Cultural and Social Anthropology
The Master's Cultural and Social Anthropology allows you to design and conduct your own ethnographic project. During your research you will conduct in-depth fieldwork and engage with current anthropological debates to think critically about social and cultural phenomena.
Language of instruction
English
Mode
Full-time
Location
🎓 Conduct your own ethnographic project on a subject of choice
Nov02
Master's Week: 2-6 Nov
Feb08
Master's Week 8 -11 Feb
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Here's why you want to study Cultural and Social Anthropology
Topic of your own choice
We allow you to choose your research topic and site as freely as possible.
Engage with current anthropological debates
Anthropologists at the University of Amsterdam conduct state-of-the-art research. In the courses you get acquainted with what is happening in the field.
Focus on writing
You prepare your research well and are supported by a lecturer and supervisor during the writing of your thesis.
Close-knit community
Through peer work and activities the programme invests in building a cohort.
Is Cultural and Social Anthropology right for you?
- Do you get excited when you can learn from other people, their perspectives, emotions and ideas?
- Do you have an independent attitude and take pleasure in wrestling with anthropological theory?
- Do you want to spend a year researching a topic of your own choosing?
- Do you enjoy delving into a topic through reading and writing analytical texts?
- Do you have the ambition to become an independent ethnographic researcher?
Then Cultural and Social Anthropology might be the right Master's for you!
Discover other tracks in this Master's programme
The Master's programme Cultural and Social Anthropology offers three tracks. Cultural and Social Anthropology is one of them. The other tracks are:
Facts & Figures
- Degree programme
- MSc Cultural and Social Anthropology
- Type
- Regular study programme
- Mode
- Full-time
- Credits
- 60 ECTS, 12 months
- Language of instruction
- English
- Starts in
- September
- RIO code
- 66614
- Location
- Roeterseiland campus