| The evolutionary history and genetics of primate brain size |
In this Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Seminar, Stephen Montgomery (University of Cambridge) discusses "The evolutionary history and genetics of primate brain size." 15 June 2011. |
Stephen Montgomery |
10 May, 2012 |
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| Dept Seminar: Beyond 'terroir' |
In this Anthropology Dept Seminar Marion Demossier of the University of Bath discusses 'territorial construction, hegemonic discourses and French wine culture'. 11 November 2011. |
Marion Demossier |
29 November, 2011 |
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| Dept Seminar: Discovering Anthropological Practice through Fieldwork |
In this Anthropology Dept Seminar, Professor Judith Okely of Hull University (and an associate of ISCA, Oxford) looks back over her anthropological career, especially her time spent working with gypsies. 4 November 2011. |
Judith Okely |
29 November, 2011 |
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| Dept Seminar: Saints of Justice, Spirits of Devastation |
In this Anthropology Dept Seminar, Helene Basu of Münster University examines 'Sorcery, Madness and Modernity in Western India'. 28 October 2011. |
Helene Basu |
29 November, 2011 |
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| Dept Seminar: The Oil Company, 'Partnership' and the Moralities of Giving and Receiving |
In this Anthropology Dept Seminar, Katy Gardner of the University of Sussex examines the impact of oil companies on 'corporate community engagement' in Bangladesh. 21 October 2011. |
Katy Gardner |
29 November, 2011 |
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| Dept Seminar: Spirit in Motion |
In this Anthropology Dept Seminar, Thomas Kirsch of Konstanz University, discusses the 'Morphology and Mobility of the Holy Spirit in Africa'. 14 October 2011. |
Thomas Kirsch |
29 November, 2011 |
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| Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Autopathographies - How 'sick lit' shapes knowledge and the illness experience |
This presentation by Dr Rachel Hall-Clifford (Primary Health Care, Oxford) was delivered at the conference Medical Anthropology at Oxford: 10 Years at the Intersections. |
Rachel Hall-Clifford |
25 July, 2011 |
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| Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Oxford's 'Two Bodies' in Medical Anthropology |
This presentation by Dr Caroline Potter (ISCA, Oxford) focuses on how Oxford's Medicial Anthropology bridges the biological and social divide. It was delivered at the 10 Years at the Intersections conference in June 2011. |
Caroline Potter |
25 July, 2011 |
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| Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Healing earth and sacred clay among the Mun, SW Ethiopia |
This presentation by doctoral candidate Kate Fayers-Kerr was delivered at the Medical Anthropogy at Oxford conference, 10 Years at the Intersections, June 2011. |
Kate Fayers-Kerr |
25 July, 2011 |
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| Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Moving from Efficacy to Safety |
This presentation by Dr Barbara Gerke discusses 'A changing focus in the study of Asian medical systems' and was delivered at the Medical Anthropology conference 10 Years at the Intersections, June 2011. |
Barbara Gerke |
25 July, 2011 |
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| Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Maize, Men and New Medical Models |
This presentation by doctoral student Kristina Baines was delivered at the Medical Anthropology at Oxford conference 10 Years at the Intersections. It focuses on embodied ecological heritage and health in Southern Belize. |
Kristina Baines |
25 July, 2011 |
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| Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Building Partnerships - a career path in research coordination and capacity building |
This presentation by Dalia Iskander, a previous student of Anthropology at Oxford, was delivered at the conference Medical Anthropology at Oxford: 10 Years at the Intersections on 23 June 2011. |
Dalia Iskander |
25 July, 2011 |
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| Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Beyond Language - Public Health Policy and Cultural Competency |
This presentation by Hannah Graff, a previous MPhil student at Oxford, was delivered at the conference Medical Anthropology at Oxford: 10 Years at the Intersections on 23 June 2011. |
Hanna Graff |
25 July, 2011 |
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| Medical Anthropology at Oxford: 10 Years at the Intersections - opening comments |
Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (School of Anthropology, Oxford) introduces 10 Years at the Intersections, a conference to celebrate 10 years of Medical Anthropology at Oxford. The conference took place 23-24 June 2011. |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
25 July, 2011 |
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| Human Sciences Symposium 2011: The Impact of Exceptional Early Cognitive Environments on Musical Development |
This presentation by Prof. Adam Ockelford was delivered at the 2011 Human Sciences Symposium on The Musical Brain held on 26 February in Oxford. It focuses on case studies of blind and autistic children. |
Adam Ockelford |
25 July, 2011 |
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| Human Sciences Symposium 2011: The Musical Brain - Opening Presentation |
On 26 February 2011, the Human Sciences Symposium focused on the The Musical Brain and the links between music, evolution and human psychology. This podcast is the opening presentation by Dr Iain Morley on Music and its Evolutionary Context. |
