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3 Jun 2024: hellip; But the idea that nature itself could behave like a perfect gambling machine was revolutionary.</p> </blockquote> <p>Moreover, Fisher clearly knew the natural randomization in heredity.

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Tim Burger (2018). My doctoral research explores the practices and understandings of making a living within a depopulated landscape. I carried out fieldwork in a small village on São Jorge Island

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Professor Matei Candea. I am a social anthropologist interested in understanding ethics, epistemics, materiality, and politics, with an emphasis on the analysis of conceptual and social forms and

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Beja Protner (2019). Anthropology of Politics, subjectivity, affect and emotions, hope, political violence, memory, survival, migration, space, belonging, gender, minorities, the Kurdish issues,

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Senior Research Seminar: Dr Thomas White. Dr Thomas White, (University of Cambridge). A Multispecies Ethnography of the State: livestock and the politics of affect in a Chinese border region. This

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Portia Spinks (2018). Mainland China, Internal Migration, Urban Planning & Development, Anthropology of Architecture, Space & Place, The State, the Environment and 'Ecological Civilisation' in China.

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Zihan Xu (2023). I am an aspiring medical and multimodal anthropologist, with an interdisciplinary background in medical anthropology (MPhil with Distinction, Oxford), psychology (MA, Columbia), and

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6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. CUSAS Social. CUSAS Social. Film Friday: The Healer and the Psychiatrist (2019) dir. Dr Mike Poltorak. ‘On the South Pacific Island group of Vava’u, the traditional healer Emeline Lolohea treats

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. George Cronin. I have worked in a variety of roles over the years such as working with polar scientists, helping business students in setting up a non-profit, and supporting biologists in making their

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Veronica Flack. Veronica Flack. Postgraduate Administrator. postgraduate@socanth.cam.ac.uk. Contact us. Department of Social Anthropology. Free School Lane Cambridge CB2 3RF. Tel: 01223 334 599. Contact

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. CUSAS Webinar. CUSAS - Social Anthropology and Theology in Conversation. CUSAS warmly invites undergraduate and postgraduate students to our second Theology and Social Anthropology Chat on Thurs. 27

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Dr Liana Chua. I am a social anthropologist and Tunku Abdul Rahman University Associate Professor in Malay World Studies. I obtained my PhD from Cambridge in 2007, and taught at Brunel University

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Dr Sandra Brunnegger. Sandra Brunnegger is a legal anthropologist. Her research interests include everyday justice and justice beyond law; indigeneity; legal imaginaries and legal uncertainties;

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Kasia Buzanska (2017). Kasia Buzanska (2017). Research Title: Networked Youth: Navigating the Sea of Schooling, Citizenship and the World-Wide Web in Cochabamba, Bolivia and Warsaw, Poland. Supervisor:

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Dr Mike Degani. I am an anthropologist of infrastructure and energy in Africa and beyond. I received my PhD from Yale University in 2015 and prior to coming to the University of Cambridge taught in the

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Dr Joe Ellis. Joe Ellis is the Sigrid Rausing Postdoctoral Fellow and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Mongolian and Inner Asian Studies Unit, within the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge. He

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Ila Ananya (2022). Ila Ananya (2022). Research title: Ethnicity, intimacy, and Northeast Indian youth becoming in Bengaluru. Supervisor: Dr. Perveez Mody. Contact us. Department of Social Anthropology.

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Rachel Kay (2022). Rachel Kay (2022). Research title: Working lives and environmental change in the Central Asian walnut trade. Supervisor: Andrew Sanchez. Contact us. Department of Social

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Jaewan Kim (2023). Jaewan Kim (2023). Research Title: Missions and Reconciliation: An ethnography of South Korean missionary work with North Koreans. Supervisor: Professor Joel Robbins. Contact us.

14 Jan 2016: Ther are applications of this course in science, economics and engineering (e.g., "insects as optimizers", "planning for retirement", "finding a parking space", "optimal gambling" and "steering a space craft to ... 4.2 Characterization of the optimal

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Hairuo Jin (2020). I am interested the anthropology of economy and finance, the financial market in particular, also the polifiration of ‘new economy’ and gig economies. In my research, I assess

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Gol Tengis (2022). Prior to his doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge, Tengis received his BA and MA degrees from the University of Southampton, Peking University and the School of Oriental

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Alumni. Welcome to Alumni . The Department of Social Anthropology would like to keep in contact with our alumni across the world. Infact follow this link to our page dedicated to just some of our

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Dr Barbara Bodenhorn. Environmental knowledge/learning processes (Mexico, Alaska, UK); 4th world politics/resource management; kinship/economics/ globalization. Director of Studies, Social Anthropology,

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Ellen Myers (2019). Indonesia, cultural performance, multiculturalism, nationalism, youth culture. Research Title: Dance Festivals and Multicultural Nationalism among indonesian University Students.

