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Picturing fatness: photography and medical typology in the early twentieth century
All that remains to cut is our throats: precarity and persistence in Canada's Company Province
Manners and Morals: Codes of Civility in Early Modern England
Multidisciplinary approaches to the challenge of weight loss and maintenance in the general population
Theft, Divination, and Buddhism in Early Tibet
Do-it-yourself biology (DIYBio): between education, innovation, subversion and empowerment
Embodied consciousness: the power of movement in Javanese dance
Pentecostal pastorhood as calling and career: migration, religion, and masculinity between Kenya and the United Kingdom
Place names and story mapping: Raven’s and Thunderbird’s journeys on the Alaskan and Siberian landscape
Before and After Omega: The Provincial; Career of the Antimafia Prosecutorial Method since the Palermo Maxi-trial
Celebrating International Women’s Day in Concert: The Lyric Piano Trio
Marett Memorial Lecture 2017: What is history? or, the life and times of water hyacinth
Living digital archives in contemporary pasts: ‘Abadan: retold’
The Geography of Lesbian Genders: Re-Creating Lesbian Subjectivity
The making of a permanent city for temporary residents
What Happened to The Godfather? The Legal Illegibility of Relationships and its Consequences
Footballs and matzah balls: sport as a negotiator of Israeli identity
Ulterior Motives: Structure and Action Surrounding the Murder of Mayor Vito Lipari, 1980
Three Faces of Communism: on the relation between people and things in a contemporary museum in Romania
‘I Can Feel the Mafia but I Can’t See it’: Investigatory Dilemma in Present-day Trapani
The Anthropology of Africa
Dr Wolde Tadesse
ArgO-EMR
Approaches to Misfortune in Nepal
Memorial Service for John Davis - 24 June, All Souls College
Book launch for Honour and Violence by Nafisa Shah
New commentaries on the recent UP elections in India by David Gellner and colleagues
Congratulations to DPhil student Elo Luik, joint runner-up in the ESRC 2016/2017 writing competition
The Second Linguistic Conference, 23-25 March 2017
Creating a safe space: revolutionary imaginations and practical realities in a feminist bookstore
Women in India's Waste Economy
Exhibiting violence and social change in Brazil
The Gorongosa Restoration Project, Mozambique
Armenians and other Armenians in Turkey: Issues of Identification and boundary making
Allies in unexpected places: indigenous peoples, anthropologists and museums
Common ground and distinguishing features
Bariatric surgery’s intersubjective embodiments
Analysing state intervention in transmission of cultural knowledge: the case of the Chinese ICH Inheritors Program
Life between protocols: the pragmatics of care in a nutrition intervention in Khayelitsha, South Africa
Crowdsourced: cartographic citizenship, digital legitimacy and future humanitarianism
Why do children doubt magic, but believe in the miraculous?
Precarious Homes: the materiality of homelessness and refugee shelter
IGS Audrey Richards Commemorative Lecture: Urban Nomads? Gender and Housing in Latin America
The Public Home: the Politics of Women's Socializing in Jordan
The Uncertainty of Love: gender and wellbeing in the urban American home
Terrorized women at home? The case of femicide in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
From Washing Machines to Mechanical Housewives
Mobilising home for forced migration: a feminist proposition
Dwelling Diversities: housing experiences in a migrant hub of Istanbul
Dr Chihab El Khachab
The mistress of the hearth: female mobility, domestic divinities, and reproductive power in North Central China
The fear of pollution: Bönpo purification rituals in Western Sichuan
Miesten Nuoro - Steam of Life
Pulse
Private Viewing
The EvoDiet Workshop
Religious Experience in Predictive Minds
The 2017 Olof Palme Lecture - Presence and Social Obligation An Essay on the Share
Dr Dace Dzenovska
Tying the souls and binding relationships in the Lao home: metaphor, performance and tactility
Condensing life substances in the house: In everyday rituals of the Shuhi and Pumi of Southwest China
What's so social about primate sociality?
