Master of Arts in Sociocultural Anthropology and Ethnography

Sociocultural anthropologists conduct long term research in one or more communities and participate in daily activities while they observe and engage with community members. This approach is always collaborative, grounded in conversation rather than in distanced and decontextualized analysis. This approach and the knowledge it generates are intensely local, on the ground and in the weeds with the peoples it studies yet synthesizing and critical of received canons and theories. Its disciplined, participatory, long-term, and self-reflexive methods mean that ethnographic knowledge is hard-earned and unique. At the same time, sociocultural anthropologists often employ methods from the humanities and other social sciences to complement their ethnographic research. Sociocultural anthropologists embrace the humanities when they investigate realms as far-reaching as expressive culture (music, performance, material arts, texts, architecture, film, and other semiotic media), religious practices and movements, moral values, ethics, and human rights, history, heritage, and memory practices (how the past has made and is recollected in the present), stories and storytelling, knowledge formations, the construction of (multiple) realities through practices involving entities as various as the dead, deities, non-human life forms, and things, consumption and tourism, and nature, biomedicine, and other sciences and technologies.

A bachelor's degree (based on a four-year curriculum) completed before graduate study begins or its international equivalent with an accredited institution an average grade of B (cumulative GPA 3.0) or better. One unofficial transcript from each university attended must be uploaded within the application. All unofficial transcripts must be uploaded to your application in order for your application to be reviewed. Please do not mail transcripts as part of your admission application, we only accept unofficial uploads for application evaluation. If you are offered admission, one official transcript for each university attended will be required prior to the first day of the term. IELTS -7.0 , TOEFL IBT- 90