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Dr Anthony Pickles: There's no such thing as a natural-born gambler

There’s no such thing as a natural-born gambler by Dr Anthony Pickles This short article aimed at a general audience shows that while gambling is thought to be a ubiquitous part of human nature, this is just a fiction borne out of familiarity. Many parts of the world didn't have gambling, at least until the last 150 years...

Hear from a visiting Postdoc: Dr Eduardo Dullo

In 2015-16, the Division of Social Anthropology welcomed Dr Eduardo Dullo as a visiting Postdoc. Before going to Cambridge, where I was planning to stay for one year, I did what any traveller should do: I asked those who had already been there what to expect. A former professor gave me some relevant advice: to be on time...

Dr Sanchez appointed as University Lecturer

We're delighted to announce that Dr Andrew Sanchez will be joining us in September 2016 as a new University Lecturer. Dr Sanchez, who took his PhD at the London School of Economics in 2009, is the author of Criminal Capital: Violence, Corruption and Class in Industrial India (Routledge, 2015), which describes and analyses...

Dr Candea wins the Pilkington Prize

Dr Matei Candea is one of this year’s Pilkington Teaching Prize winners. Twelve inspirational academics have been recognised for their outstanding quality and approach to teaching. The winners, listed below, will attend an awards ceremony at Queens’ College in June, where they will receive a prize from the Vice-Chancellor...

'Keeping in Steppe': Dr David Sneath on BBC Radio 3

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...

Miles, Mody and Probert: Marriage Rites and Rights

MARRIAGE RITES AND RIGHTS EDITED BY JOANNA MILES, PERVEEZ MODY AND REBECCA PROBERT Recent 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...

Winner of the 2015 APLA Graduate Student Paper Prize

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...

Cambridge Social Anthropology remembers Sir John Rankin Goody

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...

Honorary Fellowship for Professor Maurice Bloch

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.

Audrey Richards Prize Winner

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.

Dr Anthony Pickles: There's no such thing as a natural-born gambler

Hear from a visiting Postdoc: Dr Eduardo Dullo

Dr Sanchez appointed as University Lecturer

Dr Candea wins the Pilkington Prize

'Keeping in Steppe': Dr David Sneath on BBC Radio 3

Miles, Mody and Probert: Marriage Rites and Rights

Winner of the 2015 APLA Graduate Student Paper Prize

Cambridge Social Anthropology remembers Sir John Rankin Goody

Honorary Fellowship for Professor Maurice Bloch

Audrey Richards Prize Winner

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