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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.

Episode Date
The Moral Economy of Infrastructures in Everest Tourism
Feb 06, 2024
Pentecostalism, Deliverance and Queer Sexuality in Nigeria: Literary Representations
Feb 06, 2024
Stepping in, helping out, competing with…? State and civic actors in Ukraine’s wartime heritage work
Jan 25, 2024
Parasites, Invention, and Grace: Taking Turns in a Streetcorner Bureaucracy
Oct 02, 2023
Anthropology, Philosophy and Symmetrisation
Oct 02, 2023
Intimate Rites: Ancestors and Queer Kinship in Zimbabwe
Oct 02, 2023
Nutritional Anthropology
Oct 02, 2023
How to Stitch Ethnography
Oct 02, 2023
The Rise and Fall of Generations
Oct 02, 2023
Living in Tide: The Climate of the Urban Sea
Oct 02, 2023
Crude Sonics: Field Recordings from an Extractive Zone
Oct 02, 2023
China in the global reproduction migration order
Jul 08, 2019
Food insecurity of fatness: from evolutionary ecology to social science
Jul 08, 2019
Intimate geopolitics: migration, marriage of citizenship across Chinese borders
Jul 08, 2019
The dual burden of malnutrition and the obstetric dilemma
Jul 08, 2019
Grandparenting migration: reproduction, care circulations and care ethics across borders
Jul 08, 2019
Investment migration and social reproduction: the case of recent patterns of migration from China
Jul 08, 2019
Iron, infection and anaemia: evolutionary viewpoint on a huge global health problem
Jul 08, 2019
Birth tourism from China and Taiwan to the United States: cosmopolitan strategies and aspirations
Jul 08, 2019
Stunting does not equal malnutrition: evolutionary perspective on human height variation applied to public health
Jul 08, 2019
Assisted reproductive technologies and medical travel
Jul 08, 2019
Childbearing as global security strategies
Jul 08, 2019
Educational migration: youth, time and transformation
Jul 08, 2019
The Science of Modelling Through
Jul 08, 2019
Is female health cyclical? Evolutionary perspectives on menstruation
Jul 08, 2019
Global householding: care migration and the question of gender inequality
Jul 08, 2019
How war is shaping the Ukrainian HIV epidemic: A phylogeographic analysis
Jan 31, 2019
Why are men muscular? Reproductive, hormonal, and ecological hypotheses to explain variation in human male muscularity within populations of Bangladeshi and British men
Jan 31, 2019
Life history, parental investment and health of Agta foragers
Jan 31, 2019
Telomeres as integrative markers of exposure to stress and adversity: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Jan 31, 2019
Militant masks: youth and insecurity in the Niger Delta
Jan 31, 2019
Trials of the everyday: spaces of global health in South Africa
Jan 31, 2019
Precolonial Microbiome: how microbiologists access anthropology museums to contribute to the debate on restitution
Jan 31, 2019
'Don't Bury the Famine Dead': how humanitarian intervention killed the most vulnerable in Ajiep, South Sudan, in 1998
Jan 31, 2019
Social life of a license: caste and everyday struggles for work legitimacies in India
Jan 31, 2019
Studying the origins of human material culture in young chilldren
Sep 14, 2018
The grey area: fascism between the general and the particular
Sep 14, 2018
Why Are There Always Candomblés? Situated Knowledges of Miscegenation and Syncretism in Brazil
Sep 14, 2018
Rights and justice: reproductive politics and legal activism in India
Jul 31, 2018
A petition to kill: efficacious appeals against big cats in India
Jul 31, 2018
The seven moral rules found all around the world
Jul 31, 2018
The Marett Memorial Lecture 2018. Individualism in the Wild: Oneness in Jivaroan Culture
Jul 31, 2018
The promise of the (foreign) image: post-post-internet art from the Philippines (and other notes from the field)
Mar 27, 2018
The concept of culture in cultural evolution
Mar 27, 2018
Sustaining one another: enset, animals, and people in the southern highlands of Ethiopia
Mar 27, 2018
Existential mobility, migrant imaginaries and multiple selves
Mar 27, 2018
Words and Deeds - the Astor Visiting Lecture 19 October 2017
Mar 27, 2018
Ebola: A biosocial journey
Mar 27, 2018
Possible Futures - Robert Foley
Sep 15, 2017
Possible Futures - Rebecca Sear
Sep 15, 2017
Possible Futures - Peter Walsh
Sep 15, 2017
Possible Futures - Charlotte Roberts
Sep 15, 2017
Possible Futures
Sep 15, 2017
Ebola Emergence is Predictable
Sep 15, 2017
A War on People: The Drug War and the Hermeneutic Politics of Those who Resist it
Jul 31, 2017
The Indian Village: Marx to Modi
Jul 31, 2017
The Artist and the Stone: Ethnography of an Artistic Process
Jul 31, 2017
A Brilliant Jewel: Celibacy and its Malcontents in the Brazilian Catholic Church
Jul 31, 2017
Formalization as Development: Accounting for the Proliferation of Village Savings Associations
Jul 31, 2017
‘I Can Feel the Mafia but I Can’t See it’: Investigatory Dilemma in Present-day Trapani
Jul 31, 2017
Gifts, entitlements, benefits and surplus: interrogating food poverty and food aid in the UK
Jul 26, 2017
The concept of culture in cultural evolution
Jul 26, 2017
Why do children doubt magic, but believe in the miraculous?
