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Anthropology Oxford University
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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 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. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
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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.
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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.
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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 Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ -
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 Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ -
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
Customer Reviews
Dear professor
This was a good lecture the mic was a bit scratchy but I need it for my class in college thanks for touching up on important topics
Bad lecture, bad audio
Oxford continues a trend. In this case, we have both bad audio (the professor fades in and out as he walks away from the microphone), AND a bad lecture (Lecture 1, 2/10/10). Perhaps I’m biased as a physician and pathologist. It seems that a nutritional anthropologist should inform us of historical nutritional practices, and how they were shown to be beneficial or harmful. Professor Ulijaszek appears to be acting as a nutritionist instead. He literally spent the first half of the show giving advice and opinions on proper nutrition. First I have to say that I’m skeptical that research on nutrition as a PhD gives you the credentials to give nutritional advice. I wish he had reported on the anthropology, given a few opinions as a side note, and left the nutritional advice to a registered dietician or physician. Perhaps more importantly, his arguments were fraught with logical fallacies. Just because the modern “processed food diet” is bad, doesn’t mean that the “paleo diet” is optimal human nutrition. Just because humans evolved with the “paleo diet” doesn’t mean that it was optimal nutrition for modern humans.
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