Social Anthropology and History

About this course

Social anthropology and history are both disciplines concerned with understanding human experience across time and culture, but they approach that task in complementary ways. Social anthropology examines how societies are organised, how people live, how meaning is made and how cultural practices and social structures vary across different communities, drawing on long-term fieldwork and comparative analysis to build understanding from the ground up. History investigates the past through documents, archives and material evidence, tracing how events, institutions, ideas and social forces have developed and changed over time. Together, they give you the tools to understand human diversity both in its contemporary forms and in its historical depth. At the School of Oriental and African Studies, this three-year full-time programme, which includes a foundation year, draws on SOAS's unique conc

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