Social anthropology studentship at Kent The Cultural Ecology of Language Loss

This PhD project is part of a larger project to study endangered languages. The student will study the broad cultural factors that mitigate for and against linguistic survival in the Cameroon / Nigerian borderlands where the project is focused.

We expect to appoint a student who has recently completed a Masters. No prior experience of research in Africa is necessary.

Applications (including the receipt of references) must be received by 10 April 2006; interviews will be held week beginning 22 May 2006.

For more information see lucy.ukc.ac.uk Or email David Zeitlyn d.zeitlyn@kent.ac.uk (contact)

Dr David Zeitlyn, Reader in Social Anthropology, Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, Department of Anthropology, Marlowe Building, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NR, UK Tel. +44 (0)1227 823360 (Direct) Tel: +44 (0)1227 823942 (Office) Fax +44 (0)1227 827289 lucy.kent.ac.uk

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