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- Manners and Morals: Codes of Civility in Early Modern England
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- Living digital archives in contemporary pasts: ‘Abadan: retold’
- The Geography of Lesbian Genders: Re-Creating Lesbian Subjectivity
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- What Happened to The Godfather? The Legal Illegibility of Relationships and its Consequences
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- 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
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- The Second Linguistic Conference, 23-25 March 2017
- Creating a safe space: revolutionary imaginations and practical realities in a feminist bookstore
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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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
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- '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
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- 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