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
February 6, 2024 • 45 mins
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.
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February 6, 2024 • 46 mins
Professor Adriaan van Klinken takes us to the epicentre of Pentecostalism. Through the emerging body of queer Nigerian literature, Professor Adriaan van Klinken (University of Leeds) looks at the motif of the deliverance ritual in a lecture that spans anthropological, gender and sexuality, literary and religious studies.
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Stepping in, helping out, competing with…? State and civic actors in Ukraine’s wartime heritage work
January 25, 2024 • 47 mins
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. Edited and hosted by Dora Duo.
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October 2, 2023 • 56 mins
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 (University of Cambridge) explores the balance of entrepreneurial hustle and bureaucratic order their long-running streetcorner bureau strikes.
Edited and hosted by Peyton Cherry
This was a departmental seminar at the School of Anthropology and Museum...
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October 2, 2023 • 66 mins
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 (Emeritus professor, Collège de France, Paris)
Edited and hosted by Luise Eder
This was a departmental seminar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography in the 2022-23 academic year....
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October 2, 2023 • 50 mins
Raffaela Taylor-Seymourn examines the engagements with ancestral spirits among young queer Zimbabweans Raffaela Taylor-Seymourn (Pembroke College, University of Oxford) focuses on the form of kinship that young queer people forge with ancestral spirits and how they often contrast to relationships with living family members.
Edited and hosted by Peyton Cherry
This was a departmental seminar at the School of Anthropology and Museum ...
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October 2, 2023 • 73 mins
Stanley Ulijaszek discusses human dietary evolution, dietary flexibility and present day undernutrition and infection Stanley Ulijaszek Emeritus Professor University of Oxford demonstrates the multidisciplinary nature of nutritional anthropology to confront major issues that are changing human relationships with disease.
Edited and hosted by Jacob Evans
This was a departmental seminar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethno...
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October 2, 2023 • 28 mins
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 (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) explores how the process of learning transforms an object to study ethnographically into an artifact with which to ask new ethnographic questions.
Edited and hosted by Malin Schlode
This was a departmental seminar at the...
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October 2, 2023 • 48 mins
Does life take you any nearer to your ancestors or does it draw you ever further away from them? Tim Ingold discusses his new work ‘The Rise and Fall of Generation Now’ in which he reverses the perspectives on generations of social life by seeing not as linear but as a process.
Edited and hosted by Luise Eder
This was a departmental seminar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography in the 2022-23 academic year. The reco...
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October 2, 2023 • 45 mins
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? Nikhil Anand (University of Pennsylvania) discusses his new work and reflects on the uncertain futures of coastal cities in an era of climate change.
Edited and hosted by Lan Duo.
This was a departmental seminar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography in the 2022-23 acade...
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October 2, 2023 • 47 mins
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. Edited and hosted by Eben Kirksey.
This was a departmental seminar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography in the 2022-23 academic year. The recordings were only possible thanks t...
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July 8, 2019 • 51 mins
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
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July 8, 2019 • 50 mins
This Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar was presented by Professor Daniel Nettle (Newcastle University) on 16 January 2019
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July 8, 2019 • 59 mins
This COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar was presented by Elena Barabantseva (University of Manchester) on 21 January 2019
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July 8, 2019 • 58 mins
Professor Jonathan Wells (University College London) delivered this seminar as part of the Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health series on 23 January 2019
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July 8, 2019 • 51 mins
Elaine Ho (National University of Singapore) delivered this seminar as part of the COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group series on 28 January 2019
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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
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July 8, 2019 • 74 mins
Hal Drakesmith (Radcliffe Department of Medicine, Oxford) delivered this seminar as part of the Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health series on 6 February 2019
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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
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An Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar delivered by Professor Barry Bogin (Loughborough University) on 13 February 2019
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