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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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Social anthropology of the arts: expression, genre and agency 02.10.2014 1:08:16

This seminar, on the theme of Art and Creativity, explores the anthropology of artistic and imaginative processes, a field that is interdisciplinary by nature. 23 May 2014.

Intersections: an ethnography of everyday togetherness and intensified diversity in Elephant and Castle 02.10.2014 59:03

This Anthropology seminar, on the theme of Diasporas and Migration, presents emerging findings from a collaborative ethnography in a 'super-diverse' South London area. 30 May 2014

Photo archives as historical resources: the Jeffrys and Dalrymple archives compared 29.04.2014 56:15

Professor Verkijika G. Fanso of Yaounde University in Cameroon compares two photo archives both taken around the same time, which are now held in Cambridge and South Africa

Fifty years of Cameroon unification: controversies and archival echoes 29.04.2014 47:58

A special lecture in Oxford by Professor Verkijika G. Fanso from the University of Yaounde in Cameroon

Inspirations for publications - ISCA Anthropology Book Launch 29.04.2014 26:11

Anthropologists from ISCA discuss the research and inspiration behind six recent publications

'Native Life', or, Being outside the carbon imagery 29.04.2014 52:53

Professor Elizabeth Povinelli of Columbia University examines contemporary scientific discussions of the Anthropocene and climate change and theoretical theories of New Vitalism, New Animism and Relational Ontology

Inequality, insecurity and obesity 29.04.2014 45:55

A seminar for the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek of ISCA, Oxford

Cultural understandings of roles and responsibilities in addressing obesity 29.04.2014 45:36

Emily Henderson of Durham University discusses the causes of obesity, those responsible for it and how it should be addressed.

Culture and motivation: long distance running in Japan and the UK 29.04.2014 1:00:03

Anthropologist Emma Coleman-Jones and distance runner Mara Yamauchi compare their experiences of running in the UK and Japan

Intellectual property and informal economy: a commodity chain from China to Brazil through Paraguay 29.04.2014 51:33

Rosana Pinheiro-Machado (of ODID, Oxford)'s anthropology departmental seminar focuses on the transmission of diverse goods in a commodity chain that was formed in the 1980s.

Claiming resources, honouring debts: miners, herders and the land masters of Mongolia 29.04.2014 47:17

Rebecca Empson of UCL discusses the form of capitalism emerging in Mongolia's mineral economy. An anthropology departmental seminar.

Do not resuscitate orders in a UK hospital: an ethnography of the future-present 29.04.2014 54:58

Simon Cohn of Cambridge University looks at the ways health professionals and their activities construct an understanding of the human body according to particular temporal framings. An anthropology departmental seminar.

The sharia as a vocation: Islam, law and civility in Lebanon 28.04.2014 55:54

This discussion of sharia discourse in different contexts focuses on the experiences of four individuals. An anthropology departmental seminar by Morgan Clarke (ISCA, Oxford)

Victor Turner, anthropology and Christianity 28.04.2014 49:45

Timothy Larsen (Wheaton College, Illinois) discusses the impact of Christianity on the research and careers of Victor and Edith Turner, looking in particular at their work in Rhodesia. An anthropology departmental seminar.

Discovering 'justice': the magic of law in the Upper Amazon 28.04.2014 50:52

An anthropology departmental seminar on legal anthropology in lowland South America given by Harry Walker of the LSE.

The end of history? What follows the demographic transition? 28.04.2014 56:01

An overview of the demographic transition, and the demographic regime, since its development in the 1940s. An anthropological departmental seminar by Chris Wilson of ISCA (Oxford)

Political ecology of disease 03.02.2014 52:47

This lecture by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek of ISCA, the University of Oxford, is part of the Disease Ecology series and was delivered on 22 November 2013

Disease transitions 03.02.2014 48:07

This lecture by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek of ISCA, the University of Oxford, is part of the Disease Ecology series and was presented on 13 November 2013.

Generational change and continuity amongst British mothers 03.02.2014 40:25

Angela Davis of the University of Warwick discusses the sharing of beliefs, knowledge and practice amongst British mothers between 1940 and 1990 (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 14 October 2013)

Contextualising the 'new parenting culture' 03.02.2014 43:48

Charlotte Faircloth of the University of Kent presents historical and sociological perspectives on adult-child relations (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 21 October 2013)

Caring and being cared for in north-western Amazonia 03.02.2014 36:08

Elizabeth Rahman of the University of Oxford discusses the perinatal practices of a small group of Amazonian Indians with whom she lived (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 4 November 2013)

'Don't worry, you'll be a grandmother soon!' 03.02.2014 51:50

In this Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 18 November 2013, Robert Pralat of the University of Cambridge investigates how non-heterosexual people discuss becoming a parent with their own parents

'I did not know how to tell my parents, so I thought I would have to have an abortion' 03.02.2014 35:26

Ekaterina Hertog of the University of Oxford explores the negotiations between premaritally pregnant women and their parents in Japan (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 25 November 2013)

Be(com)ing papa: kinship senescence and the ambivalent inward journeys of ageing men in the Antilles 03.02.2014 44:20

Adom Philogene Heron of the University of St Andrews investigates grandfatherhood in the Antilles (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 2 December 2013)

Of untold riches and unruly homes: gender and property in neoliberal middle-class Kolkata 03.02.2014 57:56

In this Anthropology departmental seminar from 1 November 2012, Henrike Donner of Oxford Brookes University looks at how different kinds of property and ownership arrangements affect relationships between people among the urban middle classes of Kolkata