in Oxford by the British Centre for Durkheimian Studies in February 2012. | 27 6 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Reflections on geneticisation | In this Medical Anthropology Research Seminar, Professor Paul Martin (University of Nottingham) examines 'social science and the making of biofutures'. 6 February 2012. | 27 6 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Everyday aesthetics in forced displacement | In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Sandra Dudley (University of Leicester) looks at 'material culture and Karenni forced migrants in a Thai-Burma border camp'. 10 February 2012. | 27 6 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sweetness and Light | In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Professor Ann Gold (Syracuse University) examines 'ordinary pluralisms in a North Indian town'. 24 February 2012. | 27 6 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Negotiating Space, Buying Time | In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Professor Michael Herzfeld (Harvard University) discusses 'the performance of housing politics in a Bangkok community under siege'. 2 December 2011. | 27 6 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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What Shan ethnography can tell us about Theravada Buddhism | Nicola Tannenbaum, Professor of Anthropology at Lehigh University in the United States, discusses Theravada Buddhism for this Anthropology Departmental Seminar. 4 May 2012. | 27 6 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conflict in the Plural | In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Jonathan Spencer (University of Edinburgh) examines 'eastern Sri Lanka as a complex religious field'. 18 May 2012. | 27 6 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Opportunistic violence and the impossibility of intimacy | In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Dhana Hughes (St John's College, University of Oxford) examines 'memories of revenge and denunciation in Sri Lanka's Southern Terror'. 11 May 2012. | 27 6 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Neighbouring China in Northern Nepal | In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Martin Saxer (National University of Singapore)discusses 'Hidden Valleys, New Roads and Remote Cosmopolitans' in northern Nepal. 25 May 2012. | 27 6 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Marett Memorial Lecture 2012: Anthropologists and the Bible | In the 2012 Marett Memorial Lecture, Professor Adam Kuper of the LSE and Fellow of the British Academy reviews a century of debate surrounding the anthropology of religion. The lecture took place at Exeter College, Oxford on 27 April 2012. | 24 5 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Altruism in cyberspace? | In this seminar for the International Gender Studies Centre, Elinor Bastin presents an exploration of an on-line community for women and men with bipolar disorder. 10 November 2011. | 24 5 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Beyond globalisation and localisation | In this Departmental Seminar, Holger Jebens discusses local Christianity and 'Pluralism in a Papua New Guinea village'. 18 November 2011. | 24 5 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The 'down side' of assisted reproductive technologies | In this seminar for the Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group, Soraya Tremayne (Director of the FRSG) discusses 'Third party donation and the 'happy family' rhetoric in Iran'. 17 November 2011. | 24 5 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Meat and Health | In this Health, Environment and Development seminar, Peter Scarborough (a UL in Public Health) discusses the impact of achieving environmental sustainable diets on deaths from cardiovascular disease and cancer in the UK. 18 October 2011. | 24 5 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Brain microcircuits in champanzees and humans | Stephen Chance of the Neuroanatomy and Cognition Group, based at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, presents insights into IQ and social cognition in chimpanzees and humans. An ICEA Seminar from 1 June 2011. | 24 5 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Venom, pollinators and parasites | Anna Nekaris of Oxford Brookes University discusses 'how the poisonous slow loris may reveal the origins of social grooming amongst primates'. An ICEA seminar from 2 November 2011. | 24 5 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Extreme climatic events as drivers of early human behaviour in Africa? | In this seminar for the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, Sallie Burrough of Oxford University's School of Geography and the Environment presents an environmental perspective from the Kalahari Desert (23/11/11). | 24 5 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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How niche construction affects inheritance systems in human evolution | A seminar for the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology by John Odling-Smee (an Emeritus research fellow from Oxford University), 30 November 2011. | 24 5 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Implementing a Research Culture in the NHS. Medical Anthropology at Oxford | The conference 'Medical Anthropology at Oxford: 10 Years at the Intersections', held at ICSA on 23-24 June 2011, marked the first ten years of Medical Anthropology at Oxford. This podcast by Olivier Bazin formed part of the first panel. | 10 5 