Department of Social Anthropology

Research centres and interests

The Department has a number of academic specialisations, backed up by field work conducted across the globe.

You can see a geographical destribution of our interests, together with pictures and other material from our fieldwork, at the interactive anthropology research map.

We host, or are involved in, four research centres:

  • CAS—The Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies
  • CCS—The Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies
  • CPS—The Centre for Pacific Studies
  • LACNET—St Andrews Latin American and Caribbean Network (interdisciplinary network)