Anthropology

About this course

Anthropology is the comparative study of humanity, asking what it means to be human across the full range of cultures, societies, and historical moments that human beings have inhabited. It takes seriously the diversity of human life, rejecting the assumption that any single culture's way of organising society, understanding the world, or defining what matters is universal or natural. Anthropologists study kinship and family, religion and ritual, economics and exchange, politics and authority, art and aesthetics, and the ways in which people make sense of illness, death, and the sacred, across an extraordinary range of ethnographic contexts. At Goldsmiths' College, this three-year, full-time degree reflects the college's distinctive intellectual culture, which has long been associated with critical, theoretically adventurous, and socially engaged scholarship. Goldsmiths' anthropology de

Where its graduates go

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• 68 / 100Customer service occupations · 5% of graduatescards →
• 60 / 100Business, Research and Administrative Professionals · 10% of graduatescards →
• 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 25% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 10% of graduatescards →
• 32 / 100Artistic, literary and media occupations · 10% of graduatescards →

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