The 2017 Marett Memorial Lecture by Professor Anna Tsing
Book launch of Governing Global Health by Chelsea Clinton and SAME alumna Devi Sridhar
Bull in a China Shop. Mixing Methods in a Difficult Field Research Online
Ryan Trecartin and Post-internet Art
Postdoctoral Associate Rachel Humphris has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship
Ramon Sarró helps launch Julie Archambault's new book
Brian Street (1943–2017)
Dr Dan Hicks, Lecturer in Archaeology and Anthropology, has been awarded the 2017 Rivers Medal by the RAI
JASO
Dr Emilie Le Febvre is awarded the 2017 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for the best PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships 2018
'What about the people?' - Dr Cathy Baldwin is interviewed about the importance of creating cities to support their communities
The National Ethnographic Museum of Bissau: Thirty Years of History
Zhu Lian and the new acupuncture of 1950s' China
Artemisia annua tea, the regulation of Artemisinin, and the fight against malaria in Senegal
The Natural Products Initiative: Kenyan and Chinese traditional medicines meet
Professor Joy Hendry has been awarded the 'Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette'
Professor Geoffrey Ainsworth Harrison
Zuzanna Olszewska has won the 2017 MES Book Award for The Pearl of Dari
Sustaining one another: enset, animals, and people in the southern highlands of Ethiopia
Existential mobility, migrant imaginaries and multiple selves
The illiberal legal imagination: thought experiments in China's developing the world
'If God is with us, who can be against us?' Christianity, cosmopolitics and living with difference in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo
Thinking like a climate? Politics and anthropology in the Anthropocene
Making concessions: power and ecstasis in the Congolese rainforest
The promise of the (foreign) image: post-post-internet art from the Philippines (and other notes from the field)
Warriors and invaders? Nativism, photography and Greek-German encounters in the Greek crisis
Towards the decolonisation of archaeology in Iraq
Anthropology, photography and the field of memory
The Block - an ethnography of a Romanian block of flats
Anime at the museum: contemporary anime at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo
Changing whilst staying the same: how the VERVE project transformed the Pitt Rivers Museum
The Great Box and its child: replication, sensory knowledge, and repatriation
The Split Horn: Life of a Hmong Shaman in America
Kataragama: a God for all Seasons
The Oracle of Maama Tseembu: Divination and Healing among the Yaka
Uncle Poison
Financial behaviour of Women-led enterprises in post-conflict and non-conflict peripheries of Myanmar
Do women benefit from war? Understanding peace through the gains of war
Gender issues in Jewish victimization and resistance during the Holocaust: from a despised topic to a fruitful research frontier
Book Launch IGS with Berghahn Books
Hero women and housewives: gender ideals among female rural graduates in Hubei Province, China
'Love hurts': the multifaceted lived experiences of intimate partner violence in Freetown, post-Ebola Sierra Leone
Gender, wellbeing and ageing: evidence by country income level and geographic region
Sexual exploitation of children and the online world: internet offenders' constructions and perceptions
Re-conceiving the family in South Africa's new constitutional order
Healthy bodies, dangerous substances, and kinship in Southwestern Amazonia
Smells like... tutelary 'spirits': olfaction, immune system, and SHAMANs
Therapeutic rituals curing 'el susto' (fright) disease in Mesoamerica
Medical Anthropology Research Seminar: Title TBA
Fairtrade and consumption politics: politicisation or depoliticisation?
Low fruit nitrogen and other nutritional challenges as drivers for the evolution of Madagascar's primate communities
Heat, glows and scents: the sensory management of landscape and body in Yanomani shamanic healing
De gustibus non disputandum est. Reflections on the food preferences of the Wichí of the Argentine Chaco
Listening to the news audience - what's missing from obesity news?
