Anthropology
Oxford University
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.
We are grateful to the speakers and staff and students from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography who have made this podcast possible.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Apr 18, 2013 • 51min
Scientists as Abstainers
Matei Candea (University of Durham) presents 'An ethnography of inter-species trust without belief'. An Anthropology Departmental Seminar (26 October 2012) with a theme of science and technology studies.
Apr 18, 2013 • 54min
City Dwelling and the Cultures of Migrant Urbanism
This Anthropology Departmental Seminar (19 October 2012), is presented by Professor Michael Keith, the Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, Oxford.
Apr 18, 2013 • 55min
The Biography of the Holy Ghost
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar (12 October 2012), Dr Ramon Sarró explores a prophetic landscape in Lower Congo.
Apr 18, 2013 • 53min
The Ethnographic Dream
In this seminar for the anthropology research group at Oxford on Eastern Medicines and Religions (10 October 2012), Dr Katherine Swancutt discusses 'doing fieldwork among native scholars and shamans', focusing on southwest China.
Jun 27, 2012 • 50min
Learning that emerges in 'Times of Trouble'
In this Ethnicity and Identity Seminar, Professor Joy Hendry (Oxford Brooks University) presents a few cases from Japan. 2 March 2012.
Jun 27, 2012 • 52min
Epidemiological crises, epistemological divisions
In this seminar held by the Anthropology Research Group at Oxford on Eastern Medicines and Religions (ArgO-EMR), Assoc. Professor Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University) discusses 'the new discourse on epidemics in 17th-18th century China'. 7 March 2012.
Jun 27, 2012 • 42min
Collective Effervescence as Embodied Intoxication
Philip Mellor, Professor of Religion and Social Theory at the University Leeds, presented this paper at a workshop held in Oxford by the British Centre for Durkheimian Studies in February 2012.
Jun 27, 2012 • 55min
Reflections on geneticisation
In this Medical Anthropology Research Seminar, Professor Paul Martin (University of Nottingham) examines 'social science and the making of biofutures'. 6 February 2012.
Jun 27, 2012 • 1h 2min
Everyday aesthetics in forced displacement
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Sandra Dudley (University of Leicester) looks at 'material culture and Karenni forced migrants in a Thai-Burma border camp'. 10 February 2012.
Jun 27, 2012 • 50min
Sweetness and Light
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Professor Ann Gold (Syracuse University) examines 'ordinary pluralisms in a North Indian town'. 24 February 2012.
