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Winners of the 2019 “Images Fresh from the Field" Graduate Photographic competition announced

The entries in this year’s 'Images Fresh from the Field' Graduate Photographic competition were all of a very high quality and the judges, Professor Caroline Humphrey and Dr Rupert Stasch, would like to thank all those who participated. The judges sought to evaluate the submissions according to the quality of their visual...

London Anthropology Day 2019

London Anthropology Day 2019 We are taking part in London Anthropology Day (LAD), an annual university taster day for Year 12, 13, FE students, careers advisers and teachers. #LAD2019 will take place on Saturday 29th June 2019 at the Clore Education Centre, British Museum. Book your free place now: www...

Dr Anthony J. Pickles: Money Games: Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town

Dr Anthony J. Pickles: Money Games: Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town Gambling in Papua New Guinea, despite being completely absent prior to the Colonial era, has come to supersede storytelling as the region’s main nighttime activity. Money Games is an ethnographic monograph which reveals the contemporary importance of...

Ed Pulford: Mirrorlands: Russia, China and Journeys in Between

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...

Five shortlisted for CUSU student-led teaching awards 2019

The Department is pleased to announce that five of our number have been shortlisted in the Lecturer and Supervisor categories of the 2019 CUSU student-led teaching awards: Lecturer Dr Matei Candea Dr Yael Navaro Undergraduate Supervisor (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) Dr Joe Ellis Dr Patrick McKearney Dr Perveez...

Anthropology Beyond the Academy

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...

An anthropological study of the early detection of cancer

Dr Ignacia Arteaga Probably most of us know someone affected by cancer. Millions of pounds are spent every year on cancer research to reduce the prevalence and seriousness of the many cancers that affect people living in the UK. Practices of biomedical innovation are expanding the frontiers of this research towards what is...

Intimate Inquiries: Marriage, Polygyny & the State in Contemporary Malaysia

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...

Dr David Sneath: Mongolia Remade: Post-socialist national culture, political economy and cosmopolitics

This collection of new and previously published work by David Sneath, Director of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, explores the historical processes that have made and remade Mongolia as it is today: the construction of ethnic and national cultures from the aristocratic orders of the past; the transformations of...

What does ‘everyday life’ look like in a place built to be a kind of fascist ‘Disneyland’?

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...

Winners of the 2019 “Images Fresh from the Field" Graduate Photographic competition announced

London Anthropology Day 2019

Dr Anthony J. Pickles: Money Games: Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town

Ed Pulford: Mirrorlands: Russia, China and Journeys in Between

Five shortlisted for CUSU student-led teaching awards 2019

Anthropology Beyond the Academy

An anthropological study of the early detection of cancer

Intimate Inquiries: Marriage, Polygyny & the State in Contemporary Malaysia

Dr David Sneath: Mongolia Remade: Post-socialist national culture, political economy and cosmopolitics

What does ‘everyday life’ look like in a place built to be a kind of fascist ‘Disneyland’?

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