Bitter-sweet adaptation
Not social mobility but deprivation mobility: places change their characteristics and people change their places
Resisting moralisation in health promotion
Macaques at the margins: what we can learn about the evolution of human dietary diversity from studying other primates
Tackling Obesity: Right from the Start
Plastic foods, cooking and embodied skill in Australian obesity education
Not your good fatty: how fat activists disrupt using Web 2.0
Two flights: portraits of deportation to Jamaica
Survival or success: the Kimono retail industry in contemporary Japanese society
Europe-making: identity, bureaucracy and belonging in Brussels
Austere guardians: voluntary solidarity in Athens
Teeth and tongue jammed together. Gender, relationships, emotions and violence in Freetown
People of the periphery: livelihood change and rural belonging among herders in Turkana, Kenya
The impacts of official conspiracy theories: the Gezi Park protests
Introducing Project Seventy
Anthropology, Ethnography and the Study of Online Sexual Offending
Bidesia in Bambai
Nanook of the North
Chronique d’un Été
To Live with Herds
Trobriand Cricket
Forest of Bliss
Photo Wallahs
In the land of War Canoes AND In Search of the Hamat-sa: A Tale of Headhunting
New member of staff Dr Nayanika Mathur has won the Sharon Stephens Award for her book Paper Tiger
Dr Ridhi Kashyap
Mind the Rift: Novel insights from the Paleo-Primate Project Gorongosa
Tool use, a window into cultural behaviour of primates
Predators, primates and landscapes of fear
Conflict and Cooperation in Bonobos and Chimpanzees: A New Hypothesis
Professor Nayanika Mathur
St Anne’s Ioma Evans-Pritchard Scholarship in the Social Anthropology of Africa
New article by Alexandra Alvergne: 'Side effects and the need for secrecy'
Lucy Baehran
Sheung Yin Joseph Gregory Yu
Anna Poloni
Christopher Sisca
It's not all fun and games: social complexity and play behaviour in wild bonobos
Dr Pieter Francois
Visiting Astor Professor Michael Jackson, 22-28 October 2017
Dr Idalina Baptista
Designing Cyborgs: a proposed interventionist approach to the social scientific study of technology
Investigating the origins of human material culture in children
Miocene Apes: forest or woodland savanna environments
Life-history, play, and the emergence of religion in human evolution
Diet change in African primates: isotope evidence
Can palaeobiology contribute to behavioural ecology? Perspectives from human evolution
The Geoffrey Harrison Prize Lecture by Melissa Parker, 3 November 2017
How global practice influences Barker Langham's cultural planning work - from curatorship to economics...
Professor Veronica Strang
Julie Archambault, formerly of SAME and African Studies, on her new book Mobile Secrets: an interview with CaMP Anthropology
The Symphony of the Stones - Dr Iain Morley appeared on the BBC World Service Documentary on 3 December
Dr Susana Carvalho has been invited to talk at the UNESCO headquarters on Wednesday 6 December
Applications are invited for two fully-funded Oxford–Calleva Graduate Scholarships
Dr Ana Ranitovic
Relational anatomy: bodies, materials and persons in medical education
Making rights real: fertility politics and rights activism in India
Studying the origins of human material culture in young children
Infrastructure and politics above and below the surface
Divine text, national language, and their publics: arguing an Indonesian Qur’an
CANCELLED: Migration and the mapping of global danger
CANCELLED: Electrifying Anthropology: current thinking about energy and anthropology
Against ontology: experience and the Human Sciences
The Evidence of Doubts: Researching Controversies Between Religion and the Secular
Doubt, Debate, and the Relationship between Heaven and Empire in Southwest China
“From Faith, Fortune; From Doubt, Ill Health”: A Metacognitive Approach to Popular Buddhism in Contemporary Inner Mongolia
CANCELLED: Doubt and Divided Selves in the Contemporary Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Encounter
CANCELLED: “Someone Like You, Someone Like Me”: Difference and Doubt in Mindfulness-based Interventions in the United Kingdom
David Gellner published an op-ed in The Kathmandu Post on 1 January on the politics of cultural heritage in Nepal
