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'Magic and the Sense of Place' Conference Day 3: 'Urban', 'Rome' and 'Placing the dead' |
Talks from Alice Huxley, Amy Blakemore, Nancy Caciola and more, under the themes 'Urban', 'Rome' and 'Placing the dead'. |
Alice Huxley, Todd Borlik, Amy Blakemore, Ellen Kushner |
20 Apr 2023 |
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The Rise of Guru Yoga in Twelfth-Century Tibet |
Zim Pickens looks at the origins of guru or lama worship in Tibet, introducing us to the Indian antecedents and the Tibetan emphasis on the role and status of the lama. |
Zim Pickens |
09 Nov 2022 |
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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. |
Ann R. David |
26 Jul 2017 |
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The Remedy: Hinduism |
In this episode, Naomi Richman interviews Matthew Martin, a DPhil student at of Oxford whose work focuses on Hindu traditions. They discuss the great variety of Hindu approaches to healing, from ayuverda to yoga and deliverance from evil spirits. |
Naomi Richman, Matthew Martin |
08 May 2017 |
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Creative Commons |
Beyond the Topkapi Palace: Space, Status and Commensurability in the Venetian Diplomatic Experience |
Maxwell Hudson discusses how diplomacy at the Ottoman court was marked by ceremonies across the city and in everyday interactions between ambassadors and Ottoman officials. |
Maxwell Hudson |
07 Apr 2017 |
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Creative Commons |
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) |
Sarah O'Neill |
13 Apr 2015 |
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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 |
Dimitris Xygalatas |
03 Feb 2014 |
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Creative Commons |
4. Human Sacrifice in the Mesoamerican Cultures |
Dr Laura Rival talks to Tim Howles about her chapter 'The Aztec Sacrificial Complex' |
Laura Rival, Tim Howles |
27 Jan 2014 |
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Creative Commons |
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. |
Michael Houseman |
13 Nov 2013 |
