
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

Sep 15, 2017 • 15min
Possible Futures - Peter Walsh
A talk by Peter Walsh (University of Cambridge) for Possible Futures, an event held at the Oxford University Natural History Museum on 3 November 2016 that celebrated the relaunch of Biological Anthropology at the University of Oxford.

Sep 15, 2017 • 15min
Possible Futures - Charlotte Roberts
A talk by Charlotte Roberts (University of Durham) for Possible Futures, an event held at the Oxford University Natural History Museum on 3 November 2016 that celebrated the relaunch of Biological Anthropology at the University of Oxford.

Sep 15, 2017 • 10min
Possible Futures
Alexandra Alvergne and Nicholas Márquez-Grant introduce Possible Futures, an event held at the Oxford University Natural History Museum on 3 November 2016 that celebrated the relaunch of Biological Anthropology at the University of Oxford.

Sep 15, 2017 • 45min
Ebola Emergence is Predictable
This talk was given by Dr Peter Walsh (University of Cambridge) at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine on 3 November 2016/

Jul 31, 2017 • 51min
A War on People: The Drug War and the Hermeneutic Politics of Those who Resist it
This Anthropology Departmental Seminar was given by Jarrett Zigon (University of Virginia) on 2 December 2016.

Jul 31, 2017 • 55min
The Indian Village: Marx to Modi
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Ed Simpson (SOAS) discusses the issues raised by the re-study of an Indian village. 25 November 2016.

Jul 31, 2017 • 1h 2min
The Artist and the Stone: Ethnography of an Artistic Process
This Anthropology Departmental Seminar was given by Roger Sansi-Roca (Goldsmiths, University of London) on 18 November 2016.

Jul 31, 2017 • 57min
A Brilliant Jewel: Celibacy and its Malcontents in the Brazilian Catholic Church
In this Departmental Seminar, Maya Mayblin (University of Edinburgh) discusses the relatively late and most challenged rule in the Brazilian Catholic Church - celibacy. 4 November 2016.

Jul 31, 2017 • 41min
Formalization as Development: Accounting for the Proliferation of Village Savings Associations
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Maia Green (University of Manchester) discusses village savings associations and small-scale credit in Sub-Saharan Africa. 28 October 2016.

Jul 31, 2017 • 51min
‘I Can Feel the Mafia but I Can’t See it’: Investigatory Dilemma in Present-day Trapani
The opening Evans-Pritchard Lecture for 2017 given by Dr Naor Ben-Yehoyada (Columbia University) on 1 May. The theme of the series was: 'Getting Cosa Nostra: Knowledge and Criminal Justice in Southwestern Sicily'.
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