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Department of Social Anthropology

 

Listen to Camthropod podcasts and audio recordings of events from the Department of Social Anthropology:

 

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With Mike Degani, Timothy Cooper, and Marilyn Strathern (University of Cambridge)
March 2024

 

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Episode 36:Origin Studies Part 2, by Adam Hinden.
With Andrew Sanchez, Elizabeth Turk, and Caroline Humphrey (University of Cambridge)

February 2024

 

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Episode 35: Origin Studies Part 1, by Adam Hinden, an Irish-American researcher and musician currently based in London. His work, both for his anthropology MPhil at the University of Cambridge and in his current research with ACLED, surrounds activism and allyship among indigenous groups in Taiwan. 
With Sian Lazar, Thomas White, and Iza Kavedžija (University of Cambridge)

February 2024

 

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Episode 33. Artery: on art, authorship and anthropology. Episode 7: Emiko Agatsuma with Iza Kavedžija
Dr Iza Kavedžija (University of Cambridge) and Robert Simpkins (SOAS, London) - supported by the AHRC.
Music: Footsteps, by Robert Simpkins.
Camthropod Episode 33, February 2024

 

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Episode 32. Artery: on art, authorship and anthropology. Episode 6: Bronagh Lawson with Kayla Rush

Iza Kavedžija (University of Cambridge) and Robert Simpkins (SOAS, London) and supported by the AHRC.
Music: Footsteps, by Robert Simpkins.

Camthropod Episode 32, November 2023

Camthropod Logo Artery: on art, authorship and anthropology. Episode 5: Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh with Anonymous Anthropologist

Iza Kavedžija (University of Cambridge) and Robert Simpkins (SOAS, London) and supported by the AHRC.
Music: Footsteps, by Robert Simpkins.

Camthropod Episode 31, October 2023

 

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Artery: on art, authorship and anthropology. Episode 4: Jesús Guevara Rico with Alanna Cant

Iza Kavedžija (University of Cambridge) and Robert Simpkins (SOAS, London) and supported by the AHRC.
Music: Footsteps, by Robert Simpkins.
Camthropod Episode 30, June 2023

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The 'Political' in Northern Irish Protestant Marching Bands, by Sean French

Sean French is a third year Social Anthropology PhD student at the University of Cambridge.
Camthropod Episode 29, May 2023

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Artery: on art, authorship and anthropology. Episode 3: Tuguldur Yondonjamts with Hermione Spriggs​​​​​​​

Iza Kavedžija (University of Cambridge) and Robert Simpkins (SOAS, London) and supported by the AHRC.
Music: Footsteps, by Robert Simpkins.
Camthropod Episode 28, March 2023

 

Camthropod LogoKurdish Women and Desires for Voice by Marlene Schäfers

Marlene Schäfers (Utrecht University) with thanks to the Kurdish women who so generously shared their time and consent to be recorded in Wan, Turkey, 2011-12.
Camthropod Episode 27, February 2023

 

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Artery: on art, authorship and anthropology. Episode 2: Mzuzile Mduduzi Xakaza with Jeannine-Madeleine Fischer

Iza Kavedžija (University of Cambridge) and Robert Simpkins (SOAS, London) and supported by the AHRC.
Music: Footsteps, by Robert Simpkins.
Camthropod Episode 26, January 2023

 

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The Future of the Anthropological Journal

Andrew Sanchez, Liana Chua, and Natalia Buitron (University of Cambridge)
Camthropod Episode 25, November 2022

 

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Artery: on art, authorship and anthropology. Episode 1: Maree Clarke with Fran Edmonds.

Iza Kavedžija (University of Cambridge) and Robert Simpkins (SOAS, London) and supported by the AHRC. 
Music: Footsteps, by Robert Simpkins.
Camthropod Episode 24, November 2022

 

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The Recorded and the Live: Shi’i Islamic Media in Pakistan. With Charles Hirschkind, Karen Ruffle, and Abeera Arif-Bashir.

Timothy Cooper (University of Cambridge)

Camthropod Episode 23, 1 November 2021

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30 years of German unity

Laura Tradii (University of Cambridge)

Camthropod Episode 22, 29 May 2020

 

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An Interview with Max Bolt

Kevin Yildirim and Javier Ruiz

Camthropod Episode 21, 27 February 2020

 

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Anthropology Beyond the Academy:  Public Health 

Dr Sian Lazar (University of Cambridge)

Camthropod Episode 20, June 2019

 

 

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Anthropology Beyond the Academy: Diplomacy

David Sneath (University of Cambridge)

Camthropod Episode 19, Thursday 21 February 2019

 

 

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Circus Stories

Laura Byng (University of Cambridge) 

Camthropod Episode 18, Thursday 15 November 2018

 

 

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An interview with Michael Puett  

Beth Turk (University of Cambridge)

Camthropod Episode 17, Friday 2 February 2018

 

 

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An interview with David MacDougall

Rafael Dernbach (University of Cambridge)

