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
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
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
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	7 May, 2015
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	7 May, 2015
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	7 May, 2015
Ecology of undernutrition and infection	Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (University of Oxford) presents a lecture on undernutrition and infection (14 November 2014)	Stanley Ulijaszek	7 May, 2015
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	7 May, 2015
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	7 May, 2015
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 April, 2015
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 April, 2015
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 April, 2015
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 April, 2015
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 April, 2015
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 April, 2015
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 April, 2015
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 April, 2015
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 January, 2015
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 January, 2015
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 January, 2015
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 January, 2015
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 January, 2015
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 January, 2015
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	2 October, 2014
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	2 October, 2014
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	2 October, 2014
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	2 October, 2014
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	2 October, 2014
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	2 October, 2014
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 April, 2014
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 April, 2014
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, Marisa Wilson, Elizabeth Ewart	29 April, 2014
'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 April, 2014
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 April, 2014
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 April, 2014
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 April, 2014
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 April, 2014
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 April, 2014
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 April, 2014
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 April, 2014
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 April, 2014
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 April, 2014
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 April, 2014
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	3 February, 2014
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	3 February, 2014
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	3 February, 2014
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	3 February, 2014
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	3 February, 2014
'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	3 February, 2014
'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	3 February, 2014
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	3 February, 2014

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