Chinese Propaganda - Mao's Impact on Contemporary Art

Sinologist Prof. Dr. Barbara Mittler traces some of the somewhat paradoxical flows from West to East to West and beyond of musical, textual and artistic elements that make up the peculiar forms that C...

Japanese Popular Music - Researching Visual-Kei

"Japanese Popular Music - Researching Visual-kei" is the topic of a film produced by the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context". Post-doctoral researcher Dr. O...

Kimberly Chong: What Do Management Consultants Do?

Most of us probably think of management consultancy as a technocratic function, helping companies fix internal problems in order to become more productive. But Institute for New Economic Thinking gran...

Anthropology Researcher from Vietnam: Ms Tran thi Lanh

University of Waikato Research Associate Ms Tran thi Lanh from the Anthropology Programme, who is from Vietnam, talks about her research into indigenous people in Malaysia spanning over 20 years; espe...

Jade Aikman-Dodd's poem about his Anthropology thesis

Jade's poem summarises his Master's thesis 'Finding Meaning and Relevance in Marae in 21st Century New Zealand'. ...

Keith Hart - Anthropology and Globalisation- Part 1

Keith Hart Lecture on Globalisation. Anthropology Department, Goldsmiths college, University of London. ...

Ritual Nepali Music - The Use of the Natural Trumpet by the Newar

The use of the natural trumpet by the Newar (Kathmandu Valley, Nepal) is part of the research of ethnomusicologist Dr. Franck Bernède, who compares the musical repertoire associated with natural brass...

Doing Anthropology

Cultural Anthropology is a social science that explores how people understand - and act in - the world. But what, exactly, is it that Cultural Anthropologists do? How do they approach their research? ...

Anthropologist Megan Moore - Effects of Body Mass on Human Skeleton

This research is a continuation of previous research by Megan Moore, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, that looked at changes in the skeleton as a result of b...