From Museum to Library and back again: photographs as 'distributed object' and the process of purification
Visualising dwelling online: an anthropological study of social media use among Chinese factory workers
The Unhelpful Museum: challenging ‘kindness,’ ‘tolerance’ and empathy in museum engagements
'I move my hand and then I see it': Ways of knowing with young artists in Japan
Blow-up in Bissau: Images and PostWar Reconstruction of a West African Museum
CANCELLED: The perils and rewards of decolonising a Victorian Museum Collection
Dormant Things: the hidden lives of things in attics, cupboards and garages
Ethnography in a grievance: enunciatory communities, law & environmental justice in Nicaragua's chronic kidney disease epidemic
Theorising with narrative: How careful analysis of stories can help us rise above ‘behaviour change’ research
How climate change as an idea travels to sub-Saharan Africa: The anthropology of forecasting, future-making and humanitarianism
The taste for health
Digital methods and their implications for social science
Self-domestication in humans and other primates
Japanese Anime Heroines and their Hollywood iterations
In all but name: women as power-brokers in the kimono retail industry in contemporary Japan
The need for intersectionality: why we need a feminist foreign policy
Masculinity, Migration and Service Work in Post-Reform China
Witness it! Art, Activism, and Feminist Resistance
Modification of women's representations in 1920s Georgian Soviet silent films
The Sexualization of Indigenous Women in Turtle Island: Deconstructing Pop Culture Depictions
CANCELLED: International Gender Studies Centre Roundtable: International Women's Day - Women's Suffrage 100 Years On
Dr Thomas Cousins
Exclusive Registers: Gendered Citizenship and Bureaucratic Ambiguity in Jordan
Corporate Groups and the Visible Hand of Administration: A Case from South Korea
The Long Road to Dematerialisation: Dynamics of Transport Bureaucracies in Cameroon
A Political Administration: Identity and Belonging in the Juncker Commission
When the Rules Run Out: Informal Taxonomies at the Front Lines of Public Service
'Keepers of the Truth': Documenting Human Rights at the UN Universal Periodic Review
Modernizing the French State: Digitalization, Simplification, and Usability Concerns in Mundane Administrative Work
CANCELLED: 'The Indian state is nothing but a paper tiger': For an anthropology of the bureaucratic state
The ecology of conflict: imagined identities and divided communities in North West Pakistan
'A history of Pakints’: History, politics, and the mining frontier’
From Soviet Intelligentsia to Emerging Russian Middle Class?
Publication of 'Ritual, Play and Belief in Evolution and Early Human Societies', co-edited by Iain Morley
Institutional facts and the politics of political fact-checking
What was sociology?
How should we study truth?
CANCELLED Creating Citizen STS: science, fiction and the future of the 20th century
Uncomfortable knowledge for science
The genie out of the bottle? Data valuation and circulation challenges for participatory research
The post-truth condition: why we've always been there and why it's unlikely to go away soon
Madeleine Sumption, Director of the Migration Observatory, University of Oxford, is appointed MBE for services to Social Science
Publication of 'Digital Food Activism', edited by Tanja Schneider, Karin Eli, Catherine Dolan, Stanley Ulijaszek
Political lives of anticipation: weather, climate and water knowledge in Belize
Publication of 'Visual Histories of South Asia' edited by Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes and Marcus Banks
Co-Investigators Harvey Whitehouse and Pieter Francois (ICEA) complete collaborative work on €4 million ALIGNED project
Changing Views of a Changing World
Images of an Imagined World: The Complex Mythologies of the Last Hunter-Gatherers
The Animal as Anima: The Role of Cattle in the Worldviews of Early African Pastoralist Societies
Subsistence as Giving Some Substance: The Organization of Tasks & Social Relations amongst the Last Hunters & First Pastoralists
Towards a Palaeosociological Approach: Relational Ontologies and the Constitution of ‘Being in Society’
Marett Memorial Lecture 2018: Individualism in the Wild: Oneness in Jivaroan Culture
