ethnography

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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...

“Little robots”: behind the scenes at an academy school

11 Apr 2018

New research from the Faculty of Education lifts the lid on an influential academy school, and finds an authoritarian system that reproduces race and...

Yamada following the disaster. Homepage banner image taken in Ofunato by Petty Officer 1st Class Matthew Bradley in 2011, via Flickr

Rescuing normality: Day-to-day life inside Japan’s disaster shelters

08 Nov 2013

Life inside Japan’s disaster shelters following the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima disaster has been revealed by the only researcher to stay...

Fostering understanding between the Islamic world and the West

07 May 2013

Frankie Martin, MPhil student in the Department of Social Anthropology will speak tonight at the showing of a documentary Journey into America: The...

Drum song performance in Accra, Ghana. Ruth Finnegan’s seminal “Oral Literature In Africa” covered stories, songs and numerous other forms of African oral culture, but the study has been out of print for many years.

“Unglue” a landmark of African cultural studies

19 Jun 2012

A campaign to republish an out-of-print classic on the subject of African culture, using funds donated by academics, enthusiasts and general readers...