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Anthropology

Formalization as Development: Accounting for the Proliferation of Village Savings Associations

In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Maia Green (University of Manchester) discusses village savings associations and small-scale credit in Sub-Saharan Africa. 28 October 2016.
Anthropology

‘I Can Feel the Mafia but I Can’t See it’: Investigatory Dilemma in Present-day Trapani

The opening Evans-Pritchard Lecture for 2017 given by Dr Naor Ben-Yehoyada (Columbia University) on 1 May. The theme of the series was: 'Getting Cosa Nostra: Knowledge and Criminal Justice in Southwestern Sicily'.
Anthropology

Gifts, entitlements, benefits and surplus: interrogating food poverty and food aid in the UK

The 2017 Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture was given in Oxford on 24 May by Prof. Pat Caplan of Goldsmiths, London.
Anthropology

The concept of culture in cultural evolution

In his keynote speech for the Cultural Evolution Workshop (held in the Pitt Rivers Museum on 28 February 2017), Prof. Tim Lewens of Cambridge examines the concept of culture in cultural evolution.
Anthropology

Why do children doubt magic, but believe in the miraculous?

Prof. Paul Harris (Harvard Graduate School of Education) examines why children are skeptical about magical phenomena but are willing to believe in supposedly miraculous violations of everyday causal constraints. 12 May 2017.
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.
Anthropology

Climate, weather, culture

In this Departmental Seminar, Prof. Steve Rayner examines the blossoming of anthropological attention to climate change over the last ten years. 17 February 2017.
Anthropology

The great migration of summer 2015: trajectories, journeys and hubs

In this Departmental Seminar, Dr Franck Düvell (COMPAS) focuses on the great migration of 2015 when it is estimated that 12 million people were newly displaced. 20 January 2017.
Anthropology

Exhibiting violence and social change in Brazil

Prof. Elizabeth B. Silva (The Open University) discusses the role of staged events in remembering the establishment of dictatorship in Brazil in 1964. 19 May 2017.
Anthropology

Women in India’s waste economy

In this Departmental Seminar, Prof. Barbara Harriss-Whiten draws on anthropology, economics and politics to examine the role of women in Indian society. 12 May 2017.
Photo Archives VI: The Place of Photography

Photo Archives VI: The Relational Album: Photographic Networks, Anthropology, and the Learned Society

Christopher Morton (University of Oxford) discusses the concept of the relational museum applied to an album from the Anthropological Society in London.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

The Spirits of Crossbones Graveyard

The book's author Sondra Hausner (Professor of Anthropology, University of Oxford) will explore the issues raised in her book.
Women in Oxford's History (Series One)

Women in Oxford's History: Maria Czaplicka

Exploring the life of Maria Czaplicka: Polish anthropologist of Siberian indigenous people
The Isaiah Berlin Lecture

Cosmopolitan Contamination - learning world citizenship

Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University, delivers the 50th Anniversary Annual Berlin Lecture.
Anthropology

Exploring the city's 'sutures'

Filip De Boeck (KU Leiden) explores 'urban life between want and wish', drawing on examples from the DRCongo (4 March 2016)
Anthropology

Plantain island sirens

Jennifer Diggins (Oxford Brookes) discusses 'tales of poverty, fish, and seduction from maritime Sierra Leone' (26 February 2016)
Anthropology

Science, stories and indigenous wisdom: is the wider world waking up at last?

Joy Hendry (Oxford Brookes) examines indigenous knowledge and specific projects across the world, including Canada, Australia and New Zealand (13 May 2016)
Anthropology

The charm of 'things': ethnography and performance

Marta Rosa Jardim (UNIFESP, Brazil) examines the role of sculptures of Hindu gods in Mozambique and the influence of art history on her anthropological research (20 May 2016)
Anthropology

The certainty of futures lost

Lucy Lowe (Edinburgh) discusses motherhood, Caesarean sections and migration in 'Little Mogadishu', Mairobi (3 Fecember 2015)
Anthropology

The fragility of conviction

Mathijs Pelkmans (LSE)'s seminar is based on 'walking with the Tablighi Jammat in Kyrgyzstan (12 February 2016)

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