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The self-management of misfortune by use of amulets and charms. Ethnicity and Identity Seminar | In this Ethnicity and Identity Seminar on 'Managing Disasters and Misfortune', Eric Edwards (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) discusses 'The self-management of misfortune by use of amulets and charms' (3 February 2012). | 10 5 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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There is no such thing as Dian cuisine. Anthropology Departmental Seminar | In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Jakob Klein (SOAS) discusses 'Food and locality in twenty-first century China' (11 March 2011). | 10 5 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Don't throw the baby out with the bathos. Anthropology Departmental Seminar: | In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Stephen Reyna (MPI-Halle) discussed 'regimes of truth in an anthropology of hypocrisy' (25 February 2011). | 10 5 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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On the concept of cultural transmission. Anthropology Departmental Seminar | In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Roy Ellen (University of Kent) discusses 'On the concept of cultural transmission' (18 February 2011). | 10 5 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Re-Defining the Museal Object in Mao and post-Mao China. Anthropology Departmental Seminar | In this Anthropology Departmental seminar Michael Rowlands (University College London) discusses 'Re-Defining the Museal Object in Mao and post-Mao China'. 13 May 2011. | 10 5 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The evolutionary history and genetics of primate brain size | In this Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Seminar, Stephen Montgomery (University of Cambridge) discusses "The evolutionary history and genetics of primate brain size." 15 June 2011. | 10 5 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dept Seminar: Beyond 'terroir' | In this Anthropology Dept Seminar Marion Demossier of the University of Bath discusses 'territorial construction, hegemonic discourses and French wine culture'. 11 November 2011. | 29 11 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dept Seminar: Discovering Anthropological Practice through Fieldwork | In this Anthropology Dept Seminar, Professor Judith Okely of Hull University (and an associate of ISCA, Oxford) looks back over her anthropological career, especially her time spent working with gypsies. 4 November 2011. | 29 11 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dept Seminar: Saints of Justice, Spirits of Devastation | In this Anthropology Dept Seminar, Helene Basu of Münster University examines 'Sorcery, Madness and Modernity in Western India'. 28 October 2011. | 29 11 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dept Seminar: The Oil Company, 'Partnership' and the Moralities of Giving and Receiving | In this Anthropology Dept Seminar, Katy Gardner of the University of Sussex examines the impact of oil companies on 'corporate community engagement' in Bangladesh. 21 October 2011. | 29 11 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dept Seminar: Spirit in Motion | In this Anthropology Dept Seminar, Thomas Kirsch of Konstanz University, discusses the 'Morphology and Mobility of the Holy Spirit in Africa'. 14 October 2011. | 29 11 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Autopathographies - How 'sick lit' shapes knowledge and the illness experience | This presentation by Dr Rachel Hall-Clifford (Primary Health Care, Oxford) was delivered at the conference Medical Anthropology at Oxford: 10 Years at the Intersections. | 25 7 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Oxford's 'Two Bodies' in Medical Anthropology | This presentation by Dr Caroline Potter (ISCA, Oxford) focuses on how Oxford's Medicial Anthropology bridges the biological and social divide. It was delivered at the 10 Years at the Intersections conference in June 2011. | 25 7 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Healing earth and sacred clay among the Mun, SW Ethiopia | This presentation by doctoral candidate Kate Fayers-Kerr was delivered at the Medical Anthropogy at Oxford conference, 10 Years at the Intersections, June 2011. | 25 7 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Moving from Efficacy to Safety | This presentation by Dr Barbara Gerke discusses 'A changing focus in the study of Asian medical systems' and was delivered at the Medical Anthropology conference 10 Years at the Intersections, June 2011. | 25 7 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Maize, Men and New Medical Models | This presentation by doctoral student Kristina Baines was delivered at the Medical Anthropology at Oxford conference 10 Years at the Intersections. It focuses on embodied ecological heritage and health in Southern Belize. | 25 7 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Building Partnerships - a career path in research coordination and capacity building | This presentation by Dalia Iskander, a previous student of Anthropology at Oxford, was delivered at the conference Medical Anthropology at Oxford: 10 Years at the Intersections on 23 June 2011. | 25 7 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Beyond Language - Public Health Policy and Cultural Competency | This presentation by Hannah Graff, a previous MPhil student at Oxford, was delivered at the conference Medical Anthropology at Oxford: 10 