Anthropology
264 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 72 ratingsThe 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
February 06, 2024 10:15 - 45 minutes - 47.8 MBAs 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.
Pentecostalism, Deliverance and Queer Sexuality in Nigeria: Literary Representations
February 06, 2024 09:48 - 46 minutes - 47.3 MBProfessor 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, literary and religious studies.
Stepping in, helping out, competing with…? State and civic actors in Ukraine’s wartime heritage work
January 25, 2024 11:17 - 47 minutes - 50 MBDr. 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.
Parasites, Invention, and Grace: Taking Turns in a Streetcorner Bureaucracy
October 02, 2023 11:59 - 56 minutes - 57.4 MBMichael 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 streetcorner bureau strikes. Edited and hosted by Peyton Cherry This was a departmental seminar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography in the 2022-23 academic year. The recordings were...
Anthropology, Philosophy and Symmetrisation
October 02, 2023 11:57 - 1 hour - 68.1 MBPhilippe 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 hosted by Luise Eder This was a departmental seminar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography in the 2022-23 academic year. The recordings were only possible thanks to a team dedicated ...
Intimate Rites: Ancestors and Queer Kinship in Zimbabwe
October 02, 2023 11:44 - 50 minutes - 63.8 MBRaffaela 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 with living family members. Edited and hosted by Peyton Cherry This was a departmental seminar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography in the 2022-23 academic year. The recordings were ...
Nutritional Anthropology
October 02, 2023 11:41 - 1 hour - 75.5 MBStanley 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 relationships with disease. Edited and hosted by Jacob Evans This was a departmental seminar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography in the 2022-23 academic year. The recordings were only ...
How to Stitch Ethnography
October 02, 2023 11:39 - 28 minutes - 16 MBFeminist 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 into an artifact with which to ask new ethnographic questions. Edited and hosted by Malin Schlode This was a departmental seminar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography in the 2022-23 ...
The Rise and Fall of Generations
October 02, 2023 11:37 - 48 minutes - 46.1 MBDoes 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 by Luise Eder This was a departmental seminar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography in the 2022-23 academic year. The recordings were only possible thanks to a team dedicated staff and...
Living in Tide: The Climate of the Urban Sea
October 02, 2023 11:33 - 45 minutes - 25.5 MBHow 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. Edited and hosted by Lan Duo. This was a departmental seminar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography in the 2022-23 academic year. The recordings were only possible thanks to a team d...
Crude Sonics: Field Recordings from an Extractive Zone
October 02, 2023 11:29 - 47 minutes - 48.8 MBZsuzsanna 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 departmental seminar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography in the 2022-23 academic year. The recordings were only possible thanks to a team dedicated staff and students from The School: Executi...
China in the global reproduction migration order
July 08, 2019 15:04 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBPeidong Yang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) presented this seminar as part of the COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar series on 14 January 2019
Food insecurity of fatness: from evolutionary ecology to social science
July 08, 2019 15:02 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBThis Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar was presented by Professor Daniel Nettle (Newcastle University) on 16 January 2019
Intimate geopolitics: migration, marriage of citizenship across Chinese borders
July 08, 2019 15:00 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBThis COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar was presented by Elena Barabantseva (University of Manchester) on 21 January 2019
The dual burden of malnutrition and the obstetric dilemma
July 08, 2019 14:56 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBProfessor Jonathan Wells (University College London) delivered this seminar as part of the Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health series on 23 January 2019
Grandparenting migration: reproduction, care circulations and care ethics across borders
July 08, 2019 14:54 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MBElaine Ho (National University of Singapore) delivered this seminar as part of the COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group series on 28 January 2019
Investment migration and social reproduction: the case of recent patterns of migration from China
July 08, 2019 14:51 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MBProfessor Gracia Liu-Farrer (Waseda University, Tokyo) delivered this seminar as part of the COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group series on 4 February 2019
Iron, infection and anaemia: evolutionary viewpoint on a huge global health problem
July 08, 2019 14:48 - 1 hour - 67.8 MBHal Drakesmith (Radcliffe Department of Medicine, Oxford) delivered this seminar as part of the Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health series on 6 February 2019
Birth tourism from China and Taiwan to the United States: cosmopolitan strategies and aspirations
July 08, 2019 14:46 - 50 minutes - 46.3 MBSean 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
Stunting does not equal malnutrition: evolutionary perspective on human height variation applied to public health
July 08, 2019 14:43 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBAn Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar delivered by Professor Barry Bogin (Loughborough University) on 13 February 2019
Assisted reproductive technologies and medical travel
July 08, 2019 14:40 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MBA COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar delivered by Professor Andrea Whittaker (Monash University) on 18 February 2019
Childbearing as global security strategies
July 08, 2019 14:37 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBProfessor Pei-Chia Lan (National Taiwan University) delivered this COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar on 25 February 2019
