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.
Latest episodes
Oct 2, 2023 • 48min
Crude Sonics: Field Recordings from an Extractive Zone
Dive into the haunting sounds of Baku, where field recordings reveal the complexities of gentrification and identity. Explore the striking impact of Arseny Avramov's The Symphony of Sirens, linking industrial sounds to unity and political identity. Delve into the transformation of oil from a resource to a cultural symbol, reshaping narratives around modernity. Celebrate the resilience captured in soundscapes of displacement, highlighting cultural richness often overlooked in forced eviction zones. Discover how auditory experiences shape identities in extractive regions.
Jul 8, 2019 • 52min
China in the global reproduction migration order
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
Jul 8, 2019 • 51min
Food insecurity of fatness: from evolutionary ecology to social science
This podcast explores the evolutionary, biological, and social science questions related to food insecurity and fatness. It debunks the 'No Breaks Hypothesis', discusses the mismatch between evolutionary motivations and social science understanding of obesity, and explores the correlation between food insecurity and obesity. It also explores the adaptive decision-making process of how much to eat for survival, presents an experiment on starlings' body mass regulation, and discusses the impact of food insecurity on foraging behavior in birds.
Jul 8, 2019 • 59min
Intimate geopolitics: migration, marriage of citizenship across Chinese borders
This COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar was presented by Elena Barabantseva (University of Manchester) on 21 January 2019
Jul 8, 2019 • 59min
The dual burden of malnutrition and the obstetric dilemma
Professor Jonathan Wells (University College London) delivered this seminar as part of the Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health series on 23 January 2019
Jul 8, 2019 • 52min
Grandparenting migration: reproduction, care circulations and care ethics across borders
Elaine Ho (National University of Singapore) delivered this seminar as part of the COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group series on 28 January 2019
Jul 8, 2019 • 49min
Investment migration and social reproduction: the case of recent patterns of migration from China
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
Jul 8, 2019 • 1h 14min
Iron, infection and anaemia: evolutionary viewpoint on a huge global health problem
Hal Drakesmith (Radcliffe Department of Medicine, Oxford) delivered this seminar as part of the Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health series on 6 February 2019
Jul 8, 2019 • 51min
Birth tourism from China and Taiwan to the United States: cosmopolitan strategies and aspirations
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
Jul 8, 2019 • 1h 7min
Stunting does not equal malnutrition: evolutionary perspective on human height variation applied to public health
An Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar delivered by Professor Barry Bogin (Loughborough University) on 13 February 2019