Jul 26, 2017
Transformation through Ritual: Bodies as Sacred Space
Jul 26, 2017
Climate, weather, culture
Jul 26, 2017
The great migration of summer 2015: trajectories, journeys and hubs
Jul 26, 2017
Exhibiting violence and social change in Brazil
Jul 26, 2017
Women in India’s waste economy
Jul 26, 2017
The Gorongosa Restoration Project, Mozambique
Jul 26, 2017
Exploring the city's 'sutures'
Jun 15, 2016
Plantain island sirens
Jun 15, 2016
Science, stories and indigenous wisdom: is the wider world waking up at last?
Jun 15, 2016
The charm of 'things': ethnography and performance
Jun 15, 2016
The certainty of futures lost
Jun 15, 2016
The fragility of conviction
Jun 15, 2016
Profane relations: the irony of offensive jokes in India
Jun 15, 2016
The developmental origins of health and disease: adaptation reconsidered
Jun 08, 2016
Obstructed labour: the classic obstetric dilemma and beyond
Jun 08, 2016
Inflammaging and its role in ageing and age-related diseases
Jun 08, 2016
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Jun 08, 2016
The dawn of Darwinian critical care medicine
Jun 08, 2016
Maternal capital and offspring development
Jun 08, 2016
Tracing the origins of the HIV/AIDS pandemic
Jun 08, 2016
Agrarian change, climate stress and shifting class relations in the Nepal-Bihar borderlands
Jun 01, 2016
Marett Memorial Lecture 2016: The Creole world between inequality and difference
Jun 01, 2016
Paying attention to the journey
Mar 14, 2016
Does 21st-century technology change the experience of early pregnancy and miscarriage?
Mar 14, 2016
Birds in heaven: social positioning of lost babies and their mothers in Qatar
Mar 14, 2016
Microbes and other spirits
Mar 14, 2016
Revisiting uncertainty: provisional electricity infrastructure and livelihoods in an African city
Mar 14, 2016
Negotiating enemy lines
Mar 14, 2016
Medical and psychological issues in the treatment of recurrent miscarriage
Mar 14, 2016
Crossing religious borders: Jewish Cabo Verdeans
Mar 14, 2016
'Fat knowledge', epigenetics and the enchantment of relational biology
Mar 14, 2016
Evolutionary origins of technological behaviour: a primate archaeology approach to chimpanzees
Mar 14, 2016
The 'Unfortunate Mesopotamian Foetus'
Mar 14, 2016
The Limits of collaboration: attempting a reciprocal Gypsy/Roman life story
Aug 04, 2015
Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture 2015: The Societalization of Social Problems
Aug 04, 2015
Stacking Ontologies: Mundane Technoscience in the Silk Mill
May 27, 2015
Obsessed by Love: Erotic Magic, Delirious Love and Female Power in Mozambique
May 27, 2015
Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, the Anthropology of Dance: Same Difference?
May 27, 2015
The Agency of Eating: Mediation, Food and the Body in Highland Ecuador
May 27, 2015
Lost objects, imaginary assemblages and the mass graves of the Spanish Civil War
May 07, 2015
On representation and power: portrait of a Vodun leader in present-day Benin
May 07, 2015
Moving the cracks: motorcycle taxis, politics and the fragility of power in Bangkok
May 07, 2015
Ecology of undernutrition and infection
May 07, 2015
Biocultural approaches to Type 2 diabetes
May 07, 2015
Obesity: epidemiology and biocultural factors
May 07, 2015
From Amazonian couvade to neo-couvade in cosmopolitan trends of co-parenting: a comparative analysis
Apr 13, 2015
Infant feeding and child health and survival in early twentieth-century England
Apr 13, 2015
Revisiting breastfeeding in light of the gift logic. Is a comparison of Gogo and Italian women possible?
