The images above are a random selection from our Anthropology Research Map, which shows the fieldwork undertaken by staff and students within the department.
St Andrews' Social Anthropology is at the forefront of research-led departments in the UK. Famed for its intellectual rigour as well as its friendly atmosphere, the department offers a number of taught degrees in the ancient and beautiful setting of Scotland's first university.
We have three internationally recognised research centres: the Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies and the Centre for Pacific Studies. We regularly host postdoctoral fellows and visiting professors. There are a number of Erasmus exchange opportunities for staff and students.
The department aims to provide teaching that renews the discipline and research that fosters an interdisciplinary openness and innovative regional perspectives. This commitment is embedded in our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
Its distinctive contribution lies in an orientation that combines interpretative, experiential, philosophical, and historical research that is politically engaged, reflexive and critically aware.
Contact
Department of Social Anthropology
University of St Andrews
71 North Street
St Andrews
Fife KY16 9AL
Phone : +44 (0)1334 462977
Fax: +44 (0)1334 462985
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Latest news
Change to Funding Deadlines forPhD Applicants (including ESRC funding).
Applicants wising to be considered for either the Fee Waivers or ESRC funding for entry in September 2012 must now submit their application by the 30th March 2012.
Future events
Fri 10th February 2012 15:00 to 17:00
Have gas – will travel: Ethnographic assays along the Bolivia-Brazil pipeline
Dr Bret Gustafson, Washington University St Louis
Department Seminars
Fri 17th February 2012 15:00 to 17:00
Impossible world: understanding the values of the new financial elite
Dr Alexandra Ouroussoff, Brunel University
Department Seminars
Fri 24th February 2012 15:00 to 17:00
The work of testimony in the age of digital circulation: Romani women's stories of the holocaust
Dr Ethel Brooks, Rutgers University USA
Department Seminars
Fri 2nd March 2012 15:00 to 17:00
Acoustic indirection: The intonation of painful injustice in the Kurdish community of north London
Dr Alexandra Argenti-Pillen, University College London
Department Seminars
Fri 9th March 2012 15:00 to 17:00
Prof. Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen
Department Seminars