SAME DPhil student Melyn McKay has co-published a guest editorial in Anthropology Today
Turning Disaster Zones into Scenic Sites, Homelands into Gardens
Public expressions of trust and distrust in official dietary advice
CANCELLED: 'Whatever they say, they are our guests': emotional labour and the vulnerable host at mosque open days
Professor Stanley Ulijaszek took part in the Nobel Prize Dialogue 2018, 'Future of Food', in Japan on 11 March
New publications by Dace Dzenovska
'Owners of the Map': A new book by Claudio Sopranzetti published by the University of California Press
Professorship in Science and Civilization
VMMA student Thupten Kelsang organises three-day workshop on ‘Re-Engaging Tibetan Material Heritage’
Professor Laura Peers at the farewell event held in her honour at the Pitt Rivers Museum
‘Photography and Tibet’ by Clare Harris discussed by Elizabeth Edwards and Thupten Kelsang
Dace Dzenovska will deliver a keynote lecture at the Migrant Narratives and the City conference, Central European University
Dace Dzenovska's co-edited Hot Spots series is now published on the Cultural Anthropology website
Stanley Ulijaszek takes part in a Nobel Prize Dialogue Tokyo panel on the obesity epidemic
New article co-authored by Alexandra Alvergne to be published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution is currently available online
Book launch of Dace Dzenovska's 'School of Europeanness: Tolerance and Other Lessons in Political Liberalism In Latvia'
Elizabeth Hallam has been awarded the Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems
David Pratten's British Academy Summer Showcase: Understanding the Niger Delta’s agaba masquerade tradition
The third season of the Paleo-Primate Project and the first Oxford-Gorongosa Paleo-Primate Field School gets underway
Dr Özlem Belçim Galip
Postdoctoral Fellowship Applicants
Barbara Harrell-Bond OBE
SAME alumnus Jelle Wouters brings anthropology to new audiences in South Asia
Professor Marcio Goldman
The School hosted the book launch of Social Sustainability, Climate Resilience and Community-Based Urban Development on 13 June
Project by DPhil student Justin Lane has been featured in The Atlantic
Professor Ruben Andersson
'Visiting with the Ancestors: Blackfoot Shirts in Museum Spaces' by Laura Peers and Alison Brown receives honourable mention
Undiagnosed STIs can increase negative PMS symptoms - research by Dr Alexandra Alvergne makes the news
Dr Noëlle Rohde
Dace Dzenovska and Steve Rayner have been elected to posts in the SAE and RAI respectively
Dr Oliver Owen
Charlotte Hoskins
Samuel Murison
Angelo Marcelo Vasco
May Tamimova
The Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group celebrates its 20th anniversary
Benedict Taylor-Green
Professor Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz
Negotiating Environmental Knowledge - a workshop hosted by InSIS on 12-13 December 2018
The COMPAS Photo Competition featured in the Guardian
Performing Tibetan Identities: Photographic Portraits by Nyema Droma - on display until 30 May 2019 at the Pitt Rivers Museum
Last Chance to See: 'Tibetan Objects in Transition’ at the Pitt Rivers. A Case Display curated by SAME student, Thupten Kelsang
Applications are invited for the Evans-Pritchard Lectureship during the academic year 2019-2020
Stanley Ulijaszek to give the keynote address on ‘Framing Obesity as a Problem’ at this year’s Keystone Symposium, Banff, Canada
JC Niala
Eveliina Kuitunen
Dr Samuel Derbyshire
Stanley Ulijaszek interviewed in this week’s Newsweek on ‘Why BMI Can Be Misleading, and You Can Be Healthy and Overweight’
The School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography comes top by subject in the QS World University Rankings
The Marett Memorial Lecture 2019: African Red – African Blue: Ethnography, History and Comparison
In God’s Name: The First Oath of Peace (sulh) in Islam
The Caliph’s Body: A Relic of Peace (sulh)
Total Peace (sulh-i kull): A Mughal Solution to a Biblical Problem
Dr Noam Segal (1975-2019)
‘Talking Tibetan Identities’: A Special ‘After-Hours’ Event at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
Dr Alexander Mielke
The Pitt Rivers Museum is shortlisted for the Art Fund Museum of the Year Award 2019
Ana Gutierrez Garza and Sarah-Jane White have been shortlisted in this year's Student-Led Teaching Awards