Apr 13, 2015
How to protect your newborn from neonatal death: spirits and infant feeding practices in the Gambia
Apr 13, 2015
Bangladeshi women's experiences of infant feeding in Tower Hamlets
Apr 13, 2015
Breastpump technology and 'natural' motherly milk in Enlightenment France
Apr 13, 2015
Hiring a wetnurse in seventeenth-century England
Apr 13, 2015
Negotiating nutrition: from baby to toddler in the Peruvian Andes
Apr 13, 2015
Can there be an anthropology of Hinduism?
Jan 29, 2015
Cleaning up and moving on
Jan 29, 2015
Biosecurity practices in labs and museums: sentinels, simulation, stockpiling
Jan 29, 2015
Ways of speaking, ways of knowing
Jan 29, 2015
On forms of mental discipline and understanding of national psyche in contemporary Serbia
Jan 29, 2015
Martyrs, militants and emotions
Jan 29, 2015
Water, human evolution and diet
Oct 02, 2014
Marett Memorial Lecture 2014: How to capture the wow. Awe and the study of religion
Oct 02, 2014
Choreographing lived experience: the stories that dancing bodies tell
Oct 02, 2014
Models, muddles and metaphors
Oct 02, 2014
Social anthropology of the arts: expression, genre and agency
Oct 02, 2014
Intersections: an ethnography of everyday togetherness and intensified diversity in Elephant and Castle
Oct 02, 2014
Photo archives as historical resources: the Jeffrys and Dalrymple archives compared
Apr 29, 2014
Fifty years of Cameroon unification: controversies and archival echoes
Apr 29, 2014
Inspirations for publications - ISCA Anthropology Book Launch
Apr 29, 2014
'Native Life', or, Being outside the carbon imagery
Apr 29, 2014
Inequality, insecurity and obesity
Apr 29, 2014
Cultural understandings of roles and responsibilities in addressing obesity
Apr 29, 2014
Culture and motivation: long distance running in Japan and the UK
Apr 29, 2014
Intellectual property and informal economy: a commodity chain from China to Brazil through Paraguay
Apr 29, 2014
Claiming resources, honouring debts: miners, herders and the land masters of Mongolia
Apr 29, 2014
Do not resuscitate orders in a UK hospital: an ethnography of the future-present
Apr 29, 2014
The sharia as a vocation: Islam, law and civility in Lebanon
Apr 28, 2014
Victor Turner, anthropology and Christianity
Apr 28, 2014
Discovering 'justice': the magic of law in the Upper Amazon
Apr 28, 2014
The end of history? What follows the demographic transition?
Apr 28, 2014
Political ecology of disease
Feb 03, 2014
Disease transitions
Feb 03, 2014
Generational change and continuity amongst British mothers
Feb 03, 2014
Contextualising the 'new parenting culture'
Feb 03, 2014
Caring and being cared for in north-western Amazonia
Feb 03, 2014
'Don't worry, you'll be a grandmother soon!'
