Tibetan Vampire Slayers in Nepal |
Dr Charles Ramble, of the Oxford University Oriental Institute, gives an Anthropology Departmental Seminar entitled The Mysterious Reluctance of Tibetan Vampire Slayers in Nepal (12 March 2010). |
Charles Ramble |
12 July, 2010 |
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Measurement of Bodily Transformations (1 Feb 2010) |
Professor Stanley Ulijaszek, from the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford, gave a talk on 1 February 2010 as part of the Medical Anthropology Research Seminar Series. It was entitled 'Measurement of Bodily Transformations'. |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
15 June, 2010 |
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Dying for Islam: An Alternative History (12 Feb 2010) |
Dr Faisal Devji, from the Department of History and Anthropology at St Antony's College, Oxford, gave an Anthropology Departmental Seminar on 12 February 2010 entitled 'Dying for Islam: An Alternative History. |
Faisal Devji |
15 June, 2010 |
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Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 5: Political Ecology of Food Security (15 March 2010) |
Professor Stanley Ulijaszek, of the Institute of Cultural Anthropology, Oxford, gave a lecture on 15 March 2010 forming part of the Nutritional Anthropology lecture series. It was entitled 'Political Ecology of Food Security'. |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
15 June, 2010 |
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Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 4: Intensification of subsistence (10 Feb 2010) |
Stanley Ulijaszek, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, delivers his fourth lecture in the Nutritional Anthropology series. This lecture focuses on agriculture and pastoralism. |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
27 May, 2010 |
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Interview with Evans-Pritchard Lecturer Dr Charles Stewart (13 May 2010) |
Dr Charles Stewart (UCL) is interviewed by Anthropology graduate student Ana Ranitovic at All Souls, Oxford, about his longterm interest in dreams and historical consciousness in modern Greece. |
Charles Stewart |
27 May, 2010 |
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Neither Freud nor Artemidorous, Evans-Pritchard Lecture by Charles Stewart (27 April 2010) |
The first Evans-Pritchard Lecture for 2010, presented at All Souls College on 27 April by Dr Charles Stewart (UCL). The series theme was Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece. |
Charles Stewart |
27 May, 2010 |
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Facial tattooing among Drung women in Southwest China |
Facial tattooing is essentially a transition to what is and ought to be a woman. Gender performativity is associated with the materiality of the body: it is in fact the tattoo that makes a woman. |
Stéphane Gros |
12 April, 2010 |
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Qigong Deviation as a Diplomatic Disaster |
What has acknowledging the human-like qualities of 'qi' to do with preventing and treating qigong malpractice? |
Chee Han Lim |
12 April, 2010 |
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Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 3: Hunter-gatherer diet (5 Feb 2010) |
In this third Nutritional Anthropology lecture, Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (ISCA, Oxford) discusses hunter-gatherer subsistence ecology and its relevance to the modern world. |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
7 April, 2010 |
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Medical anthropology: Famine, food crisis and living standards in North Korea (25 Jan 2010) |
Dr Daniel Jong Schwekendiek (ISCA, Oxford) examines the methodology and evidence for determining who has been 'better off' in North Korea between the 1940s and 2000s. |
Daniel Jong Schwekendiek |
7 April, 2010 |
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Anthropology seminar: Indigenous capitalism in Upland Indonesia (5 Feb 2010) |
Based on numerous field research trips over the last 20 years, Prof. Li (University of Toronto) describes how much attitudes and horizons have changed in this remote, mountainous area. |
Tania Murray Li |
7 April, 2010 |
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Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 2: Nutritional Quality and Child Growth |
Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford) discusses nutritional factors that impact on the growth of children across the globe. |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
10 March, 2010 |
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Anthropology seminar: Re-Tooling a Body with The Body |
Assistant Professor Adam Frank (University of Central Arkansas) describes Three Ways of Teaching Tajiquan to the White Guy. |
Adam Frank |
10 March, 2010 |
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Medical Anthropology: Drink me... Take me... Read me... |
Mark Lawrence, Director of First Read This (an Oxford company that aims to promote patient information leaflets), discusses how following instructions makes the patient feel better. |
Mark Lawrence |
10 March, 2010 |
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League of Nations; Minority Regime as Anthropological Object |
Jane K Cowan (Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Sussex) on rethinking minority, nationality, the international and international governance through history in an effort to understand the League of Nations in terms of anthropology. |
Jane K. Cowan |
18 February, 2010 |
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People Losing Credit: Models and Innovation in Finance |
Dr Gillian Tett, Assistant Editor of the Financial Times gives a talk as part of the Ethnicity and Identity Seminar series on her experience of working for the Financial Times and how her background in Anthropology helps her in her journalistic work. |
Gillian Tett |
18 February, 2010 |
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Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 1: What is the natural human diet? |
Professor Stanley Ulijaszek of the School of Anthropology gives a talk on the 'natural' human diet, and asks whether we, people living in an industrialised society, should be trying to follow the natural diet. Recorded 22nd January 2010. |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
18 February, 2010 |
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Why people get fat: an integral approach |
Mike Rayner and Stanley Uljiaszek give a talk about the causes of obesity on 7th November 2007. |
Mike Rayner, Stanley Ulijaszek |
12 February, 2010 |
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Genetics of obesity, and the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children |
Nicholas Timpson, of the Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, gives a talk on Genetics of obesity, and the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children on the 9th November 2009. |
Nicholas Timpson |
12 February, 2010 |
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Networks and Obesity |
Stanley Ulijaszek, Professor of Human Ecology, Director of UBVO, University of Oxford, gives a talk on networks and obesity. |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
12 February, 2010 |
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