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Anthropology

Part 2: Studying at Oxford

Current students at the Department of Anthropology talk about what studying in Oxford is like, including choice of college and resources.
Anthropology

Obesity: A Personal View

Stanley Ulijaszek, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford gives a Nutritional Anthropology talk on Obesity in different cultures around the world.
Anthropology

Cognition, Religion and Theology

Justin Barrett gives a talk for the Cognition, Religion and Theology Project Conference, held at Merton College on the 28th-30th June 2010.
Anthropology

Tibetan Vampire Slayers in Nepal

Dr Charles Ramble, of the Oxford University Oriental Institute, gives an Anthropology Departmental Seminar entitled The Mysterious Reluctance of Tibetan Vampire Slayers in Nepal (12 March 2010).
Anthropology

Measurement of Bodily Transformations (1 Feb 2010)

Professor Stanley Ulijaszek, from the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford, gave a talk on 1 February 2010 as part of the Medical Anthropology Research Seminar Series. It was entitled 'Measurement of Bodily Transformations'.
Anthropology

Dying for Islam: An Alternative History (12 Feb 2010)

Dr Faisal Devji, from the Department of History and Anthropology at St Antony's College, Oxford, gave an Anthropology Departmental Seminar on 12 February 2010 entitled 'Dying for Islam: An Alternative History.
Anthropology

Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 5: Political Ecology of Food Security (15 March 2010)

Professor Stanley Ulijaszek, of the Institute of Cultural Anthropology, Oxford, gave a lecture on 15 March 2010 forming part of the Nutritional Anthropology lecture series. It was entitled 'Political Ecology of Food Security'.
Science and Religious Conflict Conference

Is Religion Adaptive? Integrating Cognition and Function

Professor Robin Dunbar (Oxford) gives the first presentation for the Science and Religious Conflict Conference. The commentator is Professor Janet Radcliffe-Richards (Oxford).
Anthropology

Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 4: Intensification of subsistence (10 Feb 2010)

Stanley Ulijaszek, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, delivers his fourth lecture in the Nutritional Anthropology series. This lecture focuses on agriculture and pastoralism.
Anthropology

Interview with Evans-Pritchard Lecturer Dr Charles Stewart (13 May 2010)

Dr Charles Stewart (UCL) is interviewed by Anthropology graduate student Ana Ranitovic at All Souls, Oxford, about his longterm interest in dreams and historical consciousness in modern Greece.
Anthropology

Neither Freud nor Artemidorous, Evans-Pritchard Lecture by Charles Stewart (27 April 2010)

The first Evans-Pritchard Lecture for 2010, presented at All Souls College on 27 April by Dr Charles Stewart (UCL). The series theme was Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece.
Anthropology

Facial tattooing among Drung women in Southwest China

Facial tattooing is essentially a transition to what is and ought to be a woman. Gender performativity is associated with the materiality of the body: it is in fact the tattoo that makes a woman.
Anthropology

Qigong Deviation as a Diplomatic Disaster

What has acknowledging the human-like qualities of 'qi' to do with preventing and treating qigong malpractice?
Anthropology

Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 3: Hunter-gatherer diet (5 Feb 2010)

In this third Nutritional Anthropology lecture, Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (ISCA, Oxford) discusses hunter-gatherer subsistence ecology and its relevance to the modern world.
Anthropology

Medical anthropology: Famine, food crisis and living standards in North Korea (25 Jan 2010)

Dr Daniel Jong Schwekendiek (ISCA, Oxford) examines the methodology and evidence for determining who has been 'better off' in North Korea between the 1940s and 2000s.
Anthropology

Anthropology seminar: Indigenous capitalism in Upland Indonesia (5 Feb 2010)

Based on numerous field research trips over the last 20 years, Prof. Li (University of Toronto) describes how much attitudes and horizons have changed in this remote, mountainous area.
Anthropology

Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 2: Nutritional Quality and Child Growth

Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford) discusses nutritional factors that impact on the growth of children across the globe.
Anthropology

Anthropology seminar: Re-Tooling a Body with The Body

Assistant Professor Adam Frank (University of Central Arkansas) describes Three Ways of Teaching Tajiquan to the White Guy.
Anthropology

Medical Anthropology: Drink me... Take me... Read me...

Mark Lawrence, Director of First Read This (an Oxford company that aims to promote patient information leaflets), discusses how following instructions makes the patient feel better.
Anthropology

League of Nations; Minority Regime as Anthropological Object

Jane K Cowan (Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Sussex) on rethinking minority, nationality, the international and international governance through history in an effort to understand the League of Nations in terms of anthropology.

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