OCCASIONAL LECTURES

'On Enchantment', Garrod Lecture, Cambridge, 14th February 2008 [Film* - download the full film]

'Some Advice on Life and Work', After dinner talk, SPS Society, Cambridge, 1st May 2009 [Film* - download the full film]

'China and the West', Cambridge China Forum, 14th May 2009 [Film* - download the full film]

'Are there Laws in History and Anthropology?' Cental European University, Budapest, 20th May 2009 (Launch of the Hungarian edition of 'Letters to Lily') [Film* - download the full film]

'On Crossing Boundaries', Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, Cambridge 26th June 2009 [Film* - download the full film]

'The Invention of the Modern World' - Wang Gouwei Lectures, Tsinghua Academy of Chinese Learning, Tsinghua University, Beijing. March-April 2011 [See Films* - download the full films]

 

I am no longer a lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge but am leaving these films etc. on my site for anyone to use in any way they like

A GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY

What is Social Anthropology? [download the full film]

Some Technical Terms used by Anthropologists

Introduction to Kinship and Marriage [See Films* - download the full films]

Politics and Economic Life [Films* - download the full films]

Strategies of Survival [Films* - download the full films]

Introduction to Religion and Ritual given by Dr Stephen Hugh-Jones [Films* -download the full films]

Symbols, Language and Communication given by Dr Mark Turin [Films* -download the full films]

Further materials for Cambridge undergraduates

MORE ADVANCED LECTURES FOR UNDERGRADUATES

Law, Justice and Violence [See 'Films']

Lectures on Special Topics in Legal Anthropology [Films* -download the full films]

Classical Social Theorists [Films* - download the full films]

Changing Paradigms in the Social Sciences

METHODOLOGY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES FOR POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH

'53 minute video on doing fieldwork' [Film* - download the full film]

'Reflections on fieldwork among the Gurungs of Nepal' [Film* - download the full film]

'Reflections on using film in fieldwork' [Film* - download the full film]

Lecture on the use of personal records for history and anthropology [Film* - download the full films]

Talk on the methods of charting social relationships [Film* - download the full films]

'Ethics for anthropologists' [Film* - download the full films]

Seminar on Methods in Video Making [Film* -download the full films]

Short film on Sir James Frazer's indexing methods [Film* - download the full films]

Film* = On Cambridge University DSpace

The film clips are in QuickTime format. If you do not have QuickTime, click here to download it free from the Apple website.