Publikationsomtaler – Institut for Antropologi

Energy and Aging in the Danish Welfare State

10.09.2019

Special issue sheds light on the way ideas of energy permeate the everyday lives of older people in … »

The making and unmaking of two Japanese-designed extensions to European museums

29.08.2019

Postdoc Jens Sejrup recently contributed to the 'International Journal of Cultural Studies' with the … »

Civil-Military Entanglements

14.08.2019

Associate Professor Birgitte Refslund Sørensen has recently co-edited a book on military-civilian … »

Tidsskriftet Antropologi 'Data'

03.07.2019

Tema nr. 79 beskæftiger sig med nye tilgange til og forståelser af videnskabelige data i … »

Seksuel identitet sent i livet: Ældre homo- og biseksuelles sociale vilkår i Danmark

29.05.2019

Simon Meggers Matthiesen har netop udgivet rapporten 'Seksuel identitet sent i livet: Ældre homo- og … »

Sund Aldring

29.05.2019

Ekstern lektor Bjarke Oxlund har sammen med Lone Grøn og Susanne Bregnbæk redigeret og skrevet … »

Comparative Visions of the Apocalypse

24.05.2019

Associate Professor Matthew Carey has published a special issue on 'Comparative Visions of the … »

The Pursuit of Happiness in Vietnam

05.04.2019

Professor of Anthropology Oscar Salemink is one of two authors of 'The Pursuit of Happiness in … »

Patchwork Economies in Europe: Economic Strategies Among Homeless Romanian Roma in Copenhagen

27.02.2019

Postdoc Camilla Ida Ravnbøl has recently published a chapter in the book Constructing Roma Migrants. … »

"Teach Your Girls to Stab, Not Sing"

22.02.2019

With a new contribution to Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Associate Professor … »

Potentialets politik: Aldring og ensomhed i Danmark

13.02.2019

Adjunkt Henrik Hvenegaard Mikkelsen har netop bidraget til Tidsskrift for Forskning i Sygdom og … »

Erdoğans Tyrkiet: Et dystopisk billede på samtidens politik

16.01.2019

PhD student Leor Uestebay has recently contributed to Tidsskriftet Antropologi with the article … »

"Loose girls bring bad boys into safe neighbourhoods”

11.01.2019

Associate Professor Atreyee Sen has recently contributed to the book Security Blurs : The Politics … »

Between ‘tradition’ and movement: the emergence of Turkey’s Anti-Capitalist Muslims in the age of protest

09.01.2019

Leor Uestebay, PhD student at the Department of Anthropology, has recently contributed to the … »

Border control and blurred responsibilities at the airport

09.01.2019

Postdoc Perle Møhl has recently contributed to the book Security Blurs: The Politics of Plural … »

Health

09.01.2019

Professor of Anthropology Susan Reynolds Whyte has contributed with a chapter titled 'Health' in the … »

The Confines of Time – On the Ebbing Away of Futures in Sierra Leone and Palestine

07.01.2019

Lotte Buch Segal, associate professor of anthropology, has co-authored the article 'The Confines of … »

Southeast Asia as a Theoretical Laboratory for the World

04.01.2019

Professor of Anthropology Oscar Salemink has recently contributed to Suvannabhumi, the … »

The anthropology of crime

19.12.2018

Professor Henrik Vigh and Postdoc David Sausdal have recently contributed to the Handbook of … »

Everyday deficiencies of police surveillance: a quotidian approach to surveillance studies

19.12.2018

Postdoc David Sausdal has recently contributed to the journal Policing and Society with the article … »

Slums and Shanty Towns

19.11.2018

Associate Professor Atreyee Sen has contributed to The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology … »

In the Spirit of Oil: Unintended Flows and Leaky Lives in Northeastern Ecuador

10.10.2018

Associate Professor Stine Krøijer has recently contributed to the book Indigenous Life Projects and … »

Security and Purity

03.10.2018

Associate Professor of Anthropology Atreyee Sen has just published the article 'Security and Purity: … »

