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
Apr 13, 2015 • 50min
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 • 37min
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 • 38min
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 • 38min
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 • 49min
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 • 44min
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)
Jan 29, 2015 • 52min
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 • 1h 1min
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 • 57min
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 • 48min
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)
