Anthropology

The Oxford Anthropology Podcast brings together talks by internationally renowned scholars and cutting edge researchers. Their lectures explore a wide range of human experience and feature case studies from around the world.We are grateful to the speakers and staff and students from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography who have made this podcast possible.

The Moral Economy of Infrastructures in Everest Tourism
Feb 6, 2024 – 45:58
Pentecostalism, Deliverance and Queer Sexuality in Nigeria: Literary Representations
Feb 6, 2024 – 46:24
Stepping in, helping out, competing with…? State and civic actors in Ukraine’s wartime heritage work
Jan 25, 2024 – 47:53
Parasites, Invention, and Grace: Taking Turns in a Streetcorner Bureaucracy
Oct 2, 2023 – 56:08
Anthropology, Philosophy and Symmetrisation
Oct 2, 2023 – 01:06:39
Intimate Rites: Ancestors and Queer Kinship in Zimbabwe
Oct 2, 2023 – 50:15
Nutritional Anthropology
Oct 2, 2023 – 01:13:19
How to Stitch Ethnography
Oct 2, 2023 – 28:33
The Rise and Fall of Generations
Oct 2, 2023 – 48:06
Living in Tide: The Climate of the Urban Sea
Oct 2, 2023 – 45:15
Crude Sonics: Field Recordings from an Extractive Zone
Oct 2, 2023 – 47:41
China in the global reproduction migration order
Jul 8, 2019 – 51:53
Food insecurity of fatness: from evolutionary ecology to social science
Jul 8, 2019 – 50:53
Intimate geopolitics: migration, marriage of citizenship across Chinese borders
Jul 8, 2019 – 59:28
The dual burden of malnutrition and the obstetric dilemma
Jul 8, 2019 – 58:39
Grandparenting migration: reproduction, care circulations and care ethics across borders
Jul 8, 2019 – 51:46
Investment migration and social reproduction: the case of recent patterns of migration from China
Jul 8, 2019 – 49:23
Iron, infection and anaemia: evolutionary viewpoint on a huge global health problem
Jul 8, 2019 – 01:14:04
Birth tourism from China and Taiwan to the United States: cosmopolitan strategies and aspirations
Jul 8, 2019 – 50:36
Stunting does not equal malnutrition: evolutionary perspective on human height variation applied to public health
Jul 8, 2019 – 01:07:18
Assisted reproductive technologies and medical travel
Jul 8, 2019 – 55:32
Childbearing as global security strategies
Jul 8, 2019 – 45:25
Educational migration: youth, time and transformation
Jul 8, 2019 – 37:46
The Science of Modelling Through
Jul 8, 2019 – 46:49
Is female health cyclical? Evolutionary perspectives on menstruation
Jul 8, 2019 – 43:07
Global householding: care migration and the question of gender inequality
Jul 8, 2019 – 01:17:59
How war is shaping the Ukrainian HIV epidemic: A phylogeographic analysis
Jan 31, 2019 – 50:40
Why are men muscular? Reproductive, hormonal, and ecological hypotheses to explain variation in human male muscularity within populations of Bangladeshi and British men
Jan 31, 2019 – 56:59
Life history, parental investment and health of Agta foragers
Jan 31, 2019 – 01:00:31
Telomeres as integrative markers of exposure to stress and adversity: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Jan 31, 2019 – 49:53
Militant masks: youth and insecurity in the Niger Delta
Jan 31, 2019 – 56:47
Trials of the everyday: spaces of global health in South Africa
Jan 31, 2019 – 41:19
Precolonial Microbiome: how microbiologists access anthropology museums to contribute to the debate on restitution
Jan 31, 2019 – 47:47
'Don't Bury the Famine Dead': how humanitarian intervention killed the most vulnerable in Ajiep, South Sudan, in 1998
Jan 31, 2019 – 46:05
Social life of a license: caste and everyday struggles for work legitimacies in India
Jan 31, 2019 – 01:01:05
Studying the origins of human material culture in young chilldren
Sep 14, 2018 – 41:46
The grey area: fascism between the general and the particular
Sep 14, 2018 – 50:20
Why Are There Always Candomblés? Situated Knowledges of Miscegenation and Syncretism in Brazil
Sep 14, 2018 – 53:31
Rights and justice: reproductive politics and legal activism in India
Jul 31, 2018 – 53:32
A petition to kill: efficacious appeals against big cats in India
Jul 31, 2018 – 50:56
The seven moral rules found all around the world
Jul 31, 2018 – 42:48
The Marett Memorial Lecture 2018. Individualism in the Wild: Oneness in Jivaroan Culture
Jul 31, 2018 – 52:41
The promise of the (foreign) image: post-post-internet art from the Philippines (and other notes from the field)
Mar 27, 2018 – 55:04
The concept of culture in cultural evolution
Mar 27, 2018 – 44:04
Sustaining one another: enset, animals, and people in the southern highlands of Ethiopia
Mar 27, 2018 – 53:31
Existential mobility, migrant imaginaries and multiple selves
Mar 27, 2018 – 40:55
Words and Deeds - the Astor Visiting Lecture 19 October 2017
Mar 27, 2018 – 57:25
Ebola: A biosocial journey
Mar 27, 2018 – 56:59
Possible Futures - Robert Foley
Sep 15, 2017 – 09:01
Possible Futures - Rebecca Sear
Sep 15, 2017 – 19:36

Recent Reviews

Crowbar Man

Bad lecture, bad audio

Oxford continues a trend. In this case, we have both bad audio (the professor fades in and out as he walks away from the microphone), AND a bad lecture (Lecture 1, 2/10/10). Perhaps I’m biased as a physician and pathologist. It seems that a nutritional anthropologist should inform us of historical nutritional practices, and how they were shown to be beneficial or harmful. Professor Ulijaszek appears to be acting as a nutritionist instead. He literally spent the first half of the show giving advice and opinions on proper nutrition. First I have to say that I’m skeptical that research on nutrition as a PhD gives you the credentials to give nutritional advice. I wish he had reported on the anthropology, given a few opinions as a side note, and left the nutritional advice to a registered dietician or physician. Perhaps more importantly, his arguments were fraught with logical fallacies. Just because the modern “processed food diet” is bad, doesn’t mean that the “paleo diet” is optimal human nutrition. Just because humans evolved with the “paleo diet” doesn’t mean that it was optimal nutrition for modern humans.
01010 shelby thompson

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FrankLearns

Horrific sound quality

I have yet to find a lecture here that doesn’t make my ears bleed. In an age when decent sound equipment is so cheap that people can record clear, intelligible podcasts from the comfort of their couch, somehow Oxford University only has access to microphones from the Triassic period.
yodel4321

Dear professor

This was a good lecture the mic was a bit scratchy but I need it for my class in college thanks for touching up on important topics
Ollllllyyyyy

I’m seething at the previous review.

The listener who gave a poor review based on sound quality has no grasp of what this podcast is. A collection of lectures and recorded audio. The lectures are inherently hard to get good quality. There’s no master mp4 you can just upload. Others sound fantastic. The content is incredibly informative and really touches on the human character and what it’s produced. If you’re vaguely interested in Anthropology give it a listen. Love the pcast and will continue to listen :)
Joohee Ha

Dear prof

Thank u for ur passionate lecture. One thing is, the sound is terrible (guess it's due to the mic location). Plz care about it. Thank you.