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• The Public Home: the Politics of Women's Socializing in Jordan
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• Terrorized women at home? The case of femicide in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
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• Tying the souls and binding relationships in the Lao home: metaphor, performance and tactility
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• What's so social about primate sociality?
• The 2017 Marett Memorial Lecture by Professor Anna Tsing
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• Research Spotlight: Reproducible Research Oxford
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• Dr Dan Hicks, Lecturer in Archaeology and Anthropology, has been awarded the 2017 Rivers Medal by the RAI
• Religion, Secularism, and Ethnicity in Contemporary Nepal
• Dr Emilie Le Febvre is awarded the 2017 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for the best PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic
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• 'What about the people?' - Dr Cathy Baldwin is interviewed about the importance of creating cities to support their communities
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• The National Ethnographic Museum of Bissau: Thirty Years of History
• Dr Emily Burdett
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• Zhu Lian and the new acupuncture of 1950s' China
• Artemisia annua tea, the regulation of Artemisinin, and the fight against malaria in Senegal
• The Natural Products Initiative: Kenyan and Chinese traditional medicines meet
• Space and Society in Central Brazil
• Queer(ing) Popular Culture
• Raw material procurement for termite fishing tools by wild chimpanzees in the Issa valley, Western Tanzania
• Converging Soul Substances in South East Asia
• Ethno-ornithology
• Professor Joy Hendry has been awarded the 'Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette'
• The Cognitive and Cultural Foundations of Religion and Morality
• Dr Valerie van Mulukom
• Professor Geoffrey Ainsworth Harrison
• Zuzanna Olszewska has won the 2017 MES Book Award for The Pearl of Dari
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• ASA Conference 2018: Language and Imagination
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• Sustaining one another: enset, animals, and people in the southern highlands of Ethiopia
• Existential mobility, migrant imaginaries and multiple selves
• The illiberal legal imagination: thought experiments in China's developing the world
• 'If God is with us, who can be against us?' Christianity, cosmopolitics and living with difference in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo
• Thinking like a climate? Politics and anthropology in the Anthropocene
• Making concessions: power and ecstasis in the Congolese rainforest
• The promise of the (foreign) image: post-post-internet art from the Philippines (and other notes from the field)
• Warriors and invaders? Nativism, photography and Greek-German encounters in the Greek crisis
• Towards the decolonisation of archaeology in Iraq
• Anthropology, photography and the field of memory
• The Block - an ethnography of a Romanian block of flats
• Anime at the museum: contemporary anime at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo
• Changing whilst staying the same: how the VERVE project transformed the Pitt Rivers Museum
• The Great Box and its child: replication, sensory knowledge, and repatriation
• The Split Horn: Life of a Hmong Shaman in America
• Kataragama: a God for all Seasons
• The Oracle of Maama Tseembu: Divination and Healing among the Yaka
• Uncle Poison
• Financial behaviour of Women-led enterprises in post-conflict and non-conflict peripheries of Myanmar
• Do women benefit from war? Understanding peace through the gains of war
• Gender issues in Jewish victimization and resistance during the Holocaust: from a despised topic to a fruitful research frontier
• Book Launch IGS with Berghahn Books
• Hero women and housewives: gender ideals among female rural graduates in Hubei Province, China
• 'Love hurts': the multifaceted lived experiences of intimate partner violence in Freetown, post-Ebola Sierra Leone
• Gender, wellbeing and ageing: evidence by country income level and geographic region
• Sexual exploitation of children and the online world: internet offenders' constructions and perceptions
• Re-conceiving the family in South Africa's new constitutional order
• Medical Anthropology Research Seminar
• Healthy bodies, dangerous substances, and kinship in Southwestern Amazonia
• Smells like... tutelary 'spirits': olfaction, immune system, and SHAMANs
• Therapeutic rituals curing 'el susto' (fright) disease in Mesoamerica
• Medical Anthropology Research Seminar: Title TBA
• Fairtrade and consumption politics: politicisation or depoliticisation?
• Low fruit nitrogen and other nutritional challenges as drivers for the evolution of Madagascar's primate communities
• Heat, glows and scents: the sensory management of landscape and body in Yanomani shamanic healing
• De gustibus non disputandum est. Reflections on the food preferences of the Wichí of the Argentine Chaco
• Listening to the news audience - what's missing from obesity news?
• Bitter-sweet adaptation
• Not social mobility but deprivation mobility: places change their characteristics and people change their places
• Resisting moralisation in health promotion
• Macaques at the margins: what we can learn about the evolution of human dietary diversity from studying other primates
• Tackling Obesity: Right from the Start
• Plastic foods, cooking and embodied skill in Australian obesity education
• Not your good fatty: how fat activists disrupt using Web 2.0
• Refugees' right to work and access to labour markets
• Understanding the economic outcomes of refugees in the UK
• Using market design to improve refugee resettlement
• The local environment shapes refugee integration: evidence from post war Germany
• The impact of the asylum process on long-term refugee integration
• Facilitating the integration of refugees in the UK's labour market
• The refugee crisis in Europe: border policies and unauthorized flows
• Syrian refugees in the Jordanian labour market
• Two flights: portraits of deportation to Jamaica
• Survival or success: the Kimono retail industry in contemporary Japanese society
• Europe-making: identity, bureaucracy and belonging in Brussels
• Austere guardians: voluntary solidarity in Athens
• Teeth and tongue jammed together. Gender, relationships, emotions and violence in Freetown
• People of the periphery: livelihood change and rural belonging among herders in Turkana, Kenya
• The Astor Visiting Lecture: Words and Deeds by Professor Michael Jackson
• Our evolutionary history: the complex route to being human
• OxDEG Seminar Series
• The impacts of official conspiracy theories: the Gezi Park protests
• Introducing Project Seventy
• Anthropology, Ethnography and the Study of Online Sexual Offending
• Bidesia in Bambai
• Nanook of the North
• Chronique d’un Été
• To Live with Herds
• Trobriand Cricket
• Forest of Bliss
• Photo Wallahs
• In the land of War Canoes AND In Search of the Hamat-sa: A Tale of Headhunting
• New member of staff Dr Nayanika Mathur has won the Sharon Stephens Award for her book Paper Tiger
• Megan Beardmore-Herd
• Dr Ridhi Kashyap
• Mind the Rift: Novel insights from the Paleo-Primate Project Gorongosa
• Tool use, a window into cultural behaviour of primates
• Predators, primates and landscapes of fear
• Conflict and Cooperation in Bonobos and Chimpanzees: A New Hypothesis
• Professor Nayanika Mathur
• St Anne’s Ioma Evans-Pritchard Scholarship in the Social Anthropology of Africa
• New article by Alexandra Alvergne: 'Side effects and the need for secrecy'
• Lucy Baehran
• Aneel Brar
• Kathrin Fischer
• Niccolo Lollini
• Philippa Hammond
• João Coelho
• Eveliina Kuitunen
• Sheung Yin Joseph Gregory Yu
• Anna Poloni
• Christopher Sisca
• It's not all fun and games: social complexity and play behaviour in wild bonobos
• Dr Caroline Phillips
• Dr Pieter Francois
• Visiting Astor Professor Michael Jackson, 22-28 October 2017
• Dr Idalina Baptista
• Designing Cyborgs: a proposed interventionist approach to the social scientific study of technology
• Investigating the origins of human material culture in children
• Miocene Apes: forest or woodland savanna environments
• Life-history, play, and the emergence of religion in human evolution
• Diet change in African primates: isotope evidence
• Can palaeobiology contribute to behavioural ecology? Perspectives from human evolution
• The Geoffrey Harrison Prize Lecture by Melissa Parker, 3 November 2017
• How global practice influences Barker Langham's cultural planning work - from curatorship to economics...
• Dr Tina Lüdecke
• Professor Veronica Strang
• Dr Marilou Polymeropoulou
• Julie Archambault, formerly of SAME and African Studies, on her new book Mobile Secrets: an interview with CaMP Anthropology
• The Symphony of the Stones - Dr Iain Morley appeared on the BBC World Service Documentary on 3 December
• Dr Susana Carvalho has been invited to talk at the UNESCO headquarters on Wednesday 6 December
• Applications are invited for two fully-funded Oxford–Calleva Graduate Scholarships
• Research Spotlight: REMINDER
• Dr Ana Ranitovic
• Radhakrishnan Memorial Lectures 2018: The Persistent Rural and Declining Agriculture: Reviving the Indian Village
• Radhakrishnan Memorial Lectures 2018: Is India Becoming a Post-Caste Society
• Radhakrishnan Memorial Lectures 2018: Dalit Predicaments: Mobility, Mobilisations and Dilemmas of Identity
• Relational anatomy: bodies, materials and persons in medical education
• Making rights real: fertility politics and rights activism in India
• Studying the origins of human material culture in young children
• Infrastructure and politics above and below the surface
• Divine text, national language, and their publics: arguing an Indonesian Qur’an
• CANCELLED: Migration and the mapping of global danger
• CANCELLED: Electrifying Anthropology: current thinking about energy and anthropology
• Against ontology: experience and the Human Sciences
• Stochasticity in cultural evolution: a revolution yet to happen
• The Evidence of Doubts: Researching Controversies Between Religion and the Secular
• Doubt, Debate, and the Relationship between Heaven and Empire in Southwest China
• “From Faith, Fortune; From Doubt, Ill Health”: A Metacognitive Approach to Popular Buddhism in Contemporary Inner Mongolia
• CANCELLED: Doubt and Divided Selves in the Contemporary Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Encounter
• CANCELLED: “Someone Like You, Someone Like Me”: Difference and Doubt in Mindfulness-based Interventions in the United Kingdom
• David Gellner published an op-ed in The Kathmandu Post on 1 January on the politics of cultural heritage in Nepal
• From Museum to Library and back again: photographs as 'distributed object' and the process of purification
• Visualising dwelling online: an anthropological study of social media use among Chinese factory workers
• The Unhelpful Museum: challenging ‘kindness,’ ‘tolerance’ and empathy in museum engagements
• 'I move my hand and then I see it': Ways of knowing with young artists in Japan
• Blow-up in Bissau: Images and PostWar Reconstruction of a West African Museum
• CANCELLED: The perils and rewards of decolonising a Victorian Museum Collection
• Dormant Things: the hidden lives of things in attics, cupboards and garages
• Ethnography in a grievance: enunciatory communities, law & environmental justice in Nicaragua's chronic kidney disease epidemic
• Theorising with narrative: How careful analysis of stories can help us rise above ‘behaviour change’ research
• How climate change as an idea travels to sub-Saharan Africa: The anthropology of forecasting, future-making and humanitarianism
• The taste for health
• Digital methods and their implications for social science
• Caught between discourses of dangerous femininity and ethnic minority status on the Tibetan Plateau
• Patriarchal boundaries into question: being an unmarried mother in Morocco
• The patriarchy index: a measure of gender and generational inequalities in the past
• Remittances from macro to micro-levels: consequences for patriarchy and family structures
• Motherist discourses: the use of patriarchal narratives after civil wars and natural disasters in Islamic societies
• CANCELLED: Pastoralism and patriarchy: the political economy of the Gerontocratic ideal in Turkana, Kenya
• Reproduction, relations and paternalism during fertility decline
• ASA Conference 2018: Call for Panels now open
• Self-domestication in humans and other primates
• Japanese Anime Heroines and their Hollywood iterations
• In all but name: women as power-brokers in the kimono retail industry in contemporary Japan
• The need for intersectionality: why we need a feminist foreign policy
• Masculinity, Migration and Service Work in Post-Reform China
• Witness it! Art, Activism, and Feminist Resistance
• Modification of women's representations in 1920s Georgian Soviet silent films
• The Sexualization of Indigenous Women in Turtle Island: Deconstructing Pop Culture Depictions
• CANCELLED: International Gender Studies Centre Roundtable: International Women's Day - Women's Suffrage 100 Years On
• Dr Thomas Cousins
• Knowledge Exchange, Practice and Impact: Opportunities and Challenges in a New Era for the Academy
• Brokering Knowledge in Research with Refugee and Migrant Case Workers
• The Politics of Evidence and Knowledge in a Polarised World
• Telling Stories to Communicate Data and Evidence
• Interdisciplinary Approaches to Knowledge Exchange and Migration
• Engaging with Policymakers at the City Level
• A Living Lab Methodology for Evaluating Innovation in Asylum Seeker Reception: The Utrecht Refugee Launchpad
• CANCELLED: Beyond Impact? Provocations for Future Research, Practice, and Engagement
• Exclusive Registers: Gendered Citizenship and Bureaucratic Ambiguity in Jordan
• Corporate Groups and the Visible Hand of Administration: A Case from South Korea
• The Long Road to Dematerialisation: Dynamics of Transport Bureaucracies in Cameroon
• A Political Administration: Identity and Belonging in the Juncker Commission
• When the Rules Run Out: Informal Taxonomies at the Front Lines of Public Service
• 'Keepers of the Truth': Documenting Human Rights at the UN Universal Periodic Review
• Modernizing the French State: Digitalization, Simplification, and Usability Concerns in Mundane Administrative Work
• CANCELLED: 'The Indian state is nothing but a paper tiger': For an anthropology of the bureaucratic state
• The ecology of conflict: imagined identities and divided communities in North West Pakistan
• 'A history of Pakints’: History, politics, and the mining frontier’
• From Soviet Intelligentsia to Emerging Russian Middle Class?
