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Interdisciplinary teaching and research with a global reach. Home of our BA & BSc Anthropology and BSc Health and Human Sciences Explore our postgraduate courses www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academ…

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Rachel Kendal @rachkendal.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Really enjoyed speaking at this great initiative in Sheffield’s School of Biosciences sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/.... Many thanks for nominating me @jennifer-morinay.bsky.social and great hosting Kimberley Simpson @durhamanthropology.bsky.social
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The Annual Margaret Savigear Lectures
The Margaret Savigear Lectures acknowledge the importance of role models to the next generation of scientists by explicitly increasing the visibility of women biologists and celebrates the importance ...
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Durham University Anthropology @durhamanthropology.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Last Nov, the Durham Infancy & Sleep Centre (led by our Prof Helen Ball) joined the Lullaby Trust and Sheffield Sling Library for an event on safe sling and baby-carrier use - find out more below! 🎥: Durham University Impact Acceleration team youtu.be/SGQc8UixG_M?... #ResearchImpact #Anthropology
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Durham University researchers working with partners to support safe use of baby slings
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Ollie Douglas @olliedouglas.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Great to be here @durham.ac.uk Institute for Advanced Study, with colleagues from @durhamhistory.bsky.social and @durhamanthropology.bsky.social who share an ‘interest in cattle’. We love chatting about cattle @themerl.bsky.social (and we love going elsewhere to chat about them too).
Detail of a presentation title slide onscreen reading: ‘Interest in cattle // IAS Seminar / 23 February 2026’View from the river from a bridge in Durham.
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Durham University @durham.ac.uk · 03/03/2026
Are you a new parent desperate to try any products and gadgets that might help your little one snooze for a bit longer? 👶💤 Our baby sleep expert, Professor Helen Ball, gives her verdict in this BBC Radio 4 podcast. 🎧 tinyurl.com/4kxhb7fm @durhamanthropology.bsky.social | @helenball.bsky.social
Baby asleep in parent's arms.
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Durham University @durham.ac.uk · 11/03/2026
It's Safer Sleep Week. If you're a new parent, why not take a look at some tips from our world-leading baby sleep expert, Professor Helen Ball, to find out the science behind your baby's sleep 👶🏼😴 tinyurl.com/mr2rff45 @helenball.bsky.social | @durhamanthropology.bsky.social #SaferSleep
A sleeping baby.
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Durham University @durham.ac.uk · 11/03/2026
From hot-mic moments to ‘selective editing’, “taken out of context” is a familiar defence—but what does understanding something in context really involve? Dr Paolo Heywood from @durhamanthropology.bsky.social traces the term’s meanings across history, politics, culture & language 👉 bit.ly/4bgxkfQ
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Durham University Anthropology @durhamanthropology.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Special collection out now: 'Flashes of Responsibility: Craft, Ethics, and Impact in Global Health Ethnography' Read it here: medanthro.net/critical-car... Featuring many of our Department's health anthropologists: staff members, postdocs, and PhD students! #Anthropology #GlobalHealth #DUresearch
Screenshot of a page on the Society for Medical Anthropology website, showing 12 thumbnail links for a variety of online articles. The webpage is titled 'Flashes of Responsibility: Craft, Ethics, and Impact in Global Health Ethnography'.
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Durham University Anthropology @durhamanthropology.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Last week we saw the launch of the new 'EDI in application processes' toolkit! editoolkit.webspace.durham.ac.uk (more info in thread 👇)
Seminar room of people listening to a presentation delivered by Prof Rachel Kendal, part of the launch event for the 'EDI in application processes’ toolkit.Group photo of the team behind the EDI in application processes toolkit. They stand at the front of a seminar room, next to a screen with a PowerPoint slide titled 'What is in the toolkit?' with a colourful infographic.
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Durham University Anthropology @durhamanthropology.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Our Prof Rob Barton has been elected as a fellow of the @rsb.org.uk! Fellows of the RSB demonstrate a distinctive and notable contribution to the advancement of the biological sciences, with min. 5yrs' influential experience throughout their career. More about Rob: www.durham.ac.uk/staff/r-a-ba...
Photo of Prof Rob Barton, speaking at a panel event. He holds a wireless microphone and behind him is a large photo full of green plants.
