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Britain's first colonial anthropology experiment revealed

12 Jun 2021

A new exhibition at MAA examines the pioneering ethnographic archive assembled by Britain’s first colonial anthropologist, Cambridge alumnus...

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“Little robots”: behind the scenes at an academy school

11 Apr 2018

New research from the Faculty of Education lifts the lid on an influential academy school, and finds an authoritarian system that reproduces race and...

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The making of a Boat Race crew

01 Sep 2007

Mark de Rond spent 200 days with the Cambridge University Boat Club as an organisational ethnographer researching the social dynamics of high...

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