University of Oxford

Welcome

Research at CAM investigates the shaping and constraining effects of human cognition on cultural regularity and variation.

CAM staff contribute to teaching in ICEA, ISCA, and the Human Sciences. The research of both staff and students in CAM spans a wide range of fields including anthropology, behavioural economics, psychology, history, archaeology, political science, and evolutionary theory, involving collaborations with many other universities around the world.

CAM is home to the ESRC funded Ritual Community and Conflict project. This is a five year multinational project designed to investigate the foundations of ritual,  the contribution of ritual to social cohesion and inter group conflict, and the role of ritual in the evolution of competing political systems. Further details can be found at www.cam.ox.ac.uk/ritual/.