Feb 03, 2014
'I did not know how to tell my parents, so I thought I would have to have an abortion'
Feb 03, 2014
Be(com)ing papa: kinship senescence and the ambivalent inward journeys of ageing men in the Antilles
Feb 03, 2014
Of untold riches and unruly homes: gender and property in neoliberal middle-class Kolkata
Feb 03, 2014
Experimenting with field experiments: moving the lab into the field in ethnographic research
Feb 03, 2014
New York stories: the lives of other citizens
Feb 03, 2014
The adoption of modern contraception in rural Ethiopia: a biocultural approach
Feb 03, 2014
Gift, sacrifice, and deadly rumours (3 May 2013)
Nov 13, 2013
Geology, potentiality, speculation: on the indeterminacy of natural resources (10 May 2013)
Nov 13, 2013
Conceptualizing new age and neopagan ritual (17 May 2013)
Nov 13, 2013
Brazilian serialities: imagining persons (24 May 2013)
Nov 13, 2013
Dorr-e Dari (The Pearl of Dari): An Ethnography of Poetry as a Social Practice among Afghans in Iran (23 May 2013)
Nov 13, 2013
Provocations for digital anthropology (30 May 2013)
Nov 13, 2013
Looking forward looking back (18 May 2013)
Nov 13, 2013
Alternative Utopias and the Crisis of Imagination (20 June 2013)
Nov 13, 2013
Divine kingdoms in the western Himalayas
Apr 18, 2013
Capital's new frontier
Apr 18, 2013
Re-making the dead, uncertainty and the torque of human materials in northern Zimbabwe
Apr 18, 2013
Unexplored agencies: the case of Donna Sebastiana
Apr 18, 2013
Re-thinking 'Untamed Thoughts' Fifty Years On
Apr 18, 2013
Synchrony and Similiarity in Human Cooperation
Apr 18, 2013
The Evolution of Human Egalitarianism
Apr 18, 2013
Digital Heritage Technologies and Issues of Community Engagement and Cultural Restitution in 'New Style' Ethnographic Museums
Apr 18, 2013
Scientists as Abstainers
Apr 18, 2013
City Dwelling and the Cultures of Migrant Urbanism
Apr 18, 2013
The Biography of the Holy Ghost
Apr 18, 2013
The Ethnographic Dream
Apr 18, 2013
Learning that emerges in 'Times of Trouble'
Jun 27, 2012
Epidemiological crises, epistemological divisions
Jun 27, 2012
Collective Effervescence as Embodied Intoxication
Jun 27, 2012
Reflections on geneticisation
Jun 27, 2012
Everyday aesthetics in forced displacement
Jun 27, 2012
Sweetness and Light
Jun 27, 2012
Negotiating Space, Buying Time
Jun 27, 2012
What Shan ethnography can tell us about Theravada Buddhism
Jun 27, 2012
Conflict in the Plural
Jun 27, 2012
Opportunistic violence and the impossibility of intimacy
Jun 27, 2012
Neighbouring China in Northern Nepal
Jun 27, 2012
Marett Memorial Lecture 2012: Anthropologists and the Bible
May 24, 2012
Altruism in cyberspace?
May 24, 2012
Beyond globalisation and localisation
May 24, 2012
The 'down side' of assisted reproductive technologies
May 24, 2012
Meat and Health
May 24, 2012
Brain microcircuits in champanzees and humans
May 24, 2012
Venom, pollinators and parasites
May 24, 2012
Extreme climatic events as drivers of early human behaviour in Africa?
May 24, 2012
How niche construction affects inheritance systems in human evolution
May 24, 2012
Implementing a Research Culture in the NHS. Medical Anthropology at Oxford
May 10, 2012
The self-management of misfortune by use of amulets and charms. Ethnicity and Identity Seminar
May 10, 2012
There is no such thing as Dian cuisine. Anthropology Departmental Seminar
May 10, 2012
Don't throw the baby out with the bathos. Anthropology Departmental Seminar:
May 10, 2012
On the concept of cultural transmission. Anthropology Departmental Seminar
May 10, 2012
Re-Defining the Museal Object in Mao and post-Mao China. Anthropology Departmental Seminar
May 10, 2012
The evolutionary history and genetics of primate brain size
May 10, 2012
Dept Seminar: Beyond 'terroir'
Nov 29, 2011
Dept Seminar: Discovering Anthropological Practice through Fieldwork
Nov 29, 2011
Dept Seminar: Saints of Justice, Spirits of Devastation
Nov 29, 2011
Dept Seminar: The Oil Company, 'Partnership' and the Moralities of Giving and Receiving
Nov 29, 2011
Dept Seminar: Spirit in Motion
Nov 29, 2011
Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Autopathographies - How 'sick lit' shapes knowledge and the illness experience
Jul 25, 2011
Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Oxford's 'Two Bodies' in Medical Anthropology
Jul 25, 2011
Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Healing earth and sacred clay among the Mun, SW Ethiopia
Jul 25, 2011
Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Moving from Efficacy to Safety
Jul 25, 2011
Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Maize, Men and New Medical Models
Jul 25, 2011
Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Building Partnerships - a career path in research coordination and capacity building
Jul 25, 2011
Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Beyond Language - Public Health Policy and Cultural Competency
Jul 25, 2011
Medical Anthropology at Oxford: 10 Years at the Intersections - opening comments
Jul 25, 2011
Human Sciences Symposium 2011: The Impact of Exceptional Early Cognitive Environments on Musical Development
Jul 25, 2011
Human Sciences Symposium 2011: The Musical Brain - Opening Presentation
Jul 25, 2011
Social evolution in primates and other animals
Jun 06, 2011
Late Pleistocene Demography and the Appearance of Modern Human Behaviour
Jun 06, 2011
Marett Memorial Lecture 2011: Beauty and the beast
Jun 06, 2011
Dept Seminar: Heritage, hiking and the eradication of miracles
Mar 18, 2011
Dept Seminar: Why do Bayaka Pygmies sing so much?