• Publication of 'Ritual, Play and Belief in Evolution and Early Human Societies', co-edited by Iain Morley
• Ritual, Play and Belief in Evolution and Early Human Societies
• Institutional facts and the politics of political fact-checking
• What was sociology?
• How should we study truth?
• CANCELLED Creating Citizen STS: science, fiction and the future of the 20th century
• Uncomfortable knowledge for science
• The genie out of the bottle? Data valuation and circulation challenges for participatory research
• The post-truth condition: why we've always been there and why it's unlikely to go away soon
• Madeleine Sumption, Director of the Migration Observatory, University of Oxford, is appointed MBE for services to Social Science
• Digital Food Activism
• Publication of 'Digital Food Activism', edited by Tanja Schneider, Karin Eli, Catherine Dolan, Stanley Ulijaszek
• Study with Us
• Political lives of anticipation: weather, climate and water knowledge in Belize
• Publication of 'Visual Histories of South Asia' edited by Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes and Marcus Banks
• Guiding the Governance of Climate Geoengineering RD&D, Using the Oxford Principles
• Research with Impact
• Learning from the Ancestors, Strengthening Cultural Identity: The Blackfoot Shirts Project
• Influencing Policy Frameworks on Integration and Diversity
• Challenging Cultural Stereotypes about Japanese Everyday Life
• Transforming the Collection, Presentation, and Use of Data in the UK Migration Policy Debate
• Supporting the People of Sudan's Blue Nile through Recent Crises
• Developing International Responses to Trafficking and the Demand for Low-waged (Migrant) Labour
• Co-Investigators Harvey Whitehouse and Pieter Francois (ICEA) complete collaborative work on €4 million ALIGNED project
• Research Funding
• PEAK Urban
• A new article by Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos published in the Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences
• Book at Lunchtime: Photography and Tibet by Clare Harris
• Changing Views of a Changing World
• Images of an Imagined World: The Complex Mythologies of the Last Hunter-Gatherers
• The Animal as Anima: The Role of Cattle in the Worldviews of Early African Pastoralist Societies
• Subsistence as Giving Some Substance: The Organization of Tasks & Social Relations amongst the Last Hunters & First Pastoralists
• Towards a Palaeosociological Approach: Relational Ontologies and the Constitution of ‘Being in Society’
• Marett Memorial Lecture 2018: Individualism in the Wild: Oneness in Jivaroan Culture
• SAME DPhil student Melyn McKay has co-published a guest editorial in Anthropology Today
• Turning Disaster Zones into Scenic Sites, Homelands into Gardens
• Public expressions of trust and distrust in official dietary advice
• CANCELLED: 'Whatever they say, they are our guests': emotional labour and the vulnerable host at mosque open days
• New vacancy: Postdoctoral Researcher - Cognitive and Cultural Foundations of Religion and Morality
• New research led by Harvey Whitehouse: 'Dying for the group: what motivates the ultimate sacrifice?'
• Professor Stanley Ulijaszek took part in the Nobel Prize Dialogue 2018, 'Future of Food', in Japan on 11 March
• New publications by Dace Dzenovska
• School of Europeanness
• Early Career Researchers from the UK and Brazil are invited to apply to attend a workshop on Migration & Urban Transformations
• Registration is open for the Urban Transformations conference, The Good City, to be held in Oxford on 18-20 April 2018
• 'Owners of the Map': A new book by Claudio Sopranzetti published by the University of California Press
• New vacancy: PA to Statutory Professor and Administrator of Research Centre and Institute
• A petition to kill: efficacious appeals against big cats in India
• Why Are there always Candomblés? Situated knowledges of miscegenation and syncretism in Brazil
• The seven moral rules found all around the world
• The grey area: fascism between the general and the particular
• The Paleo-Primate Project - a short documentary
• Parallel lines: managing the movement of animals and zoonotic diseases across the Mediterranean
• Cannibalism in the Middle Stone Age at Klasies River Main Site, South Africa
• Professorship in Science and Civilization
• VMMA student Thupten Kelsang organises three-day workshop on ‘Re-Engaging Tibetan Material Heritage’
• Textual or oral transmission: which is more reliable?
• Engraving the world: Rupestrian art and migration in central Africa
• Ex-centric textualities and rehearsed narratives in trans-specific healthcare
• Two songs for a red girl: music and language in Eastern Amazonia
• Inflammation and metaflammation: ecological and evolutionary insights
• How 3XN Thinks: Geometry, Data and Design in Digital Architecture
• Ethnography of a digital detoxing community in the San Francisco Bay Area
• Social forces, health inequality, and maternal mental health in rural Rajasthan, India
• Social bonding among children in joint physically active play
• ‘Suffrage 100 Years on’. Roundtable Discussion
• The People's Artisans: The (in)visible lives and afterlives of Polish lacemakers
• The Third Sex: The Female ‘International’ in Afghanistan as Liberal Hybridity Embodied
• The IGS Phyllis Kaberry Commemorative Lecture by Professor Patricia MacCormack
• Early marriages in Kyrgyzstan: religious and cultural practices
• Women in Conflict: the Nagorno-Karabakh Protracted Conflict through a Feminist Lens
• Mobilising against Domestic Violence: lessons from the UK and Armenia
• Polish Women, Solidarity and Feminism: Thirty Years On
• Professor Laura Peers at the farewell event held in her honour at the Pitt Rivers Museum
• Photography in and of the city: three snapshots from the past and present of an Indian city
• Unpacking the Czaplicka Collection: presence, experiences, and affordances
• Tiger's Apprentice (1998, 57 mins)
• Adhiambo: Born in the Evening (2001, 67 mins)
• 'Someone like you, someone like me': difference and doubt in mindfulness-based interventions in the UK
• ‘Photography and Tibet’ by Clare Harris discussed by Elizabeth Edwards and Thupten Kelsang
• How could it be otherwise? The body as resource for exploring the past
• The matter of being: knowing bodies and 'mental' health
• What remains? Dancing archaeology
• 'My fat body: an axis for research' and 'What remains? Dancing archaeology'
• Dace Dzenovska will deliver a keynote lecture at the Migrant Narratives and the City conference, Central European University
• Congratulations to DPhil student Katarina Almeida-Warren for her National Geographic Society award
• The bridge, the fund, and the insurance: Securing uncertain futures in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
• Book launch: School of Europeanness: Tolerance and Other Lessons in Political Liberalism In Latvia
• Dace Dzenovska's co-edited Hot Spots series is now published on the Cultural Anthropology website
• Stanley Ulijaszek takes part in a Nobel Prize Dialogue Tokyo panel on the obesity epidemic
• Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture 2018: The Politicization of Consumption
• New article co-authored by Alexandra Alvergne to be published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution is currently available online
• Book launch of Dace Dzenovska's 'School of Europeanness: Tolerance and Other Lessons in Political Liberalism In Latvia'
• Elizabeth Hallam has been awarded the Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems
• Privacy Notices
• Islam and Law in Lebanon
• David Pratten's British Academy Summer Showcase: Understanding the Niger Delta’s agaba masquerade tradition
• The third season of the Paleo-Primate Project and the first Oxford-Gorongosa Paleo-Primate Field School gets underway
• Dr Özlem Belçim Galip
• Jacqui Broadhead
• World Chimpanzee Day!
• Who Are 'We'?
• The School Newsletter - Summer 2018
• School Newsletter 2018 - Undergraduates
• School Newsletter 2018 - Staff Spotlight: Thomas Cousins
• School Newsletter 2018 - Events
• School Newsletter 2018 - Student Spotlight: Melyn McKay
• School Newsletter 2018 - Book Spotlight: Islam and Law in Lebanon by Morgan Clarke
• School Newsletter 2018 - Projects
• School Newsletter 2018 - Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion (CSSC)
• School Newsletter 2018 - Alumnus Spotlight: Amy McLennan
• School Newsletter 2018 - Welcome from the Head of School
• School Newsletter 2018 - News and Awards
• School Newsletter 2018 - Primate Models for Behavioural Evolution Lab
• School Newsletter 2018 - Our Students
• School Newsletter 2018 - Diversifying Portraiture at the Tylor Library
• Barbara Harrell-Bond OBE
• Global Nepalis: Religion, Culture, and Community in a New and Old Diaspora
• SAME alumnus Jelle Wouters brings anthropology to new audiences in South Asia
• Professor Marcio Goldman
• Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture 2019: Playing the Numbers Game in the UK’s Public Expenditure World: Where Goodhart's Law Meets Douglas's Law
• The School hosted the book launch of Social Sustainability, Climate Resilience and Community-Based Urban Development on 13 June
• The Inaugural Lecture by David Gellner as Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, 15 May 2009
• The Impact of Activism in Nepal
• Project by DPhil student Justin Lane has been featured in The Atlantic
• South Asia Anthropologists Group conference, 5-6 September 2018
• Professor Ruben Andersson
• 'Visiting with the Ancestors: Blackfoot Shirts in Museum Spaces' by Laura Peers and Alison Brown receives honourable mention
• Cooking and eating in early Northwest China
• Reimagining agriculture through the lens of the Asian small grained cereals (millets)
• Beyond the bread frontier: sticky rice, millet porridge and grain wines in the definition of a civilizational area
• Rice boiling among the Shuhi of Southwest China, and the convergence of soul substances
• Development: a brief adventure
• On artefacts, agency and practices - a relational perspective on planning
• Precolonial Microbiome: how microbiologists access anthropology museums to contribute to the debate on restitution
• Trials of the everyday: spaces of global health in South Africa
• Militant masks: youth and insecurity in the Niger Delta
• Care and community in contemporary Italy: exploring networks and digital-visual practices
• ‘Don’t Bury the Famine Dead’: how humanitarian intervention killed the most vulnerable in Ajiep, South Sudan, in 1998
• Social life of a license: caste and everyday struggles for work legitimacies in India
• Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health Seminars
• Kin support for female genital mutilation/cutting among the Arsi Oromo of South-Central Ethiopia
• The behavioural immune system: from pathogens to culture
• How war is shaping the Ukrainian HIV epidemic: a phylogeographic analysis
• Understanding socioeconomic disparities in breastfeeding in the UK: exploring the role of environmental quality
• Why are men muscular? Reproductive, hormonal, and ecological hypotheses to explain variation in human male muscularity
• Life history, parental investment and health of Agta foragers
• Evolutionary approaches to postnatal depression - insights from WEIRD and small-scale setting
• Telomeres as integrative markers of exposure to stress and adversity: A systematic review and meta-analysis
• The Geoffrey Harrison Prize Lecture 2018 - From genes to latrines: a biosocial journey
• Introduction: the importance of bridging anthropological perspectives
• Social bonds as self-care in primates
• Plants, diseases and the evolution of self-care in BaYaka hunter-gatherers of Congo
• Self-medication in humans and bonobos: lessons learned from Congo's wild pharmacy
• The spirits drink cassava beer: ‘self-help’ (mayu) as self-care in Amazonian Guyana
• Self-care in times of medical paradoxes: Case studies from South African and Germany
• Self-medication in France: mirages of autonomy
• Self-care through self-monitoring: Quantified living and making meaning from numbers in a British public health trial
• Immigrant franchise and immigration policy: evidence from the progressive era
• Numbers, narratives, neither, both? How different kinds of message evidence impact public perceptions about immigration in GB
• Is it ethnicity or religion? Evidence from a cross-national field experiment on labour market discrimination
• Immigration and well-being: a neighbourhood-level analysis
• National institutions and the politics of free movement in the European Union
• The “Speed-Geeking Migration Challenge"
• From exodus to exitus: Selective emigration after Germany’s failed 1848 revolutions and the rise of the Nazi party
• Does it really matter how different we are? Ancestry distances and income in the United States
• Welfare and immigration: evidence from Germany
• Making cultures count: the development of the Mayi Kuwayu National Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing
• The effect of social support on self-regulation in physical exercise
• Human evolution: the panin perspective
• Mechanisms of social bonding: dance and the 'Synchrony Effect'
• Mozambique in Island Africa
• A different view of recent human origins
• Pliocene diversity: does behavioural evolution parallel biological evolution?
