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- African Demography, Immigration, and Xenophobic Populist Ideology in France
- White Eagle, Black Eagle: Ethnic Relations in the German-Polish Borderlands
- Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2024 - Witchcraft, “Witch Camps”, and Social Life in Northern Ghana
- Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2024 - Witchcraft, Shrines, and Tindaanship
- Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2024 - “Witches” and the Humanitarian World: NGOs, Churches, and the State
- Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2024 - Living in “Witch Camps”: Experiences of Accused Witches and the Moral Economy of Songsim
- Dr José Ignacio Carrasco
- Dr Polina Vlasenko
- Dr Ben Brindle
- Dr Myriam Cherti
- Dr Shahnoza Nozimova
- Dr Sanne van Oosten
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- Dr Akira Shah
- Book Talk: Haunting Biology
- School ranked No. 1 for Anthropology in QS World University Rankings 2024
- A gap in the law for ethical acts: Russian theories and practice of illiberal modern life
- The Power of the (An)archive: Art as resistance to (re-)colonial epistemic violence in Ukraine’s industrial East
- Foraging, messy commons, and the fuzzy fringes of capitalism
- Value and violence in the making of Ukraine’s war economy
- Contrasting Balkan utopias: Navigating migration and futurity in the physical remnants of Yugoslavia
- Dr Brian Klaas
- The many lives of the Asante Ewers: From medieval England to West Africa and back
- ‘It’s a complicated relationship’: Post-imperial Irish heritage in the shadow of Britain
- Queer objects to the rescue: Intimacy and citizenship in Kenya
- ‘Your president is now a picture’: The image as utopian democracy in Nigeria
- The politics of demographic imagination
- Understanding obesity
- Ozempic and the escape from hunger
- Book Launch - ‘The politics of potential’
- The stakes around bariatric surgery in France: a critical sociology of the medical community and of public policies
- Study reveals how humanity could unite to address global challenges
- Alpa Shah announced as new Statutory Professor in Social Anthropology
- Workshop: Comparative Perspectives on the Calling
- Social stones: uncovering information exchange in the Middle Palaeolithic through computational archaeology
- Landscapes of xeno-fear: a conceptual framework of territoriality and inter-group relationships in primates
- Stress-adapted is not impaired: identifying and leveraging stress-adapted skills in children
- Origin Africa: A Natural History - introduction to the book
- Why is it odd that humans live in large groups?
- End of year celebration
- 2nd Annual PalEvo-PalMeso Lecture: Geoanthropology - long-term human interactions with the Earth system
- Panel Discussion | Migration Governance in the Global South: Setting the Scene
- Equal Partnerships: African Intermediary Cities as Actors in Urban Migration Governance
- The Governance of Migration Data in Africa: Lessons from Different Initiatives: the African Union Migration Observatories and the African Migration Data Network
- Panel Discussion | Migration Governance in the Mediterranean Region: Setting a New Agenda?
- Sanctuary Policies for Irregular Migrants in European Cities: Dismantling the Fortress from the Ground Up?
- How can multi-stakeholder partnerships support refugees and migrants with irregular status in African intermediary cities?
