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Parasites, Invention, and Grace: Taking Turns in a Streetcorner Bureaucracy

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Michael Degani analyzes the styles of work and conflict amongst electrical contractors who congregate across the street from a power utility office in urban Tanzania.

Michael Degani (University of Cambridge) explores the balance of entrepreneurial hustle and bureaucratic order their long-running streetcorner bureau strikes.
Edited and hosted by Peyton Cherry

This was a departmental seminar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography in the 2022-23 academic year. The recordings were only possible thanks to a team dedicated staff and students from The School:
Executive Producers: Eben Kirksey and Stanley Ulijaszek
Producer: Jacob
Evans Sound Design: Seb Antoine
Sound Recorders: Xinyuan (Connie) Wang and Jacob Evans

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electrical contractors

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Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Date Added: 02/10/2023

Duration: 00:56:08

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Anthropology, Philosophy and Symmetrisation

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Philippe Descola, one of Anthropology's most influential figures, invites us to go beyond the traditional boundaries of nature and culture and redefine our understanding of humanity's relationship with the world around us.

Philippe Descola (Emeritus professor, Collège de France, Paris)
Edited and hosted by Luise Eder

This was a departmental seminar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography in the 2022-23 academic year. The recordings were only possible thanks to a team dedicated staff and students from The School:
Executive Producers: Eben Kirksey and Stanley Ulijaszek
Producer: Jacob
Evans Sound Design: Seb Antoine
Sound Recorders: Xinyuan (Connie) Wang and Jacob Evans

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Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Date Added: 02/10/2023

Duration: 01:06:39

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Intimate Rites: Ancestors and Queer Kinship in Zimbabwe

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Raffaela Taylor-Seymourn examines the engagements with ancestral spirits among young queer Zimbabweans

Raffaela Taylor-Seymourn (Pembroke College, University of Oxford) focuses on the form of kinship that young queer people forge with ancestral spirits and how they often contrast to relationships with living family members.
Edited and hosted by Peyton Cherry

This was a departmental seminar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography in the 2022-23 academic year. The recordings were only possible thanks to a team dedicated staff and students from The School:
Executive Producers: Eben Kirksey and Stanley Ulijaszek
Producer: Jacob
Evans Sound Design: Seb Antoine
Sound Recorders: Xinyuan (Connie) Wang and Jacob Evans

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Raffaela Taylor-Seymourn

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Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Date Added: 02/10/2023

Duration: 00:50:15

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Nutritional Anthropology

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Stanley Ulijaszek discusses human dietary evolution, dietary flexibility and present day undernutrition and infection

Stanley Ulijaszek Emeritus Professor University of Oxford demonstrates the multidisciplinary nature of nutritional anthropology to confront major issues that are changing human relationships with disease.
Edited and hosted by Jacob Evans

This was a departmental seminar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography in the 2022-23 academic year. The recordings were only possible thanks to a team dedicated staff and students from The School:
Executive Producers: Eben Kirksey and Stanley Ulijaszek
Producer: Jacob
Evans Sound Design: Seb Antoine
Sound Recorders: Xinyuan (Connie) Wang and Jacob Evans

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Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Date Added: 02/10/2023

Duration: 01:13:19

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How to Stitch Ethnography

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Feminist anthropologist Tania Perez-Bustos discusses how immersion in the act of embroidery affects the body and enables collective reflection and listening.

Tania Perez-Bustos (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) explores how the process of learning transforms an object to study ethnographically into an artifact with which to ask new ethnographic questions.
Edited and hosted by Malin Schlode

This was a departmental seminar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography in the 2022-23 academic year. The recordings were only possible thanks to a team dedicated staff and students from The School:
Executive Producers: Eben Kirksey and Stanley Ulijaszek
Producer: Jacob
Evans Sound Design: Seb Antoine
Sound Recorders: Xinyuan (Connie) Wang and Jacob Evans

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Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Date Added: 02/10/2023

Duration: 00:28:33

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The Rise and Fall of Generations

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Does life take you any nearer to your ancestors or does it draw you ever further away from them?

Tim Ingold discusses his new work ‘The Rise and Fall of Generation Now’ in which he reverses the perspectives on generations of social life by seeing not as linear but as a process.
Edited and hosted by Luise Eder

This was a departmental seminar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography in the 2022-23 academic year. The recordings were only possible thanks to a team dedicated staff and students from The School:
Executive Producers: Eben Kirksey and Stanley Ulijaszek
Producer: Jacob
Evans Sound Design: Seb Antoine
Sound Recorders: Xinyuan (Connie) Wang and Jacob Evans

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Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Date Added: 02/10/2023

Duration: 00:48:06

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Living in Tide: The Climate of the Urban Sea

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How do fishers and scientists read the uncertain terrain of the city in the sea? What stories does the urban sea hold for the futures of the city?

Nikhil Anand (University of Pennsylvania) discusses his new work and reflects on the uncertain futures of coastal cities in an era of climate change.
Edited and hosted by Lan Duo.

This was a departmental seminar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography in the 2022-23 academic year. The recordings were only possible thanks to a team dedicated staff and students from The School:
Executive Producers: Eben Kirksey and Stanley Ulijaszek
Producer: Jacob
Evans Sound Design: Seb Antoine
Sound Recorders: Xinyuan (Connie) Wang and Jacob Evans

Creative Commons Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK (BY-NC-SA): England & Wales; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/