Department of Social Anthropology

Professor Henrietta L Moore to receive honorary degree.

A study by Tibetan scholar Lobsang Yongdan revisits a long-ignored section of a historic text to reveal how Tibetans were engaging with western...

Africa’s fastest-growing economies could offer a radical alternative to the West’s current reliance on national capitalism according to an academic...

The Zimbabwean elections will quickly drop off the international news agenda. In her third and final report, anthropology student Rowan Jones ponders...

In the township of Mbare, anthropology student Rowan Jones finds a complex picture of poverty and propaganda - plus a baffling level of support for...

A student photography competition showcases some of the stunning visuals that result from modern Social Anthropology research

When radical feminists took their cause from Europe to North Africa, the outcome was a deepening of the divides they sought to break down. Social...

A new project based in Cambridge’s Division of Social Anthropology is looking at interactions between China, Mongolia and Russia at the point where...

At first glance, reasons for researching locations as different as the Arctic and Mexico are not self-evident. But comparison is at the core of Social...