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- Did it really all happen at the coast? Impacts of Late Quaternary hydrological shifts on Middle Stone Age human mobility and landscape use in the Southern Africa desert interior
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- New endowed position in SAME: The Wendy James Associate Professorship in Evolutionary Anthropology, with a Tutorial Fellowship at St Hugh’s College
- Species of Justice: Closing Reception
- The evolution of human sociality: insights from hunter-gatherers, computer simulations, and meerkats
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- African Demography, Immigration, and Xenophobic Populist Ideology in France
- White Eagle, Black Eagle: Ethnic Relations in the German-Polish Borderlands
- Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2024 - Witchcraft, “Witch Camps”, and Social Life in Northern Ghana
- Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2024 - Witchcraft, Shrines, and Tindaanship
- Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2024 - “Witches” and the Humanitarian World: NGOs, Churches, and the State
- Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2024 - Living in “Witch Camps”: Experiences of Accused Witches and the Moral Economy of Songsim
- Dr José Ignacio Carrasco
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- Dr Ben Brindle
- Dr Myriam Cherti
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- Dr Sanne van Oosten
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- Dr Akira Shah
- Book Talk: Haunting Biology
- School ranked No. 1 for Anthropology in QS World University Rankings 2024
- A gap in the law for ethical acts: Russian theories and practice of illiberal modern life
- The Power of the (An)archive: Art as resistance to (re-)colonial epistemic violence in Ukraine’s industrial East
- Foraging, messy commons, and the fuzzy fringes of capitalism
- Value and violence in the making of Ukraine’s war economy
- Contrasting Balkan utopias: Navigating migration and futurity in the physical remnants of Yugoslavia
- Dr Brian Klaas
- The many lives of the Asante Ewers: From medieval England to West Africa and back
- ‘It’s a complicated relationship’: Post-imperial Irish heritage in the shadow of Britain
- Queer objects to the rescue: Intimacy and citizenship in Kenya
- ‘Your president is now a picture’: The image as utopian democracy in Nigeria
- The politics of demographic imagination
- Understanding obesity
- Ozempic and the escape from hunger
- Book Launch - ‘The politics of potential’
- The stakes around bariatric surgery in France: a critical sociology of the medical community and of public policies
- Study reveals how humanity could unite to address global challenges
- Alpa Shah announced as new Statutory Professor in Social Anthropology
- Workshop: Comparative Perspectives on the Calling
- Social stones: uncovering information exchange in the Middle Palaeolithic through computational archaeology
- Landscapes of xeno-fear: a conceptual framework of territoriality and inter-group relationships in primates
- Stress-adapted is not impaired: identifying and leveraging stress-adapted skills in children
- Origin Africa: A Natural History - introduction to the book
- Why is it odd that humans live in large groups?
- End of year celebration
- 2nd Annual PalEvo-PalMeso Lecture: Geoanthropology - long-term human interactions with the Earth system
- Panel Discussion | Migration Governance in the Global South: Setting the Scene
- Equal Partnerships: African Intermediary Cities as Actors in Urban Migration Governance
- The Governance of Migration Data in Africa: Lessons from Different Initiatives: the African Union Migration Observatories and the African Migration Data Network
- Panel Discussion | Migration Governance in the Mediterranean Region: Setting a New Agenda?
- Sanctuary Policies for Irregular Migrants in European Cities: Dismantling the Fortress from the Ground Up?
- How can multi-stakeholder partnerships support refugees and migrants with irregular status in African intermediary cities?
- Irregularisation and the city: Insights from the case of Athens, Greece
- Juggling a "parallel welfare system": local government responses to migrants' locked out of the welfare safety net
- In conversation with TCM practitioners in the PRC and UK: Reflections on researching du 毒 (poisons)
- Becoming a "big cow (大奶牛)": Exploring scientific motherhood, maternal subjectivities and the lactating body through the embodied experience of breastfeeding
- Announcement: Professor Wendy James FBA
- Fieldwork Q&A with DPhil student Gabriele Paone
- Professor David Zeitlyn wins Curl Essay Prize 2023
- The Borders of Capitalism: Technology, Governance, Migration
- Dr Dor Shilton
- Dr Lidia Sciama (1932-2024)
- Professor Carlos Alvarado Quesada
- New Publication: Inheritance
- Dr Chigusa Yamaura
- Professor Sir Peter Gluckman
- Dr Bronwyn Tarr
- Study reveals chimpanzees seek out medicinal plants to treat illness and injuries
- Inheritance, The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World
- Dr Jonathan Leach
- Annual Newsletter 2023-24
- Dr Susann Kassem
- Dr Aaron Greenhouse-Tucknott
- Anetta Pieronek
- Thomas Edgeworth
- Dr Linus Peitz
- Professor Chris Beedie
- Professor Robert Barnes
- The surprising benefits of exercising with friends
- Professor David Gellner elected to the British Academy
- Dr Jaeyoung Kim
- Thomas Kwong
- Geoff Ma
- Dr Isaac Schamberg
- Collaborative approach wins British Forum for Ethnomusicology student prize
- Paul Basu receives Curatorial Excellence Award
- 'Urgent and concerted conservation action' needed to protect chimpanzee nut cracking populations in Guinea
- Dr Claire White
- Welcome to Professor Ann Kelly
- The Marett Memorial Lecture 2024
- Professor Alpa Shah
- Dr Shireen Walton
- Pluriversal anthropologies? Different ways of knowing and regenerative scholarship
- What can an art-science collaboration tell us about the acoustic ecology of Okinawa’s military bases?
