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As Senegal’s capital transforms at pace, Xolu Dakar bi (The Heart of Dakar) explores everyday life and uncertainty in a centrally located informal settlement of Dakar undergoing resettlement. Developed and curated by Dr Anna Wood in collaboration with Dakar-based photographers Djibril Dramé and Katia Golovko, the exhibition was shown at Cambridge Artspace during the 2025 Cambridge Festival.

The latest open access issue of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology has just been published! This special issue is entitled "Making Place with Plants: Intimacy, Mobility and Displacement." Please visit the Berghahn website for more information about the journal. This issue is a part of the Berghahn Open Anthro which you...

Keith Hart, who died 6 November 2025 in his Paris home, was a brilliant, complicated and inspiring academic and public intellectual with a longstanding connection to Cambridge Anthropology – as student, teacher and colleague.

The Department is delighted to announce that Sally Montgomery was shortlisted for the UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing, a prize for the best short non-fiction piece on science written for a general audience in Australia. This piece was originally published as an article for the magazine Sapiens, which can be...