Funding boost for MN Srinivas Professorship in the Anthropology of India
Dr Akanksha Awal
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Tsherin Sherpa is ‘Artist in Residence’ at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
Where the Wild Things Are: Migration and Life beyond the Global City
Aneel Brar
Kathrin Fischer
Priya Sajjad
Professor Clare Harris is elected to a Fellowship of the British Academy, 19 July 2019
Alice Lai Hung Yu
Claudio Sopranzetti wins the 2019 Margaret Mead award
William Allen is selected as one of the 2019-20 cohort of Public Engagement with Research (PER) Leaders
Carlos Vargas-Silva has taken the role of COMPAS Director
Dr Paula Sheppard
Dr Timothy Clack
The School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography's One Thousandth DPhil
Suhaila Al Behandy
Sophie Berdugo
Christopher Chapman
Hannah Eastham
Julia Ebner
Robert Jagiello
Xuanqi Fong
Keiko Kanno
Wesam Hassan
Zhan Huang
Freya Hope
Julio Rodriguez Stimson
Hongshang Wang
Akira P. Shah
Vithya Subramaniam
Yuxin Peng
Karl Dudman
Yinglei Chen
Kevin Wang
Asli Salihoglu
Domiziana Turcatti
Gilda Borriello
A review of the Ninth RAI Student Conference, which was hosted by SAME
Dr Bastian Thomsen
Dr Ina Zharkevich
Dace Dzenovska awarded ERC grant for research on emptying towns and villages in Eastern Europe
Rose Stevens
Gabriella Kountourides
Voicing Affect (Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021, Lecture 1)
Peruvian event co-organised by the School, the Latin American Centre and the Peruvian Embassy, 9 December 2019
David Gellner gave a talk on MN Srinivas and Oxford in Bangalore on 10 December
The British Academy awards David Gellner and Krishna Adhikari a grant for the project 'The Dalit Search for Dignity'
Steve Rayner, James Martin Professor of Science and Civilisation and founding director of the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS), has passed away
Reproducibility Research Oxford: Launch report and upcoming event
Dr Anna Ulrikke Andersen
Dr Gabriela Nicolescu
Prof Vernon Reynolds has been given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Primatological Society
Efrat Goldshmid
Why do we care so much about games?
The University of Oxford is ranked first for Anthropology in the QS World University Rankings
The Marett Memorial Lecture 2021: The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Ethnography & Empathy in the 21st Century
Coronavirus: The School’s admin teams have transitioned to home working
Nicholas Justin Allen (1939-2020)
Dr Felice Wyndham
The Coronavirus and Mobility Forum
Logistics and Infrastructure - InSIS-COMPAS workshop
AABS Book Prize Awarded to Dace Dzenovska
A call for papers in honour of Nick (N.J.) Allen
Learn some Oxford birds while in Lockdown
UBVO launches a new podcast series
SAME wins two Social Sciences Division Urgent Response awards: Economic, Social, Cultural & Environmental Impacts of COVID-19
The Dalit Search for Dignity: State, Society, and Mobilization from Below in Far West Nepal
Dr William Kelly, Research Affiliate at SAME, is awarded a Teaching Development and Enhancement Project (TDEP) Award 2019-20
Dr Bronwyn Tarr, Departmental Lecturer at SAME, is awarded a 2020 Divisional Teaching Excellence Award (Early Career Stream)
Second year of the Oxford-Museu Exchange
Combination of poor eating and reduced physical activity contributed to negative mental health in England’s Covid-19 lockdown
The latest issue of JASO is published
The latest issue of JASO is now published online - Vol XII, No. 1
New Paleontology Laboratory at Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park opens
Dr Emma Cohen wins an Award from the James S McDonnell Foundation
Age, economic insecurity, and mental health in England across Covid-19 pandemic lockdown
Oxford Anthropology is ranked no. 1 in the UK in the Guardian Rankings
Anna Sehnalova
Emptiness: Living Capitalism and Democracy After (Post)socialism
Dr Lena Rose
Stanley Ulijaszek is one of 366 experts contributing insights to UK Parliament Lords Select Committee into Life beyond COVID-19
Band of mothers: Childbirth as a female bonding experience - new study from CSSC
Dr Gwen Burnyeat
Announcement: Professor Marcus Banks
Dr Anthony Howarth
Warm congratulations to all our new Professors!
