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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...

AI and Scholarship: A Manifesto

AI and Scholarship: A Manifesto Dr Ella McPherson, Department of Sociology and Prof Matei Candea. Department of Social Anthropology have written a manifesto and principles to provide a framework that supports scholars and students in figuring out if, rather than how, generative AI contributes to their scholarship. Full...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Berghahn Open Anthro collection now available

AI and Scholarship: A Manifesto

Showcase your Fieldwork Photographs

New Publication - Beyond Description

The Sue Benson Prize 2023

New Knowledge Exchange and Funding Facilitator

Refiguring Conservation in/for ‘the Anthropocene’

Professor Susan Bayly honoured

Audrey Richards prize for 2023

The importance of photography and film in fieldwork

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