Durham Anthropology

@AnthDurham1

Expanding Your World: Interdisciplinary teaching and research with a global reach. Home of our BA & BSc Anthropology and BSc Health and Human Sciences

Durham, UK linktr.ee/durhamanthropo… Joined November 2014

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Durham Anthropology @AnthDurham1 Mar 24

"Everyone’s invoking context, but nobody’s agreeing."

New article from our Department's Dr Paolo Heywood:
How to spot the use and abuse of the word ‘context’

durham.ac.uk/research/curre…

#DUresearch #DurhamAnthropology #SocialAnthropology

Durham Anthropology @AnthDurham1 Feb 10

New special collection: 'Flashes of Responsibility: Craft, Ethics, and Impact in Global Health Ethnography'

Read it here: medanthro.net/critical-care-…

Featuring many of our 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'.

Durham Anthropology @AnthDurham1 Jan 30

Delighted to announce our Prof Rob Barton has been elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Biology!

RSB Fellows demonstrate a distinctive and notable contribution to the advancement of the biological sciences, with min. 5yrs influential experience throughout their career.

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.

Durham Anthropology @AnthDurham1 Jan 16

"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:
sv.uio.no/sai/english/re…

#Anthropology

www.sv.uio.no Paolo Fortis: "Untimely Figures: Artefacts, Time and History in an Amerindian Ritual" The Departmental Seminar Series features Paolo Fortis, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Durham University, U.K.

Durham Anthropology @AnthDurham1 Jan 8

📃 Out now! 📃

Our 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/i…

#DurhamAnthropology #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.