- Irregularisation and the city: Insights from the case of Athens, Greece
- Juggling a "parallel welfare system": local government responses to migrants' locked out of the welfare safety net
- In conversation with TCM practitioners in the PRC and UK: Reflections on researching du 毒 (poisons)
- Becoming a "big cow (大奶牛)": Exploring scientific motherhood, maternal subjectivities and the lactating body through the embodied experience of breastfeeding
- Announcement: Professor Wendy James FBA
- Fieldwork Q&A with DPhil student Gabriele Paone
- Professor David Zeitlyn wins Curl Essay Prize 2023
- The Borders of Capitalism: Technology, Governance, Migration
- Dr Dor Shilton
- Dr Lidia Sciama (1932-2024)
- Professor Carlos Alvarado Quesada
- New Publication: Inheritance
- Dr Chigusa Yamaura
- Professor Sir Peter Gluckman
- Dr Bronwyn Tarr
- Study reveals chimpanzees seek out medicinal plants to treat illness and injuries
- Inheritance, The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World
- Dr Jonathan Leach
- Annual Newsletter 2023-24
- Dr Susann Kassem
- Dr Aaron Greenhouse-Tucknott
- Anetta Pieronek
- Thomas Edgeworth
- Dr Linus Peitz
- Professor Chris Beedie
- Professor Robert Barnes
- The surprising benefits of exercising with friends
- Professor David Gellner elected to the British Academy
- Dr Jaeyoung Kim
- Thomas Kwong
- Geoff Ma
- Dr Isaac Schamberg
- Collaborative approach wins British Forum for Ethnomusicology student prize
- Paul Basu receives Curatorial Excellence Award
- 'Urgent and concerted conservation action' needed to protect chimpanzee nut cracking populations in Guinea
- Dr Claire White
- Welcome to Professor Ann Kelly
- The Marett Memorial Lecture 2024
- Professor Alpa Shah
- Dr Shireen Walton
- Pluriversal anthropologies? Different ways of knowing and regenerative scholarship
- What can an art-science collaboration tell us about the acoustic ecology of Okinawa’s military bases?
- Holding space as magic: The spiritual background of leadership development facilitation
- "I’ve Heard I’m Characterless”: Scandal, Social Media, and Mediated Talk Back in Rural India
- A kinaesthetic eye and sensory montages in a butoh dance class
- The 'right' kinds of knowledge: what anthropology can tell us about the far right, and what the far right can tell us about anthropology
- Caste, class, gender, and the prison: the silent predicament of inmates’ relatives in a Nepalese marketplace
- A Peripheral Presence and an Expressive Idiom: ‘Adil Imam in the January 25th Revolution
- Professor Ann Kelly
- Making the Invisible Visible: Economic Sanctions and Graphic Novellas & Jina is Jina
- Ex Machina: Emotional Break-Ups and Digital Breakdown with AI Companions
- Filling in with Fire: Time, Community, and Redevelopment in a Loyalist District of Belfast
- Art & Soil Politics
- Weaving Geometries: Generation and Regeneration through Basket-Weaving
- Visually Mediating Kashmir: The Circulation of Photographs on Digital Media Platforms
- Landscapes Made Visible: Seeing in the Mind’s Eye for the Non-Congenitally Sight Impaired
- Healing as awakening: the Mendrub ritual of the global Tibetan Bonpo community
- Mendrub - A Bonpo ritual for the empowerment of medicine performed in Phoksumdo, Dolpo
- Medicinal Accomplishment and related rituals in the Nyingma Dudjom tradition
- Singularity and multiplicity in Ladakhi mendrub practices
- Weight Stigma: Implications for policy and practice
- Preventing Obesity by Design (POD): An environment-behaviour health strategy for young children in child care
- Long-term effects of childhood nutrition: Evidence from a school lunch reform in Sweden
- Weight stigma, disordered eating, and body weight in the U.S. Military
- Creating accessible care environments: Navigating the complexities of care for patients living with obesity in healthcare settings
- Why are food systems failing and what can we do about it?
