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Anthropology

Oxford University•www.anthro.ox.ac.uk
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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 of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography who have made this podcast possible.
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Episodes

The concept of culture in cultural evolution

In his keynote speech for the Cultural Evolution Workshop (held in the Pitt Rivers Museum on 28 February 2017), Prof. Tim Lewens of Cambridge examines the concept of culture in cultural evolution.

Jul 26, 2017•44 min

Why do children doubt magic, but believe in the miraculous?

Prof. Paul Harris (Harvard Graduate School of Education) examines why children are skeptical about magical phenomena but are willing to believe in supposedly miraculous violations of everyday causal constraints. 12 May 2017.

Jul 26, 2017•50 min

Transformation through Ritual: Bodies as Sacred Space

A seminar of the Anthropology Research Group at Oxford on Eastern Medicines and Religions. Dr Ann R. David (University of Roehampton) focuses on Tamil worshippers in the UK to discuss the role of ritual in religion and dance. 18 January 2017.

Jul 26, 2017•50 min

Climate, weather, culture

In this Departmental Seminar, Prof. Steve Rayner examines the blossoming of anthropological attention to climate change over the last ten years. 17 February 2017.

Jul 26, 2017•1 hr 1 min

Women in India’s waste economy

In this Departmental Seminar, Prof. Barbara Harriss-Whiten draws on anthropology, economics and politics to examine the role of women in Indian society. 12 May 2017.

Jul 26, 2017•1 hr 13 min

The Gorongosa Restoration Project, Mozambique

Greg Carr, the President of the Gorongosa Restoration Project in Mozambique, gives an overview of how the Gorongosa National Park has evolved since Mozambique's civil conflict ended in 1992. 5 May 2017.

Jul 26, 2017•30 min

Exploring the city's 'sutures'

Filip De Boeck (KU Leiden) explores 'urban life between want and wish', drawing on examples from the DRCongo (4 March 2016)

Jun 15, 2016•52 min

Plantain island sirens

Jennifer Diggins (Oxford Brookes) discusses 'tales of poverty, fish, and seduction from maritime Sierra Leone' (26 February 2016)

Jun 15, 2016•56 min

The certainty of futures lost

Lucy Lowe (Edinburgh) discusses motherhood, Caesarean sections and migration in 'Little Mogadishu', Mairobi (3 Fecember 2015)

Jun 15, 2016•43 min

The fragility of conviction

Mathijs Pelkmans (LSE)'s seminar is based on 'walking with the Tablighi Jammat in Kyrgyzstan (12 February 2016)

Jun 15, 2016•52 min

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Charlotte K. Russell (Parent-Infant Sleep Lab, Durham) looks at how evolutionary anthropology and cross-cultural perspectives can have a huge impact on specific healthcare issues such as SIDS (22 February 2016)

Jun 08, 2016•54 min

The dawn of Darwinian critical care medicine

James G. Morgan (Dept of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care, Leeds General Infirmary) discusses how an evolutionary approach can help one understand medicine, such as adaptive defence mechanisms in the body (8 February 2016)

Jun 08, 2016•56 min

Maternal capital and offspring development

Jonathan Wells (UCL Institute of Child Health) presents an intergenerational perspective on the development origins of health and disease. A medical anthropology seminar given on 29 February 2016.

Jun 08, 2016•59 min

Tracing the origins of the HIV/AIDS pandemic

Nuno Fario (Oxford) investigates the development of HIV since the discovery of its first, and diverse, genomes in 1959 and 1960. A medical anthropology seminar given on 7 March 2016.

Jun 08, 2016•1 hr 3 min

Paying attention to the journey

In this Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar, Ginny Mounce (Oxford) discusses couples' experiences of investigating and starting infertility treatments, 19 October 2015

Mar 14, 2016•40 min

Microbes and other spirits

In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, César Enrique Giraldo Herrera (Oxford) discusses the role of hallucinogenics in interpreting reality and the role of visions in Lowland South America, 23 October 2015 (the opening few seconds are missing)

Mar 14, 2016•46 min