• The social and cognitive complexity of slow lorises and implications for translocations
• Stone-tool-using monkeys in coastal habitats: a new model system for palaeoanthropology
• Grasping the human-baboon interface using genetic tools and spatial analyses
• Chess, not chequers
• Discussing weight management in primary care - insights from conversation analysis of the BWel trial
• CANCELLED: Function of fat. What are the determinants and does it matter?
• Revealing later life vulnerabilities through the study of food practices
• Psychosocial inequality, insecurity and overweight/obesity in a Danish Youth Cohort
• Assessing the reformulation efforts of soft drink companies in the UK
• Genomics of common obesity
• Phantasmal Papunya: telling stories about the origins of 'Aboriginal Art’
• Postcards, labels, and everyday objects (or: experiments in collaborative transnational curation)
• Ritual or livelihood: material culture between religion, medicine, art and survival on the White Nile
• Rethinking popularity, purpose, and protocol in displaying the dead in museums
• Ethnographic empire: knowledge and power in colonial northeast India, 1870-1940
• Impossible representations: counter-forensics, curatorship and visuality
• British tattoo art revealed
• Exploring a small photograph collection: Moukarim postcards from Cameroon c. 1914-16
• Mapping my way home: reflections on writing feminist history as memoir
• Women's empowerment in rural matrilineal society of Meghalaya, India
• Iranian women's empowerment and the global fight for equal rights
• Gender and social capital in deliberative cultures
• The perspective of the quadruple helix model: establishing a gender-based entrepreneurship
• Narrating Funü Ganbu: discourses, representations and subjectivities of political women in post-socialist China
• Europe's commitment to combatting violence against women: rhetoric or reality?
• The Bird Dancer
• Sal Anderson presents her film 'The Wounded Healer'
• Susan Young presents two short autoethnographic films, 'It Started with a Murder' and 'The Betrayal'
• Dead When I Got Here
• Local models of economy
• Undiagnosed STIs can increase negative PMS symptoms - research by Dr Alexandra Alvergne makes the news
• Dr Noëlle Rohde
• Alice Lai Hung Yu
• Dace Dzenovska and Steve Rayner have been elected to posts in the SAE and RAI respectively
• Ultra-Processed foods, big food and the corporate capture of nutrition
• Graduate Research Seminar Title TBA
• Between the Party-State (Guan) and Civil Society (Min): political embeddedness and autonomy in Chinese arbitration commissions
• Dr Oliver Owen
• Two Ways to Nirvana: Women in the margins of Burmese Buddhist ‘Nationalism’
• Charlotte Hoskins
• Samuel Murison
• Angelo Marcelo Vasco
• Jana Muschinski
• JC Niala
• Thupten Kelsang
• Lan Xiao
• Carlota Solà Marsiñach
• Rose Stevens
• Alexander Blandford
• Researching data in humanitarianism: ethnographic challenges
• Answering the call of duty: popular geopolitics and playing virtual war
• The Disappearing: YouTube archives of the Syrian War
• Tales of Gluckman
• May Tamimova
• Gabriella Kountourides
• Sarah De Vries
• The tree for living: a socio-cultural account of enset
• The arts of oil: a cultural history of Port Harcourt
• Militant masks: youth, performance and insecurity in Nigeria
• Divination: spiders, crabs and other technologies of choice
• Reading between the lines
• The Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group celebrates its 20th anniversary
• Yasmeen Arif
• A mediating capacity
• Andreas Bjorklund
• Jaana Serres
• Benedict Taylor-Green
• Are human ancestors to blame for the decline of Africa’s largest mammals?
• iSimangaliso Humanities Hub
• Urban animals, human livelihoods and health in the global south: a trans-species approach
• Blow-up in Bissau: Images and Memories of a National Ethnographic Museum in Bissau
• Mangroves and aluminium: environmental and socio-cultural resilience on the coast of the Republic of Guinea
• Research Spotlight: The LabHack Challenge (InSIS)
• Dr Alejandra Pascual-Garrido
• Professor Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz
• Negotiating Environmental Knowledge - a workshop hosted by InSIS on 12-13 December 2018
• China in the Global Reproduction Migration Order: through the Lens of International Student Mobility
• Intimate Geopolitics: Migration, Marriage and Citizenship across Chinese Borders
• Grandparenting Migration: Reproduction, Care Circulations and Care Ethics across Borders
• Investment Migration and Social Reproduction: the Case of Recent Patterns of Migration from China
• Birth Tourism from China and Taiwan to the United States: Cosmopolitan Strategies and Aspirations
• Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Medical Travel
• Childrearing as Global Security Strategies: Parenting, Class, and Im/mobility in Taiwan and the US
• Educational Migration: Youth, Time and Transformation
• Global Householding, Care Migration and the Question of Gender Inequality
• Expression of Physical Pain in Ancient Mesopotamian Texts
• Expressing Pain in the Internal Organs: Examples from the Psalms and Job
• Fear of Affliction: Etiologies for Penetrating Pain in the Hebrew Bible and Cognate Literature
• Suffering and Spiritual Exercises in Modern Chinese Piety Books
• Representing Pain in Medieval Japan: The Scrolls of Afflictions
• CANCELLED: Are your genes to blame when your jeans don’t fit?
• Following the Mayi Kuwayu National Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing
• Energy balance behaviours: The role of emotions and emotion regulation
• Bug burgers, lab meat and plant blood: What implications for food and farming?
• How do we fix the food waste problem?
• Function of fat. What are the determinants and does it matter?
• The social life of childhood obesity in Poland
• The COMPAS Photo Competition featured in the Guardian
• JASO Volunteers
• Lessons from the IPCC Special Report on 1.5 degrees: the science communication & policy challenges of hyper-ambitious mitigation
• Quantum Computing and Simulation: A responsible perspective
• Model Cases: Canonical Research Objects in the Social Sciences
• Why is time always (never) running out on climate policy? The role of modelling in masking policy inaction
• Model evaluation: an adequacy-for-purpose view
• Science for future Earth
• The LIBOR Market and its Models: The Emergence of the Interest Rate Derivatives 'Quant' Profession and its Modelling Practices
• The science of modelling through
• Critical appraisal of assumptions in model-based scientific assessment
• Rituals of refurbishment: an introduction
• Following the Ram Chand Box: narratives of change in the biography of a postcard collection
• Gypsies, photographic representation and the media: an anthropological interpretation
• The witchdoctors' guide to psychoanalysis: an artist engagement with anthropology
• Problems, practices and politics of provenancing objects from China's Yuanmingyuan (Summer Palace, Beijing)
• Memorializing the Rwandan Genocide
• Changing faces: Nigerian masking techniques
• Identity matters: juggling domestic materiality and consumption practices in a new setting
• Forensic Anthropology and its role in identifying the missing in humanitarian and criminal contexts
• Adding cosmo to geo: climate change as a new matrix of animation
• The socio-genesis of a guild of “digital technologies” justifying transnational interoperable databases in the name of security
• The body in the archive. Embodied encounters with human remains in the museum
• Making and un-making precarious homes among women activists in Spain
• Adaptive radiation and evolution of Neotropical primates
• Knowing cancer in India
• Disaggregating the commodity crisis: towards an ethnography of maritime commerce at the port of Lobito (Angola)
• ‘Autobiography within anthropology’ and ‘Midnight thoughts on autobiography’
• “Others” and the field: ethics, compassion and violence
• Fatherhood, unemployment and the demise of patriarchal authority in South Africa
• Gendering violence and shame in Myanmar's education spaces
• Safe space as subaltern counterpublic: politicizing safety and spatializing freedom at a feminist bookstore & safe space in NYC
• Transcultural insights into the religious practices of British Gujarati women
• International Women's Day at the IGS
• “We are Muslims too”: the politics of identity, practice, and discourse among British ‘Progressive’ Muslims
• Social practices, distributed cognitive systems, and the smart city
• The natural history of jealousy
• A tribute to David Attenborough – Join us for a screening and discussion of “Life on Earth” Episode 12 – Life in the Trees (55’)
• The ice-breaker effect: how do humans create and maintain social bonds?
• What’s with the long face? Analysing craniofacial diversification in baboons (genus Papio)
• Culture as a life-history character in hominins and other primates
• Understanding and living with giants: seeking ways for people and elephants to coexist in Gorongosa National Park
• Is female health cyclical? Evolutionary perspectives on menstruation
• An excerpt from Examined Life (Astra Taylor 2008, 15’)
• GTC Medical Anthropology Film and Discussion Group - title TBA
• Jon Rey-Hastie presents his film A Life Worth Living (Jon Rey-Hastie, 2012)
• Modern slavery of disabled people in South Korea (Marcel Theroux, 2015, 23’)
• Food insecurity and fatness: From evolutionary ecology to social science
• The dual burden of malnutrition and the obstetric dilemma: new insight into global increases in cesarean delivery
• On workloads
• Iron, infection and anaemia: evolutionary viewpoints on a huge global health problem
• Stunting ≠ Malnutrition: Evolutionary perspective on human height variation applied to public health
• Testing life history theory in humans experimentally
• The evolution of disgust
• Ecological and evolutionary perspectives on cancer
• Nightfall on Gaia
• Jaguar
• Grey Gardens
• Kusum
• Bidesia in Bambai
• Manenberg
• Waltz With Bashir
• Bombay Beach
• Performing Tibetan Identities: Photographic Portraits by Nyema Droma - on display until 30 May 2019 at the Pitt Rivers Museum
• Last Chance to See: 'Tibetan Objects in Transition’ at the Pitt Rivers. A Case Display curated by SAME student, Thupten Kelsang
• Applications are invited for the Evans-Pritchard Lectureship during the academic year 2019-2020
• The Dung Beetle Project: Turning Trash into Gas
• Human Sciences Open Days
• Human Sciences Newsletters
• The Okavango Wilderness Project
• Storeys of Emptiness: Living Alongside Empty Homes in Central London
• Teaching Germanness: investigating the relationship between language and belonging in Berlin's migrant integration programmes
• Structural gender inequality in Hollywood: an ethnography of film and television production
• Stanley Ulijaszek to give the keynote address on ‘Framing Obesity as a Problem’ at this year’s Keystone Symposium, Banff, Canada
• A taste for fat may have made us human, says study co-authored by Susana Carvalho
• Dr Samuel Derbyshire
• The Marett Memorial Lecture 2019: African Red – African Blue: Ethnography, History and Comparison
• The Mediterranean Atlas
• Scattered Kinship
• Beautiful Futures
• The Gender of the Crossing
• Stanley Ulijaszek interviewed in this week’s Newsweek on ‘Why BMI Can Be Misleading, and You Can Be Healthy and Overweight’
• Oliver Scott Curry interviewed by the BBC World Service on 'Seven Universal Moral Rules'
• Atapuerca: one million years of hominin evolution
• Dr Hugh Turpin
• Gorongosa National Park to collaborate with the University of Oxford on the 'Paleo-Primate Project', led by Dr Susana Carvalho
• The School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography comes top by subject in the QS World University Rankings
• Total Peace (sulh-i kull): A Mughal Solution to a Biblical Problem
• The Caliph’s Body: A Relic of Peace (sulh)
• In God’s Name: The First Oath of Peace (sulh) in Islam
• The EFP-PSGB Conference 2019 comes to Oxford this September
• Moralizing gods appear after, not before, the rise of social complexity, new research suggests
• Professor Michael Cowan
• Dr Noam Segal (1975-2019)
• Curating Oceania
• To lead by obeying: how coca growers’ struggle for radical democracy became institutionalized
• Bodies of ice: Mount Everest as a mortuary landscape
• Infrastructures of desire: Eros and urbanism in Nigeria’s capital
• Taxes as a route to independence from the state: rejecting a fiscal model of reciprocity in peri-urban Bolivia
• Learning Sasang Constitutional Medicine (SCM): the making of ‘constitutions’ in a standardized setting
• Chinese translation of The Transmission of Chinese Medicine: A study of thick translation strategies for Chinese medicine
• Judo as therapy for the everyday and in emergency settings: case studies from Japan
• Classical formulae containing qinghao in pre-modern Chinese formularies: a data mining study
• Primates and Popcorn: Screening of 'Jane'
• ‘Talking Tibetan Identities’: A Special ‘After-Hours’ Event at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
• Are we asking questions that can be addressed scientifically?