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Dr Kevin Yildirim. I am currently a Research Fellow at Sidney Sussex College. Previously, I received my PhD and MPhil degrees in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge and studied before

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Professor Rupert Stasch. I am a sociocultural and linguistic anthropologist with a strong commitment to anthropological theory and its elaboration through close dialogue with ethnography. My research

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Dr Iza Kavedžija. I am a social and medical anthropologist specialising in Japan, with primary research interests spanning health and wellbeing; aging and the life course; and art and creativity. I

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Gabriele Ollino (2018). Political anthropology, migration, documentary practices, legality/illegality, borders, space, affect & subjectivity, activism, race and decoloniality. Research Title:

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Erin Williamson (2018). Migration, temporality, morality, ethics, values, future-making, conflict, crisis, risk, hope, resilience. Research Title: Hope, values and temporality among migrants in Samos,

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Nat Jobbins (2022). Nat Jobbins (2022). Research title: Empathy on the peace lines: Autism and belonging in a socially divided city. Supervisor: Professor Yael Navaro. Contact us. Department of Social

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Arnav Sethi (2022). Arnav Sethi (2022). Research title: Exploring Psychotic Expressivity: Ethnographic Reflections on Psychiatric Music Therapy Practise in the UK. Supervisor: Dr. Iza Kavedžija.

4 Jun 2024: They record scenes including an earnest student at his study, one more concerned with drink and gambling, another riding in the country and a group supervision.

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Dr Ori Mautner. Ori Mautner’s research examines the practice of insight meditation (vipassanā)—contemplative and ascetic techniques that originate in Theravāda Buddhism—by two groups of

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Anna Clayton. Anna Clayton. 01223 7 69335. MIASU Co-Administrator. Contact us. Department of Social Anthropology. Free School Lane Cambridge CB2 3RF. Tel: 01223 334 599. Contact:2024 University of

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Claudia Luna. Claudia Luna. 01223 3 34599. Undergraduate Administrator. Contact us. Department of Social Anthropology. Free School Lane Cambridge CB2 3RF. Tel: 01223 334 599. Contact:2024 University of

5 Jun 2024: Gambling can take place in a bedroom, on the High Street or on a train. ... So should we regard gambling as a potentially serious addiction or just a bit of fun?

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Dr Li Jinxin. Jinxin's research focuses on the study of moral competence. On one hand, her research is concerned with how to understand moral competence in the principles of ethics, especially the

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Maria Sakirko (2020). My ongoing PhD research is about the experiences of Georgian families who moved to Moscow after the collapse of the Soviet Union. My main focus is on the questions of

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Sean French (2020). My PhD research project looks at Protestant marching bands and, among other things, the ways in which they come to be considered 'political' or 'apolitical' in Derry, Northern

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. João Kelmer (2021). My doctoral research focuses on the technologies of memory employed in the mortuary ritual of the Bororo, an Indigenous people living in the margins of the Central-Brazilian Plateau

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Gabriel Liu (2022). Care; company; company; organizational anthropology; Hong Kong. Despite ubiquitous cautions against the romanticization of care, it has been argued that the ways in which we

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Javier Ruiz. I am an anthropologist of Italy and Western Art, with a particular interest in fabricators and production processes. My doctoral research, entitled ‘The making of art: sculptors, artisans

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Information for Staff. Information for Staff. Information for Staff. Please see the dedicated Moodle course for Social Anthropology staff information. Information for Directors of Studies. Please see

7 Jun 2024: Dybvig, P. H., & Hou, X. (2021). Gambling for Redemption or Ripoff, and the Impact of Superpriority.

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. PhD. PhD. A Cambridge PhD is very highly regarded in the field of Anthropology, both in the UK and overseas, and we have the largest cohort of postgraduate anthropology students in the UK. Cambridge is

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. MIASU. The Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit is a dynamic interdisciplinary research unit at the University of Cambridge based within the Department of Social Anthropology. It was founded in 1986 by

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Undergraduate: Part I. In the first undergraduate year, students study Social Anthropology as part of the Human, Social, and Political Sciences Tripos. In addition to the paper SAN1 ‘Social

6 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of Social Anthropology. Lyndsey West (2022). Agriculture, agricultural livelihoods, food, food provisioning, supply chains, value, human-environment relations. Research title: Farmers’ livelihoods in upland Wales. Supervisor