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The Department is very sad to learn of the death, on 13th January 2020 at the age of 81, of our long-time and dearly remembered former colleague, Dr Gilbert Lewis. Gilbert was a pioneer in the development of medical anthropology as well as a distinguished ethnographer of Papua New Guinea and theorist of ritual and magic...

Everyday Justice clearly demonstrates the value of revitalizing the category of justice in ethnographic work by revealing how both justice and injustice are woven into everyday life in manifold and widely differing ways. The contributors account for this complexity across multiple particular social relations, places, and...

A remarkable public media project showcasing the work of young anthropologists in contemporary Vietnam has just celebrated its second anniversary of full-scale operation. The project, entitled ‘Anthropology for today's Vietnam: An online public communication initiative,’ is the brainchild of our former PhD student Dr. Lam...

Dr Baktygul Tulebaeva: Visiting Academic to the Department of Social Anthropology The Department is pleased to announce the arrival of Dr Baktygul Tulebaeva, a social anthropologist at the Goethe University Frankfurt, who is visiting until early December. Her recent post-doctoral project is on Sufism in India where she...