• Hominin hips: the old and the new
• Social cognition
• Intraspecific behavioural variation in chimpanzees
• Dr Barbara Muzzulini
• Priya Sajjad
• Humans are not off the hook for extinctions of large herbivores – then or now
• London calling - a linguistic ethnography of a multilingual call centre
• Names and the world: conceptual transaction zones in time and place
• Using video data to explore healthcare practitioner-patient interaction
• 'Materialities of eating disorders' and 'Materialities of anorexia'
• Materialities of food education: practice, research and policy
• ‘Rights-based approaches to the regulation of food marketing’ and ‘What’s in the fridge? The everyday materiality of health and wellbeing’
• Workshop: Gesture, Body and Language in Tibet and the Himalayas
• Public Film Screening of 'Ishaare - Gestures and Signs in Mumbai'
• Dr Alexander Mielke
• The 40-year history of International Gender Studies at the University of Oxford
• 'There were no women: Oxford's first female anthropologists' and 'Living in and out of the box'
• 'Australian Aboriginal women's cultural identity through art and land rights' & 'Challenging possession: women & the politics of restitution, Timor'
• The challenges of women's invisible care work: an analysis of new research (joint panel IGS and DSA)
• Masculinity, modernity, the divine feminine and others before and after British Rule in Burma/Mayanmar
• Women, the machine, and valuing labour
• Female pioneers of the early 20th-century study of religion: Evelyn Underhill, Margaret Smith & Margaret Brackenbury Crook
• Gender, disasters and climate change in Bangladesh
• 'Homes are being invaded’: Thinking through belonging and displacement with more-than-human gardeners
• Reconsidering decision-making in 'economic' migration - a study in Nepal
• Feathered entanglements: Māori featherworking and constructions of meaning
• The fantastic corpse factory: death, life, and social movement in the margins of Rio de Janeiro
• Implications of political decentralisation for village forest governance in Indonesia
• Pro-rural migration and generational renewal in Japanese agriculture
• Café Simples: Specialty coffee and the negotiation of prestige in São Paulo, Brazil
• The Pitt Rivers Museum is shortlisted for the Art Fund Museum of the Year Award 2019
• Asylum after empire
• On invisibility and agency of the displaced: between hospitality and asylum
• 'Our shelter is in shreds': deterrence, destruction and dispossession at the post-camp Calais border
• Book launch and discussion. Lande: the Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond
• 'Whiteness and the Crisis': Astor Visiting Lectureship hosted by the Pitt Rivers Museum
• 'Whiteness and the Crisis' (second lecture). Astor Visiting Lectureship hosted by the Pitt Rivers Museum
• Kiran Basava
• Constructing Who is Japanese: A Study of Social Markers of Acceptance in Japan and Beyond
• Immigrants Living in Extreme Situations: Immigrant Syndrome with Extreme Migratory Mourning- The Ulysses Syndrome
• Ana Gutierrez Garza and Sarah-Jane White have been shortlisted in this year's Student-Led Teaching Awards
• Maoist People's War and the Revolution of Everyday Life in Nepal
• Editorial Board
• Susana Carvalho is awarded a National Geographic grant
• Funding boost for MN Srinivas Professorship in the Anthropology of India
• Dr Akanksha Awal
• Science, religion and the human social mind
• The Tarai's Aspirations in Federal Nepal: The Hopes and Demands of Madheshi Youth
• Anthropology at Oxford tops The Guardian university league tables
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• RAI Ninth Annual Student Conference. Anthropology: Past, Present and Future
• Mind and Spirit: How the Way People Think about Thinking Affects the Way People Experience God
• Screening Asylum in a Culture of Disbelief: The Hidden Legacy
• DPhil in Migration Studies
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• A primate's response to death
• Tsherin Sherpa is ‘Artist in Residence’ at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
• Where the Wild Things Are: Migration and Life beyond the Global City
• The International EFP-PSGB Conference, Oxford, 8-11 September 2019
• Wenner-Gren Foundation Workshop at Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique, 23-25 July 2019
• Professor Clare Harris is elected to a Fellowship of the British Academy, 19 July 2019
• Efrat Goldshmid
• Claudio Sopranzetti wins the 2019 Margaret Mead award
• CANCELLED: The Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture 2020
• Moments of Meeting: a critical medical anthropology workshop
• Artificial intelligence used to recognise primate faces in the wild
• The Anthropology of Antarctica
• Ethnography inside and out: notes for an anthropology of nefarious systems
• The axial age, global history, and anthropology
• Geographies of anticipatory socialisation: rehearsing diplomacy in the interstate margins
• Multisensory anthropology: prospects and impediments
• Aspiring for elsewhere: education, migration and mobility in rural Chattisgarh
• CANCELLED: What a diary can proffer. A light touch on a serious subject?
• Granting the future? The temporality of cash transfers in the South African countryside
• Photographic affordances: [re]entanglements in an ethnographic archive
• Human crop: tangled tales and racial fictions from the global trade in human hair
• Rebel lives: photographs from the Lord’s Resistance Army commanders
• Anti-kitsch, or how to make a socialist doily. The politics of amateur art in communist Czechoslovakia
• Into the abyss: image excess in the slide library
• Animals’ matter: commodification and singularization of ‘animal substances’ in South Korea
• Making the National Museum of Qatar: creating a national museum for a local audience under global scrutiny
• Rethinking digital anthropology
• Michel Boym’s translation of Chinese medical texts in the 17th century
• Interaction in the living translation of Chinese medicine
• Notes on the history of the standardization of traditional Chinese medicine terminology in the English language
• CANCELLED: Analysis and analogy in Chinese medicine: making sense of TCM theory for beginners
• Can wearable sensors and machine learning enhance our understanding of lifestyle health behaviours?
• Nutrient timing and human health
• Protectors and killers: microbial drivers of pathogen evolution
• The evolution of ineffective and harmful medical treatments
• Evolutionary approaches to health inequalities
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• CANCELLED. Isotope-based reconstructions of early hominin dietary versatility in Pleistocene Africa
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• Political systems of highland Burma 2020: a study of Kachin Nationalism today
• Aging in exile: experiences of old age among elderly Tibetans in India and Nepal
• William Allen is selected as one of the 2019-20 cohort of Public Engagement with Research (PER) Leaders
• Carlos Vargas-Silva has taken the role of COMPAS Director
• Peace and conflict as group norms: understanding factionalism and polarisation
• Dr Paula Sheppard
• Dr Timothy Clack
• Film Screening: Chasing Shadows (Roger Canals, 2019)
• The School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography's One Thousandth DPhil
• Suhaila Al Behandy
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• M.N. Srinivas Professorship in the Anthropology of India
• A review of the Ninth RAI Student Conference, which was hosted by SAME
• Western Amazonian episthemologies on healing and knowledge production
• Relations in a digital world: challenges in looking for a view from afar
• What are Exhibitions For? An Anthropological Approach
• Dr Bastian Thomsen
• School Newsletter 2019 - Projects
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• Dr Ina Zharkevich
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• Dace Dzenovska awarded ERC grant for research on emptying towns and villages in Eastern Europe
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• Peruvian event co-organised by the School, the Latin American Centre and the Peruvian Embassy, 9 December 2019
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• The Post-Mauryan War for Identity
• David Gellner gave a talk on MN Srinivas and Oxford in Bangalore on 10 December
• The British Academy awards David Gellner and Krishna Adhikari a grant for the project 'The Dalit Search for Dignity'
• Height, weight and prostate cancer
• Is obesity a choice?
• Coffee, pure and simple: Rejection of milk and sugar by Brazilian specialty coffee consumers
• An eco-bio-socio-political approach to anaemia in Peru
• New perspectives on weight and metabolic changes in Alzheimer’s disease and dementia
• Framing obesity as a problem
• Sustainability on stage: FoodTech and the spectacle of innovation
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• Revitalizing Traditional Medicine: Opportunities and Challenges
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• CANCELLED: A Comparative Study of Tianhui Medical Manuscripts and Huangdi Neijing
• Towards an epistemology of international development
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• How do mammals respond to changing environments? Perspectives from movement ecology
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• CANCELLED: Climate change as a driver of hominin evolution
• Current and future approaches to improving human-predator relations
• CANCELLED: Plants crossing borders: between local communities and international law: how ontologies help plant data to cross borders
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• Attempted portraits: photography and the limits of visibility in Evans-Pritchard’s ethnography
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• The photographic representation of struggle and the struggle for photographic representation: an introduction to 'Direct Action Photography'
• CANCELLED: Remembering Turkana: photo-elicitation and material histories in northwestern Kenya
• The discovery of animal cultures and its multifarious implications across biology, psychology, anthropology and conservation
• Isotope-based reconstructions of early hominin dietary versatility in Pleistocene Africa
• Evolution of the primate vocal tract: the known, the unknown and the unknowable
• Causes and consequences of cooperative games in young children
• Coexistence matters: great ape adaptability in human-impacted landscapes
• CANCELLED: Classic conversations: Konrad Lorenz, pioneer ethologist
• CANCELLED: Darwin's manufactory hypothesis revisited
• CANCELLED: Gorongosa Research Day
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• Informality and the labour market effects of mass migration: evidence from Syrian refugees in Turkey
• Cooperation in a fragmented society: experimental evidence on Syrian refugees and natives in Lebanon
• Understanding the socioeconomic profile of refugees in Kalobeyei, Kenya
• The impacts of refugee repatriation on receiving communities
• The impacts of refugees beyond the labour markets in Africa
• CANCELLED: The ideal refugee-host? Questioning Uganda’s self-reliance strategy
• CANCELLED: Job search assistance for refugees in Jordan: an adaptive field experiment
• Kushan Rule and the Pitfalls of International Trade
• Gendered Fertility: Reproductive Aspirations and Practices in Contemporary Havana
• No Pressure? A Comparative Analysis of the Gendered Pathways to Childlessness in Colombia
• Negotiations between Gender and Career upon Parenthood in Contemporary China
• Fertility Recuperation in a Very Low Fertility Society: Political & Economic Attitudes, Technology & Second Births in Ukraine
• The Place of the First Birth in the Strategy of Family Formation in Contemporary Russia
• Continuity and Change in Geographical Patterns in UK Fertility: the Case of London
• Reflecting on the Past: Long-term Spatial Persistence of Fertility Behaviour from the First to the Second Demographic Transition in England and Wales
• A Spatial Approach to European Fertility Trends
• The Death Awareness Movement in the UK: what does a good relationship with mortality look like?
