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Professor Joel Robbins Presents at HowTheLightGetsIn Festival 22 September.

Professor Joel Robbins, Sigrid Rausing Professor of Social Anthropology and Deputy Head of Department, Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge will be giving a talk on ‘Good and Evil Around the Globe’ as well as debating 'Being Human and Being Good' at the world’s largest philosophy and music festival in London...

Winner of the Sue Benson Prize in 2018

Every year, the department 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 generations of...

New International Interdisciplinary Collaboration between the University of Oslo and the University of Cambridge

Himalayan connections: melting glaciers, sacred landscapes and mobile technologies in a changing climate A new international interdisciplinary collaboration between the University of Oslo and the University of Cambridge with partners in Nepal and Bhutan explores the hazards experienced by vulnerable communities in high...

Cambridge rated top Anthropology department in the world by students and academics in multiple independent surveys

We are delighted that the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge has been repeatedly rated top Anthropology department in the world by students and academics. The Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge has been rated the best in the world for Anthropology in the influential global rankings...

In Remembrance of Dr Esther Goody

Esther Goody (third from the left) with Meyer Fortes (fourth from the right) and other attendees at the 1976 Lomé conference on the African family. It is with the greatest sadness that we learn of the death of our former colleague, Dr Esther Goody, who taught in this department for many years, and will be remembered with...

Professor Harri Englund: Gogo Breeze: Zambia’s Radio Elder and the Voices of Free Speech

Professor Harri Englund: Gogo Breeze: Zambia’s Radio Elder and the Voices of Free Speech gogo.jpg A self-styled grandfather on air, Gogo Breeze seeks intimacy over the airwaves and dispenses advice on a wide variety of grievances and transgressions. Multiple voices are broadcast and juxtaposed through call-ins and dialogue...

News from The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

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...

Collaboration between Cambridge and the Max Planck Society

Everyone with an interest in the social sciences remembers the take-home message of Max Weber’s essay, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. After the Reformation, Weber tells us, some Northern Europeans began working hard to accumulate funds they could invest in starting or expanding businesses that would...

New Online Encyclopedia

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...

John Rankine Goody (1919-2015) - New memorial published by the British Academy

New memorial published by the British Academy A new memorial to John Rankine Goody (1919-2015) has been published by the British Academy. With thanks to St John's College Cambridge for this photo of Jack Goody

Professor Joel Robbins Presents at HowTheLightGetsIn Festival 22 September.

Winner of the Sue Benson Prize in 2018

New International Interdisciplinary Collaboration between the University of Oslo and the University of Cambridge

Cambridge rated top Anthropology department in the world by students and academics in multiple independent surveys

In Remembrance of Dr Esther Goody

Professor Harri Englund: Gogo Breeze: Zambia’s Radio Elder and the Voices of Free Speech

News from The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Collaboration between Cambridge and the Max Planck Society

New Online Encyclopedia

John Rankine Goody (1919-2015) - New memorial published by the British Academy

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