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.

The Moral Economy of Infrastructures in Everest Tourism

As social media posts from the slopes of Mount Everest become almost commonplace Dr Jolynna Sinanan (University of Manchester) focuses on digital media use amongst guides and porters and the impact of digital infrastructures in the area.

02-06
45:58

Pentecostalism, Deliverance and Queer Sexuality in Nigeria: Literary Representations

Professor Adriaan van Klinken takes us to the epicentre of Pentecostalism. Through the emerging body of queer Nigerian literature, Professor Adriaan van Klinken (University of Leeds) looks at the motif of the deliverance ritual in a lecture that spans anthropological, gender and sexuality, literary and religious studies.

02-06
46:24

Stepping in, helping out, competing with…? State and civic actors in Ukraine’s wartime heritage work

Dr. Vonnak reflects on how socio historical events impact the definition, preservation, and sometimes neglect of cultural heritage. She draws from her extensive field work in Ukraine over the past eight years. Edited and hosted by Dora Duo.

01-25
47:53

Parasites, Invention, and Grace: Taking Turns in a Streetcorner Bureaucracy

Michael Degani analyzes the styles of work and conflict amongst electrical contractors who congregate across the street from a power utility office in urban Tanzania. Michael Degani (University of Cambridge) explores the balance of entrepreneurial hustle and bureaucratic order their long-running streetcorner bureau strikes. Edited and hosted by Peyton Cherry This was a departmental seminar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography in the 2022-23 academic year. The recordings were only possible thanks to a team dedicated staff and students from The School: Executive Producers: Eben Kirksey and Stanley Ulijaszek Producer: Jacob Evans Sound Design: Seb Antoine Sound Recorders: Xinyuan (Connie) Wang and Jacob Evans

10-02
56:08

Anthropology, Philosophy and Symmetrisation

Philippe Descola, one of Anthropology's most influential figures, invites us to go beyond the traditional boundaries of nature and culture and redefine our understanding of humanity's relationship with the world around us. Philippe Descola (Emeritus professor, Collège de France, Paris) Edited and hosted by Luise Eder This was a departmental seminar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography in the 2022-23 academic year. The recordings were only possible thanks to a team dedicated staff and students from The School: Executive Producers: Eben Kirksey and Stanley Ulijaszek Producer: Jacob Evans Sound Design: Seb Antoine Sound Recorders: Xinyuan (Connie) Wang and Jacob Evans

10-02
01:06:39

Intimate Rites: Ancestors and Queer Kinship in Zimbabwe

Raffaela Taylor-Seymourn examines the engagements with ancestral spirits among young queer Zimbabweans Raffaela Taylor-Seymourn (Pembroke College, University of Oxford) focuses on the form of kinship that young queer people forge with ancestral spirits and how they often contrast to relationships with living family members. Edited and hosted by Peyton Cherry This was a departmental seminar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography in the 2022-23 academic year. The recordings were only possible thanks to a team dedicated staff and students from The School: Executive Producers: Eben Kirksey and Stanley Ulijaszek Producer: Jacob Evans Sound Design: Seb Antoine Sound Recorders: Xinyuan (Connie) Wang and Jacob Evans

10-02
50:15

Nutritional Anthropology

Stanley Ulijaszek discusses human dietary evolution, dietary flexibility and present day undernutrition and infection Stanley Ulijaszek Emeritus Professor University of Oxford demonstrates the multidisciplinary nature of nutritional anthropology to confront major issues that are changing human relationships with disease. Edited and hosted by Jacob Evans This was a departmental seminar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography in the 2022-23 academic year. The recordings were only possible thanks to a team dedicated staff and students from The School: Executive Producers: Eben Kirksey and Stanley Ulijaszek Producer: Jacob Evans Sound Design: Seb Antoine Sound Recorders: Xinyuan (Connie) Wang and Jacob Evans

