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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Late Quaternary palaeoenvironments and Middle-Late Stone Age habitat preferences in the Nakuru-Naivasha Basin, Kenya: phytolith-based evidence from the site of Prospect Farm
(2020-05-16)The Central Rift Valley of East Africa has proven to be a key region for our understanding the emergence and diversification of our species. Genetic, fossil, archaeological, and palaeoclimatic evidence suggest that mosaic ... -
Positioning the Intellectual: Žižek as a Sociological Phenomenon
(2019-11-06)This dissertation offers a sociological examination of the rise to prominence of Slavoj Žižek—the Slovene philo-superstar and intellectual celebrity. Drawing upon cultural sociology and the sociology of intellectual ... -
Exploring levels of quality of teaching based on the dynamic model in Taiwan: Constraints and perspectives
(2020-01-29)Teacher professional development is an important element in improving quality of teaching (Borko, 2004). Adjusting trainings sessions to teacher’s authentic needs is considered a crucial part of their professional development. ... -
Wittgenstein and his students, 1912-1968
(2020-04-24)This thesis is the first study of twentieth-century Cambridge Moral Sciences students’ elaboration of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s approach to doing philosophy. It serves foremost as a contribution to the history of British culture ...
