The Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CAS) is a research centre founded in 1969, which promotes and provides a focus for interdisciplinary research and postgraduate teaching on the anthropology, history and languages of the native peoples of the Americas. The Centre hosts visiting scholars and organisesworkshops, seminars and conferences, such as Andean Gender and Kinship (1994), Conviviality and the Aesthetics of Community in Amazonia (1998), Comparative History of Andes and Mexico (2000), and Andes–Amazon: Comparisons, Connections, Frontiers (2006). It maintains a network of links with similar centres in Latin America, Europe and the US. It has a publications series and teaches an MRes with Amerindian Studies.


The Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies (CCS) exists to explore the implications and the possibilities of Cosmopolitanism, which is understood as encompassing: the complexity of global social and cultural settings, the experience of the individual citizen, and the openness of a just society. The Centre promotes an egalitarian, existentially sensitive, social science which seeks to place individual experience at the centre of an appreciation of contemporary social and cultural milieux, for the purpose of adumbrating the ethical space of the citizen in a plural and fluid society. The Centre convenes seminars and conferences, hosts visiting fellows, funds studentships and publishes the results of its research. The Centre also collaborates with other researchers, projects and research institutions. In all, it promotes deliberation on a set of issues (identity, social inclusion, migration, recognition, entitlement, sovereignty, belonging and rights) fundamental for a knowledge and understanding of the individual membership of social and cultural milieux in the twenty-first century.


The Centre for Pacific Studies (CPS) promotes research in the region. The emphasis is on a broadly conceived anthropological approach.We are interested in all things associated with the Pacific area – the region’swonderful historical variation, its religions, languages, the politics of its states, cities, towns and villages, literature, art, public and domestic ritual, kinship and household organisation, law– in short every aspect of social relations to be found there. The peoples and cultures of the Pacific andMelanesia regions have had a truly remarkable impact on the history of social anthropology from its origins, an impact that continues to the present day. The primary method for fieldwork, participant observation, first came into its own here. Participant observation means long-term, close encounters and day-to-day living together, learning about the realities of life among the people with whom you areworking.


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