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Read more at: Showcase your Fieldwork Photographs

Showcase your Fieldwork Photographs

Postgraduates in Social Anthropology are invited to enter this year’s Postgraduate Photographic Celebration to have their work displayed in the Department and on the Department’s website and to have the chance to win a Heffers book voucher (First Prize £75, Second Prize £50 and Third Prize £25). Photos will be judged on...


Read more at: New Publication - Beyond Description

New Publication - Beyond Description

Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation Editors: Paolo Heywood and Matei Candea Beyond Description brings anthropologists and other social scientists together to examine the problem of explanation. What is "an explanation?" What can it add? What makes it authoritative, clarifying, or misleading? Whom does it...


Read more at: The Sue Benson Prize 2023

The Sue Benson Prize 2023

The winner of the Sue Benson Prize for 2023 was Eleanor Burnett-Stuart (Christs College), for her dissertation Situating humans in the landscape in the Scottish rewilding movement . The two runners up were Inika Murkumbi with her dissertation Hearing and seeing things in urban, educated India and Cora Morris, whose...


Read more at: New Knowledge Exchange and Funding Facilitator
Anna Wood

New Knowledge Exchange and Funding Facilitator

Anna Wood has started working in the Department as Knowledge Exchange and Funding Facilitator . The aim of this new role is to support the research life and work in the Department in all things related to knowledge exchange, impact, public engagement, and funding. Here Anna introduces herself. I recently completed my PhD...


Read more at: Refiguring Conservation in/for ‘the Anthropocene’
GLO

Refiguring Conservation in/for ‘the Anthropocene’

Refiguring Conservation in/for ‘the Anthropocene’: the Global Lives of the Orangutan (GLO), a European Research Council-funded project led by Dr Liana Chua, has concluded after nearly six stimulating years (2018-23). GLO explored the social, political, aesthetic, and affective dimensions of orangutan conservation against...


Read more at: Professor Susan Bayly honoured

Professor Susan Bayly honoured

Professor Susan Bayly has been honoured with the publication of a collection of essays edited by former students and colleagues from the Department. Entitled An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange: Interactions, Transactions and Ethics in Asia and Beyond , the book was developed to mark Professor Bayly’s retirement. As...


Read more at: Audrey Richards prize for 2023

Audrey Richards prize for 2023

Second year Politics and Social Anthropology track student, Ambrose Leung, has been awarded the annual Audrey Richards prize for 2023. The Department of Social Anthropology awards this prize for the best performance in the Part I examination in Social Anthropology ( Paper SAN1 ). Audrey Richards CBE FBA (1899-1984) was one...


Read more at: The importance of photography and film in fieldwork
Joao Kelmer research

The importance of photography and film in fieldwork

As a Departmen t that studies how people live: what they make, do, think and the organisation of their relationships, societies and cultures, Photography and Film is a core part of that research. For social anthropologists, this imagery is not just part of the story, but a source of insight into who people are . The...


Read more at: New Publication - The Cambridge Handbook For The Anthropology of Ethics
Cambridge Handbook For the Anthropology of Ethics edited by Prof James Laidlaw

New Publication - The Cambridge Handbook For The Anthropology of Ethics

New Publication - The Cambridge Handbook For The Anthropology of Ethics Edited by Professor James Laidlaw, (University of Cambridge) The 'ethical turn' in anthropology has been one of the most vibrant fields in the discipline in the past quarter-century. It has fostered new dialogue between anthropology and philosophy...


Read more at: Postgraduate study in Social Anthropology – funding deadline, closing soon

Postgraduate study in Social Anthropology – funding deadline, closing soon

We advise prospective students to apply early for postgraduate courses, and if you want to be considered for University scholarships, by the deadline of 5 December . The good news is that there is an abundance of further advice on applying and on how to find both Cambridge funding and external funding for studies on the...