Mar 18, 2011
Dept Seminar: Money-go-round: personal economies of wealth
Mar 18, 2011
The Anthropology of Production
Mar 18, 2011
Dept Seminar: Claudia's Life - Singular lives, Gypsy metonymy
Feb 21, 2011
Dept Seminar: Dance culture and its dislocation
Feb 21, 2011
Dept Seminar: Neo-nationalism five years later
Feb 21, 2011
Dept Seminar: The power of felted cloth through time and space
Feb 21, 2011
Dept Seminar: Forms of detachment and ethical regard
Feb 21, 2011
Dept Seminar: Kerala Muslim marriage, gender, and intimacy
Feb 21, 2011
Money, Bodies, Materialism and Virtuality
Nov 23, 2010
The Elementary School Teacher, the Thug, and his Grandmother: Brokers and Transnational Migration
Nov 23, 2010
Interview with Professor Byron J Good, 2010 Marett Lecturer
Nov 23, 2010
Religion and change (2003-04 Evans-Pritchard Lecture 5)
Nov 04, 2010
Talking about Somié: from the social to the individual and back (2003-04 Evans-Pritchard Lecture 4)
Nov 04, 2010
Talking about Diko: introducing a woman, and means of researching a life (2003-04 Evans-Pritchard Lecture 3)
Nov 04, 2010
Writing history, talking historically: problems of biography, autobiography and social history (2003-04 Evans-Pritchard Lecture 2)
Nov 04, 2010
Sample of One: joining the queue (2003-04 Evans-Pritchard Lecture 1)
Nov 04, 2010
Race, kinship, genetics and the ambivalence of identity
Oct 27, 2010
What is social anthropology?
Oct 27, 2010
An Africanist's Legacy: Responsibilised citizens? - Discourses and practices around care of the self among HIV positive people in Tanzania
Aug 24, 2010
An Africanist's Legacy: Performing fragmentary movements - perspectives on the life-history of a Muslim dancer-choreographer
Aug 24, 2010
An Africanist's Legacy: Credit societies and the search for school fees in Uganda
Aug 24, 2010
Part 1: Studying Anthropology at Oxford
Jul 12, 2010
Part 2: Studying at Oxford
Jul 12, 2010
Obesity: A Personal View
Jul 12, 2010
Cognition, Religion and Theology
Jul 12, 2010
Tibetan Vampire Slayers in Nepal
Jul 12, 2010
Measurement of Bodily Transformations (1 Feb 2010)
Jun 15, 2010
Dying for Islam: An Alternative History (12 Feb 2010)
Jun 15, 2010
Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 5: Political Ecology of Food Security (15 March 2010)
Jun 15, 2010
Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 4: Intensification of subsistence (10 Feb 2010)
May 27, 2010
Interview with Evans-Pritchard Lecturer Dr Charles Stewart (13 May 2010)
May 27, 2010
Neither Freud nor Artemidorous, Evans-Pritchard Lecture by Charles Stewart (27 April 2010)
May 27, 2010
Facial tattooing among Drung women in Southwest China
Apr 12, 2010
Qigong Deviation as a Diplomatic Disaster
Apr 12, 2010
Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 3: Hunter-gatherer diet (5 Feb 2010)
Apr 07, 2010
Medical anthropology: Famine, food crisis and living standards in North Korea (25 Jan 2010)
Apr 07, 2010
Anthropology seminar: Indigenous capitalism in Upland Indonesia (5 Feb 2010)
Apr 07, 2010
Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 2: Nutritional Quality and Child Growth
Mar 10, 2010
Anthropology seminar: Re-Tooling a Body with The Body
Mar 10, 2010
Medical Anthropology: Drink me... Take me... Read me...
Mar 10, 2010
League of Nations; Minority Regime as Anthropological Object
Feb 18, 2010
People Losing Credit: Models and Innovation in Finance
Feb 18, 2010
Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 1: What is the natural human diet?
Feb 18, 2010