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Undergraduate: Part I
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SAN2: The foundations of social life
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SAN4a: Africa
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SAN5: Ethical life and the anthropology of the subject
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Christie van Tinteren
Devi Chakrabarti
Edurne Sosa El Fakih
Fang Liu
Hairuo Jin
Jenny Tang
João Kelmer
Lucia Tremonti
Maria Lartigue-Marin
Radina Kostadinova
Sakari Mesimaki
Sally Montgomery
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Shradha Lama
Theo Hughes-Morgan
Theo Stapleton
Xintian Ma
Zoljargal Enkh-Amgalan
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Anel Lopez de Romana
Devi Chakrabarti
Tim Burger
Erin Williamson
Sean French
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Carolyn Dreyer
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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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Thandeka Cochrane
Julian Sommerschuh
Jordan Thomas
Amy Binning
Patricia Garcia
David Ginsborg
Peter Lockwood
Michael Long
Edward Moon-Little
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Alexander Taylor
Ruiyi Zhu
Corinna Howland
Priscilla Garcia
Helen Jambunathan
Katie Macvarish
Nurul Huda Mohd Razif
Yi Qiao
Christina Woolner
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Ed Pulford
Nancy Chu
Cara Kerven
Nurul Huda Mohd Razif
Thomas Powell Davies
Michael Vine
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Michelle H J Tsai
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Lys Alcayna-Stevens
Falk Parra Witte
Beth Turk
Ed Pulford
Fiona Wright
Melissa Santana de Oliveira
Yu Qiu
Romelia Calin
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Jonathan Taee
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Lam Minh Chau
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Baasanjav Terbish
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An anthropological study of the early detection of cancer
Shared Risk
The World Oral Literature Project
A Tibetan Woman-Lama and her Reincarnations
The Digital Himalaya Project
The Cambridge Infrastructure Resilience Group (CIRG)
REPRESENT: Community Engagement Roadmap to Improve Participant Representation in Cancer Research Early Detection
Professor Bayly and Vietnamese Cultural Knowledge
Named-Entity Recognition in Tibetan and Mongolian Newspapers
Elusive Risks: Engaging with hard-to-reach and non-interested publics in the community
Dr Diemberger and Research on Tibetan Buddhist Book Culture
Dr Barbira-Freedman and Medical Knowledge in Amazonian Peru
Dr Barbira-Freedman and Learning the Art of Amazonian Gentle Parenting
Chinggis Khan historical research project
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology
Political Life, Crisis, and Possibilities
Political Life, Crisis, and Possibilities overview
Living with Remnants
Barclays Bank and African Agency: a Historical Ethnography
Communication Faultlines on the Frontlines
Entangled Lines: Railways, Resource Booms, and Transnational Politics in Mongolia
Oral History of Twentieth Century Mongolia
Transforming Political Subjectivities in Somaliland
Translingual History and Politics of 'Minzu' (Nationality) and ‘Zuqun’ (Ethnicity) in China’
Where Rising Powers Meet: China and Russia at their North Asian Border
Yastan’ (Ethnicity) and National Unity in Mongolia
The Ethics of Behavioural Economics
Environment, Infrastructure, and Care
Environment, Infrastructure, and Care overview
Refiguring Conservation in/for ‘the Anthropocene’: the Global Lives of the Orangutan (GLO)
Resource frontiers: managing water on a trans-border Asian river
Shared Risk - ACED
Becoming Shamans to be Healed
Blowing in the Wind: Renewable energy and Ethnic Minorities in Chinese Inner Mongolia
Climate Histories Research Group: Communicating Cultural Knowledge of Environmental Change
Communicating cultural knowledge of environmental change in collaboration with schools, local communities and NGOs
CRIC - Cultural Heritage and the Reconstruction of Identitites after Conflict 2008-2012
Environmental Knowledge in Alaska and Mexico
Gambling across the Pacific: the Fluttering Tide
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
HimalConnect: Network and Knowledge-Sharing Workshops in Nepal and Bhutan
Mongolia's Natural Resource Strategy
Mongolian Cosmopolitical Heritage: Tracing Divergent Healing Practices Across the Mongolian-Chinese Border
Pathways Project
Plugstreet Project
Solar powered praying wheels
The Roots of Success
Tradition and Modernity in Tibet and the Himalayas
Materiality, Knowledge, and Media
Materiality, Knowledge, and Media overview
The Work of Art in Contemporary Japan: Inner and outer worlds of creativity
Activating Anthropology’s Archive
Colour
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
TiBET— Tibetan Book Evolution and Technology
Transforming Technologies and Buddhist Book Culture: the Introduction of Printing and Digital Text Reproduction in Buddhist Societies
Morality, Subjectivity, and Emotion
Morality, Subjectivity, and Emotion overview
Threshold Media: disclosure, disavowal, and the performance of belief in Pakistan
Situating Free Speech: European Parrhesia in Comparative perspective
Study of the International Venture Capital (VC) Industry
The Ethics of Care: Intellectual Disability in the UK
The Social Life of Achievement and Competitiveness in Vietnam and Indonesia
Vietnamese Intellectuals and their Families
“After Us, Who Will Care for Them?”: Intellectual Disability in South India
Poverty and Obligation
Religion and its Others in South Asia and the World: Communities, Debates, Freedoms
Liberal Translations
Ascriptions of Dependency in the Pacific
Ethical Life in Humanistic Buddhism
Gender and Leadership in Lebanon
God’s Deposits: Charismatic Christian financial eco-system in Ghana
Human Rights and the Chichewa Radio
Images and the moral citizen in late-socialist Vietnam.
Practices and Ethics of Care in Eating Disorder Treatment in Italy
Economy, Work, and Social Reproduction
Economy, Work, and Social Reproduction overview
Criminal Capital
Scrap Value
Citizenship, Trade Unionism and Subjectivity in Buenos Aires
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