Iain Morley |
25 July, 2011 |
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| Social evolution in primates and other animals |
In this lecture, Dr Susanne Shultz (Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, Oxford) examines the social evolution of primates and other animals (10 March 2011). |
Susanne Shultz |
6 June, 2011 |
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| Late Pleistocene Demography and the Appearance of Modern Human Behaviour |
In this seminar for the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, Professor Mark Thomas (University College London) discusses the origins of modern human behaviour (18 May 2011). |
Mark Thomas |
6 June, 2011 |
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| Marett Memorial Lecture 2011: Beauty and the beast |
In this year's Marett Memorial Lecture, Professor Terence S Turner (Cornell University) discusses 'Beauty and the beast: Humanity, animality and animism in the thought of an Amazonian people' (6 May 2011). |
Terence S Turner |
6 June, 2011 |
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| Dept Seminar: Heritage, hiking and the eradication of miracles |
In this Anthropology Dept seminar (4 February 2011), Dr Ian Reader (University of Manchester) discuss consumerism and the sanitisation of pilgrimage from Shikoku to Santiago. |
Ian Reader |
18 March, 2011 |
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| Dept Seminar: Why do Bayaka Pygmies sing so much? |
In this Anthropology Dept seminar (28 January 2011), Dr Jerome Lewis (University College London) examines the place and cultural transmission of music and sound to the Bayaka Pygmies of the Central African Republic and Congo. Includes examples. |
Jerome Lewis |
18 March, 2011 |
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| Dept Seminar: Money-go-round: personal economies of wealth |
In this Anthropology Dept Seminar (11 February 2011), Professor Deborah James (London School of Economics) discusses the personal economies of wealth, aspiration and indebtedness in South Africa. |
Deborah James |
18 March, 2011 |
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| The Anthropology of Production |
In this lecture for anthropologsts and archaeologists, Professor Chris Gosde, Institute of Archaeology, Oxford, examines the history and theory of production across different cultures and the difference between production and ownership. |
Chris Gosden |
18 March, 2011 |
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| Dept Seminar: Claudia's Life - Singular lives, Gypsy metonymy |
In this Anthropology Dept seminar (4 June 2010), Dr Paloma Gay y Blasco (University of St Andrews) looks at the place of women and marriage in Gypsy society and in ethnographic writings. |
Paloma Gay y Blasco |
21 February, 2011 |
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| Dept Seminar: Dance culture and its dislocation |
In this Anthropology Dept seminar (3 December 2010) Dr Felicia Hughes-Freeland (University of Swansea) discusses the relationship between cyberspace and dance. |
Felicia Hughes-Freeland |
21 February, 2011 |
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| Dept Seminar: Neo-nationalism five years later |
In this Anthropology Dept seminar (26 November 2010), Prof. Gingrich (University of Vienna) examines a return to 'indigineity' in Central Europe. |
Andre Gingrich |
21 February, 2011 |
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| Dept Seminar: The power of felted cloth through time and space |
In this Anthropology Dept seminar (19 November 2010), Dr Stephanie Bunn (University of St Andrews) examines the production and design of Eurasian felt, placing it in a domestic context. |
Stephanie Bunn |
21 February, 2011 |
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| Dept Seminar: Forms of detachment and ethical regard |
In this Anthropology dept seminar (29 October 2010), Dr James Laidlaw (University of Cambridge) focuses on forms of detachment in North India, including the role of the anthropologist as observer. |
James Laidlaw |
21 February, 2011 |
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| Dept Seminar: Kerala Muslim marriage, gender, and intimacy |
In this Anthropology Dept Seminar (22 October 2010), Dr Caroline Osella (SOAS, London) discusses the influence of migrant husbands on Kerala Muslim marriage and female households. |
Caroline Osella |
21 February, 2011 |
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| Money, Bodies, Materialism and Virtuality |
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Dr David Graeber of Goldsmiths, London, examines the history of death and money and how the two can combine. |
David Graeber |
23 November, 2010 |
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| The Elementary School Teacher, the Thug, and his Grandmother: Brokers and Transnational Migration |
In this Anthropology Departmetal Seminar (February 2010) Associate Prof. Johan Lindquist (Stockholm University) discusses forced migration in Indonesia and its impact on male and female workers. |
Johan Lindquist |
23 November, 2010 |
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| Interview with Professor Byron J Good, 2010 Marett Lecturer |
Byron J. Good, Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard Medical School, delivered the 2010 Marett Lecture at Exeter College, Oxford. He was first interviewed by Nick Shapiro (ISCA) about his life and work. |
Byron J Good |
23 November, 2010 |
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| Religion and change (2003-04 Evans-Pritchard Lecture 5) |
5/5. In Autumn 2003 Professor David Zeitlyn (University of Oxford) presented the 2003/2004 Evans-Pritchard Lectures at All Souls College, Oxford. The theme was 'The life of Diko Madeleine and the History of Somi, Cameroon, in the Twentieth Century'. |