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Durham University Anthropology @durhamanthropology.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Prof Nayanika Mookherjee has said of her article: "In this essay I write on the danger of misinformation in South Asia in the run up to the Feb 2026 Bangladeshi elections and the codes of vulnerabilities which becomes preyed on." (continued in thread)
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Durham University Anthropology @durhamanthropology.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
New article published by our Prof Nayanika Mookherjee, '2026 Bangladeshi Elections and Information Bombs' Read it here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur... (republished from counterpointbd.com) #Anthropology #PoliticalAnthropology #DurhamAnthropology
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2026 Bangladeshi Elections and Information Bombs - Durham University
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Durham University Anthropology @durhamanthropology.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
"Untimely Figures: Artefacts, Time and History in an Amerindian Ritual" Last term our Department's Dr Paolo Fortis was invited to give the weekly Departmental Seminar at the University of Oslo's Social Anthropology Department - learn more here! www.sv.uio.no/sai/english/... #Anthropology
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Paolo Fortis: "Untimely Figures: Artefacts, Time and History in an Amerindian Ritual" - Department of Social Anthropology
The Departmental Seminar Series features Paolo Fortis, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Durham University, U.K.
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Durham University Anthropology @durhamanthropology.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
📃 Out now! 📃 Our Anthropology Department's Professor Yulia Egorova has co-edited an issue of Ethnoscripts titled 'Jewish Cultural Heritage, Minority Agency, and the State' - available free and open access here: journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/ethnoscripts... #DUresearch #Anthropology #CulturalHeritage
Screenshot of the EthnoScripts Contemporary Anthropology webpage, showing the Vol 27 No. 1 (2025) issue: Jewish Cultural Heritage, Minority Agency, and the State. The issue was published 2nd Dec 2025.
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Durham University @durham.ac.uk · 06/01/2026
Research by @tomyarrow.bsky.social challenges the idea that emotional openness is the only route to friendship. He found that care & intimacy can be forged through shared work, banter & even silence. www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur... @uk.theconversation.com @durhamanthropology.bsky.social
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Heritage railway volunteers show how deep friendships can be formed without discussing emotions - Durham University
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Tom Yarrow @tomyarrow.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
My @uk.theconversation.com piece on male friendship and intimacy beyond words is out today:
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Tom Yarrow @tomyarrow.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Me on Sky News waffling nervously about friendship and intimacy: news.sky.com/video/mental...
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Mental health: Research shows not all men should open up to their friends
Professor of Anthropolgy at Durham University, Thomas Yarrow, explains his findings.
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Durham University Anthropology @durhamanthropology.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Keep an ear out this Thursday 18 Dec at 11am for our Prof Jo Setchell on BBC Radio 4! It's all about monkey business... 🐒 If you can't wait - it's already available online: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #Anthropology #Primates #DurhamAnthropology
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BBC Radio 4 - The Infinite Monkey Cage, Series 34, Monkey Business - Robin Dunbar, Dave Gorman and Jo Setchell
Robin Ince and Brian Cox go bananas for our monkiest episode yet, all about primate love.
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Rachel Kendal @rachkendal.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Today sees the publication of the Theme Issue featuring the CES Transformation Fund grant scheme. Enjoy! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3... @durhamdcerc.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social @cultevolfunding.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
Picture of front cover of Theme Issue entitled "Transforming cultural evolution research and its application to global futures."  The image on the front cover is of a Yao honey hunter in Mozambique holding retrieved honeycomb.
