明星八卦

Be inspired by research-led teaching on contemporary and urgent questions.

100% of 明星八卦’s Anthropology outputs are recognised as internationally excellent and world-leading (REF 2021)

Our lecturers are experts in a wide range of topics including:

• AIDS epidemic 
• Anthropology of emotion 
• Cosmology and witchcraft 
• Development, inequality and education 
• Development and race 
• Disability and human rights 
• Education, children’s rights and social protection 
• Energy and resource conflict 
• Economic life in cross-cultural perspective 
• Infrastructure development 
• International development 
• Markets and trade 
• Masculinity and sexuality  
• Migration, ‘(il)legality’, citizenship 
• Mobility and connectivity across regions 
• Nationalism, religion and social conflict 
• Personhood, history and landscape 
• Performance and the body 
• Post-colonial anthropology 
• Psychological and psychiatric anthropology 
• Roads and transport infrastructure 
• Sectarian and identity politics 
• Trade, mobility, social life of work 
• Young people 

You will also have the opportunity to attend the weekly Anthropological Research Seminar where you will learn and debate about new and exciting research from guest speakers.