- The evolution of hominin body mass and canine size sexual dimorphism
- Palaeolithic ergonomics: How our ancestors gripped the past
- Ice Age Re(wilding): Animal Translocation, Extinction, and Bone Making Tool Making in the Pacific
- Plant Materials as Tools for Wild Chimpanzees: Reconsidering Hominin Technical Evolution
- The radiation and geographic expansion of primates through diverse climates
- Icthyoarchaeology and Human Dispersals in Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific
- The Ape and the First World: An Emerging New Comparative Model for Language Evolution
- Paper that raises critical issues on health care in India wins prestigious prize
- Leave Your Mark Exhibition
- Empires we lose: why an English woman in Boston has nowhere to go
- Linking multiscalar contestations over place in Peterborough, Brighton and Yiddishland
- Northern Exposure: Race, Nation and Disaffection in Post-Brexit Wakefield
- Northern Exposure presents: From Where We Stand
- “It can’t get any worse”: Imagining the opportunity to be political throughout Brexit
- “There must be something better than here”: the role of place in shaping the mobility aspirations of young people in coastal towns
- From the ground up: Faultlines of war and peace in rural England
- New Frontiers of Ethnographic Fieldwork
- New Frontiers of Ethnographic Fieldwork: Financial Elites
- New Frontiers of Ethnographic Fieldwork: Hackers
- New Frontiers of Ethnographic Fieldwork: Multispecies
- New Frontiers of Ethnographic Fieldwork: Far-right
- New Frontiers of Ethnographic Fieldwork: Prisons
- “Ni es lo mismo, ni es igual” Ecuadorian irregular migrants in Amsterdam and Madrid
- Urban policies in support of undocumented migrants and their formulation process
- Exploring post-2014 immigrant integration policies and governance in small and medium-size towns and rural areas in Europe
- Nikita Cooke-Smith
- Dr Dolores Senorans
- Dr Elspeth Davies
- Dr Benjamin Hegarty
- Are autodemarcações refusal? Imagining the future with the Tuxá community of São Francisco River, Brazil
- Book Launch: "A Genealogy of Method" by Sondra L. Hausner
- Professor Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
- Digital Ethnography in COVID-19: Improvisation and Intimacy
- Publication Ethics
- Understanding contemporary China through digital anthropology
- Creating spaces for romance: Technological rituals among Berlin dating app users
- Hybrid Families: Gender, Work, and Family in the UK Tech Sector
- Alexandra Atkeson
- Ogden Olivas
- Fiona Asokacitta
- Rawan Alfuraih روان الفريح
- Edoardo Chidichimo
- Reece Hammond
- Yaroslava Bukhta
- Ouzra Karimi
- Xiangyu Long
- Michael Murphy
- Muhammed Zeyn
- Shannon Lin
- Mercedes Baptiste Halliday
- Maxime Bourdier
- Binli Dai
- Yueng Suen
- Chimin Oh
- Meera Menon Pattaruveettil
- Cody Skahan
- Zhixin Wan
- Zoe Bantleman
- Gemma Naveja Romero
- AnthroFilm Screening: São Palco – an Afropolitan City – film by Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji and Jasper Chalcraft
- Social bonds built by football coaching in prisons found to help reduce reoffending
- The 'Humble Brick' receives UKRI funding
- Book Launch: "Capitalist Colonial: Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture" by Matan Kaminer
- Dr Antonio Montañés Jiménez
- Professor Pascal Menoret
- Disobedient Buildings share their unique methodological approach to research
- Dr Julia Ebner named 'Austrian of the Year 2024'
- Dr Priya Sajjad
- Dr Stephen Hughes
- Dr Alice Millington
- Dr Anthony Howarth
- Professor Alpa Shah’s book The Incarcerations shortlisted for the Moore Prize
- Science in a Crisis: Assembling knowledge and action in a volcanic colony
- Welcome Dr Shireen Walton
- Study shows brains grew faster as humans evolved
- Studying Divination
- Lack of partner support is the most important reason for delaying having children in the UK
- Estate Logics and the Reproduction of Global Capitalism
- New exhibition dedicated to divination explores our universal need to find answers
- Dr Lukas Reinhardt
- Rachael Rees
- 2024 edition of the Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford out now
- Welcome Dr Yasmeen Arif
- Mba’ekuaa: Rethinking multimodal methods with Guarani and Kaiowá communities in Brazil
- Visually mediating Kashmir: The circulation of photographs on digital media platforms
- (Un)making relics: Fragments of lost lives and the inadequate work of recollection (with reference to a harpoon head carved from caribou antler presently in the collections of the British Museum)
- ‘Oracles, Omens & Answers’: The curators’ story
- Screen/life: What time is the digital?