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Durham University Anthropology @durhamanthropology.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
We're looking forward to the upcoming Inaugural Professorial Lecture by our Professor Ben Campbell - “What Are you Doing in this Place of Nothing but Rocks and Trees?” 🗓️ 3-5pm, 10 Dec 2025 📍CLC407, Calman Learning Centre Free to attend! More info and abstract: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
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Ben Campbell Lecture 10 Dec 2025 - Durham University
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Durham University @durham.ac.uk · 20/11/2025
Professor Gina Porter, @durhamanthropology.bsky.social, and Bradley Rink, at the University of the Western Cape, draw on research in Cape Town and London to challenge the common assumption that young men walk freely and without fear within communities. Read more 👉 bit.ly/43I4D8B #DUResearch
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Walking habits of young men in Cape Town and London - Durham University
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Durham University Anthropology @durhamanthropology.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Aug 2025 when our Prof Nayanika Mookherjee was in Bangladesh: Nayanika carried out fieldwork, gave a lecture at Jahangirnagar University's Anthropology Dept and spoke at a Legal Aid (BLAST) event, on Reparative Justice for victims of conflict related sexual violence (CRSV). She also...(1/2)
Photo collage against a textured light beige background. Clockwise from top left: Nayanika and Prof Taslima Sultana Mirza; Nayanika on the right of a group photo; Nayanika speaking at an event; Nayanika celebrating the book launch of “IVF and Childlessness in Bangladesh: Constructions of Motherhood" with Prof Taslima Sultana Mirza who is cutting into a cake. Text at the centre reads: "Professor Nayanika Mookherjee" with the subtitle "Bangladesh, August 2025" next to a map location icon.Photo collage against a textured light beige background. Clockwise from top left: Nayanika and Prof Taslima Sultana Mirza; Nayanika on the right of a group photo; Nayanika speaking at an event; Nayanika celebrating the book launch of “IVF and Childlessness in Bangladesh: Constructions of Motherhood" with Prof Taslima Sultana Mirza who is cutting into a cake. Text at the centre reads: "Professor Nayanika Mookherjee" with the subtitle "Bangladesh, August 2025" next to a map location icon.
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Rachel Kendal @rachkendal.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
First paper out in FACE-UP project on protecting children from urban air pollution www.growkudos.com/articles/10.... with Judith Covey and @clairehorwell.bsky.social. @durhamanthropology.bsky.social
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Children’s preferences for features and designs of KN95-style respirators: A comparative study between Indonesia and Nepal
This study explores children’s preferences for different designs of KN95-style respirators in two highly polluted cities: Kathmandu, Nepal and Bandung, Indonesia. It aims to understand which designs a...
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@DurhamIAS.bsky.social @durhamias.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
'Undamned: indigenous leadership in river restoration in North America', a talk by Prof Beth Rose Middleton Manning (University of California, Davis) on 10 Nov, 5.30pm at Trevelyan College. No need to book, just come along. #IASFellows @durhamanthropology.bsky.social
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Rachel Kendal @rachkendal.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Thanks @patrickesavage.bsky.social great to see the door stop being used in great teaching @durhamanthropology.bsky.social @durhamdcerc.bsky.social
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Durham University Anthropology @durhamanthropology.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
📢 Upcoming event! 📢 This year's Layton Dialogue will be on Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. 📅 5 Nov, 3-5pm 📍CLC407, Calman Learning Centre Free and open to all! More info: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/... #Anthropology #IndigenousKnowledge #ClimateChange
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Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change Layton Dialogue - Durham University
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Durham University Anthropology @durhamanthropology.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Our Head of Department Prof Yulia Egorova a few weeks ago: 💭 Yulia presented her work on Jewish-Muslim solidarity networks at the workshop ‘Unsilencing Islam: Historical and Sociological Perspectives’. 📍The University of Chicago-Paris Centre, organised by Sarra Zaied and Elisabeth Becker-Topkara
Photo of Prof Yulia Egorova standing near a wall sign saying 'The University of Chicago: John W. Boyer Center in Paris'.
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Durham University Anthropology @durhamanthropology.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Delighted to share that Athena Swan have conferred a Silver Award on our Department! This recognises our efforts to advance #GenderEquality in our community. Thank you to so many in our Department for their work towards this application! @advancehe.bsky.social #AthenaSwan #Anthropology
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Durham University Anthropology @durhamanthropology.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Day 1 of our recent Gibraltar field school: 🗺️ site orientation in the Upper Rock Nature Reserve 📋practice behavioural data collection 😋and a dinner in Casemates Square! Find out more about our residential field courses: durham.ac.uk/departments/... #Anthropology #StudyAnthropology #Fieldwork
Photo collage showing four photos from a field trip to Gibraltar in 2025. Left photo shows students walking across a rope bridge, top right shows students observing a macaque, central right shows students and staff enjoying dinner together at a long table. Bottom right is a photo of three macaques, including an infant.
