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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(Dis)avowal of State Violence: Public Confessions of Perpetrators of State Violence against Kurds in Turkey
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Evangelical Ecclesiology and Liturgical Reform in the Edwardian Reformation, c. 1545-1555
(2019-04-27)This thesis offers an assessment of the Edwardian Reformation and its significance for the wider development of English Protestantism by examining the liturgical reforms of the period. The central question that this thesis ... -
Caste and the Indian Economy
(Faculty of Economics, 2017-06-01)Caste plays a role at every stage of an Indian's economic life; in school, university, the labor market, and into old age. The influence of caste extends beyond private economic activity into the public sphere, where caste ... -
Restructuring the Chinese Electricity Supply Sector - How industrial electricity prices are determined in a liberalized power market: lessons from Great Britain
(Faculty of Economics, 2018-11-28)In this paper, we begin by discussing the components of the price of industrial electricity in Great Britain, as an example of a fully reformed electricity market, where the market is roughly comparable in size to a ...
