Anthropology
264 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 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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Episodes
Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, the Anthropology of Dance: Same Difference?
May 27, 2015 14:24 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MBAndrée 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)
The Agency of Eating: Mediation, Food and the Body in Highland Ecuador
May 27, 2015 14:21 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MBThis Anthropology departmental seminar by Emma-Jayne Abbots (University of Wales Trinity St David) aims to define and extend the theoretical boundaries of food studies
Lost objects, imaginary assemblages and the mass graves of the Spanish Civil War
May 07, 2015 15:19 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MBLayla 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)
On representation and power: portrait of a Vodun leader in present-day Benin
May 07, 2015 15:14 - 43 minutes - 30.5 MBAn Anthropology Departmental Seminar by Emmanuelle Kadya Tall of IRD, Paris (30 January 2015)
Moving the cracks: motorcycle taxis, politics and the fragility of power in Bangkok
May 07, 2015 15:12 - 50 minutes - 35.2 MBClaudio Sopranzetti (Oxford) discusses the Red Shirts, the motorcycle taxi drivers whose protests in 2010 brought Bangkok to a standstill (23 January 2015)
Ecology of undernutrition and infection
May 07, 2015 15:07 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MBProfessor Stanley Ulijaszek (University of Oxford) presents a lecture on undernutrition and infection (14 November 2014)
Biocultural approaches to Type 2 diabetes
May 07, 2015 15:05 - 54 minutes - 37.5 MBStanley Ulijaszek (University of Oxford) presents a lecture on Type 2 diabetes from the Disease Ecology Lecture series (28 November 2014)
Obesity: epidemiology and biocultural factors
May 07, 2015 15:02 - 58 minutes - 40.8 MBProfessor Stanley Ulijaszek (University of Oxford) presents a lecture on obesity from the Disease Ecology Lecture series (21 November 2014)
From Amazonian couvade to neo-couvade in cosmopolitan trends of co-parenting: a comparative analysis
April 13, 2015 14:28 - 1 hour - 44.7 MBIn 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)
Infant feeding and child health and survival in early twentieth-century England
April 13, 2015 14:25 - 48 minutes - 33.3 MBA seminar for the Fertility and Reproduction Group by Alice Reid of the University of Cambridge (24 November 2014)
Revisiting breastfeeding in light of the gift logic. Is a comparison of Gogo and Italian women possible?
April 13, 2015 14:22 - 50 minutes - 34.6 MBA seminar for the Fertility and Reproduction Group by Mara Mabilia of the University of Padua (17 November 2014)
How to protect your newborn from neonatal death: spirits and infant feeding practices in the Gambia
April 13, 2015 14:19 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MBA seminar for the Fertility and Reproduction Group by Sarah O'Neill of the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp (10 November 2014)
Bangladeshi women's experiences of infant feeding in Tower Hamlets
April 13, 2015 14:10 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MBThis 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)
Breastpump technology and 'natural' motherly milk in Enlightenment France
April 13, 2015 13:50 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBIn this Fertility and Reproduction Seminar Margaret Carlyle (Cambridge) discusses developments in breastpump technology in 18th-century France (27 October 2014)
Hiring a wetnurse in seventeenth-century England
April 13, 2015 13:44 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MBIn this Fertility and Reproduction Seminar Leah Astbury (Cambridge) discusses the increase of maternal breastfeeding in 17th-century England (20 October 2014)
Negotiating nutrition: from baby to toddler in the Peruvian Andes
April 13, 2015 13:40 - 43 minutes - 30 MBIn 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)
Can there be an anthropology of Hinduism?
January 29, 2015 17:08 - 52 minutes - 47.7 MBA discussion of the anthropology of Hinduism and the difficulties of categorizing religion. Anthropology Departmental Seminar by David Gellner of Oxford (5 December 2014)
Cleaning up and moving on
January 29, 2015 17:04 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBA 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)
Biosecurity practices in labs and museums: sentinels, simulation, stockpiling
January 29, 2015 16:59 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MBA 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)
Ways of speaking, ways of knowing
January 29, 2015 16:54 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBA 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)
On forms of mental discipline and understanding of national psyche in contemporary Serbia
January 29, 2015 16:47 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBAn 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)
Martyrs, militants and emotions
January 29, 2015 16:37 - 51 minutes - 46.8 MBA discussion of Albanian radicalisation in Kosovo begore 1999. Anthropology Departmental Seminar by Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers of the University of Bournemouth (17 October 2014).
Water, human evolution and diet
October 02, 2014 16:41 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBThis 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.
