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The self-management of misfortune by use of amulets and charms. Ethnicity and Identity Seminar

The self-management of misfortune by use of amulets and charms. Ethnicity and Identity Seminar

FromAnthropology


The self-management of misfortune by use of amulets and charms. Ethnicity and Identity Seminar

FromAnthropology

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Length:
55 minutes
Released:
May 10, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this Ethnicity and Identity Seminar on 'Managing Disasters and Misfortune', Eric Edwards (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) discusses 'The self-management of misfortune by use of amulets and charms' (3 February 2012).
Released:
May 10, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Podcasts from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography. The School is renowned for its contributions to anthropological theory, its commitment to long-term ethnographic fieldwork, and its association with the Pitt Rivers Museum and the anthropology of visual and material culture. Home to over forty academic staff, over a hundred doctoral students, twelve Master’s programmes, and two undergraduate degrees (Human Sciences; Archaeology and Anthropology), Oxford anthropology is one of the world’s largest and most vibrant centres for teaching and research in the discipline. It came top of the Power (research excellence + volume) rankings for anthropology in the UK in RAE 2008.