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Wyse Prize for Best Undergraduate Dissertation Proposal 2017

Winner: Ida Svenonius, (Lucy Cavendish College) Six entries were received, all of them prepared to high standards. The quality and diversity of proposed dissertation projects are, as in previous years, very impressive. Thematically, they address various aspects of the arts, media, politics, religion and activism; with a...

Honour, Conflict and Coercion: the Anthropology of Violence, London Anthropology Day 2017

Honour, Conflict and Coercion: the Anthropology of Violence (Sackler B) Andrew Sanchez, University of Cambridge, London Anthropology Day 2017 Join us at the 2017, annual London Anthropology Day in the British Museum's Education Clore Centre on Thursday 29 June from 10am – 5.30pm. The event is free and open to Year 12, 13...

Dr Sian Lazar: The Social Life of Politics: Ethics, Kinship, and Union Activism in Argentina

The new publication, The Social Life of Politics, by Dr Sian Lazar of Cambridge University, examines the intimate, personal, and family dimensions of two political activist groups: the Union of National Civil Servants (UPCN) and the Association of State Workers (ATE).

Dr Felix Stein's study, 'Work, sleep, repeat' is published by Bloomsbury

Dr Felix Stein's study, 'Work, sleep, repeat', is published by Bloomsbury May 2017 Cambridge University, affiliated anthropologist, Dr Felix Stein, has had his study of the work of German management consultants, published. The book, entitled 'Work, sleep, repeat - the abstract labour of German management consultants', has...

Dr Mody appointed as University Lecturer

We're delighted to announce that Dr Perveez Mody will be taking up a new position of University Lecturer in September 2017.   Dr Mody was awarded her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2001, and is the author of T he Intimate State: Love-Marriage and the Law in Delhi (Routledge, 2008), which provided the first...

Dr Sian Lazar: Where Are The Unions? Workers and Social Movements in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe

Dr Sian Lazar: Where Are The Unions? Workers and Social Movements in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe The first fully comprehensive comparison of the Latin American ‘turn to the left’, the Middle East and North African ‘Arab Spring’ and the Occupy and anti-austerity movements of Europe and North America, with a...

Professor Harri Englund awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship

Professor Harri Englund has been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship from October 2017. During the fellowship, Englund will carry out a new research project entitled ‘Liberal Translations: Slavery and Humanity in 19th-Century Central Africa’. Its focus will be on linguistic and political work in present-day...

ESRC DTP Studentships Available

The Division of Social Anthropology is pleased to participate in a new ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership at the University of Cambridge. A range of studentships are available across the social sciences at Cambridge; if you are interested in how society works and how it can handle global challenges, a DTP studentship will...

Audrey Richards Prize Winner 2016

We are pleased to announce this year’s winner of the Audrey Richards Prize, for the best performance in the Part I examination in Social Anthropology, is Ida Svenonius of Lucy Cavendish College.

Dr Chloe Nahum-Claudel: Man vs fish in the Amazon rainforest

The Enawenê-nawê people of the Amazon rainforest make beautifully engineered fishing dams. Living alongside this indigenous community, Dr Chloe Nahum-Claudel observed how the act of trapping fish shapes their minds, bodies and relationships. The proximity of life and death brings human vulnerability sharply into focus...

Wyse Prize for Best Undergraduate Dissertation Proposal 2017

Honour, Conflict and Coercion: the Anthropology of Violence, London Anthropology Day 2017

Dr Sian Lazar: The Social Life of Politics: Ethics, Kinship, and Union Activism in Argentina

Dr Felix Stein's study, 'Work, sleep, repeat' is published by Bloomsbury

Dr Mody appointed as University Lecturer

Dr Sian Lazar: Where Are The Unions? Workers and Social Movements in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe

Professor Harri Englund awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship

ESRC DTP Studentships Available

Audrey Richards Prize Winner 2016

Dr Chloe Nahum-Claudel: Man vs fish in the Amazon rainforest

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