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
May 27, 2015 • 48min
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 • 43min
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 7, 2015 • 53min
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 7, 2015 • 44min
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 7, 2015 • 51min
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 7, 2015 • 57min
Ecology of undernutrition and infection
Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (University of Oxford) presents a lecture on undernutrition and infection (14 November 2014)
May 7, 2015 • 55min
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 7, 2015 • 58min
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)
Apr 13, 2015 • 1h 5min
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 • 48min
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)