Years at the Intersections on 23 June 2011. | 25 7 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Medical Anthropology at Oxford: 10 Years at the Intersections - opening comments | Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (School of Anthropology, Oxford) introduces 10 Years at the Intersections, a conference to celebrate 10 years of Medical Anthropology at Oxford. The conference took place 23-24 June 2011. | 25 7 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Human Sciences Symposium 2011: The Impact of Exceptional Early Cognitive Environments on Musical Development | This presentation by Prof. Adam Ockelford was delivered at the 2011 Human Sciences Symposium on The Musical Brain held on 26 February in Oxford. It focuses on case studies of blind and autistic children. | 25 7 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Human Sciences Symposium 2011: The Musical Brain - Opening Presentation | On 26 February 2011, the Human Sciences Symposium focused on the The Musical Brain and the links between music, evolution and human psychology. This podcast is the opening presentation by Dr Iain Morley on Music and its Evolutionary Context. | 25 7 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Social evolution in primates and other animals | In this lecture, Dr Susanne Shultz (Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, Oxford) examines the social evolution of primates and other animals (10 March 2011). | 6 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Late Pleistocene Demography and the Appearance of Modern Human Behaviour | In this seminar for the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, Professor Mark Thomas (University College London) discusses the origins of modern human behaviour (18 May 2011). | 6 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Marett Memorial Lecture 2011: Beauty and the beast | In this year's Marett Memorial Lecture, Professor Terence S Turner (Cornell University) discusses 'Beauty and the beast: Humanity, animality and animism in the thought of an Amazonian people' (6 May 2011). | 6 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dept Seminar: Heritage, hiking and the eradication of miracles | In this Anthropology Dept seminar (4 February 2011), Dr Ian Reader (University of Manchester) discuss consumerism and the sanitisation of pilgrimage from Shikoku to Santiago. | 18 3 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dept Seminar: Why do Bayaka Pygmies sing so much? | In this Anthropology Dept seminar (28 January 2011), Dr Jerome Lewis (University College London) examines the place and cultural transmission of music and sound to the Bayaka Pygmies of the Central African Republic and Congo. Includes examples. | 18 3 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dept Seminar: Money-go-round: personal economies of wealth | In this Anthropology Dept Seminar (11 February 2011), Professor Deborah James (London School of Economics) discusses the personal economies of wealth, aspiration and indebtedness in South Africa. | 18 3 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Anthropology of Production | In this lecture for anthropologsts and archaeologists, Professor Chris Gosde, Institute of Archaeology, Oxford, examines the history and theory of production across different cultures and the difference between production and ownership. | 18 3 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dept Seminar: Claudia's Life - Singular lives, Gypsy metonymy | In this Anthropology Dept seminar (4 June 2010), Dr Paloma Gay y Blasco (University of St Andrews) looks at the place of women and marriage in Gypsy society and in ethnographic writings. | 21 2 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dept Seminar: Dance culture and its dislocation | In this Anthropology Dept seminar (3 December 2010) Dr Felicia Hughes-Freeland (University of Swansea) discusses the relationship between cyberspace and dance. | 21 2 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dept Seminar: Neo-nationalism five years later | In this Anthropology Dept seminar (26 November 2010), Prof. Gingrich (University of Vienna) examines a return to 'indigineity' in Central Europe. | 21 2 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dept Seminar: The power of felted cloth through time and space | In this Anthropology Dept seminar (19 November 2010), Dr Stephanie Bunn (University of St Andrews) examines the production and design of Eurasian felt, placing it in a domestic context. | 21 2 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dept Seminar: Forms of detachment and ethical regard | In this Anthropology dept seminar (29 October 2010), Dr James Laidlaw (University of Cambridge) focuses on forms of detachment in North India, including the role of the anthropologist as observer. | 21 2 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dept Seminar: Kerala Muslim marriage, gender, and intimacy | In this Anthropology Dept Seminar (22 October 2010), Dr Caroline Osella (SOAS, London) discusses the influence of migrant husbands on Kerala Muslim marriage and female households. | 21 2 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Money, Bodies, Materialism and Virtuality | In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Dr David Graeber of Goldsmiths, London, examines the history of death and money and how the two can combine. | 23 11 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Elementary School Teacher, the Thug, and his Grandmother: Brokers and Transnational Migration | In this Anthropology Departmetal Seminar (February 