The tinkering m-patient

21.09.2018

Postdoc Natasja Kingod has recently contributed to the journal Health with the article 'The … »

The Life Course in a Migrating World: Hybrid Scripts of Ageing and Imaginaries of Care

07.09.2018

As part of his research activities at the Department of Anthropology and Center for Healthy Ageing, … »

From Warforce to Workforce: Danish Veterans' Career Changes

07.09.2018

Associate Professor Birgitte Refslund Sørensen has contributed to the book 'Conflict Veterans: … »

Ordering tasting in a restaurant: experiencing, socializing, and processing food

22.08.2018

Postdoc Anna Mann from the Department of Anthropology has recently contributed to the journal The … »

Læs mere om: Torture and Laughter: Naxal insurgency, custodial violence, and inmate resistance in a women's correctional facility in 1970s Calcutta

Torture and Laughter: Naxal insurgency, custodial violence, and inmate resistance in a women's correctional facility in 1970s Calcutta

08.08.2018

Associate Professor of Anthropology Atreyee Sen has contributed to the journal Modern Asian Studies … »

Debt, Interrupted: Indiens demonetiseringskrise og genopdagelsen af tillidens pengepolitik

03.08.2018

Lektor Atreyee Sen ved Institut for Antropologi har bidraget til tidsskriftet Jordens Folk med … »

Livsgæld: Et etnografisk studie af gæld blandt fattige Roma familier

03.08.2018

Ph.d.-studerende Camilla Ida Ravnbøl ved Institut for Antropologi har bidraget til tidsskriftet … »

Technologies of inquiry: HIV tests and divination

29.06.2018

Professor of Anthropology Susan Reynolds Whyte and associate professor emeritus Michael Whyte have … »

Dealing with a Difficult Past

15.06.2018

PhD fellow Vibe Nielsen from the Department of Anthropology has contributed to the Danish journal … »

Exposed Biologies and the Banking of Reproductive Vitality in China

15.06.2018

Professor of Anthropology Ayo Wahlberg has recently contributed to the journal Science, Technology, … »

Statiners fremvækst i Danmark

15.06.2018

Tidligere ph.d.-studerende Sofie Rosenlund Lau og tidligere lektor Bjarke Oxlund på Institut for … »

Naturens sprog: Historier fra virkeligheden om fortryllelse

08.06.2018

Lektor på Institut for Antropologi Cecilie Rubow er medredaktør på bogen ’Naturens sprog: Historier … »

Antropologisk Etik i Tidsskriftet Antropologi

08.06.2018

Ansatte fra Institut for Antropologi har bidraget til den seneste udgave af Tidsskriftet Antropologi … »

Generations and Access to Land in Postconflict Northern Uganda: “Youth Have No Voice in Land Matters”

30.05.2018

Professor of Anthropology Susan Reynolds Whyte has contributed to the African Studies Review with … »

Præstø Multicenter: Ét center, mange brugere

16.05.2018

Anja Steinmejer, tidligere videnskabelig assistent på Center for Sund Aldrings (CESA) Tema 1: … »

Does science have borders?

09.05.2018

Professor of Anthropology Oscar Salemink has contributed to the Vietnamese science magazine Tía Sáng … »

Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China

02.05.2018

Professor Ayo Wahlberg from the Department of Anthropology has recently published the book ‘Good … »

Belonging: Comprehending Subjectivity in Vietnam and Beyond

23.04.2018

Professor of Anthropology Tine Gammeltoft has contributed to the recent issue of the journal Social … »

Cutting Cosmos: Masculinity and Spectacular Events among the Bugkalot

23.04.2018

Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology Henrik Hvenegaard Mikkelsen has published the … »

Introduction: youth, subjectivity, and Utopia – ethnographic perspectives from the Global South

23.04.2018

Professor Oscar Salemink from the Department of Anthropology has recently contributed to the theme … »