• An ethnography of mud-dyeing on Amami Oshima island
• Ruikatsu activities in Tokyo: a preliminary exploration of the link between crying and mental health
• The well and the orange: traces of Palestinian modernity in South Jaffa
• Saving Kachinland or the Northern Forest Complex? The 'geo-ethno-politics' of nationalism and nature conservation in war-torn Burma
• CANCELLED: Training the nature watcher’s eye in urban parks in Beijing
• CANCELLED: Sha'bi sounds: music, class and emotion in contemporary Cairo
• CANCELLED: Between paper, person, and passage: a German case-study of the global passport system
• Steve Rayner, James Martin Professor of Science and Civilisation and founding director of the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS), has passed away
• The origins of Amazonian landscapes
• Reproducibility Research Oxford: Launch report and upcoming event
• Finding Our Path To Digital Autonomy: Exploring the Relationship Between Tech Ethics, Privacy and Software Freedom
• Civilisation Recast: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives
• Dr Jakub Lonsky
• Denis Kierans
• Dr Anna Ulrikke Andersen
• Dr Gabriela Nicolescu
• Prof Vernon Reynolds has been given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Primatological Society
• The Evolution of Aging, the Great Transition, and the Increasing Risk of Chronic Disease
• Why do we care so much about games?
• The University of Oxford is ranked first for Anthropology in the QS World University Rankings
• Hope Parkin
• Dr Jerome Ravetz
• The Marett Memorial Lecture 2021: The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Ethnography & Empathy in the 21st Century
• Mambila Divination: Framing Questions, Constructing Answers
• Professor Steve Woolgar
• Dr Oliver Geden
• Professor Björn-Ola Linnér
• Dr Stefan Schäfer
• Coronavirus: The School’s admin teams have transitioned to home working
• Nicholas Justin Allen (1939-2020)
• Dr Felice Wyndham
• Dr Tanja Schneider
• The Coronavirus and Mobility Forum
• Reconstructing early hominin landscape use: perspectives from chimpanzee nut-cracking
• 'Critical global mental health' and 'Training the nature watcher’s eye in urban parks in Beijing'
• 'Putting your heart on the screen' and 'Sha'bi sounds'
• A toeless tourism: developing Calabrian food tourism within regional and global contexts
• Graduate Research Seminar TBC
• Space-time disruptions: Donbas migrants and the state in Ukraine and Russia
• Between paper, person, and passage: a German case-study of the global passport system
• Logistics and Infrastructure - InSIS-COMPAS workshop
• AABS Book Prize Awarded to Dace Dzenovska
• A call for papers in honour of Nick (N.J.) Allen
• Learn some Oxford birds while in Lockdown
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• Dr Michael Morrison
• UBVO launches a new podcast series
• SAME wins two Social Sciences Division Urgent Response awards: Economic, Social, Cultural & Environmental Impacts of COVID-19
• Dr Mariña Fernández-Reino
• Dr Bhawani Buswala
• Dr Anja Simonsen
• Dr Samuel Chen
• Dr Bani Gill
• Dr Marie Mallet-Garcia
• Dr Peter Walsh
• Dr Adam Baimel
• The Dalit Search for Dignity: State, Society, and Mobilization from Below in Far West Nepal
• In Praise of Folly: Play as a Window into Primate Cognition
• A Pan-African Perspective: Chimpanzee behavioural diversity across their range
• Dr Emmanouil Pratsinakis
• Dr William Kelly, Research Affiliate at SAME, is awarded a Teaching Development and Enhancement Project (TDEP) Award 2019-20
• Dr Bronwyn Tarr, Departmental Lecturer at SAME, is awarded a 2020 Divisional Teaching Excellence Award (Early Career Stream)
• World Chimpanzee Day
• Second year of the Oxford-Museu Exchange
• Combination of poor eating and reduced physical activity contributed to negative mental health in England’s Covid-19 lockdown
• Disobedient Buildings
• The latest issue of JASO is now published online - Vol XII, No. 1
• BA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022/23 Call
• New vacancy: Postdoctoral Researcher on the 'Ritual Modes' Project
• New Paleontology Laboratory at Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park opens
• Dr Emma Cohen wins an Award from the James S McDonnell Foundation
• Age, economic insecurity, and mental health in England across Covid-19 pandemic lockdown
• Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships 2023
• Oxford Anthropology is ranked no. 1 in the UK in the Guardian Rankings
• New vacancy: Postdoctoral Researcher for the GASCON Project
• Anna Sehnalova
• Dr Di Wu
• Emptiness: Living Capitalism and Democracy After (Post)socialism
• Dr Lena Rose
• Stanley Ulijaszek is one of 366 experts contributing insights to UK Parliament Lords Select Committee into Life beyond COVID-19
• Survival of the Friendliest: convergent evolution in dogs, bonobos and humans
• The evolution of animal self-medication, with particular reference to the Order Primates
• Coastal hominins? Towards an Indian Ocean basin perspective
• The Red Queen versus the Court Jester: Determinants of Speciation in Human Evolution
• Cracking away at the origins of tool use in a macaque model system
• POSTPONED: Edible insects and human evolution
• Pick it, strip it, stick it, store it – the life cycle of a crow’s hook tool
• Increasing local community engagement and its expertise to protect lemurs and their habitats in Madagascar
• Why Divination? Cultural Attractors and Strategic Interaction
• Devoted Actors and the Spiritual Dimensions of Human Conflict
• The Secret Life of Social Norms: From Nations to Neurons
• Understanding Unbelief: Across disciplines and across cultures
• We Who Do Not Die: Outbreak Narrative's Limits and the Political Category of Survivor
• Can Black Lives Matter in a Black Country? Lessons from Jamaica
• Colonial encounters in Acholiland and Oxford: the anthropology of F.K.Girling and Okot p'Bitek, co-hosted with the African Studies Centre
• The Globally Familiar: Digital hip hop and gendered aspirations in urban India
• Contingency, Futurity, and Ethics: Photographic ethnographies from Nepal, India, and Bangladesh
• On Correspondence
• Heritage Justice
• The Global Smartphone
• Displaced Things: Habit, longing and hope among artefacts in museums
• Anthropology and the Curatorial
• Humans visiting gods; gods visiting gods: Chinese pilgrimage culture
• Jhāna wars: the stakes of attention in post-Buddhism
• Touching objects of pilgrimage in Japan in the Minpaku National Museum of Ethnology
• What it means to be quantified – exploring grading in German secondary schools
• Unpacking the divination industry in Hong Kong
• An ecological life course perspective on human aging and chronic disease-related mortality
• Christianity is Indigeneity: identity formation and political resistance at Maohi Protestant Church in French Polynesia
• Ancestral halls and modern temples - museums in postcolonial Hong Kong
• Tall men, broad women, difficult childbirth, and helpless babies have stronger evolutionary explanations than the oppressive myths to which science and pop culture cling
• Environmental stressors and their effects on the menstrual cycle
• Seeing people in poverty as rational (or perhaps adaptive) actors
• Sadness, Madness, and Natural Selection
• Group Walking: A Shared Pathway to Health?
• Halving premature death
• Linear growth and life history trade-offs: an evolutionary perspective on strategies to address malnutrition
• The syndemic of COVID-19, obesity and food insecurity in the United States
• The damaging impact of weight stigma: Psychosocial stress and harmful health consequences
• Feeling the ‘weight’ of expectation: The necessity of understanding ‘obesity’ as a biopsychosocial phenomenon
• Cultured meat as a case study in the future of food
• Voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV prevention in Kenya: Anthropology and ethics in the pursuit of public health
• Connection and conflict: hHw neoliberal healthism and inequity shape bariatric surgery support forum dynamics
• Policy anthropology
• Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting: Weight and other ways that Stigma undoes Global Health
• Intersections and Dissonances between Race, Ethnicity and Migration Studies
• Race, Ethnicity and Migration: Critical Perspectives from the Global North and Global South
• Race, Ethnicity and Migration across Methodologies and Disciplines
• Race, Ethnicity and Migration: Stakeholders, Experiences and Strategies
• Trust Me, I’m Sick (2020. Directed by S. Stewart)
• The Work (2017. Directed by J. McLeary & G. Aldous)
• Room bookings
• UBVO Workshop: Food, Activity, and Mental Health in the Year of Coronavirus
• Changing diet and food consumption in post-socialist Mongolia
• Professor Elaine Reese
• Band of mothers: Childbirth as a female bonding experience - new study from CSSC
• Dr Gwen Burnyeat
• Announcement: Professor Marcus Banks
• Dr Anthony Howarth
• Warm congratulations to all our new Professors!
• Blow-up in Bissau A photographic exhibition organised by Dr Ramon Sarró and colleagues has helped re-establish the National Ethnographic Museum in Guinea-Bissau
• Dalton Price
• Loki Hu
• Elodie Freymann
• RAI Honours and Awards
• Gabriele Paone
• Susana Carvalho to appear on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week
• Xi Zhang
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• Kristen McCollum
• Roxana Akhmetova
• Ewen MacArthur
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• Jacinto Mathe
• The Primate Society of Great Britain awards João d' Oliveira Coelho Best Poster Prize
• Michelle Chew
• Jonas Elbousty
• Inky Gibbens
• Sabrina Illiano
• Aasiya Kazi
• Zenobie Van De Perre
• Jordan Gorenberg
• Christopher Osborne
• Dr Rhea Arini
• New international network for freedom of religion and belief
• The AfOx Research Development Awards
• Dr Mark Stanford
• Developing a praxis of decoloniality at the Pitt Rivers Museum
• Global Reckonings in Torture
• Moving Still: Bicycles in Ranchhod Oza’s Photographs of 1950s Stone Town (Zanzibar)
• Revisiting a West African Ethnographic Archive: Colonial Legacies, Decolonial Affordances
• Decolonising Primatology
• Blackness and the Psychiatric: Reflections on Madness, Historiography, and Ethnography
• CANCELLED: Anthropology, Fiction, and Decolonization: Chinua Achebe and the ‘Image of Africa’
• Carcinogenic residues of global biomedicine in Senegal
• Why Go on Pilgrimage? Geomancy and the Transformational Powers of Sacred Places in Tibetan Buddhism and Bon
• Medicine Mountains along the Himalayas: Healing, Trade, and Ecology
• Karmic Healing in China's "Sacred Margins": Han Chinese Pilgrimage at Larung Gar
• Can Sacred Landscapes Heal? Reflections on Territorial Cults, Spirit Possession and Pilgrimage in Tibet and the Himalayas
• Planning an exhibition during Covid
• Making ‘Photographs from another place’
• Divining value in subtle traces: Exploring the potential of new analytical methods to study shell beads
• Human remains as cultural objects: A case study in Tibetan material religion
• The movement exists in voice and sound: recording migratory activisms and sonic politics in Athens
• Curating NIRIN, the 22nd Biennale of Sydney
• An Ethnographic investigation of the messianic aspirations and embodied experiences of Twelver Shi’a pilgrims in Iran
• Abstract as Default: Perpetuating postcolonial power dynamics in conservation biology at the expense of subaltern nonhuman animals
• Banal Utopia: Urban Gardening as a practice for materialising utopic city spaces
• Critical Global Mental Health and the Hidden Lives of Rajasthani Women
• Fitting in and making fit: the negotiation of caste, class, and gender in accessing migration channels from Nepal
• Of Apes and Tools: Insights into the evolution of technology
• The Active Grandparent Hypothesis: Physical activity and aging in humans versus other primates
• Gibbons of Asia
• Contextualizing the Chimpanzee Niche: How savanna mosaic chimpanzee ecology can offer to insights into human evolution & beyond
• The Paleobiology, Paleoecology and Biogeography of the Earliest Australopithecus: New insights from Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia
• Making Up for a Missed Encounter? Why cultural primatologists and cultural anthropologists didn't get to talk
• Meaning and Context in Great Ape Gestures
• Ravens, crows, and co. - A new model taxon for investigating the evolution of prosociality
• A life between shells: things, places and landscapes of Diola people - Guinea Bissau
• Life on the other border: farmworkers and food justice in Vermont
• Talking sugar in South Africa
• The role of popular culture in creating new norms for wellness
• Preconception interventions: the future of obesity prevention strategies?
• From the pandemic to the pan: A cross-continental overview of changes in consumers cooking and food practices during COVID-19
• Changes in physical activity and eating habits during the pandemic: A Brazilian view
• The social origins of childhood obesity
• Post-COVID-19 futures: The need for a paradigm shift in economics
• Andrés González Dinamarca
• Judit Molnár
• Changing (In)Fertilities: a global study of situated fertility transitions
• Birth Models that Work: Standing the test of time?
