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Ed Pulford: Mirrorlands: Russia, China and Journeys in Between The China-Russia borderlands offer a unique vantage point from which to understand the myriad peoples, places and political cataclysms which have united and divided these two vast countries over time. As home to frontier-traversing tradespeople, cross-border...

The Department is experimenting with ways in which to build connections with our alumni and friends. We have begun a series of events, entitled ‘Anthropology, Beyond the Academy’, in which speakers from a diverse range of fields describe and reflect on the ways in which having studied anthropology has informed their work...

Dr Nurul Huda Mohd Razif Postdoctoral Affiliate, Department of Social Anthropology Research Fellow, International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, NL Nurul first came to the Department of Social Anthropology as a doctoral candidate in 2013, and defended her PhD, entitled “ Halal Intimacy: Love, Marriage, and Polygamy...

What can this tell us about memory, about the contemporary resurgence of the far-right, and about the concept of ‘everyday life’ itself? Dr Paolo Heywood My current work explores these questions in a small town called Predappio in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna. What makes it ‘extraordinary’ (and indeed infamous, for...