Negotiating enemy lines
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Lauren Greenwood (University of Sussex) discusses the complexities of collaboration with the British military, 29 May 2015
Mar 14, 2016•51 min
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 of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography who have made this podcast possible.
Episodes
Medical and psychological issues in the treatment of recurrent miscarriage
In this Fertility and Reproduction Seminar, Raj Rai (Imperial College and St Mary's Hospital) discusses the role of clinical trials and ways of addressing the potential exploitation of vulnerable couples, 26 October 2015
Mar 14, 2016•51 min
Crossing religious borders: Jewish Cabo Verdeans
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Alma Gottlieb (Illinois) discusses the blend of religious traditions that have developed on the Cape Verde islands, particularly early Jewish settlers, 6 November 2015
Mar 14, 2016•52 min
'Fat knowledge', epigenetics and the enchantment of relational biology
An Anthropology Departmental Seminar presented by Megan Warin (Adelaide) on the ways in which obesity is understood, embodied and enacted, 16 October 2015
Mar 14, 2016•54 min
Evolutionary origins of technological behaviour: a primate archaeology approach to chimpanzees
An Anthropology Departmental seminar presented by Susana Carvalha (Oxford) on the archaeological sites of non-humans, 27 November 2015
Mar 14, 2016•56 min
The 'Unfortunate Mesopotamian Foetus'
Pregnancy loss and miscarriage in the ancient Near East - a Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar, 30 November 2015 given by Marie-Françoise Besnier (University of Cambridge)
Mar 14, 2016•56 min
The Limits of collaboration: attempting a reciprocal Gypsy/Roman life story
In this Anthropology departmental seminar, Paloma Gay y Blasco (St Andrews) evaluates a twenty-year collaborative project she has undertaken with her Gypsy informer (15 May 2015)
Aug 04, 2015•1 hr
Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture 2015: The Societalization of Social Problems
Professor Jeffrey C. Alexander (Yale University) delivered the Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture on 3 June 2014 at Oxford. The lecture was 'The societalization of social problems: recent social crises and the civil sphere' Drawing from cultural sociology, this lecture develops a theory of “societalization” to explain social reaction to three recent, globally significant upheavals – the financial crisis, church pedophilia, and media phone-hacking. While these problems were endemic for years and even ...
Aug 04, 2015•58 min
Stacking Ontologies: Mundane Technoscience in the Silk Mill
Dimitris Papadopoulos (University of Leicester) discusses different ways to think about technoscience beyond its core institutions (13 March 2015)
May 27, 2015•46 min
Obsessed by Love: Erotic Magic, Delirious Love and Female Power in Mozambique
Christian Groes-Green (Roskilde University Copenhagen) discusses the nature of being in love and how this is seen and discussed in Mozambique and written about in other African nations (6 March 2015)
May 27, 2015•41 min
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)
May 27, 2015•48 min
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
May 27, 2015•43 min
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)
May 07, 2015•53 min
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)
May 07, 2015•44 min
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)
May 07, 2015•51 min
Ecology of undernutrition and infection
Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (University of Oxford) presents a lecture on undernutrition and infection (14 November 2014)
May 07, 2015•57 min
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)
May 07, 2015•55 min
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)
May 07, 2015•58 min
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)
Apr 13, 2015•1 hr 5 min
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)
Apr 13, 2015•48 min
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)
Apr 13, 2015•50 min
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)
Apr 13, 2015•37 min
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)
Apr 13, 2015•38 min
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)
Apr 13, 2015•38 min
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)
Apr 13, 2015•49 min
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)
Apr 13, 2015•44 min
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)
Jan 29, 2015•52 min
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)
Jan 29, 2015•1 hr 1 min
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)
Jan 29, 2015•57 min
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)
Jan 29, 2015•48 min