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
Jan 29, 2015 • 45min
On forms of mental discipline and understanding of national psyche in contemporary Serbia
An ethnography of mental hygiene and neuro-security in contemporary Serbia. Anthropology Departmental Seminar by Maja Petrović-Šteger of the ISRF and Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (31 October 2014)
Jan 29, 2015 • 51min
Martyrs, militants and emotions
A discussion of Albanian radicalisation in Kosovo begore 1999. Anthropology Departmental Seminar by Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers of the University of Bournemouth (17 October 2014).
Oct 2, 2014 • 38min
Water, human evolution and diet
This public lecture on the role of water in human evolution took place at Somerset House in London as part of its 'Month of Water'. 17 June 2014.
Oct 2, 2014 • 49min
Marett Memorial Lecture 2014: How to capture the wow. Awe and the study of religion
Professor Birgit Meyer delivered the 2014 Marett Memorial Lecture on the interplay of religious things and bodily sensations. Introduced by James Grant. 2 May 2014
Oct 2, 2014 • 45min
Choreographing lived experience: the stories that dancing bodies tell
This Anthropology seminar looks at the role of dance and movement of the body as a theme in itself; using dance to understand embodied experience. 21 February 2014
Oct 2, 2014 • 57min
Models, muddles and metaphors
This seminar, on the theme of Models in Anthropology, draws on examples from the fields of Amazonian and obesity studies. 9 May 2014
Oct 2, 2014 • 1h 8min
Social anthropology of the arts: expression, genre and agency
This seminar, on the theme of Art and Creativity, explores the anthropology of artistic and imaginative processes, a field that is interdisciplinary by nature. 23 May 2014.
Oct 2, 2014 • 59min
Intersections: an ethnography of everyday togetherness and intensified diversity in Elephant and Castle
This Anthropology seminar, on the theme of Diasporas and Migration, presents emerging findings from a collaborative ethnography in a 'super-diverse' South London area. 30 May 2014
Apr 29, 2014 • 56min
Photo archives as historical resources: the Jeffrys and Dalrymple archives compared
Professor Verkijika G. Fanso of Yaounde University in Cameroon compares two photo archives both taken around the same time, which are now held in Cambridge and South Africa
Apr 29, 2014 • 48min
Fifty years of Cameroon unification: controversies and archival echoes
A special lecture in Oxford by Professor Verkijika G. Fanso from the University of Yaounde in Cameroon