Heroism, Humanity and Humiliation in the Context of Naxal Jailbreaks in India

17.04.2018

Associate Professor Atreyee Sen has written the chapter ‘Mocking the State: Heroism, Humanity and … »

Communities of belonging in the temporariness of the Danish Asylum System: Shalini’s anchoring points

01.03.2018

PhD student Andrea Verdasco has written an article exploring how communities of belonging are shaped … »

The Regional Centrality of Vietnam’s Central Highlands

01.03.2018

Professor Oscar Salemink has investigated and written the article The Regional Centrality of … »

Becoming what you are: faith and freedom in a Danish Lutheran movement

28.02.2018

In the article 'Becoming what you are: faith and freedom in a Danish Lutheran movement', Professor … »

Drivers for retrofit: a sociocultural approach to houses and inhabitants

14.02.2018

Associate Professor Quentin Gausset has written the research paper 'Drivers for retrofit: a … »

Sensory science research on taste. An ethnography of two laboratory experiments in Western Europe

01.02.2018

Recent ethnographies from the anthropology of food and the senses have shown how moments in which … »

In the Workshop: Anthropology in a Collaborative Zone of Inquiry

29.01.2018

This book chapter by Trine Korsby, Anthony Stavrianakis and Paul Rabinow is entitled 'In the … »

Tidsskriftet Antropologi: Genre

25.01.2018

Dette temanummer af Tidsskriftet Antropologi (red. Jørgen Skrubbeltrang, My Madsen, Inger Sjørslev, … »

Japanese dreams: Kurokawa Kishō’s annex to the Van Gogh Museum and its later re-appropriation

24.01.2018

This paper by Postdoc Jens Sejrup traces the history of a Japanese-funded annex to the Van Gogh … »

"Paper of the year": Are we ready to accept the challenge? Addressing the shortcomings of contemporary qualitative health research

17.01.2018

PhD-student Sofie Rosenlund Lau has co-written this articlewhich was recently named best paper of … »

White Corporate Feminine Spirituality: The Rise of Global Professional Women's Networks

15.01.2018

Professor Melissa Fisher has contributed to the book Ethnographies of Conferences and Trade Fairs … »

Fashion is Political: Sustainable Fashion and Entrepreneurial Feminisms

11.01.2018

What makes the core of fashion-makers characterized by nature and queer theory? Professor Melissa … »

Doubling Syndemics: Ethnographic Accounts of the Health Situation of Homeless Romanian Roma in Copenhagen

09.12.2017

For the first time ever, Harvard has published a whole special issue about the Romani People. The … »

Post-conflict reconstruction

29.11.2017

Associtate Professor Birgitte Refslund Sørensen has contributed to the publication 'Gender: War' … »

Infrastructures of Certainty and Doubt

28.11.2017

This special issue of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology edited by Professor Morten Axel Pedersen … »

At navigere i ukendt terræn - En inspirationsbog til soldaterveteraner og andre, der står i karriereskift

24.11.2017

Lektor Birgitte Refslund Sørensen har sammen med Bjarne Ambjørn Kehr og Helene Djursø skrevet bogen … »

Never too late for pleasure: Aging, neoliberalism, and the politics of potentiality in Denmark

16.11.2017

Henrik Hvenegaard Mikkelsen has published the article 'Never too late for pleasure: Aging, … »

The Vitality of Disease

16.11.2017

Professor Ayo Wahlberg has contributed to The Palgrave Handbook of Biology and Society with his … »

Mistrust - An Ethnographic Theory

13.10.2017

Associate Professor Matthew Carey has published the book 'Mistrust - An Ethnographic Theory', in … »

Soldierly Becomings: A Grunt Ethnography of Denmark’s New ‘Warrior Generation’

28.09.2017

Thomas Randrup Pedersen has written his PhD dissertation 'Soldierly Becomings: A Grunt Ethnography … »

Facehunting: Empathy, Masculinity and Violence Among the Bugkalot

22.09.2017

Postdoc Henrik Hvenegaard Mikkelsen has written an article about to the Journal of Extreme … »

