Category: Social Anthropology

In 2013, the Social Anthropology Seminar Series held throughout each semester within the School of Anthropology and Conservation organised a series of conferences dedicated to … Read more

The Global Informality Project headed by Alena Ledeneva, Professor of Politics and Society at UCL, explores society’s open secrets, unwritten rules and know-how practices. Broadly … Read more

This April, the School of Anthropology and Conservation launched a student-led social media campaign called #windowsintowildlife. While lockdown measures saw us staying inside a lot more than … Read more

The tail-end of June marks three months of lockdown, although measures have started to ease up slightly across the country. Unfortunately, this hasn’t been the … Read more

In 2017, Professor of Social Anthropology, João Pina-Cabral, published a book called World: An Anthropological Examination (HAU Books: University of Chicago Press). The book explores the … Read more

Thirty years ago, the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) organised its first biannual conference in Coimbra, Portugal under the banner Anthropology and Europe. Professor … Read more

Christopher Aris is currently studying for a PhD in Anthropology with an examination of enamel microevolution over the last 2000 years of human history. Here, … Read more

This year’s visual anthropology event presents a diversity of films and interactive websites, many influenced by the pandemic. Please join us for our annual visual … Read more

The doors may temporarily be closed to the School of Anthropology and Conservation during the lockdown, but there is still plenty of activity to report. … Read more

Composed of a group of members and colleagues from the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA), where Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, … Read more