• A Revolution for Women? Access to contraception and abortion care in post-revolutionary Tunisia
• Rethinking ‘Fertility’ and ‘Voluntary’ Family Planning in Population and Development
• Women’s Diversity in the Shape of the Birth Canal: Implications for human evolution and modern maternal care
• Familial Biopolitics, Intimate Transgressions: Reproductive travels between Turkey and Northern Cyprus
• Re-Imagining Reproductive Health and Rights in India
• Cancer Risk versus Fertility Desires
• Residence and citizenship by investment: understanding recent trends
• Citizenship by investment and international law
• Citizenship, status, and money: from medieval times to the present
• The law and ethics of selling citizenship
• Island (2020. Directed by S. Eastwood)
• Kahyangan: The Balinese Journey of the Soul (2010. L. Burman-Hall; E. Hollander)
• Mammoth (2018. A. Heller)
• Almost Heaven (2017. C. Salter)
• Dr Dominic Martin
• Dr Volodymyr Artiukh
• New vacancy: Postdoctoral Researcher for the OceanNETs Project
• United in defeat: shared suffering and group bonding among football fans
• Dr Sara De Wit
• Naomi Setchell
• Burning Bridges: Redevelopment and Temporal Uncertainty in Loyalist Sandy Row, Belfast
• Jose Maria Valenzuela
• Vacancy: Research Fellow in Inclusive Net Zero
• Dr Lina Beatriz Pinto García
• RAI FILM festival 2021
• Dr James Palmer
• Welcome to the new Emptiness website
• New vacancy: Associate Professorship in Visual Anthropology
• Reproducible Research Oxford event: Science as Amateur Software Development
• Course themes
• Course structure (VMMA)
• Teaching & the Pitt Rivers Museum
• Further study
• Dissertation topics
• Swimming pod – Alex Foster and an Anthropology of a Swimming Club
• Jana Muschinski awarded the Owen F Aldis Scholarship by the International Society for Human Ethology
• Remembering Dr Iain Morley
• Congratulations to DPhil Austin Argentieri published in Epigenomics
• Summoning up the Forces of the Environment: Glaciers, Deities, Ancestors, and Treasures in Pilgrimage and Healing in East Tibet
• Dr Alejandro Reig
• The Social Science of Malaria Control
• Studying the origins of perishable technology
• On Course Materials
• The Pearl of Dari: Poetry and Personhood among Young Afghans in Iran
• Owners of the Map: Motorcycle Taxi Drivers, Mobility, and Politics in Bangkok
• Making Film in Egypt: How Labor, Technology, And Mediation Shape The Industry
• Visual Histories Of South Asia
• Ethnographies of Uncertainty in Africa
• Diversifying Portraiture
• The RAI Festival honours Marcus Banks with a live remembrance event on 26 March
• Social Anthropology
• What is social anthropology?
• Course structure (soc anth)
• Further study (soc anth)
• Teaching staff (soc anth)
• Voicing the Self (Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021, Lecture 2)
• Claiming Voice (Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021, Lecture 3)
• Public Voice (Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021, Lecture 4)
• Cultural determinants of health as a research framework: A case study from Indigenous Australia
• Lockdown cuisine
• Lockdown food: Podcasting through the pandemic
• The new normal or back to normal? Parents of children with obesity speak about their experiences across two waves of the Covid-19 pandemic
• An emergent taste for exotica in the pharmacy texts of 18th century China
• Eating tradition: toward a social history of donkey hide gelatin (e'jiao)
• The trade and conservation of pangolins
• Abating great heat with xiniu powder: biodiversity costs and conservation solutions
• Anatomy Museum: Death and the Body Displayed
• Cousin Marriages: Between Tradition, Genetic Risk and Cultural Change
• The Politics of Memory: Urban Cultural Heritage in Brazil
• Huaorani Transformations in Twenty-First-Century Ecuador: Treks into the Future of Time
• Refugia: Radical Solutions to Mass Displacement
• Atlantic Perspectives: Places, Spirits and Heritage
• UNIQ Summer School
• Here, there and everywhere: some thoughts on the ‘prehistory’ of ethnographic film
• Light flowing from the heart: A discussion of how audiovisual media and microphenomenological interviews can be used to describe religious experience – A Presentation of scenes from an ethnographic film project
• The Cliffhangers: Suicide Shows and the Aesthetics of Protest in China
• A Future for Memory: Art and anthropology around the 3.11 disaster in Japan
• The Anthropological Lens: Rethinking E.E. Evans-Pritchard
• Performing Tibetan Identities
• Dr Ilka Vari-Lavoisier
• Edible Insects and Human Evolution
• Emotional and Social Regulation in Capuchin Monkeys
• Science Writing for the Public: Q&A with Kate Wong
• Conserving Gorillas Through a One Health Approach
• Physiological challenges for baboons in anthropogenic landscapes
• The Face of Peace: Government Pedagogy amidst Disinformation in Colombia
• Are Asian Societies Better Prepared for Pandemics?
• It’s Only a Matter of Time: Eviction, Uncertainty, and Temporal Disorientation in an Urban Travellers’ Camp
• Regeneration and its Hazards: A Commentary on Our Times
• Countenance: On Facing the Indeterminate Certitudes of a Serious Illness
• Dr John Loewenthal
• Dr Martin Lundsteen
• Land of Silence and Darkness (1971. W. Herzog)
• Deaf Jam (2010. L. Burman-Hall; E. Hollander)
• Emigration states, existential sovereignty, and migrant responses
• Is emigration a blow to liberal democracy?
• Emigrants and emigration states: a contested relationship?
• Susana Carvalho wins a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship
• ‘Moving out’ and ‘about’: reconceptualising treatment outcomes with Restore, an Oxford mental health charity
• Depending on a foundering shelter: insurgent disability demands in Mombasa, Kenya
• Brain-computer interface unmanned aerial vehicle research. Anthropological perspectives from an intensive survey
• Virtuous money: integral and mixed methods to evaluate a currency innovation
• Professor Stanley Ulijaszek contributes to latest UK Parliament Research Briefing on Childhood Obesity
• Dr Richard Vokes
• Mel Goodchild
• Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology
• Course structure (MSc CEA)
• Teaching staff & labs (MSc CEA)
• Further study (MSc CEA)
• Space trucking: the mediation of politics and economics through space
• Steve Rayner: Navigating the post-truth world
• Professor Michael Hutt
• Dr Celia Deane-Drummond
• Visit the Pitt Rivers Museum
• Dissertation topics (MSc CEA)
• London Anthropology Day 2021
• Illustrating Anthropology: online exhibition tour
• How Peer Community in Registered Reports Lets Researchers Take Back Control Over the Publishing Process
• Congratulations to Jacinto Mathe and Gimo Daniel on receiving the Nat Geo Explorer Community Project award
• Dr Ewa Majczak
• Dr Leonie Schulte
• Robyn Mason
• Dr Jessica Omukuti
• Dr Alessandro Corso
• The Oxford-Berlin research partnership
• Uprooting the Anthropocene: (re-)centring trees in tree-human relationships
• Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023
• Cameroon with a view
• Dr Karin Kapadia
• Rules and ethics: Perspectives from anthropology and history
• Teaching staff (VMMA)
• Open Day 17 Sept 2021
• Dr Maxim Bolt
• Communication as Emergence and Possibility
• No. 1 in the Guardian's best UK universities for anthropology league table
• Visual, Material, and Museum Anthropology (VMMA)
• Dr Matthew Porges
• O2RB Excellence in Impact Awards 2021 – Winners announced
• A new study co-authored by Ridhi Kashyap features in The Guardian
• Magnifying the man about town: orature and print personhood in 1920s Lagos
• Black skins/white languages: artmaking in Western languages by Kurdish migrant women artists
• The architecture of language: an exploration in 3D
• Big boys and babies: Conflict in a community of practice
• “I don’t write Navajo poetry, I just speak the poetry in Navajo:” Poetic Communion, Ethical Listeners, and the Imagined Future Publics of Navajo Poetry
• The past in the present: archives of longing among the Batek of Malaysia
• The International Gender Studies Lecture 2021: Language of Resistance: Female Plaintiffs Facing the Japanese Government and TEPCO in the Fukushima Litigation
• ‘Things a woman ought not to know’: the position of female anthropologists at Oxford in the early twentieth century
• Filling China’s gaps: Viral banks and bird collections as museums for pandemics
• Curating absence in the Tibet Museum
• Negative Thinking
• Festival as Architecture: A Graphic Anthropology of Sanja Matsuri and other Japanese Festivals
• Seeing the City digitally: from picturing urban spaces to animating urban life
• An anthropologist in an art school: Anthropology, art and transdisciplinarity
• Makushi Women Feed
• Identification as ethical practice: writing about precarious liminality and life with stateless Bidoon asylum-seekers
• COVID-19 and the Warmth factor disorders (wenyi)
• Some simple recipes: composition and genealogy
• Treat what you see! Dissecting a TCM case study
• Travelling with sugar
• Sensing Sugaropolis: Geographies of sugar in Greenock, Scotland
• Sugarproof
• Sugar-Coated: Sugar tax and media discourses in the context of policymaking
• The Cultural Contexts of Health: Global Lessons and Policy Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Change and stability in eating practices: Evidence from four Nordic countries
• First results of the SWEET EU project: Sweeteners and the incidence of obesity and related health outcomes in 5 European cohorts
• Anthropology for policy
• UBVO Workshop: Coffee and (New) Foodways in East Africa
• Affective Ties, Citizen-Activists and Migrating Sex Workers: Migration Sex Work and Trafficking
• ‘Unfortunately, I am not lucky’: Migrant Writing from Singapore and Australia
• Religion and Migrating Genders and Loves
• Whose Versions of Love and Marriage?
• Woody cover and hominin environment
• Fossil apes and human evolution
• Reinventing the framework for leave-taking: an example using wild chacma baboons (Papio ursinus)
• Kinda baboons at Kasanka National park: past, present and future
• Bringing primate technological landscapes to life using computer simulation
• The shape of human evolution
• Did hominins impact carnivore diversity in the African Plio-Pleistocene, and if so how and why?
