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Course Credit: University of Oxford
Course Curriculum
Module: 01 | |||
Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 1: What is the natural human diet? | 00:49:00 | ||
People Losing Credit: Models and Innovation in Finance | 00:44:00 | ||
League of Nations; Minority Regime as Anthropological Object | 01:01:00 | ||
Medical Anthropology: Drink me… Take me… Read me… | 00:43:00 | ||
Anthropology seminar: Re-Tooling a Body with The Body | 00:50:00 | ||
Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 2: Nutritional Quality and Child Growth | 00:51:00 | ||
Anthropology seminar: Indigenous capitalism in Upland Indonesia | 00:58:00 | ||
Medical anthropology: Famine, food crisis and living standards in North Korea | 00:52:00 | ||
Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 3: Hunter-gatherer diet | 00:48:00 | ||
Qigong Deviation as a Diplomatic Disaster | 00:35:00 | ||
Module: 02 | |||
Neither Freud nor Artemidorous, Evans-Pritchard Lecture by Charles Stewart | 00:58:00 | ||
Interview with Evans-Pritchard Lecturer Dr Charles Stewart | 00:32:00 | ||
Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 4: Intensification of subsistence | 00:56:00 | ||
Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 5: Political Ecology of Food Security | 00:57:00 | ||
Dying for Islam: An Alternative History | 00:58:00 | ||
Measurement of Bodily Transformations (1 Feb 2010) | 00:58:00 | ||
Cognition, Religion and Theology | 00:54:00 | ||
Tibetan Vampire Slayers in Nepal | 00:54:00 | ||
Obesity: A Personal View | 00:56:00 | ||
Part 2: Studying at Oxford | 00:15:00 | ||
Part 1: Studying Anthropology at Oxford | 00:17:00 | ||
An Africanist’s Legacy: Credit societies and the search for school fees in Uganda | 00:21:00 | ||
Module: 03 | |||
An Africanist’s Legacy: Performing fragmentary movements – perspectives on the life-history of a Muslim dancer-choreographer | 00:29:00 | ||
An Africanist’s Legacy: Responsibilised citizens? – Discourses and practices around care of the self among HIV positive people in Tanzania | 00:29:00 | ||
What is social anthropology? | 00:54:00 | ||
Race, kinship, genetics and the ambivalence of identity | 00:54:00 | ||
Sample of One: joining the queue (2003-04 Evans-Pritchard Lecture 1) | 00:56:00 | ||
Writing history, talking historically: problems of biography, autobiography and social history (2003-04 Evans-Pritchard Lecture 2) | 00:56:00 | ||
Talking about Diko: introducing a woman, and means of researching a life (2003-04 Evans-Pritchard Lecture 3) | 00:52:00 | ||
Talking about Somié: from the social to the individual and back (2003-04 Evans-Pritchard Lecture 4) | 00:48:00 | ||
Religion and change (2003-04 Evans-Pritchard Lecture 5) | 00:51:00 | ||
Module: 04 | |||
Interview with Professor Byron J Good, 2010 Marett Lecturer | 00:32:00 | ||
The Elementary School Teacher, the Thug, and his Grandmother: Brokers and Transnational Migration | 00:46:00 | ||
Money, Bodies, Materialism and Virtuality | 00:49:00 | ||
Dept Seminar: Kerala Muslim marriage, gender, and intimacy | 00:49:00 | ||
Dept Seminar: Forms of detachment and ethical regard | 00:43:00 | ||
Dept Seminar: The power of felted cloth through time and space | 00:52:00 | ||
Dept Seminar: Neo-nationalism five years later | 00:36:00 | ||
Dept Seminar: Dance culture and its dislocation | 00:48:00 | ||
Dept Seminar: Claudia’s Life – Singular lives, Gypsy metonymy | 01:01:00 | ||
The Anthropology of Production | 00:47:00 | ||
Dept Seminar: Money-go-round: personal economies of wealth | 00:50:00 | ||
Module: 05 | |||
Dept Seminar: Why do Bayaka Pygmies sing so much? | 01:00:00 | ||
Dept Seminar: Heritage, hiking and the eradication of miracles | 00:48:00 | ||
Marett Memorial Lecture 2011: Beauty and the beast | 00:55:00 | ||
Late Pleistocene Demography and the Appearance of Modern Human Behaviour | 01:04:00 | ||
Social evolution in primates and other animals | 00:47:00 | ||
Human Sciences Symposium 2011: The Musical Brain – Opening Presentation | 00:30:00 | ||
Human Sciences Symposium 2011: The Impact of Exceptional Early Cognitive Environments on Musical Development | 00:55:00 | ||
Medical Anthropology at Oxford: 10 Years at the Intersections – opening comments | 00:07:00 | ||
Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Beyond Language – Public Health Policy and Cultural Competency | 00:14:00 | ||
Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Building Partnerships – a career path in research coordination and capacity building | 00:16:00 | ||
Module: 06 | |||
Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Maize, Men and New Medical Models | 00:16:00 | ||
Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Moving from Efficacy to Safety | 00:14:00 | ||
Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Healing earth and sacred clay among the Mun, SW Ethiopia | 00:20:00 | ||
Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Oxford’s ‘Two Bodies’ in Medical Anthropology | 00:20:00 | ||
Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Autopathographies – How ‘sick lit’ shapes knowledge and the illness experience | 00:22:00 | ||
Dept Seminar: Spirit in Motion | 01:03:00 | ||
Dept Seminar: The Oil Company, ‘Partnership’ and the Moralities of Giving and Receiving | 00:59:00 | ||
Dept Seminar: Saints of Justice, Spirits of Devastation | 00:47:00 | ||
Dept Seminar: Discovering Anthropological Practice through Fieldwork | 00:52:00 | ||
Dept Seminar: Beyond ‘terroir’ | 00:55:00 | ||
The evolutionary history and genetics of primate brain size | 00:52:00 | ||
Module: 07 | |||
Re-Defining the Museal Object in Mao and post-Mao China. Anthropology Departmental Seminar | 01:06:00 | ||
On the concept of cultural transmission. Anthropology Departmental Seminar | 01:07:00 | ||
Don’t throw the baby out with the bathos. Anthropology Departmental Seminar: | 00:38:00 | ||
There is no such thing as Dian cuisine. Anthropology Departmental Seminar | 00:50:00 | ||
The self-management of misfortune by use of amulets and charms. Ethnicity and Identity Seminar | 00:55:00 | ||
Implementing a Research Culture in the NHS. Medical Anthropology at Oxford | 00:15:00 | ||
How niche construction affects inheritance systems in human evolution | 00:49:00 | ||
Extreme climatic events as drivers of early human behaviour in Africa? | 00:36:00 | ||
Venom, pollinators and parasites | 00:52:00 | ||
Brain microcircuits in champanzees and humans | 00:49:00 | ||
Module: 08 | |||
Meat and Health | 00:44:00 | ||
The ‘down side’ of assisted reproductive technologies | 00:49:00 | ||
Beyond globalisation and localisation | 00:45:00 | ||
Altruism in cyberspace? | 00:58:00 | ||
Marett Memorial Lecture 2012: Anthropologists and the Bible | 00:49:00 | ||
Neighbouring China in Northern Nepal | 00:45:00 | ||
Opportunistic violence and the impossibility of intimacy | 00:36:00 | ||
Conflict in the Plural | 00:57:00 | ||
What Shan ethnography can tell us about Theravada Buddhism | 00:55:00 | ||
Sweetness and Light | 00:50:00 | ||
Module: 09 | |||
Everyday aesthetics in forced displacement | 01:03:00 | ||
Reflections on geneticisation | 00:55:00 | ||
Learning that emerges in ‘Times of Trouble’ | 00:50:00 | ||
The Ethnographic Dream | 00:53:00 | ||
The Biography of the Holy Ghost | 00:58:00 | ||
City Dwelling and the Cultures of Migrant Urbanism | 00:54:00 | ||
Scientists as Abstainers | 00:51:00 | ||
Digital Heritage Technologies and Issues of Community Engagement and Cultural Restitution in ‘New Style’ Ethnographic Museums | 01:01:00 | ||
The Evolution of Human Egalitarianism | 00:53:00 | ||
Synchrony and Similiarity in Human Cooperation | 01:03:00 | ||
Re-thinking ‘Untamed Thoughts’ Fifty Years On | 01:04:00 | ||
Unexplored agencies: the case of Donna Sebastiana | 00:50:00 | ||
Module: 10 | |||
Re-making the dead, uncertainty and the torque of human materials in northern Zimbabwe | 00:47:00 | ||
Capital’s new frontier | 00:47:00 | ||
Divine kingdoms in the western Himalayas | 00:47:00 | ||
Alternative Utopias and the Crisis of Imagination (20 June 2013) | 00:36:00 | ||
Looking forward looking back (18 May 2013) | 00:48:00 | ||
Provocations for digital anthropology (30 May 2013) | 00:24:00 | ||
Dorr-e Dari (The Pearl of Dari): An Ethnography of Poetry as a Social Practice among Afghans in Iran (23 May 2013) | 00:56:00 | ||
Brazilian serialities: imagining persons (24 May 2013) | 00:51:00 | ||
Conceptualizing new age and neopagan ritual (17 May 2013) | 00:41:00 | ||
Geology, potentiality, speculation: on the indeterminacy of natural resources (10 May 2013) | 00:54:00 | ||
Module: 11 | |||
Gift, sacrifice, and deadly rumours (3 May 2013) | 00:55:00 | ||