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Durham University Anthropology @durhamanthropology.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Congratulations to our Prof Jo Setchell, appointed to the REF (Research Excellence Framework) 2029 sub-panel on #Anthropology and #DevelopmentStudies! This expert sub-panel will assess #research quality in Anthropology and Development Studies, across UK higher education institutions.
Selfie of Prof Jo Setchell standing in a mountainous landscape on a blue-skied, sunny day.
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Durham University Anthropology @durhamanthropology.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The Royal Anthropological Institute has awarded our Prof Nayanika Mookherjee with the Rivers Memorial Medal, one of the highest accolades in #anthropology! This recognises her outstanding contributions to anthropology, with an emphasis on fieldwork and a significant body of theoretical literature.
Photo collage. Top left photo is of the Rivers Memorial Medal. Bottom photo is a group of smiling people, with Nayanika in the centre holding her medal. Top right is text saying "24 Sep 2025: Professor Nayanika Mookherjee awarded Rivers Memorial Medal!"
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Durham University Anthropology @durhamanthropology.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Congratulations to one of our PhD students, Emily! 👏🎉 Read more in the new blog post Emily's linked to below! #Anthropology
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Durham University Anthropology @durhamanthropology.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Ever wondered what #Anthropology is and how it can kickstart your career? Our BSc Anthropology alum Lucy Faber spoke to Prof Rob Barton on exactly this topic! Learn how Anthropology gives you the skills & perspective to thrive in the workplace ☝️ 🎞️ Full interview on YouTube - link in bio/thread!
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Durham University Anthropology @durhamanthropology.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
🎓 Interested in studying #Anthropology at the 'University of the Year'? Check out our undergrad courses: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/... - and our postgrad taught courses! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/... Congratulations to our global university community on this success! 👏 Read more below 👇
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Undergraduate Anthropology Degrees | Durham University - Durham University
Our undergraduate anthropology degrees introduce you to the study of humans.
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Durham University Anthropology @durhamanthropology.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
It's a wrap! Team BONES finishes the field season and departs Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya. Our Department's Fire Kovarovic stops for the traditional post-field-season photo on the equator 🌍 #Anthropology #Fieldwork #Palaeoanthropology #DUresearch #DurhamUni
Dr Fire Kovarovic stands next to a large sign in the shape of the African continent. On the sign it says "You are on the Equator", "Ol Pejeta Conservancy Kenya", and "Latitude: 0-0-0 Alt: 5990ft-1826m".
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Durham University Anthropology @durhamanthropology.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
🎙️ 'Betwixt The Sheets': History of Celibacy 🎙️ aka a #HistoryHit #podcast ft. our Emeritus Professor Sandra Bell and Professor Elisa Sobo! Together they've edited a book: 'Celibacy, Culture, And Society: #Anthropology Of Sexual Abstinence'. 🎧 Listen to learn more: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
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BBC Sounds - Betwixt The Sheets, History of Celibacy
Why celibacy meant power for Queen Elizabeth I, the Church—and 'No Nut November' today.
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Durham University Anthropology @durhamanthropology.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
(1/3) Check out this blog post below by one of our BA #Anthropology alumni, Abigail Lewis! Abigail is now Access and Participation Programme Coordinator at Durham Students' Union. wonkhe.com/blogs/for-so...
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For some students, home doesn't feel like home
Drawing on lived experience research, Abigail Lewis explores the realities of class-based exclusion and how institutions can respond
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Durham University Anthropology @durhamanthropology.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
New #research co-authored by our Prof Rob Barton reveals that in primates, longer thumbs and larger brains evolved together 🧠 Read the #OpenAccess paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s42... #DUresearch #Anthropology #PrimateEvolution #CognitiveEvolution #DurhamAnthropology
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Human dexterity and brains evolved hand in hand - Communications Biology
Thumbs and brains coevolved in primates. Across living and extinct species, longer thumbs predict bigger brains, highlighting the neural cost of dexterity.
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Durham University Anthropology @durhamanthropology.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
(1/2) A recently deceased male elephant provides an opportunity to study the dispersal of large mammal remains! Pictured here: our Department's Fire Kovarovic, Briana Pobiner (NMNH Smithsonian), Kari Lintulaakso (Finnish Natural History Museum LUOMUS) and Isaack Kipkoech (Ol Pejeta Conservancy).