- Ruins, forests, and other shadows: Reflections on Kongo heritage
- How do I bring you home? Seeking ancestral relations in Himalayan ‘type’ photography
- Towards a meta-archive: Working with colonial sound recordings in the postcolonial era
- A scholar-practitioner’s reflections on pulse diagnostics in traditional Chinese medicine
- Revisiting 'The Telling Touch'
- Taking the pulse between Early Modern China and Europe: The Drifting Touch
- The Monstrous and the Mortal Pulses: guaimai 怪脈 as recorded by Michał Boym (1612-1659)
- Freedom, Precarity, and Debt: Ethnographic Research on Platform-Based Taxi Drivers and Food Delivery Riders in China
- Middle Tech: Software work and the culture of good enough
- The World of Wikipedia: Research, Teaching, and Social Engagement
- Frictions in the Cloud: An Ethnographic Case Study of Local Data Centre Contestation in the UK
- Some chimpanzees are better at cracking nuts than others
- The Politics of Rain: Political violence and the potential for new life in the Palestine Anthropocene
- The Undergrowth: Plotting human-plant futures from Uganda
- Benedictine Hydropower: A mode of rural electrification in Tanzania
- CANCELLED: Prototyping Environmental Justice: Ancient trees, new knowledge, and the hidden politics of ethnographic data
- Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological description as scaffold or mosaic
- Staple Strategies: Food crisis and the struggle for millet in Senegal
- The Post-Global City: South-South geographies and political affects in Kinshasa's emerging tech scene
- Embodying Emptiness: Enskillment and the artistic imagination in Japan
- Migration Narratives: What They Are and Why They Matter
- Visualization Choices About Refugees Have Delimited Impacts Along Partisan Lines
- Quantitative Approaches to Measuring Migration Narrative and Potential Uses of AI
- Narrative and Misinformation Response
- Seeing Stories: Can We Visualise Public Migration Narratives, And If So, How?
- Evolutionary adaptations of the pelvis: Insights from extant primates and hominins
- Oxford University Anthropological Society events
- OUAS Welcome back Pizza Party!
- OUAS Connections: Hunters and Bombers: a film screening and discussion
- OUAS Connections: Boaters' recent political struggles and the social life of the waterways
- Chat with professors: Careers, Academia, and Stories from the field
- Chat with professors Wk 6: Careers, Academia, and Stories from the field
- Chat with professors Wk 7: Careers, Academia, and Stories from the field
- Chimpanzee Self-Medication and Relevant Natural History Approaches
- Professor Pascal Boyer
- From Bone Biology to Behaviour: Using Internal Bone Microstructure to Infer Movement in Fossil Hominins
- Digitising the Acheulean: Regional and Temporal Variation in British Handaxe Assemblages during MIS 11
- Chimpanzee Archaeology: Expanding Perspectives on Hominin Life Beyond Stone Tools
- The Roots of Cultural Diversity
- Applying Cultural Evolution Theory to Sustainability Challenges: An Example from Zanzibar
- Thresholds of Touch
- Human Nature, Society, and the Future of Humanity
- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
- The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India
- Our Culture
- Professor Alpa Shah talks about her acclaimed book The Incarcerations at the Oxford Literary Festival
- Divination, Oracles & Omens
- Dr Charlotte Hoskins
- The introduction of Chinese pulse diagnostics into 18th century Naples
- Book launch: "From Triads to Pentads: Modelling Myth and Kinship in the Work of NJ Allen", edited by Robert Parkin
- Dr Naomi Marshall
- New Book: Intrepid Women: Adventures in Anthropology
- Professor David Zeitlyn on Divination, Oracles, Omens & Answers
- EMPTINESS Project concluding conference announced
- Paul Basu to lecture on ‘museum conservation and the forensis of provenance’ at the Getty Conservation Institute
- Rallying through the rubble – earthquake brings people in Turkey and Syria together
- New research reveals chimpanzees act as ‘engineers’, choosing materials to make tools based on their structural and mechanical properties which make them ideal for the job
- Alpa Shah wins best nonfiction author prize at the AutHer Awards for 'The Incarcerations'.