The adoption of modern contraception in rural Ethiopia: a biocultural approach | 00:42:00 | ||
New York stories: the lives of other citizens | 00:48:00 | ||
Experimenting with field experiments: moving the lab into the field in ethnographic research | 00:47:00 | ||
Of untold riches and unruly homes: gender and property in neoliberal middle-class Kolkata | 00:58:00 | ||
Be(com)ing papa: kinship senescence and the ambivalent inward journeys of ageing men in the Antilles | 00:44:00 | ||
‘I did not know how to tell my parents, so I thought I would have to have an abortion’ | 00:35:00 | ||
‘Don’t worry, you’ll be a grandmother soon!’ | 00:52:00 | ||
Caring and being cared for in north-western Amazonia | 00:36:00 | ||
Contextualising the ‘new parenting culture’ | 00:44:00 | ||
Module: 12 | |||
Generational change and continuity amongst British mothers | 00:04:00 | ||
Disease transitions | 00:48:00 | ||
Political ecology of disease | 00:53:00 | ||
The end of history? What follows the demographic transition? | 00:56:00 | ||
Discovering ‘justice’: the magic of law in the Upper Amazon | 00:51:00 | ||
Victor Turner, anthropology and Christianity | 00:50:00 | ||
The sharia as a vocation: Islam, law and civility in Lebanon | 00:56:00 | ||
Do not resuscitate orders in a UK hospital: an ethnography of the future-present | 00:55:00 | ||
Claiming resources, honouring debts: miners, herders and the land masters of Mongolia | 00:47:00 | ||
Intellectual property and informal economy: a commodity chain from China to Brazil through Paraguay | 00:52:00 | ||
Module: 13 | |||
Culture and motivation: long distance running in Japan and the UK | 01:00:00 | ||
Cultural understandings of roles and responsibilities in addressing obesity | 00:46:00 | ||
Inequality, insecurity and obesity | 00:45:00 | ||
‘Native Life’, or, Being outside the carbon imagery | 00:53:00 | ||
Inspirations for publications – ISCA Anthropology Book Launch | 00:26:00 | ||
Fifty years of Cameroon unification: controversies and archival echoes | 00:48:00 | ||
Photo archives as historical resources: the Jeffrys and Dalrymple archives compared | 00:56:00 | ||
Intersections: an ethnography of everyday togetherness and intensified diversity in Elephant and Castle | 01:00:00 | ||
Social anthropology of the arts: expression, genre and agency | 01:08:00 | ||
Models, muddles and metaphors | 00:56:00 | ||
Module: 14 | |||
Choreographing lived experience: the stories that dancing bodies tell | 00:45:00 | ||
Marett Memorial Lecture 2014: How to capture the wow. Awe and the study of religion | 00:50:00 | ||
Water, human evolution and diet | 00:38:00 | ||
Martyrs, militants and emotions | 00:51:00 | ||
On forms of mental discipline and understanding of national psyche in contemporary Serbia | 00:45:00 | ||
Ways of speaking, ways of knowing | 00:48:00 | ||
Biosecurity practices in labs and museums: sentinels, simulation, stockpiling | 00:57:00 | ||
Cleaning up and moving on | 01:01:00 | ||
Negotiating nutrition: from baby to toddler in the Peruvian Andes | 00:44:00 | ||
Hiring a wetnurse in seventeenth-century England | 00:48:00 | ||
Module: 15 | |||
Breastpump technology and ‘natural’ motherly milk in Enlightenment France | 00:38:00 | ||
Bangladeshi women’s experiences of infant feeding in Tower Hamlets | 00:38:00 | ||
How to protect your newborn from neonatal death: spirits and infant feeding practices in the Gambia | 00:37:00 | ||
Revisiting breastfeeding in light of the gift logic. Is a comparison of Gogo and Italian women possible? | 00:50:00 | ||
Infant feeding and child health and survival in early twentieth-century Englan | 00:48:00 | ||
From Amazonian couvade to neo-couvade in cosmopolitan trends of co-parenting: a comparative analysis | 01:05:00 | ||
Obesity: epidemiology and biocultural factors | 01:00:00 | ||
Biocultural approaches to Type 2 diabetes | 00:55:00 | ||
Ecology of undernutrition and infection | 00:57:00 | ||
Moving the cracks: motorcycle taxis, politics and the fragility of power in Bangkok | 00:51:00 | ||
Module: 16 | |||
On representation and power: portrait of a Vodun leader in present-day Benin | 00:44:00 | ||
Lost objects, imaginary assemblages and the mass graves of the Spanish Civil War | 00:53:00 | ||
The Agency of Eating: Mediation, Food and the Body in Highland Ecuador | 00:43:00 | ||
Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, the Anthropology of Dance: Same Difference? | 00:48:00 | ||
