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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.

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Global householding: care migration and the question of gender inequality 08.07.2019 1:17:59

A presentation by Professor Brenda Yeoh (National University of Singapore) for the COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar (11 March 2019)

How war is shaping the Ukrainian HIV epidemic: A phylogeographic analysis 31.01.2019 50:40

An Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar presented by Tetyana Vasylyeva (Department of Zoology, University of Oxford) on 24 October 2018

Why are men muscular? Reproductive, hormonal, and ecological hypotheses to explain variation in human male muscularity within populations of Bangladeshi and British men 31.01.2019 56:59

An Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar presented by Kesson Magid (Department of Anthropology, University of Durham) on 7 November 2018

Life history, parental investment and health of Agta foragers 31.01.2019 1:00:31

An Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar presented by Abigail Page (Department of Anthropology, University College London) on 14 November 2018

Telomeres as integrative markers of exposure to stress and adversity: A systematic review and meta-analysis 31.01.2019 49:53

An Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar presented by Dr Gillian Pepper (Centre for Behaviour and Evolution, University of Newcastle) on 28 November 2018

Militant masks: youth and insecurity in the Niger Delta 31.01.2019 56:47

David Pratten, the University of Oxford, presented the Anthropology Departmental Seminar on 9 November 2018

Trials of the everyday: spaces of global health in South Africa 31.01.2019 41:19

Michelle Pentecosts, King's College London, presented the Anthropology Departmental Seminar on 2 November 2018

Precolonial Microbiome: how microbiologists access anthropology museums to contribute to the debate on restitution 31.01.2019 47:47

Frederick Keck, Musée du quai Branly, presented this Anthropology Departmental Seminar on 26 October 2018

'Don't Bury the Famine Dead': how humanitarian intervention killed the most vulnerable in Ajiep, South Sudan, in 1998 31.01.2019 46:05

This Anthropology Departmental Seminar was given by Jok Madut Jok, SUNY Upstate Medical University, on 23 November 2018

Social life of a license: caste and everyday struggles for work legitimacies in India 31.01.2019 1:01:05

This Anthropology Departmental Seminar was given by Bhawani Buswala, University of Oxford, on 30 November 2018.

Studying the origins of human material culture in young chilldren 14.09.2018 41:46

This Anthropology Departmental Seminar was delivered by Dr Eva Reindl (University of Oxford) on 2 February 2018

The grey area: fascism between the general and the particular 14.09.2018 50:20

This Anthropology Departmental Seminar was delivered by Dr Paolo Heywood (University of Cambridge) on 25 May 2018

Why Are There Always Candomblés? Situated Knowledges of Miscegenation and Syncretism in Brazil 14.09.2018 53:31

This Anthropology Departmental Seminar was delivered by Professor Marcio Goldman (National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) on 11 May 2018

Rights and justice: reproductive politics and legal activism in India 31.07.2018 53:32

This Anthropology departmental Seminar was delivered by Professor Maya Unnithan (University of Sussex) on 26 January 2018

A petition to kill: efficacious appeals against big cats in India 31.07.2018 50:56

Nayanika Mathur (Oxford) delivered this Anthropology Departmental Seminar on 5 May 2018

The seven moral rules found all around the world 31.07.2018 42:48

This Anthropology Departmental Seminar was delivered by Oliver Scott Curry (Oxford) on 18 May 2018

The Marett Memorial Lecture 2018. Individualism in the Wild: Oneness in Jivaroan Culture 31.07.2018 52:41

The Marett Memorial Lecture for 2018 (27 April) was given by Professor Anne-Christine Taylor (emeritus; Director of Research at the CNRS) on the Amazonian 'Individualism' of the Jivaroan people of Ecuador and Peru

The promise of the (foreign) image: post-post-internet art from the Philippines (and other notes from the field) 27.03.2018 55:04

An Anthropology Departmental Seminar delivered by Rafael Schacter (University College London) on 1 December 2017

The concept of culture in cultural evolution 27.03.2018 44:04

The Keynote speech by Tim Lewens (Professor of Philosophy of Science, Cambridge) for the Cultural Evolution Workshop held at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, on 28 February 2017

Sustaining one another: enset, animals, and people in the southern highlands of Ethiopia 27.03.2018 53:31

An Anthropology Departmental Seminar delivered by Elizabeth Ewart and Wolde Tadesse (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford) on 13 October 2017

Existential mobility, migrant imaginaries and multiple selves 27.03.2018 40:55

An Anthropology Departmental Seminar by Michael Jackson (Emeritus Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School), 20 October 2017

Words and Deeds - the Astor Visiting Lecture 19 October 2017 27.03.2018 57:25

Michael Jackson, Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School, delivered the Astor Visiting Lecture at Oxford on 19 October 2017. Introduced by Ramon Sarró (Oxford). Abstract: 'In this talk, I share some vignettes from my recent fieldwork among African migrants living in Copenhagen, Amsterdam and London in order to reflect on the cultural and strategic reasons why...

Ebola: A biosocial journey 27.03.2018 56:59

The inaugural Geoffrey Harrison Prize Lecture delivered in Oxford on 3 November 2017 by Melissa Parker, Professor of Medical Anthropology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Possible Futures - Robert Foley 15.09.2017 9:01

A talk by Robert Foley (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.

Possible Futures - Rebecca Sear 15.09.2017 19:36

A talk by Rebecca Sear (Dept. of Population Health) 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.