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Mixed-Race Thought Collective: In search of a new way of thinking

A new collective of mixed-race scholars confront their own experiences of race and identity to examine what being mixed race really means. What happens to people that do not fit within conventional social groups? How might this experience of not fitting in shape a person’s thoughts, ideas and actions? Can this friction...

Photo: 'Graduation Performance of Mongolian Dance Students' by Gol Tengis (2024)

Postgraduate Open Day, Tuesday November 5th

“Graduation Performance of Mongolian Dance Students” Photo by PhD candidate Gol Tengis, Postgradute Photography Celebrations. Interested in pursuing an MPhil or PhD in Social Anthropology? Join us for a virtual presentation on Tuesday November 5 th from 13:00 – 13:45 where we will describe our postgraduate programs and...

PhD Student’s Project Shortlisted for International Responsible Investment Award

A project analysing informal and formal work practices in Latin America produced by Alejandro Porcel Arraut – a SocAnth PhD student since 2022 – was shortlisted for the United Nations PRI Awards 2024. alejandro_450x300.png The PRI – the letters stand for Principles for Responsible Investment – is a UN-supported network of...

Prestigious Cover-Art Commission for Cambridge Anthropology PhD Student

One of our Research Students has produced the cover art for a recent issue of the New York Review of Books . The student is Julien Porquet – who, under the name Julien Posture , has provided illustrations for numerous publications, including The New Yorker , The Atlantic , The New York Times Book Review and The Guardian ...

New course in Anthropology at the University of Cambridge is open for applications

The Department of Social Anthropology is pleased to announce that a new part time course in Anthropology at the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge is open for applications. The Undergraduate Certificate in Anthropology is open to all applicants from around the world and taught by lecturers from the...

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...

Mixed-Race Thought Collective: In search of a new way of thinking

Postgraduate Open Day, Tuesday November 5th

PhD Student’s Project Shortlisted for International Responsible Investment Award

Prestigious Cover-Art Commission for Cambridge Anthropology PhD Student

New course in Anthropology at the University of Cambridge is open for applications

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?

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