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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Memory struggles: Narrating and commemorating the Aum Affair in contemporary Japan, 1994-2015
(2017-10-11)This dissertation investigates how different stakeholders have competed over the interpretation and commemoration of the Aum Affair. The Aum Affair was a series of crimes committed by new religious movement Aum Shinrikyō ... -
Terrorism, Law, and Sovereignty in India and the League of Nations, 1897-1945
(2017-10-01)This research examines the emergence of terrorism as a legal and political category in late colonial India from 1897 to 1946. Chapter 1 traces debates surrounding laws of sedition from the 19th century and follows these ... -
A cultural history of British accounts of travel to México : 1589-1900
(Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, 2002-03-12)What follows is a study of British accounts of travel to Mexico, from the first ever published (1589) until those published at end of the nineteenth century. The focus throughout the research has been less on the texts ... -
Rights of and over Animals in the Ius Naturae et Gentium (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries)
De jure naturae et gentium, “The law of nature and of nations,” is the title of Samuel Pufendorf's eight-volume masterpiece of philosophical jurisprudence, first published in 1672. It provides the tag by which an entire ...
