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Reverberations: Violence Across Time and SpaceEdited by Yael Navaro, Zerrin Özlem Biner, Alice von Bieberstein, and Seda AltugùAn international conference was held in Istanbul, in March 2015, as a component of the project “Living with Remnants: Politics, Materiality and Subjectivity in the Aftermath of Past Atrocities in Turkey” (2012-2016), funded…

The Department of Social Anthropology is delighted to announce that Professor Sian Lazar is the new Head of Department from 1st October 2021.  Prof Lazar joined the Department in 2005.  Her research focus is collective politics in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and El Alto, Bolivia.   Recently she has focussed on labour movement activism in Argentina, t…

The Department of Social Anthropology and St Catharine’s College are pleased to announce the establishment of a University Lectureship in Malay World Studies.Dr Liana Chua has been appointed as the first Tunku Abdul Rahman University Lecturer in Malay World Studies, an entirely new position that is fully funded by St Catharine’s College and based a…

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology (CEA) has so far been read by over a quarter of a million people, reported the Managing Editor of CEA.It has published six new entries in the first five months of 2021. They discuss anthropological insights to diverse topics such as “Climate Change”, “Depression”, “Dependence” and “Latin America”. Entries …

Recording Kastom brings readers into the heart of colonial Torres Strait and New Guinea with the personal journals of Cambridge zoologist and anthropologist Alfred Haddon. Haddon’s journals highlight his comprehensive vision of anthropology and preoccupation with documentation. They also reveal the personal, often intimate nature of field experienc…

SHARE is an online programme provided by the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Cambridge Open for applications now. Closing date: 31 May 2021SHARE is a two-week, paid, summer research experience programme which aims to enhance diversity and inclusiveness within the social sciences at Cambridge, and in UK academia mo…

Founded in 1986 by Caroline Humphrey and Urgunge Onon, the Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit is a centre within the Department of Social Anthropology which supports  interdisciplinary research and teaching relating to the great steppe region of Inner Asia, centred on Mongolia, including large parts of Siberia, Central Asia, Manchuria, and minority…

As a result of a generous donation from the Sigrid Rausing Trust, the Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit and Department of Social Anthropology is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Joe Ellis as its first Sigrid Rausing Early-Career Postdoctoral Fellow. As well as playing a full role in the MIASU’s research activities and contributing to th…

‘Mongolian Cosmopolitical Heritage: tracing divergent healing practices across the Mongolian-Chinese border’ is a 4-year research project led by Prof David Sneath and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council that began 1 March 2020. The project seeks to explore ethnographically the mechanisms linking health and cultural heritage during th…

The four-year multidisciplinary ‘Himalayan Connections: Melting glaciers, sacred landscapes and mobile technologies in a changing climate’ (HimalConnect) project researches the environmental perceptions and management strategies of so-called ‘remote’ communities in Nepal and Bhutan, drawing on long-term, place-based understandings of landscape at a…

The Department of Social Anthropology is delighted to announce that three new Gates Cambridge Scholars will be joining the Department in Michaelmas 2021.  Ila Ananya (India) and Adaiah Hudgins-Lopez (USA) will both be joining the MPhil in Social Anthropology course and João Kelmer (Brazil) will join the PhD in Social Anthropology programme.“The Gat…

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/2021/anthropology

The newly established Caroline Humphrey Chair in the Anthropology of Inner Asia has been awarded to Professor David Sneath. This recently endowed chair has been funded by a major donation by the Sigrid Rausing Trust, which has also funded the MIASU Early-Career Postdoctoral Fellowship and Doctoral Studentship in the Social Anthropology of Inner Asi…

Evans Fellowships 2021The Advisory Committee for the Evans Fund give notice that they intend to proceed to an election of an Evans Fellow or Fellows early in the Easter Term.  A graduate of any university is eligible to apply, provided that they intend to engage in research in anthropology or archaeology in relation to Southeast Asia.  The Advisory…

The National Student Survey 2021 is now open.  It is your chance to give your feedback.  If you are in your final year, you may be eligible for the NSS.  Visit www.thestudentsurvey.com to find out.  We welcome your input.