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 27, 2010 • 57min
Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 4: Intensification of subsistence (10 Feb 2010)
Stanley Ulijaszek, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, delivers his fourth lecture in the Nutritional Anthropology series. This lecture focuses on agriculture and pastoralism.
May 27, 2010 • 32min
Interview with Evans-Pritchard Lecturer Dr Charles Stewart (13 May 2010)
Dr Charles Stewart (UCL) is interviewed by Anthropology graduate student Ana Ranitovic at All Souls, Oxford, about his longterm interest in dreams and historical consciousness in modern Greece.
May 27, 2010 • 58min
Neither Freud nor Artemidorous, Evans-Pritchard Lecture by Charles Stewart (27 April 2010)
The first Evans-Pritchard Lecture for 2010, presented at All Souls College on 27 April by Dr Charles Stewart (UCL). The series theme was Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece.
Apr 12, 2010 • 29min
Facial tattooing among Drung women in Southwest China
Facial tattooing is essentially a transition to what is and ought to be a woman. Gender performativity is associated with the materiality of the body: it is in fact the tattoo that makes a woman. 'The Viewpoint of the Technique: Managing Time and Crisis Resolution in Eastern Religions and Medicines' seminar series, 28-29 Jan 2010.
Apr 12, 2010 • 35min
Qigong Deviation as a Diplomatic Disaster
What has acknowledging the human-like qualities of 'qi' to do with preventing and treating qigong malpractice? 'The Viewpoint of the Technique: Managing Time and Crisis Resolution in Eastern Religions and Medicines' seminar series, 28-29 Jan 2010.
Apr 7, 2010 • 48min
Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 3: Hunter-gatherer diet (5 Feb 2010)
In this third Nutritional Anthropology lecture, Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (ISCA, Oxford) discusses hunter-gatherer subsistence ecology and its relevance to the modern world.
Apr 7, 2010 • 52min
Medical anthropology: Famine, food crisis and living standards in North Korea (25 Jan 2010)
Dr Daniel Jong Schwekendiek (ISCA, Oxford) examines the methodology and evidence for determining who has been 'better off' in North Korea between the 1940s and 2000s.
Apr 7, 2010 • 58min
Anthropology seminar: Indigenous capitalism in Upland Indonesia (5 Feb 2010)
Based on numerous field research trips over the last 20 years, Prof. Li (University of Toronto) describes how much attitudes and horizons have changed in this remote, mountainous area.
Mar 10, 2010 • 51min
Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 2: Nutritional Quality and Child Growth
Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford) discusses nutritional factors that impact on the growth of children across the globe.
Mar 10, 2010 • 50min
Anthropology seminar: Re-Tooling a Body with The Body
Assistant Professor Adam Frank (University of Central Arkansas) describes Three Ways of Teaching Tajiquan to the White Guy.