Marett Memorial Lecture 2014: How to capture the wow. Awe and the study of religion
October 02, 2014 16:39 - 49 minutes - 44.9 MBProfessor Birgit Meyer delivered the 2014 Marett Memorial Lecture on the interplay of religious things and bodily sensations. Introduced by James Grant. 2 May 2014
Choreographing lived experience: the stories that dancing bodies tell
October 02, 2014 16:35 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBThis 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
Models, muddles and metaphors
October 02, 2014 16:32 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBThis seminar, on the theme of Models in Anthropology, draws on examples from the fields of Amazonian and obesity studies. 9 May 2014
Social anthropology of the arts: expression, genre and agency
October 02, 2014 16:29 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBThis 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.
Intersections: an ethnography of everyday togetherness and intensified diversity in Elephant and Castle
October 02, 2014 16:19 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBThis 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
Photo archives as historical resources: the Jeffrys and Dalrymple archives compared
April 29, 2014 14:18 - 56 minutes - 51.5 MBProfessor 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
Fifty years of Cameroon unification: controversies and archival echoes
April 29, 2014 14:15 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MBA special lecture in Oxford by Professor Verkijika G. Fanso from the University of Yaounde in Cameroon
Inspirations for publications - ISCA Anthropology Book Launch
April 29, 2014 12:22 - 26 minutes - 24 MBAnthropologists from ISCA discuss the research and inspiration behind six recent publications
'Native Life', or, Being outside the carbon imagery
April 29, 2014 12:16 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBProfessor 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
Inequality, insecurity and obesity
April 29, 2014 12:12 - 45 minutes - 42 MBA seminar for the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek of ISCA, Oxford
Cultural understandings of roles and responsibilities in addressing obesity
April 29, 2014 12:01 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBEmily Henderson of Durham University discusses the causes of obesity, those responsible for it and how it should be addressed.
Culture and motivation: long distance running in Japan and the UK
April 29, 2014 11:58 - 1 hour - 55 MBAnthropologist Emma Coleman-Jones and distance runner Mara Yamauchi compare their experiences of running in the UK and Japan
Intellectual property and informal economy: a commodity chain from China to Brazil through Paraguay
April 29, 2014 11:10 - 51 minutes - 47.2 MBRosana 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.
Claiming resources, honouring debts: miners, herders and the land masters of Mongolia
April 29, 2014 11:02 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBRebecca Empson of UCL discusses the form of capitalism emerging in Mongolia's mineral economy. An anthropology departmental seminar.
Do not resuscitate orders in a UK hospital: an ethnography of the future-present
April 29, 2014 10:47 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MBSimon 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.
The sharia as a vocation: Islam, law and civility in Lebanon
April 28, 2014 16:58 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBThis discussion of sharia discourse in different contexts focuses on the experiences of four individuals. An anthropology departmental seminar by Morgan Clarke (ISCA, Oxford)
Victor Turner, anthropology and Christianity
April 28, 2014 16:54 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBTimothy 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.
Discovering 'justice': the magic of law in the Upper Amazon
April 28, 2014 16:49 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBAn anthropology departmental seminar on legal anthropology in lowland South America given by Harry Walker of the LSE.
The end of history? What follows the demographic transition?
April 28, 2014 16:19 - 56 minutes - 51.3 MBAn 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)
Political ecology of disease
February 03, 2014 12:36 - 52 minutes - 32.7 MBThis 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
Disease transitions
February 03, 2014 12:32 - 48 minutes - 29.9 MBThis 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.
Generational change and continuity amongst British mothers
February 03, 2014 12:28 - 40 minutes - 37 MBAngela 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)
Contextualising the 'new parenting culture'
February 03, 2014 12:25 - 43 minutes - 25.6 MBCharlotte Faircloth of the University of Kent presents historical and sociological perspectives on adult-child relations (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 21 October 2013)
Caring and being cared for in north-western Amazonia
February 03, 2014 12:22 - 36 minutes - 20.4 MBElizabeth 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)
'Don't worry, you'll be a grandmother soon!'
February 03, 2014 12:18 - 51 minutes - 31.8 MBIn 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
'I did not know how to tell my parents, so I thought I would have to have an abortion'
February 03, 2014 12:15 - 35 minutes - 20.5 MBEkaterina 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)
Be(com)ing papa: kinship senescence and the ambivalent inward journeys of ageing men in the Antilles
February 03, 2014 12:11 - 44 minutes - 26.1 MBAdom Philogene Heron of the University of St Andrews investigates grandfatherhood in the Antilles (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 2 December 2013)