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Prof James Laidlaw: Recovering the Human Subject

Based on a conference held in Cambridge to mark Caroline Humphrey’s retirement from the Sigrid Rausing Professorship of Social Anthropology, this volume includes a reprint of Humphrey’s already classic 2008 article, ‘Reassembling Individual Subjects’, which serves as a focus for debate. Responding to decades of 'anti-...

Dr Matei Candea: Schools and Styles of Anthropological Theory

For many years, the department of Social Anthropology has run a series of lectures entitled Schools and Styles of Anthropological Theory, which formed the core of the second-year theory paper. This series, in which members and associates of the department each gave one or two lectures to address theoretical topics of...

Dr Paolo Heywood: After Difference

After Difference: Queer Activism in Italy and Anthropological Theory Queer activism and anthropology are both fundamentally concerned with the concept of difference. Yet they are so in fundamentally different ways. The Italian queer activists in this book value difference as something that must be produced, in opposition...

Ed Pulford, PHD 2017, Short-listed For The C.A. Bayly Memorial Prize

Ed Pulford, who completed his PhD in the Department in 2017, has been named as one of the 5 shortlisted candidates for the Bayly Prize, which will be awarded for the first time in 2018. There was a large field of applicants of high quality from 14 U.K. universities, and the shortlist was drawn up by a distinguished...

Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern DBE, FBA awarded an International Balzan Prize

Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern has been awarded one of this year's International Balzan Prizes, for her contribution to Social Anthropology. The International Balzan Prize Foundation, based in Milan, awards four prizes annually, two in literature, moral sciences and the arts, and two in the physical, mathematical and...

Professor Joel Robbins Presents at HowTheLightGetsIn Festival 22 September.

Professor Joel Robbins, Sigrid Rausing Professor of Social Anthropology and Deputy Head of Department, Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge will be giving a talk on ‘Good and Evil Around the Globe’ as well as debating 'Being Human and Being Good' at the world’s largest philosophy and music festival in London...

Winner of the Sue Benson Prize in 2018

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 (1955-2005), an anthropologist who lectured, supervised and directed studies in Cambridge for 26 years and was an inspiration both personally and intellectually for generations of...

New International Interdisciplinary Collaboration between the University of Oslo and the University of Cambridge

Himalayan connections: melting glaciers, sacred landscapes and mobile technologies in a changing climate A new international interdisciplinary collaboration between the University of Oslo and the University of Cambridge with partners in Nepal and Bhutan explores the hazards experienced by vulnerable communities in high...

Cambridge is rated top Anthropology department in the world by students and academics in multiple independent surveys, including the influential QS university rankings

We are delighted that the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge has been consistently rated top Anthropology department in the world by students and academics. The Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge has been rated the best in the world for Anthropology in the influential global...

In Remembrance of Dr Esther Goody

Esther Goody (third from the left) with Meyer Fortes (fourth from the right) and other attendees at the 1976 Lomé conference on the African family. It is with the greatest sadness that we learn of the death of our former colleague, Dr Esther Goody, who taught in this department for many years, and will be remembered with...

Prof James Laidlaw: Recovering the Human Subject

Dr Matei Candea: Schools and Styles of Anthropological Theory

Dr Paolo Heywood: After Difference

Ed Pulford, PHD 2017, Short-listed For The C.A. Bayly Memorial Prize

Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern DBE, FBA awarded an International Balzan Prize

Professor Joel Robbins Presents at HowTheLightGetsIn Festival 22 September.

Winner of the Sue Benson Prize in 2018

New International Interdisciplinary Collaboration between the University of Oslo and the University of Cambridge

Cambridge is rated top Anthropology department in the world by students and academics in multiple independent surveys, including the influential QS university rankings

In Remembrance of Dr Esther Goody

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