Anthropology at Brunel has an international reputation for innovative research and for developing new initiatives in undergraduate and graduate teaching. We are one of the strongest centres in the UK for both the anthropology of Africa and the anthropology of South Asia. Staff research interests also take in the geographical regions of Southeast Asia, Melanesia and the Pacific, and Europe. Our undergraduate programme is taught as a three-year and a four-year honours degree in Social Anthropology and as a joint honours degree with Psychology and Sociology. The four-year degree includes two periods of work placement, the second being linked to the student's original field research for the final year dissertation.

Our Masters degrees and postgraduate programme attract students from all over the world.

Our PhD programme attracts students interested in doing research in Medical Anthropology, the Anthropology of Education, and Psychological and Psychiatric Anthropology, as well as broad range of other anthropological topics. We currently have doctoral students who have recently or are currently undertaking field research in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Britain, Denmark, France, India, Jamaica, Liberia, Malta, Pakistan, Portugal, Rwanda, Sicily, Tanzania, The Democratic Republic of Congo, among other places.

The Brunel department of Anthropology also hosts the The Centre for Anthropological Research on Childhood, Youth and Education (CARCYE) and the Centre for Research in International Medical Anthropology (CRIMA). 

 

***Anthropology Research Seminars - Spring 2012***

Thursdays, 1300-1430 in LC208 – all welcome.

For more information contact: Andrew.Beatty@brunel.ac.uk

January 12

Joseph Calabrese (UCL) "Ritual Psychopharmacology in the Native American Church: A Clinical Ethnographic Approach"

January 19

Ana Margarida Sousa Santos (RAI Fellow, Brunel) “The Makonde are invaders: Violence and memory in northern Mozambique.”

January 26

Alanna Cant (LSE) “The Auras of Tourist Art: Made in China factory copies and the politics of Mexican craft production.”

February 2

Barbara Knorpp (Brunel) “Invisible films: Ethnography of a Film Archive”

February 9

Nayanika Mathur (Cambridge) “Paper Tiger: cats that eat humans and a state that is made of paper”(Himalayan India)

***For a full programme in this seminar series, click here***