Selective Reproduction in the 21st Century

20.09.2017

Selective Reproduction in the 21st Century, edited by Professor Tine Gammeltoft and Professor Ayo … »

Læs mere om: Når velfærdsteknologi bliver stand-in for professionelle: omsorgsinfrastruktur og autorisationsprocesser i digitalt understøttet genoptræning

Når velfærdsteknologi bliver stand-in for professionelle: omsorgsinfrastruktur og autorisationsprocesser i digitalt understøttet genoptræning

05.09.2017

Sammen med sin kollega, Henriette Langstrup, har post.doc Nete Schwennesen skrevet et kapitel til … »

Understandings of self through the category of the 'unaccompanied asylum-seeking minor': a Danish ethnography

04.09.2017

PhD student Andrea Verdasco has contributed to the Barn Special Issue on Children, Immigration and … »

Læs mere om: When self-tracking enters physical rehabilitation: From ‘pushed’ self-tracking to ongoing affective encounters in arrangements of care

When self-tracking enters physical rehabilitation: From ‘pushed’ self-tracking to ongoing affective encounters in arrangements of care

04.09.2017

Post.doc Nete Schwennesen has written the article 'When self-tracking enters physical … »

Data as Monads: How Digital Data can be Understood as the Sum of the Components in the Process of Locating it

29.08.2017

PhD Student Mette My Madsen has contributed to the journal 'Intersections. East European Journal of … »

Are we ready to accept the challenge? Addressing the shortcomings of contemporary qualitative health research

26.08.2017

Ph.d.-student Sofie Rosenlund Lau and her colleague, Anthony Stavrianakis, have co-authored the … »

These Things Continue

22.08.2017

Professor Susan Reynolds Whyte has made research upon the influence of war on a society trying to … »

Vital affordances, occupying niches: an ecological approach to disability and performance

29.06.2017

This article by postdoc Arseli Dokumaci proposes a new conceptual approach to disability and … »

From rite of passage to a mentored educational activity: Fieldwork for master's students of anthopology

26.05.2017

Associate Professor Helle Bundgaard and Associate Professor Cecilie Robow have published the article … »

The Regulation of Street Foods: Experiences of Front-Line Regulators in Ghana

24.05.2017

As a part of a greater capacity building project in Ghana, Professor and Head of the Department, … »

Of “Bad Behaviour” and “Dangerous Sex”

20.04.2017

Together with former Ph.D.-student and colleague Marie Kolling and colleague from Centre of African … »

RELUCTANT RETURNEES: Gender Perspectives on (Re) settlement Among Highly Skilled Indian Return Migrants in Bangalore

10.04.2017

Taking her point of departure in the personal story of Nalini, industrial postdoc Helene Ilkjær … »

New Book on The Ontological Turn

01.04.2017

Professor Morten Axel Petersen contributed to the debate about a controversial theoretical … »

Development Subjects and Intransitive and Transitive Forms of Development

16.01.2017

Professor Oscar Salemink contributed to the publishing of “Rethinking Development Studies in … »

Social Capital as Investment in the Future

16.01.2017

Together with his colleagues, Nguyễn Tuấn Anh and Fleur Thomése, Professor Oscar Salemink wrote the … »

Affordance Creations of Disability Performance: Limits of a Disabled Theater

12.01.2017

Postdoc Arseli Dokumaci contributed to the journal Theatre Research in Canada with the article … »

Placental economies: Care, anticipation and vital matters in the placenta stem cell lab in Korea

12.01.2017

Postdoc and member of the research project VITAL Jieun Lee contributed to the journal BioSocieties … »

“To have a family is the next level and I can't go there”: Rupturing the Life Course among Mexican Gay Men in Montreal

22.12.2016

In this article postdoc Henrik Hvenegaard shows how his informants, Pablo and a group of his friends … »

Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: Explorations at the Edges of Culture and Consciousness

19.12.2016

In what ways can psychoanalysis stimulate anthropological thinking? This is the key question … »

