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As Mongolia confronts the confusion of change in the modern world, Dr David Sneath describes how the country has sought solace in traditions of landscape and in the glories of the past. Listen to ‘Keeping in Steppe’ with Dr David Sneath on BBC iPlayer Radio. A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 3, first broadcast on 7 February 2016.Anthropologist…

MARRIAGE RITES AND RIGHTSEDITED BY
JOANNA MILES, PERVEEZ MODY AND REBECCA PROBERTRecent years have seen extensive discussion about the continuing retreat from marriage, the increasing demand for the right to marry from previously excluded groups, and the need to protect those who do not wish to marry from being forced to do so. At the same time, we…

 We are pleased to announce the 2015 APLA Graduate Student Paper Prize was won by Felix Stein of the Division of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) Board invited individuals who are students in a graduate degree-granting program to send stand-alone papers centering on the analys…

The Division is sad to record the death on Thursday 16 July of Sir John Rankin Goody, a long-time member of the Department. Jack Goody taught Social Anthropology at Cambridge for thirty years, from 1954 until his retirement in 1984. In 1973 he was elected to succeed Meyer Fortes to the William Wyse Professorship.His many publications contributed wi…

The Division is delighted to learn that the distinguished anthropologist Maurice Bloch, who holds a PhD from Cambridge and was a Wyse Visiting Professor here earlier this year, has been elected to an Honorary Fellowship of the London School of Economics, where he taught for many years.

 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 Thomas Bevan of Corpus Christi College.

Winner: Camille Lardy (Sidney Sussex College) Every year, the division 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 gen…

We are delighted that three members of the Division have been successful in the latest University Senior Promotions exercise.Our congratulations to:James Laidlaw and Susan Bayly who have received Professorships and to Anita Herle who has received a Readership.For full details see the Cambridge University Reporter

Winner: Lily Rice (Girton College)
The Division is pleased to announce the winner of the 2015 Wyse Undergraduate Prize for Dissertation Research. The prize goes to Lily Rice of Girton College for a project proposal entitled ‘Exploring the construction of humanism in Uganda’. Taking ‘humanism’ as the subject of ethnographic study rather than as an a…