Annals: Departmental reports and staff listings
University of Oxford
School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography 51-53 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PE
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Report
The School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography comprises the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA), the Institute of Human Sciences, the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology (ICEA), the Centre for Migration Policy and Society (COMPAS) funded by the ESRC, and the teaching and research functions of the Pitt Rivers Museum. Research clusters include the Centre for Anthropology and Mind (housed within ICEA), medical and ecological anthropology (housed within ISCA), the longstanding British Centre for Durkheimian Studies that continues to organise a range of workshops, book launches and other events, and the Pitt Rivers Museum Research Centre which enhances the co-ordination of material and visual anthropology, and museum ethnography, for which considerable ESRC, AHRC and other funding has been raised. The School embraces a holistic approach to the discipline encompassing social, material, visual, medical, biological, cognitive and evolutionary anthropology. Teaching and research in the School is built on a cherished tradition of rigorous empirical research.
Professor Robin Dunbar was appointed in 2007 as the Head of ICEA. At the same time Mette Berg, Sondra Hausner and Udi Butler joined the department as fixed-term Lecturers. Early in 2008, COMPAS secured renewed ESRC funding to continue its work for a further five years. Also at this time, David Gellner was elected to the historic Chair in Social Anthropology that will be vacated on the retirement of the present occupant, David Parkin. Ongoing seminar series in the School included the ISCA Departmental Seminars, the Ethnicity and Identity Seminars, the Fertility and Reproduction Seminars and the Human Sciences Seminars. These were augmented this year by a new seminar series for a newly established Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity. The Marett Lecturer this year was Professor Sherry Ortner. Dr Richard Vokes presented the 2008 Evans-Pritchard Lectures.
Full-time teaching staff
Marcus Banks (PhD 1985, Cambridge; Professor) Jainism, ethnicity and race, ethnographic film and visual representation; India, UK
Robert Barnes (DPhil 1973, Oxford; Professor) Thought, kinship, economic exchange, history; Indonesia
Mette Berg (DPhil 2004, Oxford; Lecturer) Migration, transnationalism, diasporas, the Caribbean, Cuba, cosmopolitanism, gender
Xiang Biao (DPhil 2003, Oxford; RCUK Fellow) Migration, governance, labour, India-China comparison
Udi Butler (PhD 2004, Goldsmiths; Lecturer) Visual anthropology and ethnographic film, personhood and emotions, anthropology of development, anthropology of childhood and youth, activism and new social movements, participative research
Katharine Charsley (PhD 2003, Edinburgh; Lecturer) Migration, South Asia and South Asian diasporas, British Pakistanis, transnational marriage, kinship, gender
Inge Daniels (PhD 2001, London; Lecturer) Visual and material culture, consumption, gift exchange, religion
Romola Davenport (PhD 1998, Cambridge; Lecturer) Historical demography, cause-specific mortality
Paul Dresch (DPhil 1982, Oxford; Lecturer) History, politics, tribalism, Islamic and customary law, semantic anthropology; Middle East (South Arabia)
Robin Dunbar (PhD 1974, Bristol; Professor) Evolutionary anthropology, evolutionary psychology, evolution of sociality, brain evolution in primates, human and primate behavioural ecology
Elizabeth Ewart (PhD 2000, Manchester; Lecturer) Anthropology of Lowland South America, Brazil, indigenous peoples, Amerindian cosmology, material anthropology, body arts, the social significance of everyday practices
David Gellner (DPhil 1987, Oxford; Lecturer) Buddhism, Hinduism, traditional urbanism, healers and their relation to religion, ritual and symbolism; Asia, East Asia
Clare Harris (PhD 1998, London; Lecturer/Curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum) Visual and material culture, art and aesthetics, museum and cultural representation, identity and diasporas; Himalayas, Tibet, South Asia
