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'Magic and the Sense of Place' Conference

'Magic and the Sense of Place' Conference Day 3: 'Urban', 'Rome' and 'Placing the dead'

Talks from Alice Huxley, Amy Blakemore, Nancy Caciola and more, under the themes 'Urban', 'Rome' and 'Placing the dead'.
Tibetan Graduate Studies Seminar
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The Rise of Guru Yoga in Twelfth-Century Tibet

Zim Pickens looks at the origins of guru or lama worship in Tibet, introducing us to the Indian antecedents and the Tibetan emphasis on the role and status of the lama.
Anthropology

Transformation through Ritual: Bodies as Sacred Space

A seminar of the Anthropology Research Group at Oxford on Eastern Medicines and Religions. Dr Ann R. David (University of Roehampton) focuses on Tamil worshippers in the UK to discuss the role of ritual in religion and dance. 18 January 2017.
The Remedy

The Remedy: Hinduism

In this episode, Naomi Richman interviews Matthew Martin, a DPhil student at of Oxford whose work focuses on Hindu traditions. They discuss the great variety of Hindu approaches to healing, from ayuverda to yoga and deliverance from evil spirits.
Diplomacy and culture at the Ottoman Court

Beyond the Topkapi Palace: Space, Status and Commensurability in the Venetian Diplomatic Experience

Maxwell Hudson discusses how diplomacy at the Ottoman court was marked by ceremonies across the city and in everyday interactions between ambassadors and Ottoman officials.
Anthropology

How to protect your newborn from neonatal death: spirits and infant feeding practices in the Gambia

A seminar for the Fertility and Reproduction Group by Sarah O'Neill of the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp (10 November 2014)
Anthropology

Experimenting with field experiments: moving the lab into the field in ethnographic research

In this Anthropology departmental seminar from 8 November 2013, Dimitris Xygalatas (Aarhus and Masaryk Universities) investigates ritual behaviour, bringing it into the lab, to work out why people put themselves through such ordeals
Sacrifice and Modern Thought

4. Human Sacrifice in the Mesoamerican Cultures

Dr Laura Rival talks to Tim Howles about her chapter 'The Aztec Sacrificial Complex'
Anthropology

Conceptualizing new age and neopagan ritual (17 May 2013)

In this seminar, Professor Michael Houseman (l'École pratique des hautes études, Paris) presents a brief analysis of several small ceremonies to make a theoretical argument about ritual in a new age and neopagan context.

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