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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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| 164 | 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) | Andrée Grau | 27 May 2015 | |
| 163 | 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 | Emma-Jayne Abbots | 27 May 2015 | |
| 162 | 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) | Layla Renshaw | 07 May 2015 | |
| 161 | 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) | Emmanuelle Kadya Tall | 07 May 2015 | |
| 160 | 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) | Claudio Sopranzetti | 07 May 2015 | |
| 159 | Ecology of undernutrition and infection | Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (University of Oxford) presents a lecture on undernutrition and infection (14 November 2014) | Stanley Ulijaszek | 07 May 2015 | |
| 158 | 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) | Stanley Ulijaszek | 07 May 2015 | |
| 157 | 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) | Stanley Ulijaszek | 07 May 2015 | |
| 156 | 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) | Françoise Barbira-Freedman | 13 Apr 2015 | |
| 155 | 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) | Alice Reid | 13 Apr 2015 | |
| 154 | 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) | Mara Mabilia | 13 Apr 2015 | |
| 153 | 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 |
| 152 | Creative Commons | 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) | Christine McCourt, Juliet Rayment | 13 Apr 2015 |
| 151 | Creative Commons | 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) | Margaret Carlyle | 13 Apr 2015 |
| 150 | Creative Commons | 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) | Leah Astbury | 13 Apr 2015 |
| 149 | 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) | Bronwen Gillespie | 13 Apr 2015 | |
| 148 | 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) | David Gellner | 29 Jan 2015 | |
| 147 | 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) | Catherine Alexander | 29 Jan 2015 | |
| 146 | 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) | Frédéric Keck | 29 Jan 2015 | |
| 145 | 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) | Stephen Leonard | 29 Jan 2015 | |
| 144 | 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) | Maja Petrović-Šteger | 29 Jan 2015 | |
| 143 | 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). | Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers | 29 Jan 2015 | |
| 142 | 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. | Stanley Ulijaszek | 02 Oct 2014 | |
| 141 | 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 | Birgit Meyer | 02 Oct 2014 | |
| 140 | Creative Commons | 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 | Rosie Kay, Karin Eli | 02 Oct 2014 |
| 139 | Creative Commons | 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 | Elizabeth Ewart, Stanley Ulijaszek | 02 Oct 2014 |
| 138 | Creative Commons | 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. | Caroline Potter, Ramon Sarró, Zuzanna Olszewska, Clare Harris | 02 Oct 2014 |
| 137 | Creative Commons | 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 | Mette Berg, Ben Gidley, Hiranthi Jayaweera, Ramon Sarró | 02 Oct 2014 |
| 136 | Creative Commons | 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 | Verkijika Fanso | 29 Apr 2014 |
| 135 | Creative Commons | 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 | Verkijika Fanso | 29 Apr 2014 |
| 134 | Creative Commons | Inspirations for publications - ISCA Anthropology Book Launch | Anthropologists from ISCA discuss the research and inspiration behind six recent publications | Stanley Ulijaszek, Hélène Neveu-Kringelbach, Iain Morley, Mette Berg | 29 Apr 2014 |
| 133 | Creative Commons | '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 | Elizabeth Povinelli | 29 Apr 2014 |
| 132 | Inequality, insecurity and obesity | A seminar for the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek of ISCA, Oxford | Stanley Ulijaszek | 29 Apr 2014 | |
| 131 | Creative Commons | 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. | Emily Henderson | 29 Apr 2014 |
| 130 | Creative Commons | 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 | Emma Coleman-Jones, Mara Yamauchi | 29 Apr 2014 |
| 129 | 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. | Rosana Pinheiro-Machado | 29 Apr 2014 | |
| 128 | Creative Commons | 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. | Rebecca Empson | 29 Apr 2014 |
| 127 | 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. | Simon Cohn | 29 Apr 2014 | |
| 126 | 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) | Morgan Clarke | 28 Apr 2014 | |
| 125 | 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. | Timothy Larsen | 28 Apr 2014 | |
| 124 | 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. | Harry Walker | 28 Apr 2014 | |
| 123 | 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) | Chris Wilson | 28 Apr 2014 | |
| 122 | Creative Commons | 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 | Stanley Ulijaszek | 03 Feb 2014 |
| 121 | Creative Commons | 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. | Stanley Ulijaszek | 03 Feb 2014 |
| 120 | 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) | Angela Davis | 03 Feb 2014 | |
| 119 | Creative Commons | 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) | Charlotte Faircloth | 03 Feb 2014 |
| 118 | Creative Commons | 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) | Elizabeth Rahman | 03 Feb 2014 |
| 117 | '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 | Robert Pralat | 03 Feb 2014 | |
