News

What was it like to do fieldwork in 1950s Mexico?

Susan Drucker-Brown was one of the first women anthropologists in Mexico. ‘A Woman in the Field. The Photographs and Fieldnotes of Susan Drucker-Brown’ (22 April – 31 May 2024) explored the everyday life of her pioneering ethnographic research in the Mixtec-speaking village of Jamiltepec, in the southern state of Oaxaca...

‘Lonely Funerals’ symposium to shape future scholarship and policy

Who are the people who look after you when you die? What happens when there isn’t anyone able or willing to arrange the funeral? These are some of the critical questions posed by Dr Sally Raudon, ESRC postdoctoral fellow, whose doctoral research focused on Hart Island, New York City, the largest public cemetery in the US...

Winners announced in the 2024 Postgraduate Photographic Celebrations

. Juliette Gautron, PhD candidate in the Department of Social Anthropology, has been announced as the winner of this year’s postgraduate photography competition. Juliette – who conducted her fieldwork in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, northeast Colombia – impressed the competition judges with her striking and...

University of Cambridge remains one of the best universities for studying anthropology in the world

Anthropology retains third place in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024 . We are delighted to remain one of the best universities for the study of anthropology in the world, as ranked by leading higher education data specialist, Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). Anthropology at Cambridge was ranked third overall in...

New CJA Special Issue – Number Politics After Datafication

The latest Open Access issue of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology has published! This special issue is entitled "Number Politics After Datafication." Please visit the Berghahn website for more information about the journal. This issue is a part of the Berghahn Open Anthro subscribe-to-open Collection! Editors: Liana...

Berghahn Open Anthro collection now available

Cambridge University Libraries now makes available all the journals published by Berghahn in its “Open Anthro” collection. Cambridge anthropologists can now read double the journals formerly available and Cambridge now supports the conversion to full open access of articles published in these journals. Launched in 2020...

AI and Scholarship: A Manifesto

AI and Scholarship: A Manifesto Dr Ella McPherson, Department of Sociology and Prof Matei Candea. Department of Social Anthropology have written a manifesto and principles to provide a framework that supports scholars and students in figuring out if, rather than how, generative AI contributes to their scholarship. Full...

Showcase your Fieldwork Photographs

Postgraduates in Social Anthropology are invited to enter this year’s Postgraduate Photographic Celebration to have their work displayed in the Department and on the Department’s website and to have the chance to win a Heffers book voucher (First Prize £75, Second Prize £50 and Third Prize £25). Photos will be judged on...

New Publication - Beyond Description

Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation Editors: Paolo Heywood and Matei Candea Beyond Description brings anthropologists and other social scientists together to examine the problem of explanation. What is "an explanation?" What can it add? What makes it authoritative, clarifying, or misleading? Whom does it...

The Sue Benson Prize 2023

The winner of the Sue Benson Prize for 2023 was Eleanor Burnett-Stuart (Christs College), for her dissertation Situating humans in the landscape in the Scottish rewilding movement . The two runners up were Inika Murkumbi with her dissertation Hearing and seeing things in urban, educated India and Cora Morris, whose...

What was it like to do fieldwork in 1950s Mexico?

‘Lonely Funerals’ symposium to shape future scholarship and policy

Winners announced in the 2024 Postgraduate Photographic Celebrations

University of Cambridge remains one of the best universities for studying anthropology in the world

New CJA Special Issue – Number Politics After Datafication

Berghahn Open Anthro collection now available

AI and Scholarship: A Manifesto

Showcase your Fieldwork Photographs

New Publication - Beyond Description

The Sue Benson Prize 2023

Contact us

Contact: enquiries@socanth.cam.ac.uk

Site Privacy & Cookie Policies

Study at Cambridge

About the University

Research at Cambridge