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Join a large social anthropology department strongly committed to teaching, research excellence and your student experience.

You will work with experts in their fields, focusing on research in areas such as:

  • poverty;
  • race;
  • inequality;
  • science and genetics;
  • the state and international development;
  • kinship;
  • knowledge; and
  • materiality. 
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Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology

For over 20 years, the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology has been widely recognised as the world’s leading centre for visual anthropology.

Pre-university course

This Year 12 course is organised around a series of foundational questions about the organisation and interpretation of social life.

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  • Social Anthropology
  • Study
    • Courses
    • Why study here?
    • What is Social Anthropology?
    • Student spotlights
    • Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology
    • Study abroad
    • Careers and employability