Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

The Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA) is a leading centre for anthropological teaching and research in the UK and the world. Originally established as the only centre in the UK specialising in postgraduate teaching and research within the discipline, it continues to supervise large numbers of graduate and research students. The department came top of the Power Rankings for Anthropology in the UK in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise and received a score of 5 in the 2001 equivalent exercise. Research in ISCA is particularly broad based, including not only traditional ethnographic specialisms in social anthropology, but also thematic specialisms such as visual anthropology, material anthropology and museum ethnography, medical anthropology, and cognitive and evolutionary anthropology. The Institute's links with the Pitt Rivers Museum contribute a particular strength in material culture and the anthropology of representations. In 2001, the ESRC Centre on Migration Policy and Society (COMPAS) was established within within the School of Anthropology. COMPAS is now responsible for considerable research and an MPhil programme in Migration Studies.

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Title	Description	People	Date
League of Nations; Minority Regime as Anthropological Object	Jane K Cowan (Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Sussex) on rethinking minority, nationality, the international and international governance through history in an effort to understand the League of Nations in terms of anthropology.	Jane K. Cowan	18 February, 2010
People Losing Credit: Models and Innovation in Finance	Dr Gillian Tett, Assistant Editor of the Financial Times gives a talk as part of the Ethnicity and Identity Seminar series on her experience of working for the Financial Times and how her background in Anthropology helps her in her journalistic work.	Gillian Tett	18 February, 2010
Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 1: What is the natural human diet?	Professor Stanley Ulijaszek of the School of Anthropology gives a talk on the 'natural' human diet, and asks whether we, people living in an industrialised society, should be trying to follow the natural diet. Recorded 22nd January 2010.	Stanley Ulijaszek	18 February, 2010
Why people get fat: an integral approach	Mike Rayner and Stanley Uljiaszek give a talk about the causes of obesity on 7th November 2007.	Mike Rayner, Stanley Ulijaszek	12 February, 2010
Genetics of obesity, and the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children	Nicholas Timpson, of the Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, gives a talk on Genetics of obesity, and the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children on the 9th November 2009.	Nicholas Timpson	12 February, 2010
Networks and Obesity	Stanley Ulijaszek, Professor of Human Ecology, Director of UBVO, University of Oxford, gives a talk on networks and obesity.	Stanley Ulijaszek	12 February, 2010

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