ANTHROPOLOGY
"The most scientific of the humanities, the most humanistic of the sciences"
UCL
Anthropology studies humanity in all its aspects - from our evolution as a
species to our relationship with the material world and our vast variety of
social behaviours.
UCL is one of the world's top universities and our
department is the highest ranked broad-based department in the UK. Our
research expertise covers over 60 countries and the whole human story from our
earliest origins to today's digital age.
With over 30 academic staff,
400 students and 16 different courses on offer, UCL is a great place to learn
the art and science of studying people.
UCL is consistently considered to be amongst the top universities in the world, as indicated by the QS World University Rankings (2012: rank 4, 2011: rank 7, 2009: rank 4).
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Anthropological Perspectives on the Crisis in Southern Europe
The workshop provides an arena for comparative discussion on the impact of socioeconomic crisis in southern Europe (Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain). Contributors will consider issues of historical consciousness, temporality, social movements, suffering and material poverty in the context of eurozone crisis and fiscal austerity. More...
Published: Jun 14, 2013 4:18:43 PM
We are plurally rational and inherently relational: causes, corroborations and consequences
for researchers interested in developing and applying the legacy of the late Professor Dame Mary Douglas
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Published: May 29, 2013 10:36:26 PM
Travel, Imagination and Experience
A discussion on the pleasures of armchair anthropology and the suffering of travellers with
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Published: Apr 25, 2013 12:19:38 PM
Asian Philosophical Encounters
This workshop hopes to bring together a range of themes, including ideas of sameness and difference, temporality, comparison, and cosmology, drawing on philosophical and religious texts from Chinese, Japanese, and inner Asian traditions to inform anthropological perspectives. In particular, we are interested in discussing and exploring how and to what extent ideas from these traditions can help problematize ethnographic concerns with cross-cultural translation.
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Published: Apr 24, 2013 10:25:05 AM
News
Call for papers - LabUK 1st Workshop
Originally, the discipline of anthropology focused on the ethnography of isolated or distant indigenous societies, mainly grouped under the category of “non-western”. The particularity of the anthropological object set the boundary between this and other disciplines, such as sociology and social geography. Following from that, the few ethnographies conducted in “western” societies remained a secondary anthropological enterprise, the focus of researchers who had already done ethnography abroad and had returned to their homeland. However, post-colonial studies problematized the understanding of isolated and distant indigenous societies forcing us to re-evaluate the dichotomy between “western” and “non-western”. If this dichotomy was called into question, the discipline of anthropology was forced to reorganize its agenda in order to overcome such division. One direct consequence is the re-introduction of the so-called “western” societies as a primary site for fieldwork, forcing anthropology to re-define itself and overcome the spatial particularity that used to characterize the field. More...
The latest issue of ANTHROPOLITAN is available online
The academic year 2012/13 has been busy for staff and students alike. We have had a very successful visit by the Internal Quality Review, commending the Department for its openness and inclusivity, for our enthusiastic and articulate students, for the accessibility of the staff, the effective pastoral support provided to the students, and the commitment of staff to teaching. All the students the IQR team met were very positive about the Department and were appreciative of the high quality teaching delivered by staff. More...
Apestraction: Damián Ortega @ The Freud Museum London
Damían Ortega’s exhibition "Apestraction", conceived in conjunction with the Gashaka Primate Project in Nigeria, is on show at The Freud Museum 6 June – 1 September 2013 (www.freud.org.uk/exhibitions) More...
New IBSc Film
Hear
more about past and present students' experience of the IBSc programme in
medical anthropology, including the journalist Max Pemberton, in this new
promotional film. More...
