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Oh, come on. That's just great. So, should I head towards Oxford in that case, because the charm of Goldsmiths for me was that 2 fellas.

Roughly a month ago, I got two offers for anthropology departments in Oxford as well as Goldsmiths; the former is from Social Anthropology and the latter, I think, goes as Anthropology and Cultural Politics. I already have a masters degree in Cultural Studies, but I'd like to focus on anthropology for my PhD study, I had a free year, and I thought "Why not?" and applied these departments. The offers were conditional, requiring me to finish my current degree, hence the thesis, and get a GPA over 3.7; and I did both. So now, I have to respond to these offers and I am rather clueless. Now, I think I am more familiar with the kinds of work and research done in Goldsmiths, especially those done by Graeber and de Genova. Also, it seems to me that Oxford's approach seems more "traditional" if that makes any sense and could be more challenging, even troublesome considering my background and the topics that I want to pursue. However, on the flipside, they read my personal statement as well in which I proposed two alternative topics for research. I am inclined to think that, if I would not be a good fit, they wouldn't propose an offer to me in the first place. Apart from that, a couple of my instructors told me that, especially anthropology department of Oxford is not that much appreciated at US PhD level, even kind of shunned, because of their "still" traditional and classical take on the discipline. Do you know anything about this? So, what do you think? What would you suggest? Also, sorry for the long post.