Overview

University of Cape Town's Anthropology program offers a particular focus on the southern hemisphere and emphasise Ethnographic Research.

Overview

• Our postgraduate courses and research aim to produce graduates who are skilled in questioning the taken-for-granted aspects of everyday life, applying their comparative knowledge and specific research skills to produce Innovative Responses to pressing social issues.
• Anthropological Research examines how people navigate the complexity of making and maintaining ordinary lives in the context of the Socio-Economic, Political and Institutional arrangements that shape social worlds.
• Everyone can and should study Anthropology! We believe that Anthropological approaches are crucial to Civic Consciousness.
• By this we mean that knowledge of the diverse ways in which people inhabit the world and make sense of it can promote civic virtues and peaceable living, and generate both critical questions and generative responses to processing local and global concerns.
• Anthropologists are useful to Prospective Employers because they are able to draw on comparative information about societies across the globe to challenge conventional wisdom and provide creative alternatives.