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Anthropology

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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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  1. 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.

  2. Pentecostalism, Deliverance and Queer Sexuality in Nigeria: Literary Representations

    Professor Adriaan van Klinken takes us to the epicentre of Pentecostalism. Through the emerging body of queer Nigerian literature, Professor Adriaan van Klinken (University of Leeds) looks at the motif of the deliverance ritual in a lecture that spans anthropological, gender and sexuality…

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  3. 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. Edited and hosted by Dora Duo.

  4. 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. Michael Degani (University of Cambridge) explores the balance of entrepreneurial hustle and bureaucratic order their long-running...

  5. 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. Philippe Descola (Emeritus professor, Collège de France, Paris) Edited and...

  6. Intimate Rites: Ancestors and Queer Kinship in Zimbabwe

    Raffaela Taylor-Seymourn examines the engagements with ancestral spirits among young queer Zimbabweans Raffaela Taylor-Seymourn (Pembroke College, University of Oxford) focuses on the form of kinship that young queer people forge with ancestral spirits and how they often contrast to relationships...

  7. Nutritional Anthropology

    Stanley Ulijaszek discusses human dietary evolution, dietary flexibility and present day undernutrition and infection Stanley Ulijaszek Emeritus Professor University of Oxford demonstrates the multidisciplinary nature of nutritional anthropology to confront major issues that are changing human...

  8. 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. Tania Perez-Bustos (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) explores how the process of learning transforms an object to study ethnographically...

  9. 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? Tim Ingold discusses his new work ‘The Rise and Fall of Generation Now’ in which he reverses the perspectives on generations of social life by seeing not as linear but as a process. Edited and hosted…

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  10. 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? Nikhil Anand (University of Pennsylvania) discusses his new work and reflects on the uncertain futures of coastal cities in an era of climate change....

  11. 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. Edited and hosted by Eben Kirksey. This was a...

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. The Science of Modelling Through

    Professor Dan Sarewitz delivered this seminar at the Institute for Science Innovation and Society on 4 March 2019

  25. 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

  26. 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)

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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. Militant masks: youth and insecurity in the Niger Delta

    David Pratten, the University of Oxford, presented the Anthropology Departmental Seminar on 9 November 2018

  32. 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

  33. 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

  34. '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

  35. 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.

  36. 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

  37. 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

  38. 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

  39. 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

  40. A petition to kill: efficacious appeals against big cats in India

    Nayanika Mathur (Oxford) delivered this Anthropology Departmental Seminar on 5 May 2018

  41. The seven moral rules found all around the world

    This Anthropology Departmental Seminar was delivered by Oliver Scott Curry (Oxford) on 18 May 2018

  42. 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

  43. 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

  44. The concept of culture in cultural evolution

    The Keynote speech by Tim Lewens (Professor of Philosophy of Science, Cambridge) for the Cultural Evolution Workshop held at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, on 28 February 2017

  45. 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

  46. 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

  47. 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). Abstract: 'In this talk, I share some vignettes from my recent fieldwork among African migrants...

  48. 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

  49. 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.

  50. 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.

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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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