Obsessed by Love: Erotic Magic, Delirious Love and Female Power in Mozambique | 00:40:00 | ||
Stacking Ontologies: Mundane Technoscience in the Silk Mill | 00:48:00 | ||
Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture 2015: The Societalization of Social Problems | 00:58:00 | ||
The Limits of collaboration: attempting a reciprocal Gypsy/Roman life story | 01:00:00 | ||
The ‘Unfortunate Mesopotamian Foetus’ | 00:57:00 | ||
Evolutionary origins of technological behaviour: a primate archaeology approach to chimpanzees | 00:56:00 | ||
Module: 17 | |||
‘Fat knowledge’, epigenetics and the enchantment of relational biology | 00:54:00 | ||
Crossing religious borders: Jewish Cabo Verdeans | 00:52:00 | ||
Medical and psychological issues in the treatment of recurrent miscarriage | 00:51:00 | ||
Negotiating enemy lines | 00:51:00 | ||
Revisiting uncertainty: provisional electricity infrastructure and livelihoods in an African city | 00:50:00 | ||
Microbes and other spirits | 00:47:00 | ||
Birds in heaven: social positioning of lost babies and their mothers in Qatar | 00:46:00 | ||
Does 21st-century technology change the experience of early pregnancy and miscarriage? | 00:41:00 | ||
Paying attention to the journey | 00:40:00 | ||
Marett Memorial Lecture 2016: The Creole world between inequality and difference | 01:04:00 | ||
Module: 18 | |||
Agrarian change, climate stress and shifting class relations in the Nepal-Bihar borderlands | 00:50:00 | ||
Tracing the origins of the HIV/AIDS pandemic | 01:03:00 | ||
Maternal capital and offspring development | 00:59:00 | ||
The dawn of Darwinian critical care medicine | 00:55:00 | ||
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome | 00:54:00 | ||
Inflammaging and its role in ageing and age-related diseases | 00:51:00 | ||
Obstructed labour: the classic obstetric dilemma and beyond | 00:50:00 | ||
The developmental origins of health and disease: adaptation reconsidered | 00:38:00 | ||
Profane relations: the irony of offensive jokes in India | 00:53:00 | ||
The fragility of conviction | 00:52:00 | ||
Module: 19 | |||
The certainty of futures lost | 00:43:00 | ||
The charm of ‘things’: ethnography and performance | 00:54:00 | ||
Science, stories and indigenous wisdom: is the wider world waking up at last? | 00:47:00 | ||
Plantain island sirens | 00:56:00 | ||
Exploring the city’s ‘sutures’ | 00:52:00 | ||
The Gorongosa Restoration Project, Mozambique | 00:30:00 | ||
Women in India’s waste economy | 01:13:00 | ||
Exhibiting violence and social change in Brazil | 00:57:00 | ||
The great migration of summer 2015: trajectories, journeys and hubs | 01:00:00 | ||
Climate, weather, culture | 01:01:00 | ||
Module: 20 | |||
Transformation through Ritual: Bodies as Sacred Space | 00:50:00 | ||
Why do children doubt magic, but believe in the miraculous? | 00:49:00 | ||
Gifts, entitlements, benefits and surplus: interrogating food poverty and food aid in the UK | 00:49:00 | ||
‘I Can Feel the Mafia but I Can’t See it’: Investigatory Dilemma in Present-day Trapani | 00:51:00 | ||
Formalization as Development: Accounting for the Proliferation of Village Savings Associations | 00:41:00 | ||
A Brilliant Jewel: Celibacy and its Malcontents in the Brazilian Catholic Church | 00:57:00 | ||
The Artist and the Stone: Ethnography of an Artistic Process | 01:03:00 | ||
The Indian Village: Marx to Modi | 00:55:00 | ||
A War on People: The Drug War and the Hermeneutic Politics of Those who Resist it | 00:51:00 | ||
Ebola Emergence is Predictable | 00:45:00 | ||
Module: 21 | |||
Possible Futures | 00:10:00 | ||
Possible Futures – Charlotte Roberts | 00:15:00 | ||
Possible Futures – Peter Walsh | 00:15:00 | ||
Possible Futures – Rebecca Sear | 00:20:00 | ||
Possible Futures – Robert Foley | 00:09:00 | ||
Ebola: A biosocial journey | 00:57:00 | ||
Words and Deeds – the Astor Visiting Lecture 19 October 2017 | 00:57:00 | ||
Existential mobility, migrant imaginaries and multiple selves | 00:41:00 | ||
Sustaining one another: enset, animals, and people in the southern highlands of Ethiopi | 00:54:00 | ||
The concept of culture in cultural evolution | 00:44:00 | ||
The promise of the (foreign) image: post-post-internet art from the Philippines (and other notes from the field) | 00:55:00 | ||
Assessment | |||
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