• Exploration and interpretation of East Africa's plant fossil record with emphasis on the Miocene
• The Inner Light (2019. Directed by S. Sick)
• Half Elf (2021. Directed by J. B. Magnússon)
• Coming of Age (2011. Directed by C. Turley)
• COMPAS and OMS event - Panel discussion: What does the future hold for cities, climate change and migration
• The 4th Lévi-Strauss Memorial Lecture will be presented by Ramon Sarró on 21 October
• Naomi Marshall
• Concrete Blocks, Bollards, and Ha-ha Walls: How Rationales of the Security Industry Shape our Cities
• The cultural evolution of warfare practices: examining the roles of social structure, political complexity, and resource ecology with cross-cultural comparative analyses
• New vacancy: Associate Professorship in the Anthropology of Migration
• Dr Chantelle Lewis
• PEAK Urban at COP26
• DPhil Research: JC Niala
• What Delhi’s Drains and Plastics teach us about informality and resilience in today’s cities
• On absence
• Dr Sara Nawaz
• Sharmarke Ali
• Artificial intelligence used to identify primate behaviours in the wild
• Exploring the experiences of London's Latin America migrants in Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic
• Dr Shashank Chaturvedi
• Histories of Oxford Anthropology Project (HOAP)
• HOAP Project summary & call for Expressions of Interest
• Congratulations to Susana Carvalho on becoming Professor of Paleoanthropology
• John Erik Åndahl
• Susana Kolb Cadwell
• Femke Vulto
• Chloe Curtis
• Tanuj Luthra
• Princess Banda
• Alaba Angole
• Felix Rolt
• Siyu Tang
• Mathilde Morin
• Yong Han Poh
• Iliriana Blakaj
• Peyton Cherry
• Simone Delzin
• Tsovinar Kuiumchian
• Nana Oforiatta Ayim
• Suqi Tang
• Isaiah Wellington-Lynn
• Zehra Demir Dalay
• Ruta Nimkar
• Abril Rios Rivera
• Maria Gunko
• Vittorio Bruni
• Rose Campion
• Laura Bergin
• Zhixuan Huang
• Aishwarya Mukhopadhyay
• Julia Friederike Pank
• Xin Qu
• Zoe Zielke
• Professor Chris Beedie
• The Ritual Animal: Imitation and Cohesion in the Evolution of Social Complexity
• Professor Madeleine Reeves
• Austen Fisher
• DPhil Research - List of thesis titles
• DPhil Research: Siyu Tang
• Holding the Frame/Playing the Game: Transference as Political Potentiality
• The Anthropology of Parliaments: Riffs and Rhythms in Political Work
• Diversity in an Era of Global Anthropocene Effects: An Anthropological Perspective
• The Visual Evidence of State Achievements in Egypt
• When Politics and Parasites Meet: Malaria as (Un)conscious Strategy in Palawan, the Philippines
• Colombia, Citizens, and Anthropologists
• The Empty House: On the Debt of Migration in Rural Kyrgyzstan
• Intergroup Relations in Chimpanzees and Bonobos
• Special Affects: Witnessing, Embodiment, and Racial Erasure in Virtual Reality
• Demanding Images: Democracy, Mediation, and the Image-Event in Indonesia
• Images on the Move: Migrant Saints ‘Beyond’ the Mexico-US Border
• O.G.S. Crawford’s Feet: Archaeological Pathways through a Photographic Archive
• CANCELLED: Pieces of a Nation: South Sudanese Heritage and Museum Collections (Book launch & discussion)
• Age of Saturn: Parafictional Art and Historical Narration in Bangladesh
• CANCELLED: The Object of Conservation
• Infrastructures of Containment: Museums, Beyond and Possibilities Into the Future
• Innovations of traditional Chinese medicine and pharmacotherapy – a European perspective
• Exploring Artemisia annua in search for potential drugs to treat cancer and viral infections
• From Cell Biology to Systems Biology & Traditional Medicine
• From grassroots to platform: The reconfiguration of alternative food provisioning in the online world
• Food and digital media: a more-than-human approach
• Curating good choice: Digital marketplace platforms and the framing of eating
• Excess as entertainment: Mukbang and the theatrics of eating for an online audience
• Personalised nutrition and dietary behaviour change in an online study across 7 European countries
• Food in the digital platform economy - health and safety implications of buying and selling food online
• Long covid: how changing my world view led to my recovery
• CANCELLED: A new era of nutritional research; Insights from the ZOE Covid and PREDICT studies integrating AI, novel technologies, citizen science and remote clinical trials
• Dynamics of large-scale ecological restoration: Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique
• A multi-level approach to Gorongosa baboons' landscapes of fear
• Community empowerment for the conservation of Critically Endangered Primates in south-eastern Côte d'Ivoire: The role of transdisciplinary research
• Experiencing the natural world: Synthesizing art and science
• Cross-border collaboration for research and conservation of critically endangered primates
• CANCELLED: Faunal evolution and environmental change through time in the Rukwa Rift Basin of Tanzania
• From social networks to social learning in wild vervet monkeys
• Competitive dynamics in a frugivore primate guild
• Radhakrishnan Memorial Lectures 2022 Lecture 1: Voting with their Feet: Refugee Flows to Princely States in 1947
• Radhakrishnan Memorial Lectures 2022 Lecture 2: Thinking with Refugee-Subjects: Why Seek the Shelter of a Prince after Independence?
• Radhakrishnan Memorial Lectures 2022 Lecture 3: Subjects among a Democratic Citizenry
• Media, Myths and the reality of Climate Migration
• Climate, Migration and Cities
• Climate migration, mitigation or pathways to political conflict
• Law and Policy: legal instruments, climate migrants and refugees
• The making of home in contemporary Shanghai — who creates the home?
• Beyond the clinic: living with Neurofibromatosis Type 1
• Civic technology: grand utopias and daily disenchantments
• The dramaturgy and biopolitics of COVID-19: an ethnographic study of experiences and responses to state-led pandemic
• Navigating beliefs in Guinea-Bissau: evangelical conversion in a plural religious setting
• “If it’s compatible with your blood, it will have no side-effects”: understanding variation in contraceptive experiences in Ethiopia
• An Ethnography of an Industrial Sewing Community in Seoul: the Interdependent Local Network and the Declining Industry
• Identity and social position in the informal economy: A multidimensional analysis of social inequality in Kinshasa
• A new exhibition curated by Elizabeth Hallam held in Melbourne
• Andrew Macdonald
• New vacancy: Associate Professorship in Medical Anthropology
• America’s Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Reproductive Health on the Margins
• Who's Vulnerable to Maternal Death? Nurses at Risk in Tanzanian Maternity Care
• Vulnerability across the Life Course: A Problem in Medical Anthropology and Anthropological Demography, with examples from Indonesia
• Reproductive Abandonment in Urban Papua, Indonesia
• Pregnancy, Malaria and Vulnerability in East Nusa Tenggara, Eastern Indonesia
• Imperilled fertility, COVID-19 vaccines, and transgressing reproductive expectations: intersectional perspectives from the UK
• The Body Won’t Close (2020. Directed by M. van de Port)
• Becoming a Caterpillar (2021. Directed by P. Esposito)
• Regilaul - Songs of the Ancient Sea (2011. Directed by U. Koch)
• CSSC has been awarded a Leverhulme grant to investigate how to halt and reverse ongoing nature and biodiversity loss
• 1918 Allotment at the Old Fire Station
• JC Niala: 1918 Allotment
• Catherine Lieben
• Handbooks & Exam Conventions
• Training Opportunities
• Sovereignty Unmasked: Science & Technology Studies, the Pandemic, and Political Theory
• DPhil research: Gabriella Kountourides
• Human Sciences Symposium 2022 on Happiness - 2pm-5pm, Sat 5 Mar (online)
• The Marett Memorial Lecture 2022: Thinking 'in time' about the deep future - nuclear waste and the possibilities of ethnography
• Postdoctoral Research in The Conversation
• Emma Cohen awarded a Social Sciences Division Engagement Fellowship
• Dr Emma Rimpiläinen
• Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2022 - A Legal Politics of Religion
• Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2022 - Faith in the Rule of Law
• Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2022 - Shari‘a Politics as Legal Politics
• Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2022 - Embracing Positionality
• How Kinship Systems Change: On the Dialectics of Practice and Classification
• South Asia in Transition: An Introduction to the Social Anthropology of a Subcontinent
• JASOonline 2021-
• ESRC DTP Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023
• Fieldwork in Gorongosa
• Dr Suleiman Halasah
• A tribute to our alumnus Antonian Mantas Kvedaravicius (1976 – 2022)
• Why it is good to eat dogs (though it makes you defiled)
• 'In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua' and 'Stray Desires'
• 'Christianity on Trial: : Asylum, Conversion, and the Modern-Nation State?' and 'Migration Along the Western Balkan Route: Notes from the Field'
• The labour of sacrifice and the sacrifice of labour: A look at negativity and death in Finland
• Caves, carbonates and decolonisation: dating human evolution in South Africa in 2022
• Artistic Provenance Research
• CANCELLED: The making of an anthropological graphic novel: The King of Bangkok
• Exploring the Visual Representations of the Ainu People and the 'Absent Image'
• The object of conservation: ethnographic insights on heritage practice
• Visual and Visible Participation in Chinese Digital Culture
• Dreams of Birds Flying in the Sky Exploring the lives of persons with disabilities in the Himalayan country of Bhutan (film screening and discussion)
• Disability and psychiatric and neurological disorders in Bhutan
• Being Fat or Having Obesity: Combining Social Constructivism and Biomedical Research on Childhood Obesity
• Uncertainty and resilience
• UBVO at Fifteen Years Workshop, 12 May 2022
• ‘Swiping Right on Tradition’: An exploration of contemporary Emirati marriage practices
• Envisioning a Tibetan ‘Contact Zone’: Reconnecting displaced peoples with their displaced heritage
• Galapagos farmers: Climate change and the coexistential rift
• A Garden Palace to An Abandoned Slum: Hope for the State in Ethnic Peripheries of China
• The thing about being ‘Singaporean Indian’: Materialities of identity and belonging
• Biosocial perspectives on the premenstrual experience
• Breakfast Politics: on living through marginality in Tripoli, Lebanon
• Applications are invited for the Evans-Pritchard Lectureship 2023-2024
• The Fever: The Fight Against Malaria (2019. Directed by K. Weingarten)
• Raj to Rhondda: How Indian Doctors Saved the NHS (2008. BBC4 Documentary)
• The Disobedient Buildings Podcast joins the Oxford Podcasts stream
• Radhakrishnan Memorial Lecture: The Elements in the Anthropocene: Urban India’s Changing Climate: Rain
• Funding & Scholarships
• Gender, Race & X: Critical Approaches to Deconstructing Black Women’s Maternal Health Disparities
• Medical Anthropology Research Seminar Week 2 - details to be announced
• Dirt and Care: Queer Care in an Anal Dysplasia Clinic
• Camps, Surgeries, and Complex Dependencies: Eradicating Disability and Maintaining Care in India
• Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds
• Ethics of Abandonment: UK Trans Masculine Lower Surgery Provision During the Covid-19 Pandemic
• ME/CFS and Disability in the Iatrogenic Healthcare System of the US
• Intersexualized Adults Leading a Community Needs Assessment for Health and Other Services Across the Life Course
• The Henry Myers Lecture 2022: Rethinking Ritual: How rituals made our world… and how they could save it
• Dr Jennifer Larson
• Undergraduate Open Days 16 Sept
• Emily Cracknell
• Teaching Excellence Awards 2022 - Congratulations to Caroline Phillips and William Kelly!
• Dr Fiona Bowie
• Dr Irmelin Joelsson
• Dr Rosalie Allain
• School Governance
• ESRC New Investigator Grants - July 2023
• ERC – Starting Grants 2023
• Re-Creating Anthropology. Sociality, Matter, and the Imagination
• Volume of the Association of Social Anthropologists ASA2018 conference published
• test images page
• The Legacy of Maqdala 1868 at the Bodleian Library
• Harriet Ngubane: Zulu woman anthropologist
• Jessica Omukuti on the UN High-Level Expert Group on the Net-Zero Emissions Commitments of Non-State Entities
• COP26 put the world on a difficult path to net zero
• Call for Papers: Special issue of JASO
• Following Norberg-Schulz: An Architectural History through the Essay Film
• Chinese Medicine in East Africa: An Intimacy with Strangers
• Congratulations to our new Professors, Emma Cohen and Ramon Sarró!
• Unholy Catholic Ireland: Religious Hypocrisy, Secular Morality, and Irish Irreligion
• The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making
• The Everyday Lives of Sovereignty: Political Imagination Beyond the State
• Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene
• Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists
• Affective Encounters: Everyday Life among Chinese Migrants in Zambia
• Induction calendar Oct 2022-23
• Celebrating 50 years of Human Sciences at Oxford with our Alumni
• Dr Eben Kirksey
• Dr Emily Stevenson
• The Mākereti Papakura Inaugural Lecture
• Marina Abramović at the Pitt Rivers Museum
• Words to sow: Language, violence, and peacemaking in Ukraine
• Contemporary colonial frontier making: Thinking from the operational digital enclosure in Northwest China
• Gifting luck: The generativity of kin and action among Gbaya gold miners
• Bioeconomies and mobile life: Migration in Libya and the Mediterranean
• The contribution of Amerindian ethnology to the project of an “Anthropology of Life”
• Bureaucracy, archives and secrecy: An anthropological approach
• The Geoffrey Harrison Prize Lecture 2022 by Stanley Ulijaszek: Nutritional Anthropology
• Eating through the pandemic?
• CANCELLED: Eating disorders in Indigenous young people: Why is it different?
