University of Oxford
School of Anthropology
51 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PE
ArgO-EMR Seminars
The Anthropology Research Group at Oxford on Eastern Medicines and Religions
Wednesdays 5–6.30pm
Pauling Centre, 58a Banbury Road
Michaelmas Term 2016
“Botanical Ontologies in Asian Medicine”
Week 1, 12 Oct Jan M.A. van der Valk
(School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent)
Testing Tibetan materia medica scientifically: Hybrid ontologies in practice?
Week 3, 26 Oct Dr Calum Blaikie
(Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Re-routing rhizomes: Himalayan plants and properties in transit
Week 5, 9 Nov Dr Stephan Kloos
(Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Reassembling Sowa Rigpa:
From traditional culture to plant-based knowledge industries
Week 7, 23 Nov Manuel Campinas
(London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
A comparative exposition of Chinese and Russian botanical ontologies
Convenors: Elisabeth Hsu and Paola Esposito
elisabeth.hsu@anthro.ox.ac.uk, paola.esposito@anthro.ox.ac.uk