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Introducing a new phase of Camthropod

Camthropod is the podcast of the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. We’ve had 25 amazing episodes so far, with more in the pipeline. Ranging from interviews with visiting scholars to documentary soundscapes, all brought to us by students, research fellows, and faculty associated with the...

New Joint Track with the Faculty of Divinity

At the beginning of the academic year 2020-21, the Department introduced a new joint track option in the HSPS undergraduate degree. The joint track in Modern Religion and Social Anthropology is being run on a five-year trial basis. The new joint track option was devised following planning between the HSPS Tripos and the...

New JRF at Christ’s College for Dr Ori Mautner

Dr Ori Mautner builds on his previous successes with a four-year Junior Research Fellowship In October 2022, Ori Mautner, a postgraduate of the Department, began a four-year Junior Research Fellowship at Christ’s College Cambridge . At Christ's, Ori will analyse unique but little-understood models and practices of living...

The Carol R Ember Book Prize Winner – Dr. Juan M. del Nido

Winner of the Carol R Ember Book Prize Award Dr. Juan M. del Nido has won The Carol R Ember Book Prize award for his publication, Taxis vs. Uber: Courts, Markets, and Technology in Buenos Aires . Del Nido is an economist (BHons, Universidad del CEMA) and social anthropologist (MSc, University of Edinburgh; PhD, University...

Winners announced in the 2022 Postgraduate Fieldwork Photographic Competition

Winners announced in the 2022 Postgraduate Fieldwork Photographic Competition The Department of Social Anthropology is delighted to announce the winners in this year’s Postgraduate Fieldwork Photographic Competition. The judges found it even more challenging than usual to rank this year’s submissions, because they were all...

HSPS degree at Cambridge University is top rated in the Guardian University Guide 2023

The Department of Social Anthropology is delighted to add the top ranking position for Anthropology as part of the Human, Social and Political Sciences degree at the University of Cambridge in the Guardian's latest guide, to their list of former external recommendations from QS World University Rankings in 2018; the...

Cambridge researcher involved in British Sign Language translation first for anthropological journal

Cambridge researcher involved in British Sign Language translation first for anthropological journal Knowing by DEAF Listening, by Kelly Fagan Robinson Dr Kelly Fagan Robinson , a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Research Fellow and Postgraduate Tutor at Clare Hall has s ince 2007 worked alongside Deaf professional artists...

In memory of James Woodburn (1934-2022)

The Department was sad to hear of the death of James Woodburn, one of the best-known anthropologists of hunter-gatherer and egalitarian societies. James Woodburn taught at the LSE for many years. He was an alumnus of Cambridge and a good friend to our Department. He started studying History at Christ's College, but then...

Dr Timothy Cooper has been awarded the 2021-2022 Claremont Prize for the Study of Religion

Dr Timothy Cooper has been awarded the 2021-2022 Claremont Prize for the Study of Religion for his manuscript Public Demand: Film, Islam, and Atmosphere in a Pakistani Marketplace. The Claremont Prize is awarded by the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life at Columbia University to support and promote cutting-...

COLOUR: Art, Science & Power

COLOUR is an exciting new exhibition opening at the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology on 26 July 2022. Using an anthropological approach, the project integrates work across arts, humanities and sciences with collections-based research and consultation with specialists, Indigenous experts...

Introducing a new phase of Camthropod

New Joint Track with the Faculty of Divinity

New JRF at Christ’s College for Dr Ori Mautner

The Carol R Ember Book Prize Winner – Dr. Juan M. del Nido

Winners announced in the 2022 Postgraduate Fieldwork Photographic Competition

HSPS degree at Cambridge University is top rated in the Guardian University Guide 2023

Cambridge researcher involved in British Sign Language translation first for anthropological journal

In memory of James Woodburn (1934-2022)

Dr Timothy Cooper has been awarded the 2021-2022 Claremont Prize for the Study of Religion

COLOUR: Art, Science & Power

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