Online Peer-to-Peer Communities in the Daily Lives of People With Chronic Illness

18.12.2016

Ph.D. Natasja Kingod, Professor MSO Ayo Wahlberg and collegues wrote a qualitative systematic review … »

Dept as an Urban Chronotope in Mongolia

12.12.2016

In the article "Debt as an Urban Chronotope in Mongolia" professor Morten Axel Pedersen argues, that … »

Filipino au pairs on the move: Navigating strong and weak ties in the search of future paths

07.12.2016

Postdoc Karina Märcher Dalgas wrote the article "Filipino au pairs on the move: Navigating strong … »

Becoming a warring nation: adjusting to war and violence in Denmark

15.11.2016

The research project ‘Soldier and Society: Anthropological Perspectives’ (PhD Fellow Thomas Randrup … »

The Baltic Storm Surge in November 1872: Urban Processes, Gendered Vulnerability and Scientific Transformations

31.10.2016

PhD Fellow Kristoffer Albris contributed to the book "Catastrophe, Gender and Urban Experience, … »

The birth and routinization of IVF in China

10.10.2016

Professor MSO Ayo Wahlberg contributed to Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online with the … »

#EverythingMustFall - Sydafrikanske universiteter i flammer via Facebook og Twitter

03.10.2016

22 år efter apartheidstyrets fald, og valget af Nelson Mandela som sydafrikas første sorte … »

Japan i Bevægelse - Mediebegivenheden Fukushima

29.09.2016

Massemedierne er en meget stor og iøjnefaldende sektor i det japanske samfund. De centrale aktører … »

One or the Other: Synecdoche and Representation in Taiwan-Japan Controversies

29.09.2016

Postdoc Jens Sejrup contributed to the Berliner China-Hefte - Chinese History and Society with the … »

"Like Sitting Inside a Phone"

06.09.2016

Being at the same time intimately connected to everyday lives and places, and yet inaccessible to … »

Positions & Possibilities in Volunteering for Transnational Medical Research in Lusaka

16.08.2016

Volunteering as a study subject in transnational medical research is often understood either as a … »

No Place for Grief - Martyrs, Prisoners, and Mourning in Contemporary Palestine

09.08.2016

Westerners 'know' Palestine through images of war and people in immediate distress. Yet this focus … »

Fra syner og varsler til psykoterapi

08.08.2016

The capacity to receive occult messages and look into the future is claimed by individuals in most … »

Au pairs on facebook - Ethnographic use of social media in politicised fields

07.08.2016

Ethnographers are increasingly making use of Facebook to acquire access and general acquaintance … »

Chaosmology: Shamanism and personhood among the Bugkalot

03.08.2016

This article by Postdoc Henrik Hvenegaard Mikkelsen examines personhood as contracted from a field … »

Negotiating development narratives within large-scale oil palm projects on village lands in Sarawak, Malaysia

03.08.2016

The Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo is one of the global hotspots of … »

Public commemorations of Danish soldiers: monuments, memorials, and tombstones

20.06.2016

This article by Associate Professor Birgitte Refslund Sørensen takes a point of departure in … »

Læs mere om: LIFESTAT - Living with statins: An interdisciplinary project on the use of statins as a cholesterol-lowering treatment and for cardiovascular risk reduction

LIFESTAT - Living with statins: An interdisciplinary project on the use of statins as a cholesterol-lowering treatment and for cardiovascular risk reduction

13.06.2016

LIFESTAT is an interdisciplinary project, with participation from Associate Professor Bjarke Oxlund … »

Knowing hypertension and diabetes: Conditions of treatability in Uganda

01.06.2016

In Uganda, hypertension and diabetes have only recently been included in the health policy agenda. … »

New Homes, New Lives? Slum Upgrading, Consumption Dreams and Debt in Brazil

30.05.2016

This PhD thesis by Marie Kolling is a captivating ethnography of forced resettlement in the urban … »

The visibility of non-communicable diseases in Northern Uganda

27.05.2016

WHO and Uganda's Ministry of Health emphasize the need to address the growing burden of … »

