School of the Humanities and Social Sciences
About this community
The School of the Humanities and Social Sciences covers a wide range of disciplines with differing methodologies, from highly quantitative analysis of ‘big data’ to ethnography and the analysis of the material culture and thought of past societies. The geographical range is equally broad, with specialist centres in Latin America, Africa and South Asia, as well as Development Studies and the specialists within each Department or Faculty.
Find out more about the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences at http://www.cshss.cam.ac.uk/.
Sub-communities within this community
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Department of Archaeology
Promote archaeology as a discipline concerned with the entirety of human history - ranging in time from the Palaeolithic to the modern day, and in space from the Americas to the UK and Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia -
Department of Social Anthropology
Combines expertise in the central traditional fields of social anthropology with active explorations of new areas of study
Recent Submissions
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Diet, sex, and social status in the Late Avar period: stable isotope investigations at Nuštar cemetery, Croatia
(Springer Nature, 2018-04-06)Diet often plays a vital role in defining social divisions within and between social groups and thus can be used to understand the social paradigms of archaeological cultures. During the Early Avar period (568 – 630 A.D.), ... -
Building a library of chemistry education volumes
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017-10-01)There are a number of markers of research fields (Good, 2000; Fensham, 2004). In particular, a research field requires a body of researchers who are working in what is recognised as a distinct area of enquiry, and who ... -
Touchscreen Assessment of Motivation and Reinforcement-Related Choice Behaviour in Mice
(2018-11-14)This dissertation describes the development and optimisation of a set of touchscreen tasks for the assessment of motivation and reinforcement processes in mice. Changes in motivational state and reinforcement sensitivity ... -
Elections in the Mid-Nineteenth Century British Empire
(2018-07-20)This thesis presents a comparative analysis of the operation and significance of elections in the British colonies of Jamaica, New South Wales and the Cape, from 1849-1860, with a particular focus on the creation and ...
