Publications

New Publication - The Cambridge Handbook For The Anthropology of Ethics Edited 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...

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...

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...

Winner of the Carol R Ember Book Prize Award Dr. 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...

Cambridge researcher involved in British Sign Language translation first for anthropological journal Knowing by DEAF Listening, by Kelly Fagan Robinson Dr Kelly Fagan Robinson , a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Research Fellow and Postgraduate Tutor at Clare Hall has s ince 2007 worked alongside Deaf professional artists...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...