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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Transylvanian Baroque: Liberalism and its Others in Rural Romania
(2019-04-27)This thesis is an exploration of liberalism in Romania and in anthropology. Liberalism is frequently represented in contemporary anthropology as a hegemonic technocratic practice, rationalist ideology and hypocritically ... -
Printing as Practice: Innovation and Imagination in the Making of Tibetan Buddhist Sacred Texts in California
(2019-04-27)This thesis offers an exploration of how one brings a Tibetan sacred text to being — and to voice — in the unfamiliar, and perhaps unlikely, landscape of Northern California. Through 16 months’ fieldwork with a Nyingma ... -
The Labour of Love Songs: Voicing Intimacy in Somaliland
This dissertation is about the work of love songs in Hargeysa, Somaliland. In a setting where music and expressions of love are conspicuously absent from public soundscapes, I explore the lives and labour of a genre as it ... -
A Travellers' Sense of Place in the City
(2019-01-12)It is widely assumed in both popular and scholarly imaginaries that Travellers, due to their ‘nomadic mind-set’ and non-sedentary uses of land, do not have a sense of place. This thesis presents an ethnographic account of ...
