Social Anthropology

Social Anthropology

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The Department of Social Anthropology includes the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Social Anthropology at Cambridge is a leading centre globally in anthropological teaching and research. Cambridge anthropologists have always been at the forefront of developments in the discipline. Both in the UK and beyond, a large number of anthropologists teaching in major university departments received their doctoral training here, and the current faculty members are engaged in some of the most innovative frontline research in the human and social sciences today.

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Opportunities in 'Social Anthropology'

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An open-access teaching and learning resource facilitating access to scholarship in Social Anthropology for experts and non-experts worldwide.

Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology

McDonald monographs in the Haddon Library

Haddon Library is the University of Cambridge's library for archaeology and anthropology.

Haddon Library

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology exhibits

The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology holds world-class collections representing the arts of the world, the history of humanity, and the diversity and resilience of global culture in the present.

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

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Ethnographic Film is an integral part of the Department of Social Anthropology’s teaching curriculum, and student-organised film showings are an especially popular ‘recreational’ event in the termly programming hosted by the Cambridge University Social Anthropology Society (CUSAS)

Social Anthropology Ethnographic Film Collection

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Each year Cambridge Social Anthropology students write their Dissertations based on their own field research as a part of their final degree.

Social Anthropology Student Fieldwork Fund

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The School of the Humanities and Social Sciences is concerned with human behaviour, its history and continuing development through the study of archaeology, anthropology, politics and international studies, sociology, economics, history, the philosophy of science, law, criminology and land economy. Notable alumni include John Maynard Keynes, Eric Hobsbawm, Simon Schama and Siegfried Sassoon.

Humanities and social sciences

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Cambridge owes its world-leading excellence in research and teaching to the generosity of its supporters. Our history is synonymous with a history of far-sighted benefaction, and the same is as true today as it has ever been.

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Arcadia funds two major projects to map endangered archaeological heritage in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa

The projects are intended to advance our knowledge of the archaeology of South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa and help archaeologists and heritage managers in these regions develop more sustainable approaches to protecting and monitoring endangered heritage

San rock art, Drakensberg

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Gift will provide a new understanding of Africa’s past

A deeper understanding of Africa’s past will be enabled through a new Professorship of the Deep History and Archaeology of Africa in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology.

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Philanthropic giving is at the heart of the success of the Collegiate University, enabling us to make discoveries that change the world and to ensure that our students receive an unrivalled education.

Professor Paul Lane (image courtesy of the REAL Project, Uppsala University)

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Expanding our understanding of humanity's deep history across Africa

Professor Paul Lane has been appointed as the inaugural Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professor of the Deep History and Archaeology of Africa at the University.

The Cambridge Rivers Project

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Connecting cultures

The spirit of cultural interaction initiated by the pioneers of anthropology, connecting past cultures with a modern global audience, continues to thrive at Cambridge.