Educational migration: youth, time and transformation
July 08, 2019 14:35 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBProfessor Francis Collins (University of Waikato) delivered this COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar on 4 March 2019
The Science of Modelling Through
July 08, 2019 14:33 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MBProfessor Dan Sarewitz delivered this seminar at the Institute for Science Innovation and Society on 4 March 2019
Is female health cyclical? Evolutionary perspectives on menstruation
July 08, 2019 14:29 - 43 minutes - 39.5 MBAlex Alvergne (Oxford) delivered this seminar on 6 March 2019 as part of the Primate Conversations seminar series
Global householding: care migration and the question of gender inequality
July 08, 2019 14:26 - 1 hour - 71.4 MBA presentation by Professor Brenda Yeoh (National University of Singapore) for the COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar (11 March 2019)
How war is shaping the Ukrainian HIV epidemic: A phylogeographic analysis
January 31, 2019 09:11 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBAn Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar presented by Tetyana Vasylyeva (Department of Zoology, University of Oxford) on 24 October 2018
Why are men muscular? Reproductive, hormonal, and ecological hypotheses to explain variation in human male muscularity within populations of Bangladeshi and British men
January 31, 2019 09:07 - 56 minutes - 52.2 MBAn Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar presented by Kesson Magid (Department of Anthropology, University of Durham) on 7 November 2018
Life history, parental investment and health of Agta foragers
January 31, 2019 09:03 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBAn Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar presented by Abigail Page (Department of Anthropology, University College London) on 14 November 2018
Telomeres as integrative markers of exposure to stress and adversity: A systematic review and meta-analysis
January 31, 2019 09:00 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBAn Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar presented by Dr Gillian Pepper (Centre for Behaviour and Evolution, University of Newcastle) on 28 November 2018
Militant masks: youth and insecurity in the Niger Delta
January 31, 2019 08:56 - 56 minutes - 26 MBDavid Pratten, the University of Oxford, presented the Anthropology Departmental Seminar on 9 November 2018
Trials of the everyday: spaces of global health in South Africa
January 31, 2019 08:53 - 41 minutes - 18.9 MBMichelle Pentecosts, King's College London, presented the Anthropology Departmental Seminar on 2 November 2018
Precolonial Microbiome: how microbiologists access anthropology museums to contribute to the debate on restitution
January 31, 2019 08:51 - 47 minutes - 21.9 MBFrederick Keck, Musée du quai Branly, presented this Anthropology Departmental Seminar on 26 October 2018
'Don't Bury the Famine Dead': how humanitarian intervention killed the most vulnerable in Ajiep, South Sudan, in 1998
January 31, 2019 08:48 - 46 minutes - 21.1 MBThis Anthropology Departmental Seminar was given by Jok Madut Jok, SUNY Upstate Medical University, on 23 November 2018
Social life of a license: caste and everyday struggles for work legitimacies in India
January 31, 2019 08:45 - 1 hour - 28 MBThis Anthropology Departmental Seminar was given by Bhawani Buswala, University of Oxford, on 30 November 2018.
Studying the origins of human material culture in young chilldren
September 14, 2018 14:24 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBThis Anthropology Departmental Seminar was delivered by Dr Eva Reindl (University of Oxford) on 2 February 2018
The grey area: fascism between the general and the particular
September 14, 2018 14:21 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBThis Anthropology Departmental Seminar was delivered by Dr Paolo Heywood (University of Cambridge) on 25 May 2018
Why Are There Always Candomblés? Situated Knowledges of Miscegenation and Syncretism in Brazil
September 14, 2018 14:18 - 53 minutes - 49 MBThis Anthropology Departmental Seminar was delivered by Professor Marcio Goldman (National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) on 11 May 2018
Rights and justice: reproductive politics and legal activism in India
July 31, 2018 14:25 - 53 minutes - 71.2 MBThis Anthropology departmental Seminar was delivered by Professor Maya Unnithan (University of Sussex) on 26 January 2018
A petition to kill: efficacious appeals against big cats in India
July 31, 2018 14:21 - 50 minutes - 71.8 MBNayanika Mathur (Oxford) delivered this Anthropology Departmental Seminar on 5 May 2018
The seven moral rules found all around the world
July 31, 2018 14:17 - 42 minutes - 56 MBThis Anthropology Departmental Seminar was delivered by Oliver Scott Curry (Oxford) on 18 May 2018
The Marett Memorial Lecture 2018. Individualism in the Wild: Oneness in Jivaroan Culture
July 31, 2018 14:14 - 52 minutes - 78.5 MBThe 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
The promise of the (foreign) image: post-post-internet art from the Philippines (and other notes from the field)
March 27, 2018 13:09 - 55 minutes - 78.1 MBAn Anthropology Departmental Seminar delivered by Rafael Schacter (University College London) on 1 December 2017
The concept of culture in cultural evolution
March 27, 2018 10:47 - 44 minutes - 57.1 MBThe 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
Sustaining one another: enset, animals, and people in the southern highlands of Ethiopia
March 27, 2018 10:39 - 53 minutes - 69.3 MBAn Anthropology Departmental Seminar delivered by Elizabeth Ewart and Wolde Tadesse (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford) on 13 October 2017
Existential mobility, migrant imaginaries and multiple selves
March 27, 2018 10:24 - 40 minutes - 54.9 MBAn Anthropology Departmental Seminar by Michael Jackson (Emeritus Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School), 20 October 2017
Words and Deeds - the Astor Visiting Lecture 19 October 2017
March 27, 2018 10:21 - 57 minutes - 75.8 MBMichael 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 living in Copenhagen, Amsterdam and London in order to reflect on the cultural and strategic reasons why migrants are often averse to speaking their minds, telling their stories, or sharing their feeli...
Ebola: A biosocial journey
March 27, 2018 10:14 - 56 minutes - 76.7 MBThe 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
Possible Futures - Robert Foley
September 15, 2017 08:23 - 9 minutes - 8.26 MBA 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.
Possible Futures - Rebecca Sear
September 15, 2017 08:21 - 19 minutes - 17.9 MBA 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.