Social Anthropology

Social Anthropology

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

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Georgina Cannon

Georgina Cannon

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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

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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.

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