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 28, 2014 • 51min
Discovering 'justice': the magic of law in the Upper Amazon
An anthropology departmental seminar on legal anthropology in lowland South America given by Harry Walker of the LSE.
Apr 28, 2014 • 56min
The end of history? What follows the demographic transition?
An overview of the demographic transition, and the demographic regime, since its development in the 1940s. An anthropological departmental seminar by Chris Wilson of ISCA (Oxford)
Feb 3, 2014 • 53min
Political ecology of disease
This lecture by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek of ISCA, the University of Oxford, is part of the Disease Ecology series and was delivered on 22 November 2013
Feb 3, 2014 • 48min
Disease transitions
This lecture by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek of ISCA, the University of Oxford, is part of the Disease Ecology series and was presented on 13 November 2013.
Feb 3, 2014 • 40min
Generational change and continuity amongst British mothers
Angela Davis of the University of Warwick discusses the sharing of beliefs, knowledge and practice amongst British mothers between 1940 and 1990 (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 14 October 2013)
Feb 3, 2014 • 44min
Contextualising the 'new parenting culture'
Charlotte Faircloth of the University of Kent presents historical and sociological perspectives on adult-child relations (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 21 October 2013)
Feb 3, 2014 • 36min
Caring and being cared for in north-western Amazonia
Elizabeth Rahman of the University of Oxford discusses the perinatal practices of a small group of Amazonian Indians with whom she lived (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 4 November 2013)
Feb 3, 2014 • 52min
'Don't worry, you'll be a grandmother soon!'
In this Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 18 November 2013, Robert Pralat of the University of Cambridge investigates how non-heterosexual people discuss becoming a parent with their own parents
Feb 3, 2014 • 35min
'I did not know how to tell my parents, so I thought I would have to have an abortion'
Ekaterina Hertog of the University of Oxford explores the negotiations between premaritally pregnant women and their parents in Japan (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 25 November 2013)
Feb 3, 2014 • 44min
Be(com)ing papa: kinship senescence and the ambivalent inward journeys of ageing men in the Antilles
Adom Philogene Heron of the University of St Andrews investigates grandfatherhood in the Antilles (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 2 December 2013)
