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Windows and Mirrors: Reflections on the Ethnographic Method in Times of Crisis

Crises beg(et) creativity. A readiness to navigate change and constraint undergirds the descriptive enterprise of anthropology — beginning, perhaps, with Malinowski’s ethnographic research on the Trobriand Islands during World War I, and characteristic of the discipline even now. Having conducted fieldwork during the COVID...

Dr Iza Kavedžija - new Assistant Professor in social and medical anthropology

This term, we welcome to the Department Dr Iza Kavedžija, a social and medical anthropologist specialising in Japan. Iza's primary research interests span health and wellbeing, ageing and the life course, and art and creativity. Dr Kavedžija’s research explores the lived experience of ageing in urban Japan, and the ways in...

Dr Liana Chua joins the department as Assistant Professor in Malay World Studies

In September, Dr Liana Chua began her appointment as the first Tunku Abdul Rahman University Assistant Professor in Malay World Studies, an entirely new position that is fully funded by St Catharine’s College and based at the Department of Social Anthropology. Following her formal admission as a Fellow of St Catharine’s...

Professor Yael Navaro - Reverberations Violence Across Time and Space

Reverberations: Violence Across Time and Space Edited by Yael Navaro, Zerrin Özlem Biner, Alice von Bieberstein, and Seda Altugù An 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...

Professor Sian Lazar appointed new Head of Department at Social Anthropology

The Department of Social Anthropology is delighted to announce that Professor Sian Lazar is the new Head of Department from 1st October 2021. 590x300-sian-hod.jpg 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...

Department of Social Anthropology and St Catharine’s College announce the first University Lectureship in Malay World Studies

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...

Over a quarter of a million read the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology (CEA)

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”...

New publication edited by Dr Anita Herle & Jude Philp: Recording Kastom: Alfred Haddon’s Journals from his Expeditions to Torres Strait and New Guinea, 1888 and 1898

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...

SHARE Summer School 2021 - Open for applications

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 2021 SHARE is a two-week, paid, summer research experience programme which aims to enhance diversity and inclusiveness within the social sciences at...

The Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit at Thirty Five

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 250x250-carrie-humphrey.jpg interdisciplinary research and teaching relating to the great steppe region of Inner Asia, centred on Mongolia, including...

Windows and Mirrors: Reflections on the Ethnographic Method in Times of Crisis

Dr Iza Kavedžija - new Assistant Professor in social and medical anthropology

Dr Liana Chua joins the department as Assistant Professor in Malay World Studies

Professor Yael Navaro - Reverberations Violence Across Time and Space

Professor Sian Lazar appointed new Head of Department at Social Anthropology

Department of Social Anthropology and St Catharine’s College announce the first University Lectureship in Malay World Studies

Over a quarter of a million read the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology (CEA)

New publication edited by Dr Anita Herle & Jude Philp: Recording Kastom: Alfred Haddon’s Journals from his Expeditions to Torres Strait and New Guinea, 1888 and 1898

SHARE Summer School 2021 - Open for applications

The Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit at Thirty Five

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