David Zeitlyn |
4 November, 2010 |
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| Talking about Somié: from the social to the individual and back (2003-04 Evans-Pritchard Lecture 4) |
4/5. In Autumn 2003 Professor David Zeitlyn (University of Oxford) presented the 2003/2004 Evans-Pritchard Lectures at All Souls College, Oxford. The theme was 'The life of Diko Madeleine and the History of Somi, Cameroon, in the Twentieth Century'. |
David Zeitlyn |
4 November, 2010 |
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| Talking about Diko: introducing a woman, and means of researching a life (2003-04 Evans-Pritchard Lecture 3) |
3/5. In Autumn 2003 Professor David Zeitlyn (University of Oxford) presented the 2003/2004 Evans-Pritchard Lectures at All Souls College, Oxford. The theme was 'The life of Diko Madeleine and the History of Somi, Cameroon, in the Twentieth Century'. |
David Zeitlyn |
4 November, 2010 |
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| Writing history, talking historically: problems of biography, autobiography and social history (2003-04 Evans-Pritchard Lecture 2) |
2/5. In Autumn 2003 Professor David Zeitlyn (University of Oxford) presented the 2003/2004 Evans-Pritchard Lectures at All Souls College, Oxford. The theme was 'The life of Diko Madeleine and the History of Somi, Cameroon, in the Twentieth Century'. |
David Zeitlyn |
4 November, 2010 |
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| Sample of One: joining the queue (2003-04 Evans-Pritchard Lecture 1) |
1/5. In Autumn 2003 Professor David Zeitlyn (University of Oxford) presented the 2003/2004 Evans-Pritchard Lectures at All Souls College, Oxford. The theme was 'The life of Diko Madeleine and the History of Somi, Cameroon, in the Twentieth Century'. |
David Zeitlyn |
4 November, 2010 |
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| Race, kinship, genetics and the ambivalence of identity |
A paper presented at the University of Oxford School of Anthropology Departmental Seminar on Friday 15 October 2010 by Professor Peter Wade, University of Manchester. |
Peter Wade |
27 October, 2010 |
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| What is social anthropology? |
First lecture of the series 'Introduction to anthropological theory' given to first year students on the Oxford BA degrees in Archaeology and Anthropology and in Human Sciences. Lecture given Tuesday 12 October 2010. |
Marcus Banks |
27 October, 2010 |
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| An Africanist's Legacy: Responsibilised citizens? - Discourses and practices around care of the self among HIV positive people in Tanzania |
Presented by Dr Nadine Beckmann (Leeds) at 'An Africanist's Legacy - A Workshop in Celebration of the Work of David Parkin', held at the School of Anthropology, Oxford, 8-9 July 2010. |
Nadine Beckmann |
24 August, 2010 |
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| An Africanist's Legacy: Performing fragmentary movements - perspectives on the life-history of a Muslim dancer-choreographer |
Presented by Asst. prof. Zulfiker Hirji (University of York, Toronto) at 'An Africanist's Legacy - A Workship in Celebration of the Work of David Parkin', held at The School of Anthropology, Oxford, 8-9 July 2010. |
Zulfiker Hirji |
24 August, 2010 |
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| An Africanist's Legacy: Credit societies and the search for school fees in Uganda |
Presented by Dr David Mills (Oxford) at 'An Africanist's Legacy - A Workshop in Celebration of the Work of David Parkin' held at Oxford, 8-9 July 2010. Co-authored by Richard Vokes. |
David Mills |
24 August, 2010 |
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| Part 1: Studying Anthropology at Oxford |
Current graduate students in the School of Anthropology at Oxford University talk about what it is like to study anthropology at Oxford and the different graduate degrees available. |
Jennie Rothera, Sophie Chao, Darryl Stellmach, Santhy Balachandran, Mette Berg |
12 July, 2010 |
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| Part 2: Studying at Oxford |
Current students at the Department of Anthropology talk about what studying in Oxford is like, including choice of college and resources. |
Jennie Rothera, Sophie Chao, Darryl Stellmach, Santhy Balachandran, Mette Berg |
12 July, 2010 |
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| Obesity: A Personal View |
Stanley Ulijaszek, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford gives a Nutritional Anthropology talk on Obesity in different cultures around the world. |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
12 July, 2010 |
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| Cognition, Religion and Theology |
Justin Barrett gives a talk for the Cognition, Religion and Theology Project Conference, held at Merton College on the 28th-30th June 2010. |
Justin Barrett |
12 July, 2010 |
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| Tibetan Vampire Slayers in Nepal |
Dr Charles Ramble, of the Oxford University Oriental Institute, gives an Anthropology Departmental Seminar entitled The Mysterious Reluctance of Tibetan Vampire Slayers in Nepal (12 March 2010). |
Charles Ramble |
12 July, 2010 |
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| Measurement of Bodily Transformations (1 Feb 2010) |
Professor Stanley Ulijaszek, from the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford, gave a talk on 1 February 2010 as part of the Medical Anthropology Research Seminar Series. It was entitled 'Measurement of Bodily Transformations'. |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
15 June, 2010 |
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| Dying for Islam: An Alternative History (12 Feb 2010) |
