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Read more at: Dr Felix Stein's study, 'Work, sleep, repeat' is published by Bloomsbury

Dr Felix Stein's study, 'Work, sleep, repeat' is published by Bloomsbury

Dr Felix Stein's study, 'Work, sleep, repeat', is published by Bloomsbury May 2017 Cambridge University, affiliated anthropologist, Dr Felix Stein, has had his study of the work of German management consultants, published. The book, entitled 'Work, sleep, repeat - the abstract labour of German management consultants', has...


Read more at: Dr Mody appointed as University Lecturer

Dr Mody appointed as University Lecturer

We're delighted to announce that Dr Perveez Mody will be taking up a new position of University Lecturer in September 2017.

 Dr Mody was awarded her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2001, and is the author of T he Intimate State: Love-Marriage and the Law in Delhi (Routledge, 2008), which provided the first...


Read more at: Dr Sian Lazar: Where Are The Unions? Workers and Social Movements in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe
Dr Sian Lazar: Where Are The Unions? Workers and Social Movements in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe

Dr Sian Lazar: Where Are The Unions? Workers and Social Movements in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe

Dr Sian Lazar: Where Are The Unions? Workers and Social Movements in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe The first fully comprehensive comparison of the Latin American ‘turn to the left’, the Middle East and North African ‘Arab Spring’ and the Occupy and anti-austerity movements of Europe and North America, with a...


Read more at: Professor Harri Englund awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship

Professor Harri Englund awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship

Professor Harri Englund has been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship from October 2017. During the fellowship, Englund will carry out a new research project entitled ‘Liberal Translations: Slavery and Humanity in 19th-Century Central Africa’. Its focus will be on linguistic and political work in present-day...


Read more at: ESRC DTP Studentships Available

ESRC DTP Studentships Available

The Division of Social Anthropology is pleased to participate in a new ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership at the University of Cambridge. A range of studentships are available across the social sciences at Cambridge; if you are interested in how society works and how it can handle global challenges, a DTP studentship will...


Read more at: Audrey Richards Prize Winner 2016

Audrey Richards Prize Winner 2016

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 Ida Svenonius of Lucy Cavendish College.


Read more at: Dr Chloe Nahum-Claudel: Man vs fish in the Amazon rainforest

Dr Chloe Nahum-Claudel: Man vs fish in the Amazon rainforest

The Enawenê-nawê people of the Amazon rainforest make beautifully engineered fishing dams. Living alongside this indigenous community, Dr Chloe Nahum-Claudel observed how the act of trapping fish shapes their minds, bodies and relationships. The proximity of life and death brings human vulnerability sharply into focus...


Read more at: Introducing the MPhil in Health, Medicine and Society

Introducing the MPhil in Health, Medicine and Society

Applications are now open for the new MPhil in Health, Medicine and Society. The new MPhil is jointly run by the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Division of Social Anthropology and Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. The course offers a uniquely interdisciplinary approach to teaching...


Read more at: Dr Andrew Sanchez: Criminal Capital
Dr Andrew Sanchez: Criminal Capital

Dr Andrew Sanchez: Criminal Capital

Criminal Capital: Violence, corruption and class in industrial India Dr Andrew Sanchez Criminal Capital explores the relationship between neoliberalism, criminality and the reshaping of class in modern India. It discusses how the political vocabularies of urban industrial workers reflect the processes by which power is...


Read more at: Postgraduate Open Day

Postgraduate Open Day

The University of Cambridge is hosting its first Postgraduate Open Day on Wednesday 2 November 2016. Attending the open day is an excellent way to explore the graduate courses and opportunities available at the University of Cambridge. Throughout the day there will be a variety of subject presentations, sample lectures and...