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Choreographing lived experience: the stories that dancing bodies tell

This Anthropology seminar looks at the role of dance and movement of the body as a theme in itself; using dance to understand embodied experience. 21 February 2014

Models, muddles and metaphors

This seminar, on the theme of Models in Anthropology, draws on examples from the fields of Amazonian and obesity studies. 9 May 2014

Social anthropology of the arts: expression, genre and agency

This seminar, on the theme of Art and Creativity, explores the anthropology of artistic and imaginative processes, a field that is interdisciplinary by nature. 23 May 2014.

Intersections: an ethnography of everyday togetherness and intensified diversity in Elephant and Castle

This Anthropology seminar, on the theme of Diasporas and Migration, presents emerging findings from a collaborative ethnography in a 'super-diverse' South London area. 30 May 2014

Photo archives as historical resources: the Jeffrys and Dalrymple archives compared

Professor Verkijika G. Fanso of Yaounde University in Cameroon compares two photo archives both taken around the same time, which are now held in Cambridge and South Africa

Fifty years of Cameroon unification: controversies and archival echoes

A special lecture in Oxford by Professor Verkijika G. Fanso from the University of Yaounde in Cameroon

Inspirations for publications - ISCA Anthropology Book Launch

Anthropologists from ISCA discuss the research and inspiration behind six recent publications

'Native Life', or, Being outside the carbon imagery

Professor Elizabeth Povinelli of Columbia University examines contemporary scientific discussions of the Anthropocene and climate change and theoretical theories of New Vitalism, New Animism and Relational Ontology

Inequality, insecurity and obesity

A seminar for the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek of ISCA, Oxford

Cultural understandings of roles and responsibilities in addressing obesity

Emily Henderson of Durham University discusses the causes of obesity, those responsible for it and how it should be addressed.

Culture and motivation: long distance running in Japan and the UK

Anthropologist Emma Coleman-Jones and distance runner Mara Yamauchi compare their experiences of running in the UK and Japan

Intellectual property and informal economy: a commodity chain from China to Brazil through Paraguay

Rosana Pinheiro-Machado (of ODID, Oxford)'s anthropology departmental seminar focuses on the transmission of diverse goods in a commodity chain that was formed in the 1980s.

Claiming resources, honouring debts: miners, herders and the land masters of Mongolia

Rebecca Empson of UCL discusses the form of capitalism emerging in Mongolia's mineral economy. An anthropology departmental seminar.

Do not resuscitate orders in a UK hospital: an ethnography of the future-present

Simon Cohn of Cambridge University looks at the ways health professionals and their activities construct an understanding of the human body according to particular temporal framings. An anthropology departmental seminar.

The sharia as a vocation: Islam, law and civility in Lebanon

This discussion of sharia discourse in different contexts focuses on the experiences of four individuals. An anthropology departmental seminar by Morgan Clarke (ISCA, Oxford)

Victor Turner, anthropology and Christianity

Timothy Larsen (Wheaton College, Illinois) discusses the impact of Christianity on the research and careers of Victor and Edith Turner, looking in particular at their work in Rhodesia. An anthropology departmental seminar.

Discovering 'justice': the magic of law in the Upper Amazon

An anthropology departmental seminar on legal anthropology in lowland South America given by Harry Walker of the LSE.

The end of history? What follows the demographic transition?

An overview of the demographic transition, and the demographic regime, since its development in the 1940s. An anthropological departmental seminar by Chris Wilson of ISCA (Oxford)

The better angels of our nature: A history of violence and humanity

Steven Pinker gives a compelling account of the unacknowledged worldwide decline of violence in the 2014 Haldane Lecture

The public policy of migration

In this Migration Studies lecture, Sarah Spencer (COMPAS, University of Oxford) examines the place of research in policy making by focusing on the role of social scientists and how they can stay in control of their research (6 December 2013)

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