• Despair and abandonment: Why I gave up writing about our corporate food systems
• Outwitting the temporalities of ‘control’ for Type 2 diabetes in urban India
• On beer, tonics and icecream as gateways to cold technologies in Singapore
• CANCELLED: Beyond ‘silver bullets’: Childhood obesity intervention in Aotearoa New Zealand
• Co-design practices in diet and nutrition research
• The incunabula of a sub-discipline: researching early ethnographic photography from Natal, South Africa
• Disobedient buildings: An ethnography of housing, wellbeing and welfare in London
• Mnaajtood ge mnaadendaan/To honour and respect: Gifts from the Michi Saagiig women to the Prince of Wales, 1860 + 2023
• The visual anthropology of museums: postcards and the reproduction of institutional values
• Marks in a field / Plus marks in a field
• On the tracks of Maria Czaplicka. An ethnography of a collection
• Betwixt and between being at home: Migrants’ domestic possessions
• Peripheral memories: Absent images and decolonial memories at the edge of Europe
• Rebel Medicine: The Politicisation of Acupuncture in the Philippines
• The Practice of Acupuncture in the UK: How Regulation Moulds Expectations
• The Emergence of a New Traditional Acupuncture Practice in Korean Medicine
• CANCELLED: Chinese Medicines in Camerounian Medical Pluralism
• The Identity-Extremism Nexus in Virtual Groups: The Impact of Online Group Alignment on Radicalisation Towards Violence
• 'Taking Africa to the world': Economic emancipation and identity affirmation in the age of global media
• Seaweed, Climate Change, and New England’s Changing Working Waterfront
• Exploring Difference: The Long-Term Effects of Immigration on the Educational Outcomes of Natives
• Time to Be a Child: Youth Voice and Stories of Belonging in Japanese Foster Care
• China’s answer to the city of the future – Xiong’an New Area a city without urban villages
• CANCELLED: Developing an ethno-biographical account of photographs from Japan with the ‘Oyster Archive’
• Economic Livelihood and Transborder Lives in the Colombia-Venezuela Borderlands
• Lessons from howler monkeys on the causes and consequences or primate adaptation to fragmented landscapes
• From reproductive mobilities to reproductive geopolitics
• Bordering processes as instruments of reproductive stratification
• Transatlantic Transactions: Gay Men, Surrogacy and Queer Reproductive Justice
• CANCELLED: Reproductive Mobilities in Russia, China and Kazakhstan
• ‘No place for childbirth’: The burden of care in the securitized borderlands of Europe’s ultra-periphery
• Raju Bhatt
• Launch event: Viral Theory, e-flux journal Issue #130
• Kimberly Schoemaker
• Causes of obesity: theories, conjectures and evidence
• Organic tools of chimpanzees advance the search for the origin of percussive technology
• Viral Politics book launch
• Dr Sophie Frankford
• Dr Anne Friederike Delouis
• Lan Duo (Dora)
• Marguerite de Villiers
• Anika Kabani
• Dr Fuyubi Nakamura has won the American Anthropological Association’s Council of Museum Anthropology’s 2022 Michael M. Ames Prize for Innovative Museum Anthropology
• CANCELLED: Race-thinking and the Half-life of Atlantic Slavery
• 'If each comes halfway’ in doing Tamang women’s life histories
• Natasha Durie
• Guilherme Figueiredo
• Clara Fortes Brandao
• Kseniia Gavrilova
• Róisín Kennelly
• Sacha Mouzin
• Seijiro Takahashi
• C. Ryan Smith
• Beatrice Juskaite
• Abhishek Saha
• New vacancy: Associate Professorship in Evolutionary Anthropology
• Sweet Trawling Dreams
• ESRC Migration Studies Studentships 2023-24
• Graduate Open Day, 25 Nov 2022
• Dr Raffaella Taylor-Seymour
• InSIS Research Fellows at COP27
• Declan Gannon
• Josiane Matar
• Frederike Brockhoven
• Elisa Mosler Vidal
• Joséphine Robert
• Speculative hydrogen futures and ambitions for green recovery in the eastern Adriatic
• Sperm Donor X: A Different Conception (2010. Directed by D. Fishel)
• Born at Home (2000. Directed by Sameera Jain)
• Jingsi Wang
• Gaia Ardizzone
• Beatriz Mutter Quinderé Fraga
• Dr Juliet Bedford wins the Marsh Award for Anthropology in the World 2022
• Dr Laura Haapio-Kirk
• Job Vacancy: HR Officer (Part-Time)
• Oxford in the ‘New World’. Notes for a genealogy of the anthropology of South America
• Register now for webinar on Monday 12 December for prospective applicants for ESRC DTP studentships
• Job Vacancy: Associate Professorship in Medical and Biological Anthropology
• University of Oxford Researcher Stories: Understanding migration in the UK by Madeleine Sumption
• 'Living in tide: the climate of the urban sea' by Nikhil Anand (University of Pennsylvania)
• 'Entomological legacies of the armed conflict in Colombia' by Lina Pinto-García (InSIS & Universidad de los Andes)
• 'Crude sonics: field recordings from an extractive zone' by Zsuzsanna Ihar (University of Cambridge)
• 'How to stitch ethnography' by Tania Perez-Bustos (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
• 'Bananapocalypse: externalities in the making of plantation capitalism in a global Mindanao' by Alyssa Paredes (University of Michigan)
• 'Intimate rites: ancestors and queer kinship in Zimbabwe' by Raffaela Taylor-Seymourn (University of Oxford)
• 'The rise and fall of generation now' by Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen)
• Unseen connections: exhibiting the global stories of cellular technology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History
• The Matter in Museums
• CANCELLED: PRM VMMA seminar Week 4
• Friction: An engineer’s perspective on weaving grass rope bridges
• Collaborative curation: sound fragments, arts activism, and The Black Power Station
• Still Moving: Looking back at the Colonial Film Project
• Why write ethnographies of historical fieldwork photographs? A case study using James Hornell's 1907 ‘Oyster Archive’
• In/Formalizing livelihoods: an interdisciplinary case study of refugee work permit policies in Turkey
• Community as care: a virtual ethnography of online support groups for depression
• Games of chance: an ethnographic account of luck, risk, and uncertainty in Istanbul
• Walking the path: spiritual transformation in modern Druidry
• Remembering and restituting Maqdala 1868: the social and political meanings of the Maqdala Expedition through the lens of cultural restitution debates
• Eating together, alone
• New Travellers’ alternative worldmaking
• “When they force a woman, it’s to save her life”: Community perceptions of contraceptive coercion in an anonymized sub-Saharan African country
• Population chatter for clearer and broader thinking about fertility
• Social inequalities in the risk of miscarriage in the United Kingdom
• ‘Our marriage is sitting on a ticking time bomb’: Exploring the marital vulnerabilities among couples with male factor infertility in Pakistan
• Shifts in women’s pregnancy preferences during the COVID-19 Pandemic: insights from the Pandemic Journaling Project
• ‘Smaller families for a bigger future’: population and the politics of persuasion in Apartheid South Africa, 1960-1990
• Vulnerability as exclusion, as erasure: a study of absence and accountability in the context of reproductive health in Nepal
• “Gay issues have come in and it is worrying to us”: Men’s narratives of queerness, sex, and fertility norms in Accra, Ghana
• Joint Oxford – Tokyo UBVO Workshop: Physical Activity, Urbanism and Health
• ‘Beyond ‘silver bullets’: Childhood obesity intervention in Aotearoa New Zealand
• Female and male obesity across the world differs according to biology and economic status
• Obesity and dietary behaviours in Mongolia
• Maternal and neonatal health in Switzerland during pandemics, 1918/19 vs. 2020/21
• Eating together alone
• 15 (+!) ways estrogens influence adipose tissues
• Lived experience of childhood weight and diet interventions in four London neighbourhoods
• Xenophobic discrimination
• The evolution of SARS-CoV-2 during the pandemic, and the challenges of reporting about it
• EMPH seminar Week 4: Title TBA
• The cheating cell: How evolution helps us understand and treat cancer
• A Darwinian reinterpretation of the “hygiene hypothesis”
• Bringing up baby: an evolutionary view of pediatrics
• Unnatural Causes: Bad Sugar (2008. Directed by L. Adelman)
• The Trouble with Aid (2012. Directed by Ricardo Pollack)
• How I Live (2020. Directed by Meghan Shea)
• Joe Carson-Parker
• Ben Tams
• Delphine Boagey
• Hospital ethnography: a case from a non-western setting
• The biomedical closet: an ethnographic approach to HIV technologies and discourses
• CANCELLED: Care packages, phone calls and substitute kin: overcoming the rupture between home and intensive care in the first year of the Covid-19 Pandemic
• The challenges of person-centred care: ethnographic insights
• JASO Volume XIV is now published
• Unmasked - spirit in the city: An exhibition by David Pratten and Zina Saro-Wiwa
• British Academy International Fellowships 2023
• ERC Starting Grants 2023
• British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022/23
• Atlantic Slavery and its Aftermaths | Inaugural Lecture by Professor Paul Gilroy
• Professor Scott Lash
• Vanessa Beaumont
• Lives in Kenyan Science: Epistemic space and dynamism in research careers
• CANCELLED: Linking transformative sustainability education with knowledge decoloniality: insights from professional forestry training in Tanzania
• Book Launch: A Touch of Genius – A celebration of Evans-Pritchard
• The School welcomes Thomas Püschel, the new Associate Professor in Evolutionary Anthropology
• Evans-Pritchard Lectureship 2023-2024
• Dr Kenichi Tani
• UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships - Round 8
• Anthropology ranked 1st in the QS World University Rankings 2023
• Student funds & awards
• Anthropology, Philosophy and Symmetrisation
• The latest volume of TRAJECTORIA is now published
• Decolonising the Museum: Digital Repatriation of the Gaidinliu Collection from the UK to India (DiMuse)
• Dr Amy McLennan
• Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2023 - Antecedents
• Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2023 - Crises
• Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2023 - Afterlives
• Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2023 - In-betweens
• Reluctant Shamans: On the Limits of Human Agency and the Power of the Partible Souls among the Kham Magars in Nepal
• Marriage, Migration and the Labor of Alignment: A Malagasy Perspective
• Film Society: An Anthropology of the Cinema for the Society of the Screen
• Parasites, Invention, and Grace: Taking Turns in a Streetcorner Bureaucracy
• When Decolonisation Gets Hijacked: An Indian Story
• Book Launch: “Inventing an African Alphabet” by Ramon Sarró
• Heritage in the body: embodied ecologies of health in times of change
• Embodied and sensory therapeutic landscapes: refugee and asylum seekers’ urban wellbeing
• A physiologist’s interpretation of “The Union of Yin and Yang” (He yinyang) from the Mawangdui tomb
• What constitutes the female body during Japan’s medieval period, and how can this body be known?
• Medieval Chinese Discourse on the Female Body
• Empty lands: life and wellbeing along Timor-Leste’s emerging oil frontier
• Sweetness as an aesthetic relationship
• A discussion on the critical political economy of ultra-processed foods and obesity
• Chronicities of modernity theory as an explanation for the global pandemic of obesity and diabetes
• Addressing food insecurity in rural veterans in the United States
• Childhood adversity and adiposity: examining differences by sociocultural context
• Focusing In on Life Course Processes to Understand How Racism Patterns Racial/Ethnic Inequities in Health
• The Unfairness of Fair Machine Learning: Levelling down and strict egalitarianism by default
• Dr Daniel Schofield
• Queering disaster response frameworks using Covid-19 lived experiences
• Race, racism and reproduction in the NHS maternity system
• Telling people what they already know: Some reflections on ethnographic working in mental healthcare systems
• Behind the Lens: Socio-spatial entanglements of photo studios in colonial Bangalore
• Reanimating Tibet in the Museum: contentions in collections and their contemporary ‘afterlives’
• Decolonising Museums: Changing Curatorial Practices in the UK, South Africa and France
• Vive la VMMA! A celebration of the Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology degrees and a talk by Professor Clare Harris
• Virtual alternative worldmaking? New Travellers online
• Performing political neutrality in digital democracy projects
• (Way)finding Everest: Mobile media and map apps in repertoires of contemporary trekking
• Dr Lennon Mhishi
• Nepal Remembered: Historical Images from Dirgha Man and Ganesh Man Chitrakar
• The Last Bonesetter: An Encounter with Don Felipe (2018. Directed by A. Booher)
• Drugs and Prayers (2010. Directed by Helena Basu)
• Seven Sacred Strings (2022. Directed by Maryam Chloé Pervaiz)
• 'She Waves at Me', a film by Inge Daniels: Film screening and discussion
• Making Anthropological Soup! New Books Celebrating Eclectic Concepts
• Communications Officer