Publications

Following 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 volume entitled Freedoms of Speech: Anthropological Perspectives on Language, Ethics, and Power.

Pioneering account draws on the eyewitness recollections of a Chinese rebel participant When 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...

Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation Editors: Paolo Heywood and Matei Candea Beyond 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...

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...