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
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May 24, 2012 • 49min
Brain microcircuits in champanzees and humans
Stephen Chance of the Neuroanatomy and Cognition Group, based at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, presents insights into IQ and social cognition in chimpanzees and humans. An ICEA Seminar from 1 June 2011.
May 24, 2012 • 52min
Venom, pollinators and parasites
Anna Nekaris of Oxford Brookes University discusses 'how the poisonous slow loris may reveal the origins of social grooming amongst primates'. An ICEA seminar from 2 November 2011.
May 24, 2012 • 36min
Extreme climatic events as drivers of early human behaviour in Africa?
In this seminar for the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, Sallie Burrough of Oxford University's School of Geography and the Environment presents an environmental perspective from the Kalahari Desert (23/11/11).
May 24, 2012 • 49min
How niche construction affects inheritance systems in human evolution
A seminar for the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology by John Odling-Smee (an Emeritus research fellow from Oxford University), 30 November 2011.
May 10, 2012 • 52min
Implementing a Research Culture in the NHS. Medical Anthropology at Oxford
The conference 'Medical Anthropology at Oxford: 10 Years at the Intersections', held at ICSA on 23-24 June 2011, marked the first ten years of Medical Anthropology at Oxford. This podcast by Olivier Bazin formed part of the first panel.
May 10, 2012 • 55min
The self-management of misfortune by use of amulets and charms. Ethnicity and Identity Seminar
In this Ethnicity and Identity Seminar on 'Managing Disasters and Misfortune', Eric Edwards (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) discusses 'The self-management of misfortune by use of amulets and charms' (3 February 2012).
May 10, 2012 • 50min
There is no such thing as Dian cuisine. Anthropology Departmental Seminar
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Jakob Klein (SOAS) discusses 'Food and locality in twenty-first century China' (11 March 2011).
May 10, 2012 • 38min
Don't throw the baby out with the bathos. Anthropology Departmental Seminar:
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Stephen Reyna (MPI-Halle) discussed 'regimes of truth in an anthropology of hypocrisy' (25 February 2011).
May 10, 2012 • 1h 17min
On the concept of cultural transmission. Anthropology Departmental Seminar
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Roy Ellen (University of Kent) discusses 'On the concept of cultural transmission' (18 February 2011).
May 10, 2012 • 1h 5min
Re-Defining the Museal Object in Mao and post-Mao China. Anthropology Departmental Seminar
In this Anthropology Departmental seminar Michael Rowlands (University College London) discusses 'Re-Defining the Museal Object in Mao and post-Mao China'. 13 May 2011.
