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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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The Agency of Eating: Mediation, Food and the Body in Highland Ecuador 27.05.2015 43:01

This Anthropology departmental seminar by Emma-Jayne Abbots (University of Wales Trinity St David) aims to define and extend the theoretical boundaries of food studies

Lost objects, imaginary assemblages and the mass graves of the Spanish Civil War 07.05.2015 52:47

Layla Renshaw (Kingston University London) discusses objects recovered during the exhumation of Civil War victims and considers their imaginative power and life cycle (6 February 2015)

On representation and power: portrait of a Vodun leader in present-day Benin 07.05.2015 43:31

An Anthropology Departmental Seminar by Emmanuelle Kadya Tall of IRD, Paris (30 January 2015)

Moving the cracks: motorcycle taxis, politics and the fragility of power in Bangkok 07.05.2015 50:56

Claudio Sopranzetti (Oxford) discusses the Red Shirts, the motorcycle taxi drivers whose protests in 2010 brought Bangkok to a standstill (23 January 2015)

Ecology of undernutrition and infection 07.05.2015 56:38

Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (University of Oxford) presents a lecture on undernutrition and infection (14 November 2014)

Biocultural approaches to Type 2 diabetes 07.05.2015 54:37

Stanley Ulijaszek (University of Oxford) presents a lecture on Type 2 diabetes from the Disease Ecology Lecture series (28 November 2014)

Obesity: epidemiology and biocultural factors 07.05.2015 58:16

Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (University of Oxford) presents a lecture on obesity from the Disease Ecology Lecture series (21 November 2014)

From Amazonian couvade to neo-couvade in cosmopolitan trends of co-parenting: a comparative analysis 13.04.2015 1:05:05

In this Fertility and Reproduction Seminar Françoise Barbira-Freedman (Cambridge) examines ideas and behaviour that intimately associates a man with the birth of his child (1 Dec 2014)

Infant feeding and child health and survival in early twentieth-century England 13.04.2015 48:29

A seminar for the Fertility and Reproduction Group by Alice Reid of the University of Cambridge (24 November 2014)

Revisiting breastfeeding in light of the gift logic. Is a comparison of Gogo and Italian women possible? 13.04.2015 50:25

A seminar for the Fertility and Reproduction Group by Mara Mabilia of the University of Padua (17 November 2014)

How to protect your newborn from neonatal death: spirits and infant feeding practices in the Gambia 13.04.2015 36:48

A seminar for the Fertility and Reproduction Group by Sarah O'Neill of the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp (10 November 2014)

Bangladeshi women's experiences of infant feeding in Tower Hamlets 13.04.2015 38:11

This Fertility and Reproduction Seminar by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Public Health Team looks at why so many Bangladeshi women in the borough are mix feeding with breast and bottle (3 Nov 2014)

Breastpump technology and 'natural' motherly milk in Enlightenment France 13.04.2015 37:35

In this Fertility and Reproduction Seminar Margaret Carlyle (Cambridge) discusses developments in breastpump technology in 18th-century France (27 October 2014)

Hiring a wetnurse in seventeenth-century England 13.04.2015 48:51

In this Fertility and Reproduction Seminar Leah Astbury (Cambridge) discusses the increase of maternal breastfeeding in 17th-century England (20 October 2014)

Negotiating nutrition: from baby to toddler in the Peruvian Andes 13.04.2015 43:41

In this Fertility and Reproduction Seminar Bronwen Gillespie (Sussex) examines the the use of Sprinkles, a multiple-micronutrient product recommended by the state, in Peru (13 October 2014)

Can there be an anthropology of Hinduism? 29.01.2015 52:07

A discussion of the anthropology of Hinduism and the difficulties of categorizing religion. Anthropology Departmental Seminar by David Gellner of Oxford (5 December 2014)

Cleaning up and moving on 29.01.2015 1:00:43

A discussion of Kazakhstan's 'nuclear renaissance' and the transformation of the region from nuclear test site to wasteland to a centre for civilian research. Anthropology Departmental Seminar by Catherine Alexander of Durham (28 November 2014)

Biosecurity practices in labs and museums: sentinels, simulation, stockpiling 29.01.2015 57:20

A discussion of the relationship between the anthropology of biosecurity and the rationality of risk as well as the anthropology of human-animal relationships. Anthropology Departmental Seminar by Frédéric Keck, Musée de quai Branly (21 November 2014)

Ways of speaking, ways of knowing 29.01.2015 48:11

A discussion of the ethnolinguistic identity of the Inugguit based on 12 months of fieldwork in NW Greenland. Anthropology Departmental Seminar by Stephen Leonard of the University of Oxford (14 November 2014)

On forms of mental discipline and understanding of national psyche in contemporary Serbia 29.01.2015 44:35

An ethnography of mental hygiene and neuro-security in contemporary Serbia. Anthropology Departmental Seminar by Maja Petrović-Šteger of the ISRF and Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (31 October 2014)

Martyrs, militants and emotions 29.01.2015 51:09

A discussion of Albanian radicalisation in Kosovo begore 1999. Anthropology Departmental Seminar by Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers of the University of Bournemouth (17 October 2014).

Water, human evolution and diet 02.10.2014 38:27

This public lecture on the role of water in human evolution took place at Somerset House in London as part of its 'Month of Water'. 17 June 2014.

Marett Memorial Lecture 2014: How to capture the wow. Awe and the study of religion 02.10.2014 49:03

Professor Birgit Meyer delivered the 2014 Marett Memorial Lecture on the interplay of religious things and bodily sensations. Introduced by James Grant. 2 May 2014

Choreographing lived experience: the stories that dancing bodies tell 02.10.2014 45:07

This Anthropology seminar looks at the role of dance and movement of the body as a theme in itself; using dance to understand embodied experience. 21 February 2014

Models, muddles and metaphors 02.10.2014 56:43

This seminar, on the theme of Models in Anthropology, draws on examples from the fields of Amazonian and obesity studies. 9 May 2014