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 29, 2014 • 26min
Inspirations for publications - ISCA Anthropology Book Launch
Anthropologists from ISCA discuss the research and inspiration behind six recent publications
Apr 29, 2014 • 53min
'Native Life', or, Being outside the carbon imagery
Professor Elizabeth Povinelli of Columbia University examines contemporary scientific discussions of the Anthropocene and climate change and theoretical theories of New Vitalism, New Animism and Relational Ontology
Apr 29, 2014 • 46min
Inequality, insecurity and obesity
A seminar for the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek of ISCA, Oxford
Apr 29, 2014 • 46min
Cultural understandings of roles and responsibilities in addressing obesity
Emily Henderson of Durham University discusses the causes of obesity, those responsible for it and how it should be addressed.
Apr 29, 2014 • 1h
Culture and motivation: long distance running in Japan and the UK
Anthropologist Emma Coleman-Jones and distance runner Mara Yamauchi compare their experiences of running in the UK and Japan
Apr 29, 2014 • 52min
Intellectual property and informal economy: a commodity chain from China to Brazil through Paraguay
Rosana Pinheiro-Machado (of ODID, Oxford)'s anthropology departmental seminar focuses on the transmission of diverse goods in a commodity chain that was formed in the 1980s.
Apr 29, 2014 • 47min
Claiming resources, honouring debts: miners, herders and the land masters of Mongolia
Rebecca Empson of UCL discusses the form of capitalism emerging in Mongolia's mineral economy. An anthropology departmental seminar.
Apr 29, 2014 • 55min
Do not resuscitate orders in a UK hospital: an ethnography of the future-present
Simon Cohn of Cambridge University looks at the ways health professionals and their activities construct an understanding of the human body according to particular temporal framings. An anthropology departmental seminar.
Apr 28, 2014 • 56min
The sharia as a vocation: Islam, law and civility in Lebanon
This discussion of sharia discourse in different contexts focuses on the experiences of four individuals. An anthropology departmental seminar by Morgan Clarke (ISCA, Oxford)
Apr 28, 2014 • 50min
Victor Turner, anthropology and Christianity
Timothy Larsen (Wheaton College, Illinois) discusses the impact of Christianity on the research and careers of Victor and Edith Turner, looking in particular at their work in Rhodesia. An anthropology departmental seminar.