- Holding space as magic: The spiritual background of leadership development facilitation
- "I’ve Heard I’m Characterless”: Scandal, Social Media, and Mediated Talk Back in Rural India
- A kinaesthetic eye and sensory montages in a butoh dance class
- The 'right' kinds of knowledge: what anthropology can tell us about the far right, and what the far right can tell us about anthropology
- Caste, class, gender, and the prison: the silent predicament of inmates’ relatives in a Nepalese marketplace
- A Peripheral Presence and an Expressive Idiom: ‘Adil Imam in the January 25th Revolution
- Professor Ann Kelly
- Making the Invisible Visible: Economic Sanctions and Graphic Novellas & Jina is Jina
- Ex Machina: Emotional Break-Ups and Digital Breakdown with AI Companions
- Filling in with Fire: Time, Community, and Redevelopment in a Loyalist District of Belfast
- Art & Soil Politics
- Weaving Geometries: Generation and Regeneration through Basket-Weaving
- Visually Mediating Kashmir: The Circulation of Photographs on Digital Media Platforms
- Landscapes Made Visible: Seeing in the Mind’s Eye for the Non-Congenitally Sight Impaired
- Healing as awakening: the Mendrub ritual of the global Tibetan Bonpo community
- Mendrub - A Bonpo ritual for the empowerment of medicine performed in Phoksumdo, Dolpo
- Medicinal Accomplishment and related rituals in the Nyingma Dudjom tradition
- Singularity and multiplicity in Ladakhi mendrub practices
- Weight Stigma: Implications for policy and practice
- Preventing Obesity by Design (POD): An environment-behaviour health strategy for young children in child care
- Long-term effects of childhood nutrition: Evidence from a school lunch reform in Sweden
- Weight stigma, disordered eating, and body weight in the U.S. Military
- Creating accessible care environments: Navigating the complexities of care for patients living with obesity in healthcare settings
- Why are food systems failing and what can we do about it?
- The evolution of hominin body mass and canine size sexual dimorphism
- Palaeolithic ergonomics: How our ancestors gripped the past
- Ice Age Re(wilding): Animal Translocation, Extinction, and Bone Making Tool Making in the Pacific
- Plant Materials as Tools for Wild Chimpanzees: Reconsidering Hominin Technical Evolution
- The radiation and geographic expansion of primates through diverse climates
- Icthyoarchaeology and Human Dispersals in Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific
- The Ape and the First World: An Emerging New Comparative Model for Language Evolution
- Paper that raises critical issues on health care in India wins prestigious prize
- Leave Your Mark Exhibition
- Empires we lose: why an English woman in Boston has nowhere to go
- Linking multiscalar contestations over place in Peterborough, Brighton and Yiddishland
- Northern Exposure: Race, Nation and Disaffection in Post-Brexit Wakefield
- Northern Exposure presents: From Where We Stand
- “It can’t get any worse”: Imagining the opportunity to be political throughout Brexit
- “There must be something better than here”: the role of place in shaping the mobility aspirations of young people in coastal towns
- From the ground up: Faultlines of war and peace in rural England
- New Frontiers of Ethnographic Fieldwork
- New Frontiers of Ethnographic Fieldwork: Financial Elites
- New Frontiers of Ethnographic Fieldwork: Hackers
- New Frontiers of Ethnographic Fieldwork: Multispecies
- New Frontiers of Ethnographic Fieldwork: Far-right
- New Frontiers of Ethnographic Fieldwork: Prisons
- “Ni es lo mismo, ni es igual” Ecuadorian irregular migrants in Amsterdam and Madrid
- Urban policies in support of undocumented migrants and their formulation process
- Exploring post-2014 immigrant integration policies and governance in small and medium-size towns and rural areas in Europe
- Nikita Cooke-Smith
- Dr Dolores Senorans
- Dr Elspeth Davies
- Dr Benjamin Hegarty
- Are autodemarcações refusal? Imagining the future with the Tuxá community of São Francisco River, Brazil
- Book Launch: "A Genealogy of Method" by Sondra L. Hausner
- Professor Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
- Digital Ethnography in COVID-19: Improvisation and Intimacy
- Publication Ethics
- Understanding contemporary China through digital anthropology
- Creating spaces for romance: Technological rituals among Berlin dating app users
- Hybrid Families: Gender, Work, and Family in the UK Tech Sector
- Alexandra Atkeson
- Ogden Olivas
- Fiona Asokacitta
- Rawan Alfuraih
- Edoardo Chidichimo
- Reece Hammond
- Yaroslava Bukhta
- Ouzra Karimi
- Xiangyu Long
- Michael Murphy
- Muhammed Zeyn
- Shannon Lin
- Mercedes Baptiste Halliday
- Maxime Bourdier
- Binli Dai
- Yueng Suen
- Chimin Oh
- Meera Menon Pattaruveettil
- Cody Skahan
- Zhixin Wan
- Zoe Bantleman
- Gemma Naveja Romero
- AnthroFilm Screening: São Palco – an Afropolitan City – film by Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji and Jasper Chalcraft
- Social bonds built by football coaching in prisons found to help reduce reoffending
- The 'Humble Brick' receives UKRI funding
- Book Launch: "Capitalist Colonial: Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture" by Matan Kaminer
- Dr Antonio Montañés Jiménez
- Professor Pascal Menoret
- Disobedient Buildings share their unique methodological approach to research
- Dr Julia Ebner named 'Austrian of the Year 2024'
- Dr Priya Sajjad