- Last chance to see 'Oracles, Omens and Answers' exhibition
- Disobedient Buildings Roundtable Discussions
- What makes buildings resist?
- Hostile Environments: How is mould mobilised amidst Birmingham’s Housing Crisis?
- Disobedient tenants? Twenty years of urban re/degeneration in public housing
- How are spatial geometries of (translocal) power, care and ageing changing in Ugandan housing estates?
- Disobedient Buildings - Can ageing towers inspire better homes for all?
- Living with Leaks - Can warm, safe homes be a reality when maintenance is a luxury?
- A Room with a View - Can communities survive gentrification?
- Beyond Four Walls - How do we nurture care, connection and belonging?
- Workshop: Food and Physical Space in Digital Times
- Herbal lore in circulation, and the reception of the Bencao gangmu（本草纲目, 1596) in Europe
- Diagnostic innovations: Modern tongue diagnostics (MTD) in Chinese medicine
- Recent developments in UK acupuncture: Learning about the pericardial channel (心包经)
- Sprouting or struggling? an ethnography of Chinese Medicine in the UK today
- Masterclass: How to render heat ethnographically legible
- Malinowski Memorial Lecture 2025: When ethnography becomes history
- Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2025, The Orthodox Line: Lecture 1- Descent revisited: kinship theory from the Palestinian refugee camp
- Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2025, The Orthodox Line: Lecture 2 - The ancestors of Christianity
- Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2025, The Orthodox Line: Lecture 3 - The properties of Christianity: from ritual to law
- Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2025, The Orthodox Line: Lecture 4 - Genealogy as time travel
- Migration & The Arts - Panel Discussion followed by Q&A
- Migration and the arts of co-production: urban mobilities and carceral London
- Our Refugee, Your Refugee: A Story across Three Nations Documentary Film Screening followed by Q&A
- Glocks, Animal Emoji, and 'Rulay': How cartel-related gangs recruit young Ecuadorians through viral content on TikTok
- Field events: Re-conceptualizing the field through research with digital technologies
- Digital ethnography and glocal histories in Nigeria
- Volume 6 of TRAJECTORIA is out now
- Roundtable discussion: 'New philosophical tools to deal with the question of relativism?'
- Fertility and Reproduction Studies Seminars
- The maternal mortality measurement trap: how what we count drives the maternal health agenda
- Cross-Border reproductive mobilities: mediating reproductive labour of Central Asian surrogates in Georgia
- Improving perinatal mental health in rural Indian communities: The PRAMH intervention
- Universal access to infertility care: dream or reality?
- Beyond ‘toxic bodies’: Political rationalities and women’s reproductive health concerns in a high-environmental risk area (Taranto, Italy)
- Cultural beliefs in northern rural Mozambique and their effect on maternal and neonatal health
- Limitations and possibilities of emerging reproductive mobilities in Central Asia
- Demographic hysteria, rebellious wombs: The paradox of Iran's family planning project
- Making the Museum: Investigating Maker/Subject Identities and Agencies in the Pitt Rivers Museum
- The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work
- Perspectival Kinaesthetic Imaging and the Anthropology of Making
- Reframing the Quilters of the British Isles: Making, Modes, Meaning
- New research by doctoral student Kimberly Schoemaker explores beach renourishment and its implications for climate-vulnerable coastal communities
- Mākereti Papakura, the first indigenous woman to study at Oxford, to be awarded a posthumous degree