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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
Dr Iain Morley
African Anthropology
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
Dr Rachel Humphris
Dr Karin Eli
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
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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
Dr Scott Lash
Dr Lewis Daly
Dr Karen Park
Brian Street (1943–2017)
Dr Venya De Silva
Dr Dan Hicks, Lecturer in Archaeology and Anthropology, has been awarded the 2017 Rivers Medal by the RAI
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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
Dr Hélène Neveu Kringelbach
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'
Dr Veronika Rybanska
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
Dr Matthew Smith
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
Dr 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'
Austin Argentieri
Lucy Baehran
Mayanka Mukherji
Sheung Yin Joseph Gregory Yu
Michael Pierson
Anna Poloni
Christopher Sisca
Emma Rimpiläinen
Maayan Roichman
It's not all fun and games: social complexity and play behaviour in wild bonobos
Dr Pieter Francois, Dean and Fellow in Anthropology, St Benet's Hall
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
Two new administration vacancies have been announced
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...
Dr Felix Padel
Professor Veronica Strang
Dr Qiaoyun Zhang
Dr Kitty Wheater
Dr Kesson Magid
Julie Archambault, formerly of SAME and African Studies, on her new book Mobile Secrets: an interview with CaMP Anthropology
New Vacancy: Part-time Research Coordinator (maternity cover)
Dr Tania Porqueddu
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 Ryotaro Mihara
Dr Nora Danielson Lanier
Dr Ana Ranitovic
Dr Jennifer McGuire
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
Chess, not chequers **CANCELLED**
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
Professor Steven Vertovec
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
New Vacancy: Departmental Lecturer - Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology
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