Anthropology

“Raising a Daughter is like watering your neighbour’s garden”

Earlier this year I blogged about the new UN Agency for Women which was set up to improve the status of women across the world. This is part of a general movement to putting girls first in development. It’s definitely progress to see a new global structure and high-level discussion on the position of women, [...]

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Why Anthropology Matters for Global Health

Term has just kicked off in Oxford, and with it the arrival of new students, fresh ideas and grey, cold (depressing) winter weather. Research in global health means working across a number of disciplines and departments: public health, politics and international relations, development studies, economics, history, anthropology, medicine, social policy, and the list goes on. [...]

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"There’s something very discomfiting about sitting in a hotel ballroom full of rich people talking about the best ways to help the world’s poorest people when almost none of the latter are present" - Prof. Laura Seahy

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