Publications

Freedoms of Speech: Anthropological Perspectives on Language, Ethics, and Power Editors: Matei Candea, Taras Fedirko, Paolo Heywood and Fiona WrightFollowing a six-year ERC-funded research project on the comparative anthropology of free speech, Matei Candea, Taras Fedirko, Paolo Heywood and Fiona Wright have published a large open-access edited vol…

Pioneering account draws on the eyewitness recollections of a Chinese rebel participantWhen the Cultural Revolution reached China’s border region of Inner Mongolia in 1966, it caused the largest pogrom ever experienced in the People’s Republic. Mao’s class struggle injunctions exacerbated Chinese-Mongol ethnic conflicts and China’s geopolitical cla…

Beyond Description: Anthropologies of ExplanationEditors: Paolo Heywood and Matei CandeaBeyond Description brings anthropologists and other social scientists together to examine the problem of explanation. What is "an explanation?" What can it add? What makes it authoritative, clarifying, or misleading? Whom does it serve and how is it produced? Th…

New Publication - The Cambridge Handbook For The Anthropology of EthicsEdited by Professor James Laidlaw, (University of Cambridge)The 'ethical turn' in anthropology has been one of the most vibrant fields in the discipline in the past quarter-century. It has fostered new dialogue between anthropology and philosophy, psychology, and theology and se…

Anita Herle and Jude Philip have won the Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize for their book Recording Kastom: Alfred Haddon’s Journals from the Torres Strait and New Guinea, 1888 – 1898.  The award was presented on behalf of the Australian National Maritime Museum and the Australian Association for Maritime History.   The judges noted…

When it comes to labour movements, unionised industrial workers on the factory floor have only ever been part of the picture. Across so many different workplaces, sectors of the economy and geographical contexts, the question of how working people struggle in the day-to-day has no single answer.Here Sian Lazar offers a unique anthropological perspe…

Winner of the Carol R Ember Book Prize AwardDr. 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 of Manchester) who, after a 2…

Cambridge researcher involved in British Sign Language translation first for anthropological journalKnowing by DEAF Listening, by Kelly Fagan RobinsonDr Kelly Fagan Robinson, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Research Fellow and Postgraduate Tutor at Clare Hall has since 2007 worked alongside Deaf professional artists, advocates and activists. Robi…

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 that they can. To make this p…

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 learning in a racialized encoun…

MIASU is pleased to announce the publication of an edited volume co-ordinated from MIASU and edited by Riam Kuyakanon, Hildegard Diemberger and David Sneath – ‘Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia: Places and Practices of Power in Changing Environments.'This book, published by Routledge, highlights the case for cosmopolitical ecologies as a new and…

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…

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…

This edited collection examines the ways in which the emerging interdisciplinary study of care provokes a reassessment of the connections and disjuncture between care and governance, ethics, and public, personal and professional identities.  Featuring chapters by five anthropologists (Koreen Reece, Elena Khlinovskaya Rockhill, John Borneman, Tom Bo…

Johannes Lenhard & Farhan Samanani (Eds): Home: Ethnographic EncountersHow are notions of 'home' made and negotiated by ethnographers? And how does the researcher relate to forms of home encountered during fieldwork?Rather than searching for an abstract, philosophical understanding of home, this collection asks how home gains its meaning and signif…