Social Anthropology (MRes)

University of St Andrews

The programme takes a comparative and global view of human individuality, society and culture, studying how people make meaningful lives in extremely diverse settings. Research covers lives in cities and villages in Europe, the Pacific, Africa, Asia and the Americas. You will examine topics as diverse as belief, politics, gender, illness, art, migration, colonialism and postcolonialism, or our relationship with the environment. You will question taken-for-granted ideas and learn to understand how others see the world. The programme provides a general introduction to social anthropology at the postgraduate level, with an emphasis on bringing interdisciplinary skills to anthropological research. It enhances existing anthropological knowledge and helps develop theory and practice in those coming to anthropology for the first time The MRes offers a range of social science components, research and methodology training, and core social anthropology teaching.