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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For many are called, and few are chosen: eternity and peoplehood amongst Orthodox Christians in Serbia
(2020-09)This thesis considers the interaction of ethno-national and spiritual identities in a postsocialist, Orthodox context. It demonstrates the ways in which those identities mutually reinforce one another, and the tensions ... -
Scientific Persuasions: ethnographic reflections on evidence-based psychological therapy
This thesis seeks to encourage an anthropology of psychology through an ethnographic account of evidence-based psychological therapy in the United Kingdom. It examines the ‘Improving Access to Psychological Therapies’ ... -
‘I Need to Work to Be Legal, I Need to Be Legal to Work.’ Migrant Encounters, Haitian Women, and the Chilean State
This dissertation explores the lives of Haitian women in Santiago, the capital of Chile, with a focus on their everyday encounters with Chilean state agents and private employers. It analyses the experiences of Haitian ...
