Vision in the field: Photography from social anthropology
23 Jan 2024 The University’s Department of Social Anthropology studies how people live: what they make, do, think and the organisation of their relationships...
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Britain's first colonial anthropology experiment revealed
12 Jun 2021 A new exhibition at MAA examines the pioneering ethnographic archive assembled by Britain’s first colonial anthropologist, Cambridge alumnus Northcote...
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The unschooled anthropologist working with Q'eqchi' weavers
24 Sep 2019 Living for ten months with Q’eqchi’ weavers in the Alta Verapaz of Guatemala, PhD student Callie Vandewiele watched and listened as the women crafted...
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Farmers have less leisure time than hunter-gatherers, study suggests
21 May 2019 Hunter-gatherers in the Philippines who convert to farming work around ten hours a week longer than their forager neighbours, a new study suggests...
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The cultural significance of carbon-storing peatlands to rural communities
21 May 2019 A group of UK and Peruvian researchers have carried out the first detailed study of how rural communities interact with peatlands in the Peruvian...
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Ailing bodies, angry mountains, healing spirits: shamanic healing in Mongolia
18 Jan 2019 Through sound and photography, Cambridge researcher Dr Elizabeth Turk shares her experiences of talking to shamanic healers in Mongolia. Over the past...
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Mysterious 11,000-year-old skull headdresses go on display in Cambridge
21 Jun 2018 Three 11,500-year-old deer skull headdresses – excavated from a world-renowned archaeological site in Yorkshire – will go on display, one for the...
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Living in a material world: why 'things' matter
18 Oct 2017 Things structure our lives. They enrich us, embellish us and express our hopes and fears. Here, to introduce a month-long focus on research on...
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Two million years of human stories
12 Oct 2017 Every object in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology tells not just one but many stories. The Museum’s collections chronicle two million years...
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