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Undergraduate: Part I
Undergraduate: Part IIA
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SAN2: The foundations of social life
SAN3: Anthropological theory and methods
SAN4: Ethnographic Areas
SAN4: Ethnographic Areas overview
SAN4a: Africa
SAN4e: Pacific
SAN4f: Inner Asia
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Undergraduate: Part IIB
Undergraduate: Part IIB overview
SAN5: Ethical life and the anthropology of the subject
SAN6: Power, economy and social transformation
SAN4: Ethnographic areas
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SAN8: Development, poverty and social justice
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SAN13 Gender, Kinship & Care
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Paper 1: Scope of Social Anthropology: Production & Reproduction
Paper 2: Scope of Social Anthropology: Systems of Power & Knowledge
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Paper 4: Theory, Methods and Enquiry in Social Anthropology
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Moral life and change
Moral life and change overview
Poverty and Obligation
Human Rights and the Chichewa Radio
Vietnamese Intellectuals and their Families
The Social Life of Achievement and Competitiveness in Vietnam and Indonesia
Situating Free Speech: European Parrhesia in Comparative perspective
Liberal Translations
Study of the International Venture Capital (VC) Industry
The Ethics of Care: Intellectual Disability in the UK
“After Us, Who Will Care for Them?”: Intellectual Disability in South India
Ascriptions of Dependency in the Pacific
Images and the moral citizen in late-socialist Vietnam.
Imaginative Landscapes of Islamist Politics Across the Balkans-to-Bengal Complex
Ethical Life in Humanistic Buddhism
Gender and Leadership in Lebanon
God’s Deposits: Charismatic Christian financial eco-system in Ghana
Economy, Environment and Wellbeing
Economy, Environment and Wellbeing overview
Pathways Project
CRIC - Cultural Heritage and the Reconstruction of Identitites after Conflict 2008-2012
Plugstreet Project
Climate Histories Research Group: Communicating Cultural Knowledge of Environmental Change
The Roots of Success
Environmental Knowledge in Alaska and Mexico
Mongolia's Natural Resource Strategy
Solar powered praying wheels
Tradition and Modernity in Tibet and the Himalayas
Gambling across the Pacific: the Fluttering Tide
Criminal Capital
Scrap Value
Blowing in the Wind: Renewable energy and Ethnic Minorities in Chinese Inner Mongolia
Gathering and communicating climate knowledge, with particular reference to generating impact at local and national levels
Himalayan connections: melting glaciers, sacred landscapes and mobile technologies in a Changing Climate
Becoming Shamans to be Healed
Mongolian Cosmopolitical Heritage: Tracing Divergent Healing Practices Across the Mongolian-Chinese Border
HimalConnect: Network and Knowledge-Sharing Workshops in Nepal and Bhutan
Art, Media and Material Culture
Art, Media and Material Culture overview
Activating Anthropology’s Archive
Colour
TiBET— Tibetan Book Evolution and Technology
Imaging Minority Culture: Photography, Digital Sharing, and Cultural Survival in Northeast China
Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation at MIASU
Relations between Korowai of Indonesian Papua and International Tourists or TV Crews
Transforming Technologies and Buddhist Book Culture: the Introduction of Printing and Digital Text Reproduction in Buddhist Societies
Citizenship and political life
Citizenship and political life overview
Where Rising Powers Meet: China and Russia at their North Asian Border
Citizenship, Trade Unionism and Subjectivity in Buenos Aires
Oral History of Twentieth Century Mongolia
Living with Remnants
Transforming political subjectivities in Somaliland
The Politics of Uncertainty
Entangled Lines: Railways, Resource Booms, and Transnational Politics in Mongolia
Yastan’ (Ethnicity) and National Unity in Mongolia
Translingual History and Politics of 'Minzu' (Nationality) and ‘Zuqun’ (Ethnicity) in China’
Barclays Bank and African Agency: a Historical Ethnography
Other research projects
Other research projects overview
The World Oral Literature Project
The Digital Himalaya Project
Dr Barbira-Freedman and Learning the Art of Amazonian Gentle Parenting
Dr Diemberger and Research on Tibetan Buddhist Book Culture
Dr Barbira-Freedman and Medical Knowledge in Amazonian Peru
Professor Bayly and Vietnamese Cultural Knowledge
A Tibetan Woman-Lama and her Reincarnations
An anthropological study of the early detection of cancer
Elusive Risks: Engaging with hard-to-reach and non-interested publics in the community
The Cambridge Infrastructure Resilience Group (CIRG)
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology
Chinggis Khan historical research project
Named-Entity Recognition in Tibetan and Mongolian Newspapers
MIASU
Max Planck - Cambridge Centre
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Camthropod
Graduate Photographic Competitions
Graduate Photographic Competitions overview
2013 Entries
2013 Entries overview
Jonathan Taee
John Fahy
Marlene Schafers
Lys Alcayna-Stevens
Lam Minh Chau
Ryan Davey
Dominic Martin
Baasanjav Terbish
Rachel Wyatt
2014 Entries
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Lys Alcayna-Stevens
Falk Parra Witte
Beth Turk
Ed Pulford
Fiona Wright
Melissa Santana de Oliveira
Yu Qiu
Romelia Calin
2015 Entries
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Patrick O'Hare
John Fahy
Jonas Tinius
Michael Long
Hugh Williamson
Clara Devlieger
Tijana Radeska
Michelle H J Tsai
2016 Entries
2016 Entries overview
Anthony Howarth
Ed Pulford
Nancy Chu
Cara Kerven
Nurul Huda Mohd Razif
Thomas Powell Davies
Michael Vine
Hugh Williamson
Anna Wood
2017 Entries
2017 Entries overview
Alexander Taylor
Ruiyi Zhu
Corinna Howland
Priscilla Garcia
Helen Jambunathan
Katie Macvarish
Nurul Huda Mohd Razif
Yi Qiao
Christina Woolner
2018 Entries
2018 Entries overview
Thandeka Cochrane
Julian Sommerschuh
Jordan Thomas
Amy Binning
Patricia Garcia
David Ginsborg
Peter Lockwood
Michael Long
Edward Moon-Little
2019 Entries
2019 Entries overview
Tom Powell Davies
Sophia Hornbacher-Schönleber
Jacob Askjer
Lucy Gilder
Dominik Hoehn
Claire Moll
Ariane Ordoobadi
Beja Protner
Emmanuelle Roth
Zoia Tarasova
Xinyu Wen
Fred Wojnarowski and Jennie Williams
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