| 116 | Creative Commons | '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) | Ekaterina Hertog | 03 Feb 2014 |
| 115 | Creative Commons | 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) | Adom Philogene Heron | 03 Feb 2014 |
| 114 | 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 | Henrike Donner | 03 Feb 2014 | |
| 113 | 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 | |
| 112 | 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. | Andrew Irving | 03 Feb 2014 | |
| 111 | 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 | Alexandra Alvergne | 03 Feb 2014 | |
| 110 | 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. | Julien Bonhomme | 13 Nov 2013 | |
| 109 | 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. | Gisa Weszkalnys | 13 Nov 2013 | |
| 108 | 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 |
| 107 | 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. | Joao de Pina-Cabral | 13 Nov 2013 | |
| 106 | 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'. | Zuzanna Olszewska | 13 Nov 2013 | |
| 105 | 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. | David Zeitlyn | 13 Nov 2013 | |
| 104 | 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. | David Zeitlyn | 13 Nov 2013 | |
| 103 | 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. | Alexander Kiossev | 13 Nov 2013 | |
| 102 | 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. | William Sax | 18 Apr 2013 | |
| 101 | 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. | Catherine Dolan | 18 Apr 2013 | |
| 100 | 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. | Joost Fontein | 18 Apr 2013 | |
| 99 | Creative Commons | Unexplored agencies: the case of Donna Sebastiana | Carlo Severi (CNRS, Paris) presents an Anthropology Departmental Seminar (1 February 2013). | Carlo Severi | 18 Apr 2013 |
| 98 | 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'. | Laura Rival | 18 Apr 2013 | |
| 97 | 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. | Emma Cohen | 18 Apr 2013 | |
| 96 | 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. | Frank Marlowe | 18 Apr 2013 | |
| 95 | 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. | Mike Rowlands | 18 Apr 2013 | |
| 94 | Creative Commons | 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. | Matei Candea | 18 Apr 2013 |
| 93 | 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. | Michael Keith | 18 Apr 2013 | |
| 92 | The Biography of the Holy Ghost | In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar (12 October 2012), Dr Ramon Sarró explores a prophetic landscape in Lower Congo. | Ramon Sarró | 18 Apr 2013 | |
| 91 | 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. | Katherine Swancutt | 18 Apr 2013 | |
| 90 | 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. | Joy Hendry | 27 Jun 2012 | |
| 89 | 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. | Marta Hanson | 27 Jun 2012 | |
| 88 | Creative Commons | 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. | Philip Mellor | 27 Jun 2012 |
| 87 | 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. | Paul Martin | 27 Jun 2012 | |
| 86 | Creative Commons | 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. | Sandra Dudley | 27 Jun 2012 |
| 85 | Sweetness and Light | In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Professor Ann Gold (Syracuse University) examines 'ordinary pluralisms in a North Indian town'. 24 February 2012. | Ann G Gold | 27 Jun 2012 | |
| 84 | 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. | Michael Herzfeld | 27 Jun 2012 | |
| 83 | 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. | Nicola Tannenbaum | 27 Jun 2012 | |
| 82 | 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. | Jonathan Spencer | 27 Jun 2012 | |
| 81 | Creative Commons | 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. | Dhana Hughes | 27 Jun 2012 |
| 80 | Creative Commons | 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. | Martin Saxer | 27 Jun 2012 |
| 79 | 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. | Adam Kuper | 24 May 2012 | |
| 78 | Creative Commons | 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. | Elinor Bastin | 24 May 2012 |
| 77 | Beyond globalisation and localisation | In this Departmental Seminar, Holger Jebens discusses local Christianity and 'Pluralism in a Papua New Guinea village'. 18 November 2011. | Holger Jebens | 24 May 2012 | |
| 76 | Creative Commons | 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. | Soraya Tremayne | 24 May 2012 |
| 75 | Creative Commons | 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. | Peter Scarborough | 24 May 2012 |
| 74 | Creative Commons | 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. | Stephen Chance | 24 May 2012 |
| 73 | Creative Commons | 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. | Anna Nekaris | 24 May 2012 |
| 72 | Creative Commons | 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). | Sallie Burrough | 24 May 2012 |
| 71 | Creative Commons | 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. | John Odling-Smee | 24 May 2012 |
| 70 | 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. | Olivier Bazin | 10 May 2012 | |
| 69 | 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). | Eric Edwards | 10 May 2012 | |
| 68 | 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). | Jakob Klein | 10 May 2012 | |
| 67 | 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). | Stephen Reyna | 10 May 2012 | |
| 66 | 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). | Roy Ellen | 10 May 2012 | |
| 65 | 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. | Michael Rowlands | 10 May 2012 |
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