Dr Faisal Devji, from the Department of History and Anthropology at St Antony's College, Oxford, gave an Anthropology Departmental Seminar on 12 February 2010 entitled 'Dying for Islam: An Alternative History. |
Faisal Devji |
15 June, 2010 |
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| Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 5: Political Ecology of Food Security (15 March 2010) |
Professor Stanley Ulijaszek, of the Institute of Cultural Anthropology, Oxford, gave a lecture on 15 March 2010 forming part of the Nutritional Anthropology lecture series. It was entitled 'Political Ecology of Food Security'. |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
15 June, 2010 |
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| Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 4: Intensification of subsistence (10 Feb 2010) |
Stanley Ulijaszek, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, delivers his fourth lecture in the Nutritional Anthropology series. This lecture focuses on agriculture and pastoralism. |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
27 May, 2010 |
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| Interview with Evans-Pritchard Lecturer Dr Charles Stewart (13 May 2010) |
Dr Charles Stewart (UCL) is interviewed by Anthropology graduate student Ana Ranitovic at All Souls, Oxford, about his longterm interest in dreams and historical consciousness in modern Greece. |
Charles Stewart |
27 May, 2010 |
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| Neither Freud nor Artemidorous, Evans-Pritchard Lecture by Charles Stewart (27 April 2010) |
The first Evans-Pritchard Lecture for 2010, presented at All Souls College on 27 April by Dr Charles Stewart (UCL). The series theme was Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece. |
Charles Stewart |
27 May, 2010 |
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| Facial tattooing among Drung women in Southwest China |
Facial tattooing is essentially a transition to what is and ought to be a woman. Gender performativity is associated with the materiality of the body: it is in fact the tattoo that makes a woman. |
Stéphane Gros |
12 April, 2010 |
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| Qigong Deviation as a Diplomatic Disaster |
What has acknowledging the human-like qualities of 'qi' to do with preventing and treating qigong malpractice? |
Chee Han Lim |
12 April, 2010 |
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| Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 3: Hunter-gatherer diet (5 Feb 2010) |
In this third Nutritional Anthropology lecture, Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (ISCA, Oxford) discusses hunter-gatherer subsistence ecology and its relevance to the modern world. |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
7 April, 2010 |
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| Medical anthropology: Famine, food crisis and living standards in North Korea (25 Jan 2010) |
Dr Daniel Jong Schwekendiek (ISCA, Oxford) examines the methodology and evidence for determining who has been 'better off' in North Korea between the 1940s and 2000s. |
Daniel Jong Schwekendiek |
7 April, 2010 |
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| Anthropology seminar: Indigenous capitalism in Upland Indonesia (5 Feb 2010) |
Based on numerous field research trips over the last 20 years, Prof. Li (University of Toronto) describes how much attitudes and horizons have changed in this remote, mountainous area. |
Tania Murray Li |
7 April, 2010 |
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| Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 2: Nutritional Quality and Child Growth |
Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford) discusses nutritional factors that impact on the growth of children across the globe. |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
10 March, 2010 |
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| Anthropology seminar: Re-Tooling a Body with The Body |
Assistant Professor Adam Frank (University of Central Arkansas) describes Three Ways of Teaching Tajiquan to the White Guy. |
Adam Frank |
10 March, 2010 |
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| Medical Anthropology: Drink me... Take me... Read me... |
Mark Lawrence, Director of First Read This (an Oxford company that aims to promote patient information leaflets), discusses how following instructions makes the patient feel better. |
Mark Lawrence |
10 March, 2010 |
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| League of Nations; Minority Regime as Anthropological Object |
Jane K Cowan (Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Sussex) on rethinking minority, nationality, the international and international governance through history in an effort to understand the League of Nations in terms of anthropology. |
Jane K. Cowan |
18 February, 2010 |
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| People Losing Credit: Models and Innovation in Finance |
Dr Gillian Tett, Assistant Editor of the Financial Times gives a talk as part of the Ethnicity and Identity Seminar series on her experience of working for the Financial Times and how her background in Anthropology helps her in her journalistic work. |
Gillian Tett |
18 February, 2010 |
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| Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 1: What is the natural human diet? |
Professor Stanley Ulijaszek of the School of Anthropology gives a talk on the 'natural' human diet, and asks whether we, people living in an industrialised society, should be trying to follow the natural diet. Recorded 22nd January 2010. |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
18 February, 2010 |
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