The Department of Cultural Anthropology focuses on academic teaching of and research on social as well as cultural anthropology. Cultural Anthropology is the study of cohesion, change and conflict in human society and culture from a global and comparative viewpoint. We emphasise qualitative methods of social-scientific research, prioritising ethnographic field work in the physical and virtual social space.

Highlights

  • ERC Advanced Grant for Rebecca Bryant

    With this prestigious European grant of 2.5 million euros, Bryant will conduct research into infrastructural imperialism over the next five years. Her research focuses on infrastructural investments that Turkey is making in countries in the Balkans, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

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  • Research

    The departmental research programme Sovereignty and Social Contestation investigates power, authority, protest and conflict according to their political, cultural and moral dimensions.

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  • Education

    The Department provides the Bachelor's programme Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, the professional academic Master's programme Cultural Anthropology: Sustainable Citizenship (1 year) and the Research Master's programme Cultural Anthropology: Sociocultural Transformation (2 years).

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  • Our team

    Meet the members of our department.

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