Anthropology
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Anthropology
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 o...
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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 medi...
Pentecostalism, Deliverance and Queer Sexuality in Nigeria: Literary Representations
Professor Adriaan van Klinken takes us to the epicentre of Pentecostalism. Through the emerging body of queer Nigerian literature, Professor Adriaan...
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...
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...
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 redefi...
Intimate Rites: Ancestors and Queer Kinship in Zimbabwe
Raffaela Taylor-Seymourn examines the engagements with ancestral spirits among young queer Zimbabweans Raffaela Taylor-Seymourn (Pembroke College, Uni...
Nutritional Anthropology
Stanley Ulijaszek discusses human dietary evolution, dietary flexibility and present day undernutrition and infection Stanley Ulijaszek Emeritus Profe...
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 li...
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 discusses his new work ‘The Rise and Fall...
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? Ni...
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, in...
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 semin...
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
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
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 Januar...
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 Januar...
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...
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 Fe...
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 Gr...
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
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
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
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
The Science of Modelling Through
Professor 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
Alex 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
A presentation by Professor Brenda Yeoh (National University of Singapore) for the COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar (11 March 2...
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
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
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 20...
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...
Militant masks: youth and insecurity in the Niger Delta
David 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
Michelle 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
Frederick 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
This 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
This 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
This 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
This 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
This Anthropology Departmental Seminar was delivered by Professor Marcio Goldman (National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) on 11...
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
A petition to kill: efficacious appeals against big cats in India
Nayanika Mathur (Oxford) delivered this Anthropology Departmental Seminar on 5 May 2018