The Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at UAB in Spain was a pioneer in the introduction of Degree of Social and Cultural Anthropology and remains in the forefront of anthropological research and teaching in the state.

For over thirty years that teachers Anthropology UAB developing their teaching and their research into the ethnographic study in various parts of the world towards the development of anthropological theory in the tension between cultural specificity and comparison cross, thought epistemological, methodological and technical knowledge and application of anthropological knowledge in the various social action programs. It is this knowledge accumulated, the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural UAB can provide their students at a time when, in the context of globalization, the intensification of international migration and other transnational dynamics make diversity Cultural some of the central themes of the Social Sciences