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.

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Episode	Description	People	Date
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	6 February, 2024
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	6 February, 2024
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 January, 2024
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	2 October, 2023
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	2 October, 2023
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	2 October, 2023
Nutritional Anthropology	Stanley Ulijaszek discusses human dietary evolution, dietary flexibility and present day undernutrition and infection	Stanley Ulijaszek, Jacob Evans	2 October, 2023
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	2 October, 2023
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	2 October, 2023
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	2 October, 2023
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	2 October, 2023
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	8 July, 2019
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	8 July, 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	Elena Barabantseva	8 July, 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 January 2019	Jonathan Wells	8 July, 2019
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	8 July, 2019
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	8 July, 2019
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	8 July, 2019
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	8 July, 2019
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	8 July, 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	Andrea Whittaker	8 July, 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	Pei-Chia Lan	8 July, 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	Francis Collins	8 July, 2019
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	8 July, 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	Alexandra Alvergne	8 July, 2019
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	8 July, 2019
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 January, 2019
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 January, 2019
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 January, 2019
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 January, 2019
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 January, 2019
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 January, 2019
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 January, 2019
'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 January, 2019
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 January, 2019
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 September, 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	Paolo Heywood	14 September, 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 May 2018	Marcio Goldman	14 September, 2018
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 July, 2018
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 July, 2018
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 July, 2018
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 July, 2018
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 March, 2018
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 March, 2018
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 March, 2018
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 March, 2018
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 March, 2018
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 March, 2018
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 September, 2017
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 September, 2017

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