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
Jul 26, 2017 • 49min
Gifts, entitlements, benefits and surplus: interrogating food poverty and food aid in the UK
The 2017 Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture was given in Oxford on 24 May by Prof. Pat Caplan of Goldsmiths, London.
Jul 26, 2017 • 44min
The concept of culture in cultural evolution
In his keynote speech for the Cultural Evolution Workshop (held in the Pitt Rivers Museum on 28 February 2017), Prof. Tim Lewens of Cambridge examines the concept of culture in cultural evolution.
Jul 26, 2017 • 50min
Why do children doubt magic, but believe in the miraculous?
Prof. Paul Harris (Harvard Graduate School of Education) examines why children are skeptical about magical phenomena but are willing to believe in supposedly miraculous violations of everyday causal constraints. 12 May 2017.
Jul 26, 2017 • 50min
Transformation through Ritual: Bodies as Sacred Space
A seminar of the Anthropology Research Group at Oxford on Eastern Medicines and Religions. Dr Ann R. David (University of Roehampton) focuses on Tamil worshippers in the UK to discuss the role of ritual in religion and dance. 18 January 2017.
Jul 26, 2017 • 1h 1min
Climate, weather, culture
In this Departmental Seminar, Prof. Steve Rayner examines the blossoming of anthropological attention to climate change over the last ten years. 17 February 2017.
Jul 26, 2017 • 60min
The great migration of summer 2015: trajectories, journeys and hubs
In this Departmental Seminar, Dr Franck Düvell (COMPAS) focuses on the great migration of 2015 when it is estimated that 12 million people were newly displaced. 20 January 2017.
Jul 26, 2017 • 57min
Exhibiting violence and social change in Brazil
Prof. Elizabeth B. Silva (The Open University) discusses the role of staged events in remembering the establishment of dictatorship in Brazil in 1964. 19 May 2017.
Jul 26, 2017 • 1h 13min
Women in India’s waste economy
In this Departmental Seminar, Prof. Barbara Harriss-Whiten draws on anthropology, economics and politics to examine the role of women in Indian society. 12 May 2017.
Jul 26, 2017 • 30min
The Gorongosa Restoration Project, Mozambique
Greg Carr, the President of the Gorongosa Restoration Project in Mozambique, gives an overview of how the Gorongosa National Park has evolved since Mozambique's civil conflict ended in 1992. 5 May 2017.
Jun 15, 2016 • 52min
Exploring the city's 'sutures'
Filip De Boeck (KU Leiden) explores 'urban life between want and wish', drawing on examples from the DRCongo (4 March 2016)
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