Blow-up in Bissau A photographic exhibition organised by Dr Ramon Sarró and colleagues has helped re-establish the National Ethnographic Museum in Guinea-Bissau
Dalton Price
Loki Hu
RAI Honours and Awards
Gabriele Paone
Susana Carvalho to appear on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week
Xi Zhang
Ana Alanis Amaya
Daisy Pollenne
Kristen McCollum
Roxana Akhmetova
Ewen MacArthur
Julia Schweers
The Primate Society of Great Britain awards João d' Oliveira Coelho Best Poster Prize
Jonas Elbousty
Inky Gibbens
Sabrina Illiano
Aasiya Kazi
Zenobie Van De Perre
Jordan Gorenberg
New international network for freedom of religion and belief
The AfOx Research Development Awards
Andrés González Dinamarca
Judit Molnár
New vacancy: Postdoctoral Researcher for the OceanNETs Project
United in defeat: shared suffering and group bonding among football fans
Vacancy: Research Fellow in Inclusive Net Zero
Welcome to the new Emptiness website
New vacancy: Associate Professorship in Visual Anthropology
Swimming pod – Alex Foster and an Anthropology of a Swimming Club
Jana Muschinski awarded the Owen F Aldis Scholarship by the International Society for Human Ethology
Remembering Dr Iain Morley
Congratulations to DPhil Austin Argentieri published in Epigenomics
Dr Alejandro Reig
Studying the origins of perishable technology
The RAI Festival honours Marcus Banks with a live remembrance event on 26 March
Voicing the Self (Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021, Lecture 2)
Claiming Voice (Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021, Lecture 3)
Public Voice (Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021, Lecture 4)
Dr Ilka Vari-Lavoisier
Dr John Loewenthal
Dr Martin Lundsteen
Alexander Blandford
Susana Carvalho wins a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship
Professor Stanley Ulijaszek contributes to latest UK Parliament Research Briefing on Childhood Obesity
Dr Richard Vokes
Steve Rayner: Navigating the post-truth world
Professor Michael Hutt
Illustrating Anthropology: online exhibition tour
How Peer Community in Registered Reports Lets Researchers Take Back Control Over the Publishing Process
Congratulations to Jacinto Mathe and Gimo Daniel on receiving the Nat Geo Explorer Community Project award
Dr Ewa Majczak
Dr Leonie Schulte
Dr Alessandro Corso
The Oxford-Berlin research partnership
Cameroon with a view
Dr Karin Kapadia
Dr Maxim Bolt
Communication as Emergence and Possibility
O2RB Excellence in Impact Awards 2021 – Winners announced
A new study co-authored by Ridhi Kashyap features in The Guardian
The 4th Lévi-Strauss Memorial Lecture will be presented by Ramon Sarró on 21 October
Naomi Marshall
New vacancy: Associate Professorship in the Anthropology of Migration
Dr Chantelle Lewis
PEAK Urban at COP26
Dr Shashank Chaturvedi
John Erik Åndahl
Susana Kolb Cadwell
Femke Vulto
Chloe Curtis
Tanuj Luthra
Princess Banda
Alaba Angole
Felix Rolt
Siyu Tang
Mathilde Morin
Yong Han Poh
Iliriana Blakaj
Peyton Cherry
Simone Delzin
Tsovinar Kuiumchian
Nana Oforiatta Ayim
Suqi Tang
Isaiah Wellington-Lynn
Zehra Demir Dalay
Ruta Nimkar
Abril Rios Rivera
Maria Gunko
Vittorio Bruni
Rose Campion
Laura Bergin
Zhixuan Huang
Aishwarya Mukhopadhyay
Julia Friederike Pank
Xin Qu
Zoe Zielke
Professor Madeleine Reeves
Austen Fisher
A new exhibition curated by Elizabeth Hallam held in Melbourne
New vacancy: Associate Professorship in Medical Anthropology
Thupten Kelsang
Lan Xiao
The Marett Memorial Lecture 2022: Thinking 'in time' about the deep future - nuclear waste and the possibilities of ethnography
Dr Emma Rimpiläinen
Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2022 - A Legal Politics of Religion
Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2022 - Faith in the Rule of Law
Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2022 - Shari‘a Politics as Legal Politics
Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2022 - Embracing Positionality
Funding & Scholarships
Dr Fiona Bowie
Dr Irmelin Joelsson
Dr Rosalie Allain
Academic Staff
Dr Eben Kirksey
Professor Ramon Sarró
Guilherme Figueiredo
Lan Duo (Dora)
Gaia Ardizzone
The Geoffrey Harrison Prize Lecture 2022 by Stanley Ulijaszek: Nutritional Anthropology
'The rise and fall of generation now' by Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen)
'Intimate rites: ancestors and queer kinship in Zimbabwe' by Raffaela Taylor-Seymourn (University of Oxford)
'Bananapocalypse: externalities in the making of plantation capitalism in a global Mindanao' by Alyssa Paredes (University of Michigan)
'How to stitch ethnography' by Tania Perez-Bustos (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
'Crude sonics: field recordings from an extractive zone' by Zsuzsanna Ihar (University of Cambridge)
'Entomological legacies of the armed conflict in Colombia' by Lina Pinto-García (InSIS & Universidad de los Andes)
'Living in tide: the climate of the urban sea' by Nikhil Anand (University of Pennsylvania)
How I Live (2020. Directed by Meghan Shea)
The Trouble with Aid (2012. Directed by Ricardo Pollack)
Unnatural Causes: Bad Sugar (2008. Directed by L. Adelman)
A Darwinian reinterpretation of the “hygiene hypothesis”
Natasha Durie
The cheating cell: How evolution helps us understand and treat cancer
EMPH seminar Week 4: Title TBA
‘Beyond ‘silver bullets’: Childhood obesity intervention in Aotearoa New Zealand
Social inequalities in the risk of miscarriage in the United Kingdom
Population chatter for clearer and broader thinking about fertility
“When they force a woman, it’s to save her life”: Community perceptions of contraceptive coercion in an anonymized sub-Saharan African country
“Gay issues have come in and it is worrying to us”: Men’s narratives of queerness, sex, and fertility norms in Accra, Ghana
Vulnerability as exclusion, as erasure: a study of absence and accountability in the context of reproductive health in Nepal
‘Smaller families for a bigger future’: population and the politics of persuasion in Apartheid South Africa, 1960-1990
Shifts in women’s pregnancy preferences during the COVID-19 Pandemic: insights from the Pandemic Journaling Project
‘Our marriage is sitting on a ticking time bomb’: Exploring the marital vulnerabilities among couples with male factor infertility in Pakistan
Betwixt and between being at home: Migrants’ domestic possessions
Still Moving: Looking back at the Colonial Film Project
Collaborative curation: sound fragments, arts activism, and The Black Power Station
CANCELLED: PRM VMMA seminar Week 4
The Matter in Museums
Unseen connections: exhibiting the global stories of cellular technology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History
Mnaajtood ge mnaadendaan/To honour and respect: Gifts from the Michi Saagiig women to the Prince of Wales, 1860 + 2023
Seijiro Takahashi
Marguerite de Villiers
Beatriz Mutter Quinderé Fraga
Abhishek Saha
Clara Fortes Brandao
Jingsi Wang
Sacha Mouzin
Kiran Basava
Beatrice Juskaite
Joséphine Robert
Elisa Mosler Vidal
Frederike Brockhoven
Megan Beardmore-Herd
C. Ryan Smith
Dr Pieter Francois
Dr Raffaella Taylor-Seymour
Kseniia Gavrilova
Anika Kabani
Dr Alejandra Pascual-Garrido
Christopher Osborne
Mel Goodchild