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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.
| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
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| 264 | Creative Commons | 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. | Jolynna Sinanan, Peyton Cherry | 06 Feb 2024 |
| 263 | Creative Commons | Pentecostalism, Deliverance and Queer Sexuality in Nigeria: Literary Representations | Professor Adriaan van Klinken takes us to the epicentre of Pentecostalism. | Adriaan van Klinken, Olivia Elizabeth Freidinger | 06 Feb 2024 |
| 262 | 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. | Diana Vonnak, Dora Duo | 25 Jan 2024 | |
| 261 | Creative Commons | 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, Peyton Cherry | 02 Oct 2023 |
| 260 | Creative Commons | 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, Luise Eder | 02 Oct 2023 |
| 259 | Intimate Rites: Ancestors and Queer Kinship in Zimbabwe | Raffaela Taylor-Seymourn examines the engagements with ancestral spirits among young queer Zimbabweans | Raffaela Taylor-Seymourn, Peyton Cherry | 02 Oct 2023 | |
| 258 | Creative Commons | Nutritional Anthropology | Stanley Ulijaszek discusses human dietary evolution, dietary flexibility and present day undernutrition and infection | Stanley Ulijaszek, Jacob Evans | 02 Oct 2023 |
| 257 | Creative Commons | 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, Malin Schlode | 02 Oct 2023 |
| 256 | 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, Luise Eder | 02 Oct 2023 | |
| 255 | Creative Commons | 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? | Lan Duo, Nikhil Anand | 02 Oct 2023 |
| 254 | Creative Commons | 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. | Zsuzsanna Ihar, Eben Kirksey | 02 Oct 2023 |
| 253 | Creative Commons | 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 | Peidong Yang | 08 Jul 2019 |
| 252 | Creative Commons | 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 | Daniel Nettle | 08 Jul 2019 |
| 251 | Creative Commons | 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 | Elena Barabantseva | 08 Jul 2019 |
| 250 | Creative Commons | 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 | Jonathan Wells | 08 Jul 2019 |
| 249 | 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 | Elaine Ho | 08 Jul 2019 | |
| 248 | Creative Commons | 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 | Gracia Liu-Farrer | 08 Jul 2019 |
| 247 | Creative Commons | 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 | Hal Drakesmith | 08 Jul 2019 |
| 246 | Creative Commons | 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 | Sean Wang | 08 Jul 2019 |
| 245 | Creative Commons | 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 | Barry Bogin | 08 Jul 2019 |
| 244 | Creative Commons | 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 | Andrea Whittaker | 08 Jul 2019 |
| 243 | Creative Commons | 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 | Pei-Chia Lan | 08 Jul 2019 |
| 242 | Creative Commons | 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 | Francis Collins | 08 Jul 2019 |
| 241 | The Science of Modelling Through | Professor Dan Sarewitz delivered this seminar at the Institute for Science Innovation and Society on 4 March 2019 | Daniel Sarewitz | 08 Jul 2019 | |
| 240 | 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 | Alexandra Alvergne | 08 Jul 2019 | |
| 239 | Creative Commons | 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) | Brenda Yeoh | 08 Jul 2019 |
| 238 | Creative Commons | 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 | Tetyana Vasylyeva | 31 Jan 2019 |
| 237 | Creative Commons | 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 | Kesson Magid | 31 Jan 2019 |
| 236 | 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 | Abigail Page | 31 Jan 2019 | |
| 235 | Creative Commons | 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 | Gillian Pepper | 31 Jan 2019 |
| 234 | Militant masks: youth and insecurity in the Niger Delta | David Pratten, the University of Oxford, presented the Anthropology Departmental Seminar on 9 November 2018 | David Pratten | 31 Jan 2019 | |
| 233 | Creative Commons | 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 | Michelle Pentecost | 31 Jan 2019 |
| 232 | 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 | Frederick Keck | 31 Jan 2019 | |
| 231 | '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 | Jok Madut Jok | 31 Jan 2019 | |
| 230 | 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. | Bhawani Buswala | 31 Jan 2019 | |
| 229 | Creative Commons | 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 | Eva Reindl | 14 Sep 2018 |
| 228 | Creative Commons | 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 | Paolo Heywood | 14 Sep 2018 |
| 227 | Creative Commons | 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 | Marcio Goldman | 14 Sep 2018 |
| 226 | Creative Commons | 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 | Maya Unnithan | 31 Jul 2018 |
| 225 | A petition to kill: efficacious appeals against big cats in India | Nayanika Mathur (Oxford) delivered this Anthropology Departmental Seminar on 5 May 2018 | Nayanika Mathur | 31 Jul 2018 | |
| 224 | The seven moral rules found all around the world | This Anthropology Departmental Seminar was delivered by Oliver Scott Curry (Oxford) on 18 May 2018 | Oliver Scott Curry | 31 Jul 2018 | |
| 223 | 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 | Anne-Christine Taylor | 31 Jul 2018 | |
| 222 | 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 | Rafael Schacter | 27 Mar 2018 | |
| 221 | 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 | Tim Lewens | 27 Mar 2018 | |
| 220 | 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 | Elizabeth Ewart, Wolde Tadesse | 27 Mar 2018 | |
| 219 | 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 | Michael Jackson | 27 Mar 2018 | |
