Department of Social Anthropology
About this community
Combines expertise in the central traditional fields of social anthropology with active explorations of new areas of study
The Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge is a major centre for anthropological research. It combines expertise in the central traditional fields of social anthropology with active explorations of new areas of study. Most of the main anthropological fields of kinship, religion and ritual, economics, law and politics are studied.
Particular current interests in the department include gender relations, comparative sociology, modes of communication, medical anthropology, demographic anthropology, urban studies, philosophy and anthropology, historical anthropology, symbolic systems, economic and development anthropology, ethnicity, history of anthropology, art and aesthetics.
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Sub-communities within this community
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Digital Himalaya
Includes an extensive set of back issues of Himalayan journals, rare manuscripts and books, and numerous maps, alongside visual and audio collections
Collections in this community
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Digital Orient
A programme to understand the cultures of China, Japan, India and South Korea through the integration of multimedia, large data storage, and dynamic interactivity made possible by broadband capacities. -
Film Interviews of Academics and Others
Archival interviews with leading anthropologists, historians,ethno-musicologists, international travellers and others. -
Nepal Materials
Films, photographs and texts describing the peoples of the Nepal Himalayas.
Recent Submissions
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"We don't know what we're saying": Politics and subjects among the ultras of Centro Storico Lebowski football club in Florence, Italy
This dissertation offers an ethnographic account of Centro Storico Lebowski (CSL), a semi-professional football club in Florence, Italy, and of the community that supports and manages it. I argue that CSL showcases the ... -
Immoral Economy: Negative Ethics and Everyday Economic Life in the Southern Peruvian Andes
This dissertation explores the perverse vitality of negative ethics—that is, how concerns about immorality animate everyday economic life in rural Andean Peru. Through a consideration of issues such as land inheritance, ... -
Morality and Emotion in the Dynamics of an Amerindian Society (Warao, Orinoco Delta, Venezuela)
(Department of Social Anthropology, 2010-11-12)This dissertation is a study of the interplay of moral issues and emotional states in the daily life of the Warao of the Orinoco Delta in Venezuela. Among the Warao, neither moral issues nor emotional processes are the ... -
Human anxieties, bovine solutions: Political subtexts of native cattle conservation in north-eastern Siberia
For over 300 years the Turkic-speaking Sakha of north-eastern Siberia have lived uneasily in a colonial relationship with the Russian/Soviet state. Since the 1990s, there has been a strong ethnic de-colonising backlash ...