2010) Associate Prof. Johan Lindquist (Stockholm University) discusses forced migration in Indonesia and its impact on male and female workers. | 23 11 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Interview with Professor Byron J Good, 2010 Marett Lecturer | Byron J. Good, Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard Medical School, delivered the 2010 Marett Lecture at Exeter College, Oxford. He was first interviewed by Nick Shapiro (ISCA) about his life and work. | 23 11 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Religion and change (2003-04 Evans-Pritchard Lecture 5) | 5/5. In Autumn 2003 Professor David Zeitlyn (University of Oxford) presented the 2003/2004 Evans-Pritchard Lectures at All Souls College, Oxford. The theme was 'The life of Diko Madeleine and the History of Somi, Cameroon, in the Twentieth Century'. | 4 11 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Talking about Somié: from the social to the individual and back (2003-04 Evans-Pritchard Lecture 4) | 4/5. In Autumn 2003 Professor David Zeitlyn (University of Oxford) presented the 2003/2004 Evans-Pritchard Lectures at All Souls College, Oxford. The theme was 'The life of Diko Madeleine and the History of Somi, Cameroon, in the Twentieth Century'. | 4 11 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Talking about Diko: introducing a woman, and means of researching a life (2003-04 Evans-Pritchard Lecture 3) | 3/5. In Autumn 2003 Professor David Zeitlyn (University of Oxford) presented the 2003/2004 Evans-Pritchard Lectures at All Souls College, Oxford. The theme was 'The life of Diko Madeleine and the History of Somi, Cameroon, in the Twentieth Century'. | 4 11 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Writing history, talking historically: problems of biography, autobiography and social history (2003-04 Evans-Pritchard Lecture 2) | 2/5. In Autumn 2003 Professor David Zeitlyn (University of Oxford) presented the 2003/2004 Evans-Pritchard Lectures at All Souls College, Oxford. The theme was 'The life of Diko Madeleine and the History of Somi, Cameroon, in the Twentieth Century'. | 4 11 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sample of One: joining the queue (2003-04 Evans-Pritchard Lecture 1) | 1/5. In Autumn 2003 Professor David Zeitlyn (University of Oxford) presented the 2003/2004 Evans-Pritchard Lectures at All Souls College, Oxford. The theme was 'The life of Diko Madeleine and the History of Somi, Cameroon, in the Twentieth Century'. | 4 11 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Race, kinship, genetics and the ambivalence of identity | A paper presented at the University of Oxford School of Anthropology Departmental Seminar on Friday 15 October 2010 by Professor Peter Wade, University of Manchester. | 27 10 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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What is social anthropology? | First lecture of the series 'Introduction to anthropological theory' given to first year students on the Oxford BA degrees in Archaeology and Anthropology and in Human Sciences. Lecture given Tuesday 12 October 2010. | 27 10 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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An Africanist's Legacy: Responsibilised citizens? - Discourses and practices around care of the self among HIV positive people in Tanzania | Presented by Dr Nadine Beckmann (Leeds) at 'An Africanist's Legacy - A Workshop in Celebration of the Work of David Parkin', held at the School of Anthropology, Oxford, 8-9 July 2010. | 24 8 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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An Africanist's Legacy: Performing fragmentary movements - perspectives on the life-history of a Muslim dancer-choreographer | Presented by Asst. prof. Zulfiker Hirji (University of York, Toronto) at 'An Africanist's Legacy - A Workship in Celebration of the Work of David Parkin', held at The School of Anthropology, Oxford, 8-9 July 2010. | 24 8 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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An Africanist's Legacy: Credit societies and the search for school fees in Uganda | Presented by Dr David Mills (Oxford) at 'An Africanist's Legacy - A Workshop in Celebration of the Work of David Parkin' held at Oxford, 8-9 July 2010. Co-authored by Richard Vokes. | 24 8 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Part 1: Studying Anthropology at Oxford | Current graduate students in the School of Anthropology at Oxford University talk about what it is like to study anthropology at Oxford and the different graduate degrees available. | 12 7 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Part 2: Studying at Oxford | Current students at the Department of Anthropology talk about what studying in Oxford is like, including choice of college and resources. | 12 7 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Obesity: A Personal View | Stanley Ulijaszek, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford gives a Nutritional Anthropology talk on Obesity in different cultures around the world. | 12 7 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cognition, Religion and Theology | Justin Barrett gives a talk for the Cognition, Religion and Theology Project Conference, held at Merton College on the 28th-30th June 2010. | 12 7 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Tibetan Vampire Slayers in Nepal | Dr Charles Ramble, of the Oxford University Oriental Institute, gives an Anthropology Departmental Seminar entitled