Sondra Hausner (PhD 2002; Lecturer) Religion and religious experience, migration, pilgrimage, space, time, embodiment, and gender and sexuality
Elisabeth Hsu (PhD 1992, Cambridge; Lecturer) Chinese medicine in the PR of China and the diaspora especially East Africa, medical anthropology and linguistics; PRC, Tanzania
Mike O’Hanlon (PhD 1985, London; Lecturer/Director of the Pitt Rivers Museum) Visual anthropology, objectification and modernity, museology; New Guinea, Melanesia, Australia
David Parkin (PhD 1965, London; Professor) Medical anthropology, Islam, cross-cultural rhetorics, epistemological comparativism; East Africa and Indian Ocean, Swahili-speaking coastlands
Robert Parkin (DPhil 1983, Oxford; Lecturer) Kinship, religion, identity, history of anthropology; South Asia, Poland and Eastern Europe
Laura Peers (PhD 1996, McMaster; Lecturer/Curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum) Native American cultural history and material culture, representation of Native American cultures, museums and indigenous peoples
David Pratten (PhD 2000, London; Lecturer/African Studies) Historical ethnography and colonialism, youth, violence and vigilantism; West Africa, Nigeria
Stanley Ulijaszek (PhD 1987, London; Professor), Nutritional anthropology, human ecology, reproduction; Papua New Guinea and the Pacific, Poland
Harvey Whitehouse (PhD 1991, Cambridge; Professor) Cultural transmission, cognitive science of culture, religion and ritual; Papua New Guinea and the Pacific
Head of Department: Harvey Whitehouse
Department Secretary: Barbara de Bruine
Other Anthropologists in Oxford
Dr Nick Allen (Emeritus Fellow ISCA/Wolfson – retired)
Dr Shirley Ardener OBE (Research Associate - Queen Elizabeth House)
Dr Walter Armbrust (St Antony’s)
Dr Ruth Barnes (Ashmolean Museum)
Dr Juliet Bedford (Postdoctoral Associate – ISCA)
Dr Jo Boyden (Queen Elizabeth House)
Dr Dawn Chatty (Queen Elizabeth House)
Dr Emma Cohen (Postdoctoral researcher - ICEA)
Jeremy Coote (Pitt Rivers Museum)
Dr John Davis (All Souls)
Dr Janette Davies (Research Associate – Queen Elizabeth House)
Dr Anne de Sales (Research Associate - Maison Française)
Dr Barbara Gerke (Postdoctoral Associate – ISCA)
Professor Roger Goodman (Nissan Institute)
Dr Renee Hirschon (Research Associate – St Peter’s College)
Professor Wendy James (Emeritus Fellow – ISCA/ St Cross College – retired)
Dr Vibha Joshi (Research Fellow)
Dr Nicola Knight (Postdoctoral researcher - ICEA)
Dr Chris Low (African Studies Centre)
Dr Hélène Neveu Kringelbach (JRF St Anne’s)
Dr Nicolette Makovicky (Research Fellow – Wolfson College)
Dr David Mills (Centre for Continuing Education)
Professor Judith Okely (Research Associate – Queen Elizabeth House)
Professor Stephen Oppenheimer (Research Associate)
Dr W S F Pickering (British Centre for Durkheimian Studies – retired)
Dr Frank Pieke (Institute for Chinese Studies)
Dr Julia Powles (Research Associate – St Catherine’s College)
Dr Istvan Praet (ESRC Fellow)
Dr Charles Ramble (Lecturer in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies at the Oriental Institute)
Dr Josephine Reynell (Research Associate – Queen Elizabeth House)
Professor Vernon Reynolds (Emeritus Fellow – IBA/Magdalen – retired)
Dr Laura Rival (Research Associate – Queen Elizabeth House)
Professor Peter Rivière (Emeritus Fellow – ISCA/Linacre – retired)
Dr Mandy Sadan (PRM, JRF Wolfson)
Dr Alison Shaw (Research Fellow in ETHOX Centre)
Dr Judith Scheele (JRF, Magdalen College)
Dr Lidia Sciama (Research Associate – Queen Elizabeth House)
Dr Devi Sridhar (Research Associate – All Souls College)
Dr Clarinda Still (Research Associate – St Antony’s College)
Dr Martin Stokes (Research Associate – Faculty of Music)
Dr Mohammad Talib (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
Professor Elizabeth Tonkin (Research Associate)
Dr Soraya Tremayne (Research Associate – Fertility and Reproductive Studies Group)
Dr David Turton (African Studies Centre)
Dr Jacqueline Waldren (Research Associate – Queen Elizabeth House)
Dr Eileen Walsh (University of Oxford China Centre)
Special resources and facilities
Pitt Rivers Museum, Bodleian Library, Tylor Library, Balfour Library, graduate computing facilities in the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, visual anthropology workroom
Departmental series
Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford (JASO)