http://www.ihs.ox.ac.uk/ Latest news from the Institute of Human Sciences en http://www.ihs.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/rss_icon.gif http://www.ihs.ox.ac.uk/ 50 50 Latest news from the Institute of Human Sciences TYPO3 - get.content.right http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Fri, 17 May 2013 15:44:00 +0100 http://www.ihs.ox.ac.uk//latest/news/article/date///applications-invited-for-dphil-studentship-funded-by-hera-through-ahrc/?no_cache=1 African Heritage in Brazil: DPhil Studentship in Anthropology in association with St Antony's... African Heritage in Brazil: DPhil Studentship in Anthropology in association with St Antony's College Applications are invited for a three-year studentship funded by HERA (Humanities European Research Area) through the AHRC, to work towards a Doctorate in Anthropology at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography of the University of Oxford under the supervision of Dr Ramon Sarró, on the anthropology of heritage and memory in Brazil (looking specifically at the Central African origins of some elements of Brazilian popular culture). The successful candidate will be affiliated with St Antony's College and will undertake fieldwork in Brazil. Dr Sarró is directing the project "A King in The Atlantic: centripetal and centrifugal forces in the making of a Kongo heritage", which is part of the wider umbrella project "Currents of Faith, Places of History: Connections, Moral Circumscriptions and World-Making in the Atlantic Space" whose PL (project leader) is Dr Ruy Blanes (institute of Social Sciences, Lisbon, and University of Bergen) and which includes projects in Brussels, Lisbon, Oxford, and Utrecht. Further details here.]]> School Fri, 17 May 2013 15:44:00 +0100 http://www.ihs.ox.ac.uk//latest/news/article/date///applications-invited-for-ahrc-collaborative-doctoral-studentship-beginning-in-october-2013/?no_cache=1 The Cultural Worlds of African Palm Oil: trade, consumption and museum collecting in Britain and... here]]> School Tue, 07 May 2013 15:01:00 +0100 http://www.ihs.ox.ac.uk//latest/news/article/date///twilight-takeover-at-the-pitt-rivers-museum-video/?no_cache=1 For one night only, on 25 April, Anthropology students took over the Museum's Court and Lower... http://vimeo.com/65313090 ]]> School Fri, 03 May 2013 10:39:00 +0100 http://www.ihs.ox.ac.uk//latest/news/article/date///late-junction-sound-recordings-from-the-pitt-rivers-museum-sound-archive-featured-on-radio-3-this-w/?no_cache=1 BBC Radio 3's Late Junction (presented by Max Reinhardt) is broadcasting three recordings from the... iPlayer (at around 1hr 20mins). The episode on 17 April played  a wax cylinder recording by E-P of a Zande war song, and will be available on iPlayer. These recordings are also available via the Reel to Real project website. See for instance Nick Allen's introduction page. Further information about Late Junction can be found here.]]> School Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:08:00 +0100 http://www.ihs.ox.ac.uk//latest/news/article/date///a-study-of-neanderthal-brain-organisation-makes-the-news/?no_cache=1 A new study by a team that includes Eiluned Pearce, a DPhil student at the School of Anthropology... here. The study is published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.]]> School Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:56:00 +0000 http://www.ihs.ox.ac.uk//latest/news/article/date///anthropology-student-garlen-lo-makes-the-longlist-of-the-guardian-students-and-oup-very-short-film-c/?no_cache=1 Congratulations to Garlen Lo, MSc Social Anthropology student, for being longlisted in the... Guardian website. Garlen is a student at Wolfson College. The competition has now closed and we would like to thank everyone for taking the time to vote for the films.]]> School Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:19:00 +0000 http://www.ihs.ox.ac.uk//latest/news/article/date///artist-in-residence-2013-rosie-kay/?no_cache=1 Rosie Kay is to become the first choreographer appointed as the Artist in Residence at the School... Further information.]]> School Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:56:00 +0000 http://www.ihs.ox.ac.uk//latest/news/article/date///the-museum-on-the-roof-of-the-world-by-clare-harris-a-book-launch/?no_cache=1 A book launch was held at the Pitt Rivers Museum on 11 January 2013 to celebrate the publication of... Clare Harris' 'The Museum on the Roof of the World: Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet'. The launch was hosted by the Pitt Rivers and the University of Chicago Press. For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics and the Dalai Lama as obsolete. Suggesting that both these views are suspect, Clare E. Harris argues in "The Museum on the Roof of the World" that for the past one hundred and fifty years, British and Chinese collectors and curators have tried to convert Tibet itself into a museum, an image some Tibetans have begun to contest. This book is a powerful account of the museums created by, for, or on behalf of Tibetans and the nationalist agendas that have played out in them. Harris begins with the British public's first encounter with Tibetan culture in 1854. She then examines the role of imperial collectors and photographers in representations of the region and visits competing museums of Tibet in India and Lhasa. Drawing on fieldwork in Tibetan communities, she also documents the activities of contemporary Tibetan artists as they try to displace the utopian visions of their country prevalent in the West, as well as the negative assessments of their heritage common in China. Illustrated with many previously unpublished images, this book addresses the pressing question of who has the right to represent Tibet in museums and beyond. Publisher website. Further information. Order form.]]