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    Dept Seminar: Why do Bayaka Pygmies sing so much?

    Dept Seminar: Why do Bayaka Pygmies sing so much?

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    Dept Seminar: Why do Bayaka Pygmies sing so much?

    FromAnthropology

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    Length:
    62 minutes
    Released:
    Mar 18, 2011
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    In this Anthropology Dept seminar (28 January 2011), Dr Jerome Lewis (University College London) examines the place and cultural transmission of music and sound to the Bayaka Pygmies of the Central African Republic and Congo. Includes examples.
    Released:
    Mar 18, 2011
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Titles in the series (100)

    Podcasts from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography. The School is renowned for its contributions to anthropological theory, its commitment to long-term ethnographic fieldwork, and its association with the Pitt Rivers Museum and the anthropology of visual and material culture. Home to over forty academic staff, over a hundred doctoral students, twelve Master’s programmes, and two undergraduate degrees (Human Sciences; Archaeology and Anthropology), Oxford anthropology is one of the world’s largest and most vibrant centres for teaching and research in the discipline. It came top of the Power (research excellence + volume) rankings for anthropology in the UK in RAE 2008.