News

Special Issue of Terrain

What is censorship? How does it stand out amongst other ways of silencing oneself and others? And what light can anthropological comparison shed on this question? Matei Candea has edited a special issue of the open access journal Terrain on the anthropology of censorship . Contributors include department members Susan...

Anthropology In Vietnam: An Exciting Development In Public Media Outreach

A remarkable public media project showcasing the work of young anthropologists in contemporary Vietnam has just celebrated its second anniversary of full-scale operation. The project, entitled ‘Anthropology for today's Vietnam: An online public communication initiative,’ is the brainchild of our former PhD student Dr. Lam...

John Fahy: Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City

John Fahy: Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City centers on a growing multinational community of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) devotees in Mayapur, West Bengal. While ISKCON’s history is often presented in terms of an Indian guru ‘transplanting’...

Dr Baktygul Tulebaeva: Visiting Academic to the Department

Dr Baktygul Tulebaeva: Visiting Academic to the Department of Social Anthropology The Department is pleased to announce the arrival of Dr Baktygul Tulebaeva, a social anthropologist at the Goethe University Frankfurt, who is visiting until early December. Her recent post-doctoral project is on Sufism in India where she...

PhD Studentship in Social Anthropology Relating to Early Cancer Detection: Apply Now

Apply Now for PhD Studentship in Social Anthropology Relating to Early Detection of Cancer There is now an opportunity to apply for a PhD studentship in Social Anthropology relating to the Early Detection of Cancer at the University of Cambridge Department of Social Anthropology. For full information, project details and...

Dr Johannes Lenhard & Dr Farhan Samanani (Eds): Home: Ethnographic Encounters

Johannes Lenhard & Farhan Samanani (Eds): Home: Ethnographic Encounters How are notions of 'home' made and negotiated by ethnographers? And how does the researcher relate to forms of home encountered during fieldwork? Rather than searching for an abstract, philosophical understanding of home, this collection asks how...

John Fahy and Jan-Jonathan Bock (Eds): The Interfaith Movement: Mobilising Religious Diversity in the 21st Century

John Fahy and Jan-Jonathan Bock (Eds): The Interfaith Movement: Mobilising Religious Diversity in the 21st Century Although its beginnings can be traced back to the late 19th century, the interfaith movement has only recently begun to attract mainstream attention, with governments, religious leaders and grassroots...

Major New Research Project - "Imaginative Landscapes of Islamist Politics Across the Balkans-to-Bengal Complex"

Dr. Sertaç Sehlikoglu has been awarded a ERC Starting Grant (€1.5million ) for a major new research project entitled “Imaginative Landscapes of Islamist Politics Across the Balkans-to-Bengal Complex”. She is a Cambridge-trained social anthropologist specialised in gender and subjectivity in the Middle East and in...

Professor Harri Englund Elected a Fellow of the British Academy

The Department congratulates Professor Harri Englund on his election to the British Academy. Each year, the British Academy elects to its Fellowship UK-based scholars who have achieved academic distinction as reflected in scholarly research activity and publication. More information on Professor Englund's work can be found...

Winner of the Sue Benson Prize in 2019

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...

Special Issue of Terrain

Anthropology In Vietnam: An Exciting Development In Public Media Outreach

John Fahy: Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City

Dr Baktygul Tulebaeva: Visiting Academic to the Department

PhD Studentship in Social Anthropology Relating to Early Cancer Detection: Apply Now

Dr Johannes Lenhard & Dr Farhan Samanani (Eds): Home: Ethnographic Encounters

John Fahy and Jan-Jonathan Bock (Eds): The Interfaith Movement: Mobilising Religious Diversity in the 21st Century

Major New Research Project - "Imaginative Landscapes of Islamist Politics Across the Balkans-to-Bengal Complex"

Professor Harri Englund Elected a Fellow of the British Academy

Winner of the Sue Benson Prize in 2019

Contact us

Contact: enquiries@socanth.cam.ac.uk

Site Privacy & Cookie Policies

Study at Cambridge

About the University

Research at Cambridge