Welcome to Anthropology Matters

An initiative developed by postgraduates, this site aims to stimulate discussion on the production of anthropological knowledge through a focus on training, teaching, research and writing.

Anthropology Matters features an academic journal and discussion list and access to teaching and learning resources. We encourage all those interested in anthropology to use and contribute to this website.

Anthropology Matters is the official post-graduate network of the Association of Social Anthropologists of UK and Commonwealth (ASA). Anthropology Matters is funded by the Centre for Learning & Teaching - Sociology, Anthropology & Politics (C-SAP) and run by a steering committee of UK-based postgraduate researchers and early-career anthropologists.

Latest updates:

• April 2008: The new edition of the Anthropology Matters journal is now online! Click here to read it!
  
  
• July 2006: Anthropology Matters is pleased to announce the launch of a new Reviews Page. Please click here for more information
  
  
• October 2005: A Passagem do Tempo. An event to celebrate the life and art of Mario Guimaraes Jnr 1970-2005

  Mario Guimaraes Jnr a former PhD student from Brazil, in the School of Social Sciences and Law at Brunel, died in a tragic road accident in April 2005, just weeks after handing in his thesis. In a ground-breaking study Mario used ethnographic research methods to explore Avatars, or representations of virtual bodies, in cyberspace. Mario's PhD was awarded after his death. Mario had been interested in photography since 1994 and won a prize in 2002 for one of his photos in a Brunel Arts Centre competition. Mario was a very active member of the Graduate School. An exhibition of Mario's photographs and an event to celebrate his life took place in the Graduate School, Halsbury Building, on 17th November 2005 6-9pm.
  
  Please click here to download a copy of the poster for this event.