School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford

Are you looking for an undergraduate course that will allow you to pursue a wide range of your academic interests? Find out why Human Sciences might be the course for you ⬇️ Our Human Sciences undergraduate degree can cover topics as varied as evolution, sociology, human physiology, anthropology and genetics. This interdisciplinary structure offers an exciting and varied experience over three years of study. You might dive deeper into some of your favourite subjects, whilst also encountering brand new topics. Are you interested in finding out more? Why not visit us on the next #OxOpenDays on 2-3 July and 19 September: https://lnkd.in/gq3qNJ_6 #OxHumSci #OxfordUniversity

A new study reveals chimpanzees use chewed-up leaves on injuries - a form of self-care never seen in them before. Read more from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford's Dr Elodie Freymann ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/emxTJAFx

📣 DPhil student Princess Banda has recently published a chapter in 'The Routledge Companion to Gender and Reproduction' ⬇️ "An Introduction to the Framework of ‘Obstetric Racism': Theory and Intellectual Lineage" The chapter unpacks the theory and framework of 'obstetric racism', coined by African American anthropologist Dána-Ain Davis, which proposes that Black women are subjected to seven elements of racialised obstetric violence. Princess Banda places this within an intellectual heritage of critical (Black) feminist health scholarship, exploring the vital role it has played in understanding, researching, and articulating racialised obstetric violence. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/escS_Unz

📣 Join us next week at #OxOpenDays to get a taste of our Human Sciences undergraduate course! The Pauling Centre for Human Sciences will be open 10am-5pm. You'll have the chance to chat to students and hear from tutors across two sessions: 10am: Human Sciences at Oxford - an introduction to the degree and the admissions process 11am: Taster sessions exploring how disciplines within Human Sciences are relevant to global issues, from antimicrobial resistance to political resistance 📅2 and 3 July / 19 September Find out more: https://lnkd.in/gq3qNJ_6 Plus there's lots more guidance available to help you make the most of University of OxfordOpen Days: www.ox.ac.uk/opendays

What happens when humanitarian aid is cut or delayed? Don't miss this new article in VoxDev co-authored by Vittorio Bruni (DPhil student in Migration Studies) ⬇️ It outlines findings from two papers studying how aid volatility affects refugees living in Kakuma, one of the world’s largest refugee camps. The research showed that aid cuts 'triggered a cascade of effects across households and markets'. The authors argue that this has three key policy implications: - Humanitarian aid should be treated as a necessity, not as optional or discretionary - Informal credit central to how refugee economies function, and aid programmes must be designed with these dynamics in mind - It matters when aid arrives; reducing bureaucratic inefficiencies is key Read in full: https://lnkd.in/eu7iBN68 University of Oxford, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) Oxford Department of International Development #HumanitarianAid #AidCuts

🌏CLIMATE spotlight 'The ocean holds fifty times more carbon than the atmosphere. One of the mechanisms of this absorption is the presence of alkaline substances.' NEW article, Middling Worlds, by Javier Lezaun (Associate Professor at School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, and Director Institute of Science Innovation and Society, University of Oxford) describes a recent oceanographic study exploring strategies to rapidly increase the alkalinity of the upper ocean to accelerate the uptake of atmospheric CO2, as a potential climate solution. Want to know more? Read full article in Limn Issue 12, Climate's Interiors: https://lnkd.in/eAKEM_uZ #ClimateSolutions #ScienceInnovation

ICYMI: Professor Alpa Shah (Professor of Social Anthropology) was a guest panellist on the BBC World Service Weekend show. Throughout the show Professor Shah provided perspectives on a wide range of global issues, including: - The deployment of the National Guard in LA - The environmental impact of cryptocurrency mining - The complexities of granting legal rights to areas of nature - The detention of activist Alaa Abdel Fattah in Egypt, and the hunger strike of his mother - Protecting the cheetah 🎧 Catch up now: https://lnkd.in/eQKY3EWz

It's week 8, and to round off the term we've got one final event as part of the Fertility and Reproduction Studies Seminars: 'Demographic hysteria, rebellious wombs: The paradox of Iran's family planning project' Speaker: Saba Mirhossein (Bielefeld University) 📅 12.30pm, 17 June Find out more: https://lnkd.in/de7Zf3DW

🏥 It’s a health theme for this week’s #anthropology events including: - Limitations and possibilities of emerging reproductive mobilities in Central Asia, with Dr Shahnoza Nozimova (Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford) - Social energetics: Human cooperative interdependence and its implications for diet, metabolism, fatigue, and physical activity, with Dr Arran Davis ( Postdoctoral Researcher School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford) - Sprouting or struggling? an ethnography of Chinese Medicine in the UK today, with guest speaker Professor Xuanxuan Yan (Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, China) More info: https://lnkd.in/eM8xE4uz

ICYMI - Dr Chihab El Khachab (Associate Professor in Visual Anthropology) recently gave the Malinowski Memorial Lecture LSE Anthropology: 'When ethnography becomes history' Chihab El Khachab explores his own practice as an ethnographer in Cairo over the past decade, and reflects on the endurance of ethnographic materials. Catch up on the recording: https://lnkd.in/eSerwPf7 Find out more about the lecture: https://lnkd.in/e-y6XpmB