The Mysterious Reluctance of Tibetan Vampire Slayers in Nepal (12 March 2010). | 12 7 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Measurement of Bodily Transformations (1 Feb 2010) | Professor Stanley Ulijaszek, from the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford, gave a talk on 1 February 2010 as part of the Medical Anthropology Research Seminar Series. It was entitled 'Measurement of Bodily Transformations'. | 15 6 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dying for Islam: An Alternative History (12 Feb 2010) | Dr Faisal Devji, from the Department of History and Anthropology at St Antony's College, Oxford, gave an Anthropology Departmental Seminar on 12 February 2010 entitled 'Dying for Islam: An Alternative History. | 15 6 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 5: Political Ecology of Food Security (15 March 2010) | Professor Stanley Ulijaszek, of the Institute of Cultural Anthropology, Oxford, gave a lecture on 15 March 2010 forming part of the Nutritional Anthropology lecture series. It was entitled 'Political Ecology of Food Security'. | 15 6 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 4: Intensification of subsistence (10 Feb 2010) | Stanley Ulijaszek, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, delivers his fourth lecture in the Nutritional Anthropology series. This lecture focuses on agriculture and pastoralism. | 27 5 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Interview with Evans-Pritchard Lecturer Dr Charles Stewart (13 May 2010) | Dr Charles Stewart (UCL) is interviewed by Anthropology graduate student Ana Ranitovic at All Souls, Oxford, about his longterm interest in dreams and historical consciousness in modern Greece. | 27 5 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Neither Freud nor Artemidorous, Evans-Pritchard Lecture by Charles Stewart (27 April 2010) | The first Evans-Pritchard Lecture for 2010, presented at All Souls College on 27 April by Dr Charles Stewart (UCL). The series theme was Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece. | 27 5 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Facial tattooing among Drung women in Southwest China | Facial tattooing is essentially a transition to what is and ought to be a woman. Gender performativity is associated with the materiality of the body: it is in fact the tattoo that makes a woman. | 12 4 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Qigong Deviation as a Diplomatic Disaster | What has acknowledging the human-like qualities of 'qi' to do with preventing and treating qigong malpractice? | 12 4 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 3: Hunter-gatherer diet (5 Feb 2010) | In this third Nutritional Anthropology lecture, Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (ISCA, Oxford) discusses hunter-gatherer subsistence ecology and its relevance to the modern world. | 7 4 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Medical anthropology: Famine, food crisis and living standards in North Korea (25 Jan 2010) | Dr Daniel Jong Schwekendiek (ISCA, Oxford) examines the methodology and evidence for determining who has been 'better off' in North Korea between the 1940s and 2000s. | 7 4 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Anthropology seminar: Indigenous capitalism in Upland Indonesia (5 Feb 2010) | Based on numerous field research trips over the last 20 years, Prof. Li (University of Toronto) describes how much attitudes and horizons have changed in this remote, mountainous area. | 7 4 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 2: Nutritional Quality and Child Growth | Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford) discusses nutritional factors that impact on the growth of children across the globe. | 10 3 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Anthropology seminar: Re-Tooling a Body with The Body | Assistant Professor Adam Frank (University of Central Arkansas) describes Three Ways of Teaching Tajiquan to the White Guy. | 10 3 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Medical Anthropology: Drink me... Take me... Read me... | Mark Lawrence, Director of First Read This (an Oxford company that aims to promote patient information leaflets), discusses how following instructions makes the patient feel better. | 10 3 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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League of Nations; Minority Regime as Anthropological Object | Jane K Cowan (Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Sussex) on rethinking minority, nationality, the international and international governance through history in an effort to understand the League of Nations in terms of anthropology. | 18 2 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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People Losing Credit: Models and Innovation in Finance | Dr Gillian Tett, Assistant Editor of the Financial Times gives a talk as part of the Ethnicity and Identity Seminar series on her experience of working for the Financial Times and how her background in Anthropology helps her in her journalistic work. | 18 2 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 1: What is the natural human diet? | Professor Stanley Ulijaszek of the School of Anthropology gives a talk on the 'natural' human diet, and asks whether we, people living in an industrialised society, should be trying to follow the natural diet. Recorded 22nd January 2010. | 18 2 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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