> School Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:23:00 +0000 http://www.ihs.ox.ac.uk//latest/news/article/date///illness-narrative-revisited/?no_cache=1 From the Semiotics of Language to the Materiality of Speech A conference of Green Templeton... Göttingen, will take place at ISCA, 64 Banbury Road on 6-8 December. Further information. ]]> School Thu, 06 Dec 2012 09:11:00 +0000 http://www.ihs.ox.ac.uk//latest/news/article/date///researchers-at-university-of-southern-california-and-oxford-university-find-link-between-high-fructo/?no_cache=1 A new study by University of Southern California (USC) and Oxford University researchers (including... New York Times report Further information The paper reports that out of 42 countries studied, the United States has the highest per capita consumption of HFCS at a rate of 25 kilograms, or 55 pounds, per year. The second highest is Hungary, with an annual rate of 16 kilograms, or 46 pounds, per capita. Canada, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Belgium, Argentina, Korea, Japan and Mexico are also relatively high HFCS consumers. Germany, Poland, Greece, Portugal, Egypt, Finland and Serbia are among the lowest HFCS consumers. Countries with per capita consumption of fewer than 0.5 kilogram per year include Australia, China, Denmark, France, India, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Uruguay. Countries with higher use of HFCS had an average prevalence of type 2 diabetes of 8 percent compared to 6.7 percent in countries not using HFCS. The article proposes that this link is probably driven by higher amounts of fructose in foods and beverages made with HFCS. Fructose and glucose are both found in ordinary sugar (sucrose) in equal amounts, but HFCS has a greater proportion of fructose. The higher fructose content makes HFCS sweeter and provides processed foods with greater stability and better appearance because of the more consistent browning color when foods made with higher fructose are baked. In a previous related study, the authors found that the fructose content in some U.S. produced soft drinks, especially the most popular, was about 20 percent higher than expected, suggesting that some manufacturers might be using HFCS with more fructose than previously estimated. Such differences could "potentially be driving up fructose consumption in countries that use HFCS," the researchers said. The study notes the difficulty in determining the actual amount of fructose in foods and beverages made with HFCS because of "a lack of industry disclosure on food labels." Growing evidence reveals that the body metabolizes fructose differently from glucose. Among other things, fructose metabolism occurs independently of insulin, primarily in the liver where it may be readily converted to fat, which likely contributes to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, a condition on the rise in Hispanics in the U.S. and Mexico. "Most populations have an almost insatiable appetite for sweet foods, but regrettably our metabolism has not evolved sufficiently to be able to process the fructose from high fructose corn syrup in the quantities that some people are consuming it," said Ulijaszek. "Although this syrup can be found in many of our processed foods and drinks, this varies enormously from country to country." The U. S. is the single largest consumer of high fructose corn syrup. By the late 1990s HFCS made up 40 percent of all caloric sweeteners and was the predominant sweetener in soft drinks sold in the U. S. However, since 2008, exports of HFCS from the U. S. to Mexico increased "exponentially" after trade restrictions were removed, the researchers said. They call for updated public health strategies requiring better labeling of fructose and HFCS content in processed foods. To explain the varying degrees of HFCS consumption in the European Union, the researchers note that trade and agricultural policies set quotas for HFCS production, and while some countries, such as Sweden and the U.K., do not take their assigned quotas, other countries, such as Hungary and Slovakia, are able to purchase extra quotas from countries that do not accept them. The findings of the paper thus have important implications for global trade policies that may affect public health. "If HFCS is a risk factor for diabetes - one of the world's most serious chronic diseases - then we need to rewrite national dietary guidelines and review agriculture trade polices," said Tim Lobstein, director of policy for the International Association for the Study of Obesity. "HFCS will join trans fats and salt as ingredients to avoid, and foods should carry warning labels." Goran, M., Ulijaszek, S. and Ventura, E. (2012). High fructose corn syrup and diabetes prevalence: A global perspective. Global Public Health. Published online Nov. 27, 2012.]]> School Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:17:00 +0000