10-02
01:13:19

How to Stitch Ethnography

Feminist anthropologist Tania Perez-Bustos discusses how immersion in the act of embroidery affects the body and enables collective reflection and listening. Tania Perez-Bustos (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) explores how the process of learning transforms an object to study ethnographically into an artifact with which to ask new ethnographic questions. Edited and hosted by Malin Schlode This was a departmental seminar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography in the 2022-23 academic year. The recordings were only possible thanks to a team dedicated staff and students from The School: Executive Producers: Eben Kirksey and Stanley Ulijaszek Producer: Jacob Evans Sound Design: Seb Antoine Sound Recorders: Xinyuan (Connie) Wang and Jacob Evans

10-02
28:33

The Rise and Fall of Generations

Does life take you any nearer to your ancestors or does it draw you ever further away from them? Tim Ingold discusses his new work ‘The Rise and Fall of Generation Now’ in which he reverses the perspectives on generations of social life by seeing not as linear but as a process. Edited and hosted by Luise Eder This was a departmental seminar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography in the 2022-23 academic year. The recordings were only possible thanks to a team dedicated staff and students from The School: Executive Producers: Eben Kirksey and Stanley Ulijaszek Producer: Jacob Evans Sound Design: Seb Antoine Sound Recorders: Xinyuan (Connie) Wang and Jacob Evans

10-02
48:06

Living in Tide: The Climate of the Urban Sea

How do fishers and scientists read the uncertain terrain of the city in the sea? What stories does the urban sea hold for the futures of the city? Nikhil Anand (University of Pennsylvania) discusses his new work and reflects on the uncertain futures of coastal cities in an era of climate change. Edited and hosted by Lan Duo. This was a departmental seminar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography in the 2022-23 academic year. The recordings were only possible thanks to a team dedicated staff and students from The School: Executive Producers: Eben Kirksey and Stanley Ulijaszek Producer: Jacob Evans Sound Design: Seb Antoine Sound Recorders: Xinyuan (Connie) Wang and Jacob Evans

10-02
45:15

Crude Sonics: Field Recordings from an Extractive Zone

Zsuzsanna Ihar leads us through field recordings captured in the marginal settlements of Baku, capital of Azerbaijan. She traces sounds that haunt, interrupt, and resist processes of gentrification, displacement, and capitalist profiteering. Edited and hosted by Eben Kirksey. This was a departmental seminar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography in the 2022-23 academic year. The recordings were only possible thanks to a team dedicated staff and students from The School: Executive Producers: Eben Kirksey and Stanley Ulijaszek Producer: Jacob Evans Sound Design: Seb Antoine Sound Recorders: Xinyuan (Connie) Wang and Jacob Evans

10-02
47:41

China in the global reproduction migration order

Peidong Yang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) presented this seminar as part of the COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar series on 14 January 2019

07-08
51:53

Food insecurity of fatness: from evolutionary ecology to social science

This Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar was presented by Professor Daniel Nettle (Newcastle University) on 16 January 2019

07-08
50:53

Intimate geopolitics: migration, marriage of citizenship across Chinese borders

This COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar was presented by Elena Barabantseva (University of Manchester) on 21 January 2019

07-08
59:28

The dual burden of malnutrition and the obstetric dilemma

Professor Jonathan Wells (University College London) delivered this seminar as part of the Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health series on 23 January 2019

07-08
58:39

Grandparenting migration: reproduction, care circulations and care ethics across borders

Elaine Ho (National University of Singapore) delivered this seminar as part of the COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group series on 28 January 2019

07-08
51:46

Investment migration and social reproduction: the case of recent patterns of migration from China

Professor Gracia Liu-Farrer (Waseda University, Tokyo) delivered this seminar as part of the COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group series on 4 February 2019

07-08
49:23

Iron, infection and anaemia: evolutionary viewpoint on a huge global health problem

Hal Drakesmith (Radcliffe Department of Medicine, Oxford) delivered this seminar as part of the Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health series on 6 February 2019

07-08
01:14:04

Birth tourism from China and Taiwan to the United States: cosmopolitan strategies and aspirations

Sean Wang (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) delivered this seminar as part of the COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group series on 11 February 2019

07-08
50:36

Stunting does not equal malnutrition: evolutionary perspective on human height variation applied to public health

An Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar delivered by Professor Barry Bogin (Loughborough University) on 13 February 2019

07-08
01:07:18

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