Professor Jeremy MacClancy
BLitt, BA, DPhil
Professor of Anthroplogy
School of Law and Social Sciences

Teaching and supervision
Modules taught
- U20104 Introduction to Social Anthropology
- U20122 Anthropology of Art
- U20127 European Societies
- U21070 Anthropology at Work
Supervision
My present research students work on: social dimensions of the red kite reintroduction programme in Oxfordshire, and of the rise of wild boar numbers in the Forest of Dean; post-disaster reconstruction, via the anthropology of food, in Tohoku province, Japan; anthropological aspects of the work of Basque sculptor Jorge Oteiza.
Previous research students have worked on: the effects of EU grants on sociopolitical leadership in Donegal, north Ireland; Oxford homeless and their receiving organisations; the reception to and evolving uses of Japanese lacquerware in Western Europe since the 15th century; folk museumlife in Wales.
Research Students
Name | Thesis title | Completed |
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Alexandra Chesters | The Joy of Possessions and Decluttering in Japan and the West | Active |
Benjamin Klinkenberg | Socioeconomic effects of the wild boar (Sus scrofa) introduction to the Forest of Dean | Active |
Miranda Strubel | Shared Landscapes: exploring the relationships between people and red kites in the UK | Active |
Dr Duccio Gasparri | Locals, New-locals, Non-locals: (Re)mapping people and food in post-disaster Ishinomaki, Japan | 2020 |
Dr Paul Moran | Autonomy in modern Basque art, an anthropological perspective | 2020 |
Dr Paola Esposito | Butoh and the West: A Performative Ethnographic Analysis of the Spread of Butoh-dance outside of Japan | 2014 |
Dr Anna Fraser | Medical properties of hot springs in Japan | 2013 |
Dr Stephanie Oeben | Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games in Europe and Japan: A Comparative Anthropological Study | 2013 |
Dr Sébastien Boret | New Buddhist “natural” funerals in Japan | 2011 |
Dr Douglas Frewer | The social agency of postage stamps: Japanese postage stamps in a global context | 2004 |
Research
My interests are broad: I have written, do research, and supervise on: anthropologies of sport, art, and food; island Melanesia and Western Europe (especially Vanuatu, the Basque Country, Spain, and the West of Ireland); popular anthropology; history of anthropology; nationalism; research methods and ethics; the interface of social and biological anthropologies. I am ready to supervise research students on most of these topics.
My present research students work on: social dimensions of the red kite reintroduction programme in Oxfordshire, and of the rise of wild boar numbers in the Forest of Dean; post-disaster reconstruction, via the anthropology of food, in Tohoku province, Japan; anthropological aspects of the work of Basque sculptor Jorge Oteiza.
Previous research students have worked on: the effects of EU grants on sociopolitical leadership in Donegal, north Ireland; Oxford homeless and their receiving organisations; the reception to and evolving uses of Japanese lacquerware in Western Europe since the 15th century; folk museumlife in Wales.
NB: much of my work can be accessed via my page on academia.edu.