The MSc/MPhil programme in Visual, Material, and Museum Anthropology consolidates long-standing graduate degree programmes in Material Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (MAME) and Visual Anthropology (VA), recognizing the intellectual and empirical links between these areas of anthropological enquiry.
Some research projects coalesce around the following three mutually related topics: Eastern medicines and religions, Evolutionary nutrition and epidemiology, and Ethno-ecology. The Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group (FRSG) is active in teaching and research.
Social anthropology has always aimed at the widest possible comparative study of social forms and processes, as a means to sympathetic engagement with human experience across time and space. Social anthropology at ISCA also has a strong leaning towards history.
Research is carried out by individuals but it is possible to identify four research clusters, in which staff discuss and compare similar projects. These are: ethnographic practices; visual and material anthropology; medical and ecological anthropology; and transnationalism and the anthropology of policy.