Camthropod Episode 16, Friday 24 November 2017

 

 

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An interview with Ilana Gershon

Oliver Balch (University of Cambridge)

Camthropod Episode 15, Friday 27 October 2017

 

 

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Thinking about Vision. An investigation with visually-impaired theatre-goers and audio describers

Harsha Balasubramanian (University of Cambridge)

Camthropod Episode 14, Friday 10 March 2017 

 

 

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Welcome to Dataworld

Alex Taylor (University of Cambridge)

Camthropod Episode 13, Friday 10 February 2017

 

 

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Wicked problems in the world of debt advice

Ryan Davey (LSE) and Carl Packman

Camthropod Episode 12, Friday 25 November 2016

 

 

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Birdsong

Jonathan Woolley and Hugh Williamson (University of Cambridge)

Camthropod Episode 11, Friday 11 November 2016

 

 

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An Interview with Richard Werbner

Joe Philp (University of Cambridge)

Camthropod Episode 10, Friday 28 October 2016

 

 

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MIASU at 30

Dr Sian Lazar (University of Cambridge)

Camthropod Episode 9, Friday 14 October 2016

 

 

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Your Local

Farhan Samanani (University of Cambridge)

Camthropod Episode 8, Friday 10 June 2016

 

 

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An Interview with Tanya Luhrmann

Dr Rupert Stasch (University of Cambridge)

Camthropod Episode 7, Friday 27 May 2016

 

 

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Sounds of Protest

Dr Sian Lazar (University of Cambridge)

Camthropod Episode 6, Friday 13 May 2016 

 

 

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Hiddo Dhawr: Singing Love in(to) Somaliland

Christina Woolner (University of Cambridge)

Camthropod Episode 5, Friday 29 April 2016 

 

 

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An Interview with Anna Tsing

Corinna Howland and Christina Woolner (University of Cambridge)

Camthropod Episode 4, Friday 4 March 2016

 

 

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Treating English Handicaps: Spoken English Training Centres in Bangalore, India

Dr Sazana Jayadeva (Affiliated researcher, The German Institute of Global and Area Studies)

Camthropod Episode 3, Friday 19 February 2016

 

 

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Save the Date

Patrick O'Hare (University of Cambridge)

Camthropod Episode 2, Friday 5 February 2016

 

 

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Gogo Breeze and Radio Kinship

Professor Harri England (University of Cambridge)

Camthropod Episode 1, Friday 22 January 2016

 

 

Dr Piliavsky - Senior Seminar

The morals of effect in north India's goonda raj (rule of strongmen)

Dr Anastasia Piliavsky (University of Cambridge)

Senior Research Seminar, Friday 30 October 2015

 

 

Mond Building, New Museums Site

Imperial Transgressions: The Histories of the Animal and Human in Race Science

Dr Sujit Sivasundaram (University of Cambridge)

Senior Research Seminar, Friday 22 May 2015

 

 

Book sculpture, Cambridge

“The Revolution is Not a Wedding Reception”: queer activism and recursive anthropology

Dr Paolo Heywood (University of Cambridge)

Senior Research Seminar, Friday 1 May 2015

 

 

Archway, Cambridge

Mending Mother’s Kitchen: Negotiating Pentecostal Values on the Zambian Copperbelt

Dr Naomi Haynes (University of Edinburgh)

Senior Research Seminar, Friday 6 February 2015

 

 

Pope calls for repentance, July 2013

Salvage as salvation: the moral, the political and the scales of hospitality from the middle of the sea

Dr Naor Ben-Yehoyada (University of Cambridge)

Senior Research Seminar, Friday 23 January 2015

 

 

Cam river

Formal friendships in Amazonia – a reconsideration

Dr Anne-Christine Taylor (Director of Research, CNRS)

Senior Research Seminar, Friday 16 January 2015

 

 

Archway, Cambridge

Varieties of Pluralisms

Professor Philippe Descola (College de France)

Senior Research Seminar, Friday 28 November 2014

 

 

Mathematical Bridge, Cambridge

Inhabiting democracy: politics as a personal and cultural construction in post-Suharto Indonesia

Dr. Nick Long (LSE)

Senior Research Seminar, Friday 14 November 2014

 

 

Bridge of Sighs, Cambridge

On Freedom, Destiny, and Consequences

Dr Samuli Shielke (Zentrum Moderner Orient)

Senior Research Seminar, Friday 16 May 2014

 

 

Mongar Dzong Tshechu Dancers in Eastern Bhutan (Jonathan Taee, 2013)

Trading Worlds: Everyday Diplomacy on The Frontiers of South and Central Asia

Professor Magnus Marsden (University of Sussex)

Senior Research Seminar, Friday 14 February 2014

 

 

C Toren Senior Seminar

History as it is Lived: an Anthropological Perspective on Autonomy, Contingency And Historical Necessity

Professor Christina Toren (University of St Andrews)

Senior Research Seminar, Friday 22 November 2012