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Winner of the Sue Benson Prize 2024 - Jezz Brown

Every year, the Department awards a prize of £200 to the most outstanding IIB dissertation. The prize is named in memory of Dr Sue Benson (1948-2005), an anthropologist who lectured, supervised and directed studies in Cambridge for 26 years and who was an inspiration, both personally and intellectually for generations of...

Introducing the winner of the Postgraduate Photographic Celebrations 2024

Juliette Gautron , PhD candidate in social anthropology, is the winner of this year’s postgraduate photography competition. Juliette – who is conducting her PhD fieldwork in Colombia – impressed the competition judges with the strong sense of place and intimacy found in her black and white images...

A Chinese Rebel beyond the Great Wall: The Cultural Revolution and Ethnic Pogrom in Inner Mongolia

First in-depth analysis published of the Cultural Revolution in Inner Mongolia

Pioneering account draws on the eyewitness recollections of a Chinese rebel participant When the Cultural Revolution reached China’s border region of Inner Mongolia in 1966, it caused the largest pogrom ever experienced in the People’s Republic. Mao’s class struggle injunctions exacerbated Chinese-Mongol ethnic conflicts...

Cambridge Journal of Anthropology grows after international re-launch

Department’s in-house journal opens up conversations about definition of ‘good’ anthropology . The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology (CJA) (formerly ‘Cambridge Anthropology’) is a vital part of the Department’s research environment. This in-house publication has grown and thrived since its re-launch as an international...

What was it like to do fieldwork in 1950s Mexico?

Susan Drucker-Brown was one of the first women anthropologists in Mexico. ‘A Woman in the Field. The Photographs and Fieldnotes of Susan Drucker-Brown’ (22 April – 31 May 2024) explored the everyday life of her pioneering ethnographic research in the Mixtec-speaking village of Jamiltepec, in the southern state of Oaxaca...

‘Lonely Funerals’ symposium to shape future scholarship and policy

Who are the people who look after you when you die? What happens when there isn’t anyone able or willing to arrange the funeral? These are some of the critical questions posed by Dr Sally Raudon, ESRC postdoctoral fellow, whose doctoral research focused on Hart Island, New York City, the largest public cemetery in the US...

Winners announced in the 2024 Postgraduate Photographic Celebrations

. Juliette Gautron, PhD candidate in the Department of Social Anthropology, has been announced as the winner of this year’s postgraduate photography competition. Juliette – who conducted her fieldwork in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, northeast Colombia – impressed the competition judges with her striking and...

University of Cambridge remains one of the best universities for studying anthropology in the world

Anthropology retains third place in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024 . We are delighted to remain one of the best universities for the study of anthropology in the world, as ranked by leading higher education data specialist, Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). Anthropology at Cambridge was ranked third overall in...

New CJA Special Issue – Number Politics After Datafication

The latest Open Access issue of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology has published! This special issue is entitled "Number Politics After Datafication." Please visit the Berghahn website for more information about the journal. This issue is a part of the Berghahn Open Anthro subscribe-to-open Collection! Editors: Liana...

Berghahn Open Anthro collection now available

Cambridge University Libraries now makes available all the journals published by Berghahn in its “Open Anthro” collection. Cambridge anthropologists can now read double the journals formerly available and Cambridge now supports the conversion to full open access of articles published in these journals. Launched in 2020...

Winner of the Sue Benson Prize 2024 - Jezz Brown

Introducing the winner of the Postgraduate Photographic Celebrations 2024

First in-depth analysis published of the Cultural Revolution in Inner Mongolia

Cambridge Journal of Anthropology grows after international re-launch

What was it like to do fieldwork in 1950s Mexico?

‘Lonely Funerals’ symposium to shape future scholarship and policy

Winners announced in the 2024 Postgraduate Photographic Celebrations

University of Cambridge remains one of the best universities for studying anthropology in the world

New CJA Special Issue – Number Politics After Datafication

Berghahn Open Anthro collection now available

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