| 218 | 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). | Michael Jackson | 27 Mar 2018 | |
| 217 | 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 | Melissa Parker | 27 Mar 2018 | |
| 216 | Creative Commons | 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. | Robert Foley | 15 Sep 2017 |
| 215 | Creative Commons | 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. | Rebecca Sear | 15 Sep 2017 |
| 214 | Creative Commons | 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. | Peter Walsh | 15 Sep 2017 |
| 213 | Creative Commons | 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. | Charlotte Roberts | 15 Sep 2017 |
| 212 | Creative Commons | 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. | Alexandra Alvergne, Nicholas Márquez-Grant | 15 Sep 2017 |
| 211 | Creative Commons | 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/ | Peter Walsh | 15 Sep 2017 |
| 210 | 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. | Jarrett Zigon | 31 Jul 2017 | |
| 209 | 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. | Ed Simpson | 31 Jul 2017 | |
| 208 | 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. | Roger Sansi-Roca | 31 Jul 2017 | |
| 207 | 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. | Maya Mayblin | 31 Jul 2017 | |
| 206 | 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. | Maia Green | 31 Jul 2017 | |
| 205 | ‘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'. | Naor Ben-Yehoyada | 31 Jul 2017 | |
| 204 | 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. | Pat Caplan | 26 Jul 2017 | |
| 203 | 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. | Tim Lewens | 26 Jul 2017 | |
| 202 | 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. | Paul Harris | 26 Jul 2017 | |
| 201 | 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 | |
| 200 | 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. | Steve Rayner | 26 Jul 2017 | |
| 199 | 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. | Franck Düvell | 26 Jul 2017 | |
| 198 | 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. | Elizabeth B. Silva | 26 Jul 2017 | |
| 197 | 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. | Barbara Harriss-White | 26 Jul 2017 | |
| 196 | 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. | Greg Carr | 26 Jul 2017 | |
| 195 | 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) | Filip De Boeck | 15 Jun 2016 | |
| 194 | Plantain island sirens | Jennifer Diggins (Oxford Brookes) discusses 'tales of poverty, fish, and seduction from maritime Sierra Leone' (26 February 2016) | Jennifer Diggins | 15 Jun 2016 | |
| 193 | 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) | Joy Hendry | 15 Jun 2016 | |
| 192 | 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) | Marta Rosa Jardim | 15 Jun 2016 | |
| 191 | The certainty of futures lost | Lucy Lowe (Edinburgh) discusses motherhood, Caesarean sections and migration in 'Little Mogadishu', Mairobi (3 Fecember 2015) | Lucy Lowe | 15 Jun 2016 | |
| 190 | The fragility of conviction | Mathijs Pelkmans (LSE)'s seminar is based on 'walking with the Tablighi Jammat in Kyrgyzstan (12 February 2016) | Mathijs Pelkmans | 15 Jun 2016 | |
| 189 | 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) | Andrew Sanchez | 15 Jun 2016 | |
| 188 | Creative Commons | 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) | Ian Rickard | 08 Jun 2016 |
| 187 | Creative Commons | 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. | Emma Pomeroy | 08 Jun 2016 |
| 186 | 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. | Cristina Giuliani | 08 Jun 2016 | |
| 185 | Creative Commons | 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) | Charlotte K. Russell | 08 Jun 2016 |
| 184 | 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) | James G. Morgan | 08 Jun 2016 | |
| 183 | Creative Commons | 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. | Jonathan Wells | 08 Jun 2016 |
| 182 | Creative Commons | 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. | Nuno Faria | 08 Jun 2016 |
| 181 | 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) | Fraser Sugden | 01 Jun 2016 | |
| 180 | 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. | Thomas Hylland Eriksen | 01 Jun 2016 | |
| 179 | Creative Commons | 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 | Ginny Mounce | 14 Mar 2016 |
| 178 | Creative Commons | 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 | Ingrid Gramme | 14 Mar 2016 |
| 177 | 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 | Susie Kilshaw | 14 Mar 2016 | |
| 176 | Creative Commons | 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) | César Enrique Giraldo Herrera | 14 Mar 2016 |
| 175 | Creative Commons | 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 | Idalina Baptista | 14 Mar 2016 |
| 174 | Creative Commons | 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 | Lauren Greenwood | 14 Mar 2016 |
| 173 | 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 | Raj Rai | 14 Mar 2016 | |
| 172 | Creative Commons | 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 | Alma Gottlieb | 14 Mar 2016 |
| 171 | '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 | Megan Warin | 14 Mar 2016 | |
| 170 | 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 | Susana Carvalho | 14 Mar 2016 | |
| 169 | Creative Commons | 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) | Marie-Françoise Besnier | 14 Mar 2016 |
| 168 | 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) | Paloma Gay y Blasco | 04 Aug 2015 | |
| 167 | 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' | Jeffrey Alexander | 04 Aug 2015 | |
| 166 | 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) | Dimitris Papdopoulos | 27 May 2015 | |
| 165 | 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) | Christian Groes-Green | 27 May 2015 |
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