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This year sees the re-uniting of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) as a sub-department of Social Anthropology, opening up exciting new possibilities for collaborative research around the extraordinary collections of the Museum, the communities whose heritage MAA cares for, and questions that speak to the...

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology is a major new outreach initiative for the department. It is an open-access encyclopaedia that provides people around the globe with information about commonly used anthropological concepts, such as “race and ethnicity”, “migration” and “religion”. You can find the first few...

University of Cambridge and Germany’s Max Planck Society to create new research centre The Max Planck-Cambridge Centre for the Study of Ethics, Economy and Social Change, an innovative collaboration funded jointly by the University of Cambridge and the Max Planck Society, was formally established as of 1 July 2017. The...

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...