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The Max Planck Cambridge Centre for Ethics, Economy, and Social Change

The Max Planck Cambridge Centre for Ethics, Economy, and Social Change, which was officially launched in 2018 supporting a group of six postdoctoral projects under four co-directors, has been, and is expected to continue as, a driver for interdisciplinary research at the intersection of the anthropology of ethics and...

Tribute to Mantas Kvedaravicius (1976-2022)

We are enormously saddened to have received the news that Mantas Kvedaravicius, a former student of our Department (PhD in Social Anthropology, 2014), was killed by the Russian forces in Mariupol, Ukraine. Mantas was a brilliant anthropologist and uniquely talented ethnographic and documentary filmmaker, well-known through...

Dr Natalia Buitron appointed Assistant Professor in the Anthropology of Amazonia

The Department of Social Anthropology is delighted to welcome Dr Natalia Buitron to the Jessica Sainsbury Lectureship in the Anthropology of Amazonia, from January this year. Dr Natalia Buitron, a Fellow of Jesus College, specialises in political subjectivities, indigeneity, and development. She is the first to be...

Postgraduate Photographic Competition Winner

Postgraduate Photographic Competition 2022 Launched

Showcase your Fieldwork Photographs Postgraduates in Social Anthropology are invited to enter this year’s Postgraduate Photographic Competition 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...

New Book - Theology and the Anthropology of Christian Life by Professor Joel Robbins

Both sociocultural anthropology and theology have made fundamental contributions to our understanding of human experience and the place of humanity in the world. But can these two disciplines, despite the radical differences that separate them, work together to transform their thinking on these topics? This book argues...

Cambridge comes top in world QS ranking for Anthropology

We are pleased that Cambridge has again been ranked the top anthropology department in the world in the influential rankings carried out annually by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS World University Rankings). https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2022/anthropology#top_menu

Four Social Anthropology Students in the Gates Cambridge Class of 2022

The Department of Social Anthropology is delighted to announce that four Gates Cambridge Scholars will start postgraduate courses with us in Michaelmas 2022. Zoljargal Enkh-Amgalan (Mongolia) will be joining the MPhil in Social Anthropological Research course. Ila Ananya (India), Alaa Hajyahia (Israel, Palestine), and...

The Department mourns the loss of Mantas Kvedaravicius

We are devastated to receive the news that the visual anthropologist and documentary filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravicius, a former PhD student of our Department, was killed by the Russian invading forces in Mariupol, Ukraine. We will be holding a memorial event in Cambridge (with hybrid online participation) to honour Mantas...

Research Associate Dr Ori Mautner has been awarded the RAI's Curl Essay Prize

The Department are delighted to announce that Dr Ori Mautner has been awarded the Royal Anthropological Institute's Curl Essay Prize 2021 for his essay The Self in Self-Formation: Embodiment, Religious Mediation, and the Subject’s Interrelated Parts among Orthodox-Jewish Meditators.

New Book – Visions for Racial Equality by Professor Harri Englund

Current campaigns for racial equality implore White people to learn from racialized others. Professor Harri Englund’s new book Visions for Racial Equality: David Clement Scott and the Struggle for Justice in Nineteenth-Century Malawi (Cambridge University Press) presents a little-known historical case of listening and...

The Max Planck Cambridge Centre for Ethics, Economy, and Social Change

Tribute to Mantas Kvedaravicius (1976-2022)

Dr Natalia Buitron appointed Assistant Professor in the Anthropology of Amazonia

Postgraduate Photographic Competition 2022 Launched

New Book - Theology and the Anthropology of Christian Life by Professor Joel Robbins

Cambridge comes top in world QS ranking for Anthropology

Four Social Anthropology Students in the Gates Cambridge Class of 2022

The Department mourns the loss of Mantas Kvedaravicius

Research Associate Dr Ori Mautner has been awarded the RAI's Curl Essay Prize

New Book – Visions for Racial Equality by Professor Harri Englund

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