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Social Anthropology – (Ph.D.)
The University of Edinburgh
School of Social and Political Science| Application Deadline: | July 1st every year for applications | ||
| Location: | Edinburgh / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 36 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of The University of Edinburgh
Social Anthropology at Edinburgh is an international centre of excellence for postgraduate training, recognised as one of the premier research departments in the UK.
Programme details
The degree is based on three to four years of full-time research. In the first year, students acquire a wide range of research skills and formulate their research question and related design, under the guidance of their supervisors. At the end of their course of study students submit a thesis of no more than 100,000 words and are examined in an oral examination (viva voce) by two examiners.
Areas of research interest
* law and justice;
* politics, governance and the state;
* nationalism and citizenship;
* war, violence and displacement;
* medicine and health;
* science and technology studies;
* history and theory of anthropology;
* development and environment;
* kinship and relatedness;
* death and the limits of the body;
* material culture, identity and memory;
* contemporary hunter-gatherers;
* linguistic anthropology;
* urban anthropology;
* anthropology of landscape.
Contents
The Graduate School provides a suite of ESRC recognised research training courses for social-science students across the University. We have begun to develop an exciting package of flexible web-based training courses in line with the increased emphasis on ongoing advanced training throughout the course of doctoral studies.
Accreditation
This programme (as a stand-alone or combined with the MSc by research) has ESRC-recognition.
Faculty
http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/homepage
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