The Anthropology Department

Anthropology at LSE has a strong international reputation and a long and distinguished history of leadership in the discipline. The Department offers a dynamic and engaged research culture with a strong commitment to teaching and to promoting an inclusive environment.

We combine innovative research in the unfolding contemporary world with maintenance of the core anthropological traditions: long-term empirical research, commitment to a broad comparative enquiry on the nature of human sociality and human nature, and a constructive but critical engagement with social theory. Our weekly Friday morning Research Seminar has, since Malinowski's time, been the venue for cutting-edge, intensive debate on current research in the discipline.

We maintain extensive international links, and leading scholars in the discipline often come to LSE as academic visitors, including in recent years Marshall Sahlins, Fei Xiaotong, Sherry Ortner, Dan Sperber, Unni Wikan, Akis Papataxiarchis, Dipankar Gupta, Radhika Chopra and Webb Keane. In addition to permanent members of staff, our Postdoctoral Fellows and a large group of PhD students also make important contributions to the Department's research culture.

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