Photo of four people standing in front of a muddy wallow where the skeletonised remains of an elephant are visible.
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Jeremy Kendal @jeremykendal.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Physical copies of this 71-chapter tome now exist. Do encourage your library to buy a copy…also doubles as excellent door stop! Co-edited with Jamie Tehrani and @rachkendal.bsky.social. @oxunipress.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social
The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution hard copy
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Durham University Anthropology @durhamanthropology.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
In Kyoto: Prof Hannah Brown is a RIHN Visiting Research Fellow researching bushmeat, zoonotic disease, and ‘local knowledge’ between #anthropology and #ecology. She will work with Associate Professor Hongo, the FASHLOKS project and engage with others at RIHN. More: www.chikyu.ac.jp/rihn_e/news/...
Prof Hannah Brown smiles at the camera and stands in front of a set of stepping stones curving away across a small pool. In the pool is a glass-walled room.
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Durham University Anthropology @durhamanthropology.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
🔍 Snaps from a one-day workshop on how to identify mammal bones, evidence of carnivore damage and weathering recorded on them! Dr Fire Kovarovic, Dr Ogeto Mwebi and Dr Briana Pobiner delivered this workshop, attended by staff at Ol Pejeta conservancy. Thanks Nelly Maiyo for helping us organise it!
Classroom with many people gathered around a table, as part of a workshop. The attendees are analysing different mammal bones and skulls. Behind the three workshop instructors is a powerpoint screen with text reading: "Scenario: You are on a bush walk with tourists and encounter these bones. What would you tell them?".
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Tom Yarrow @tomyarrow.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Really pleased my paper (with Paolo Heywood) 'On the problem of continuity' just got accepted by JRAI. It proposes a theory of culture beyond the inventive assumptions that often dominate analyses and over-determine ethnography. DM or email if you're interested to see the accepted draft.
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Durham University Anthropology @durhamanthropology.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
#InTheField in Kenya 🚙 Packing the field vehicle to head out of Nairobi to Ol Pejeta wildlife conservancy for a few weeks of #fieldwork! L-R: Our Fire Kovarovic, Ogeto Mwebi (National Museums of Kenya), Briana Pobiner (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History) #anthropology #DUresearch
Three anthropologists stand smiling at the camera. Behind them is the open back of a field vehicle. In the background are many trees.
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Hannah Brown @mamatommy.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Our latest plug for the value of anthropological theory in applied contexts. Writing led by my colleague Andrea Kaiser Grolimund @swisstph.ch with collaboration from the Alive Africa project team. Funding: @erc.europa.eu Does One Health need an ontological turn? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Does One Health need an ontological turn?
One Health has gained global prominence in recent years. Alongside its emergence, there have been extensive social science critiques. In this contribution, we make the case for the value of recent ...
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Durham University @durham.ac.uk · 06/06/2025
We're showcasing some of our @erc.europa.eu projects, including work by Professor Hannah Brown & her team to deepen understanding of human-animal relations in evolving economic conditions. Read more: bit.ly/4dMQQkU @britishacademy.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social @mamatommy.bsky.social
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Durham University @durham.ac.uk · 19/06/2025
Researchers from our @durhamanthropology.bsky.social ‬ have shown that human persecution leads to prolonged anxiety & physiological stress amongst baboons. Find out more 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Amandine Visine @amandinevisine.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Thank you to all 🗳️ Durham University voters 🗳️ who gave my poster the 1st place in the DCAD Poster competition! 🥇 This means a lot! All your comments and feedback were highly useful 🌸
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Durham University Anthropology @durhamanthropology.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Click the link below to learn about Durham's MSc in Physical Activity, Health and Society! 🎓🔍⬇️ ➡️ www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
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Durham University Anthropology @durhamanthropology.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
To celebrate Earth Day, take a look at Durham's MSc in Global and Planetary Health! 🌍🎓⬇️ ➡️ www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
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Prof. Gillian Brown @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Great talk by @rachelaharrison.bsky.social at #ehbea2025, showing that children were less likely to 'overimitate' with an unfamiliar, than a familiar, demonstrator.
Speaker standing in front of a projected slide.
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