Læs mere om: “Children get sick all the time”: A qualitative study of socio-cultural and health system factors contributing to recurrent child illnesses in rural Burkina Faso

“Children get sick all the time”: A qualitative study of socio-cultural and health system factors contributing to recurrent child illnesses in rural Burkina Faso

19.05.2016

In Burkina Faso, the government has implemented various health sector reforms in order to overcome … »

Deliberate Perspectival Obstructions: Looking at Nothing in Papua New Guinea

17.05.2016

This article by Postdoc Henrik Hvenegaard Mikkelsen discusses the collaborative use of what the … »

FOCAAL: After Dispossession

13.05.2016

This edition of "Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology", edited by professor Oscar … »

Described, Inscribed, Written Off: Heritagisation as (Dis)connection

05.04.2016

In this chapter in the book Connected and Disconnected in Vietnam, Professor Oscar Salemink looks at … »

Verden går under mellem et glas mælk og en forsamling af frøer. Klimatiske forudsigelser i Arequipa, Peru

30.03.2016

I Arequipa, Perus næststørste by, placeret på grænsen til Atacamaørkenen, mellem aktive vulkaner med … »

Brasiliens regering og økonomi - og demokrati - i frit fald

29.03.2016

Analyse af ph.d-stipendiat Marie Kolling og Mads Damgaard Andersen. Vidneudsagn og bevismateriale om … »

Moments in Collaboration: Experiments in Concept Work

29.03.2016

There is an increasing focus among anthropologists on the theme of collaboration with the people … »

Moving facts in an Arctic field: The expedition as anthropological method

16.03.2016

This article by Professor Kirsten Hastrup, Postdoc Janne Flora and Postdoc Astrid O. Andersen … »

Occupied Lives

07.03.2016

An ethnographic study of Palestinian refugees in Dheisheh refugee camp, just south of Bethlehem, … »

A history of climate change: Inughuit responses to changing ice conditions in North-West Greenland

03.03.2016

This article by Professor Kirsten Hastrup presents a small community of High Arctic hunters (the … »

Fragile encounters: exploring public healthcare in Boulgou Province, Burkina Faso

24.02.2016

This dissertation explores the dynamics of social relations between state-employed health workers … »

Economies of Security

22.02.2016

In the summer of 2011, newspaper headlines trumpeted stories about maritime piracy attacks off the … »

Ny Jord - Tidsskrift for naturkritik

11.02.2016

Tidsskriftet "Ny Jord - Tidsskrift for naturkritik" blander antropologi, biologi, geografi, … »

Aaverparpaggiit– et tværfagligt møde om hvalrosser

09.02.2016

Hvalrossen er en vigtig fangstressource i Thule området og det er samtidig en art for hvilken der … »

Fragile Elite - The Dilemmas of China´s Top University Students

01.02.2016

Fragile Elite explores the contradictions and perplexities of being an elite student through … »

Veterans’ Homecomings - Secrecy and Postdeployment Social Becoming

27.01.2016

For Danish soldiers, returning from the battlefields and army camps of international operations to … »

Scholarship and Engagement in Mainland Southeast Asia

22.01.2016

This book, edited by Professor Oscar Salemink, contains nine contributions at the intersection of … »

How do we win back those who sympathise with the jihadist insurgency?

18.01.2016

The history of left-wing militancy in Europe suggests that police raids, surveillance techniques, … »

Revolutionary and Christian Ecumenes and Desire for Modernity in the Vietnamese Highlands

14.01.2016

Inspired by a critical reading of James Scott's The Art of Not Being Governed (2009) which argued … »

Violent potentials: exploring the intersection of violence and masculinity among the Bugkalot

11.01.2016

This article by post doc Henrik Hvenegaard Mikkelsen and Thomas Friis Søgaard explores the social … »

Seeing Ebola from a distance: health workers, risk, and uncertainty in rural Burkina Faso

10.12.2015

Although no cases of the Ebola virus disease occurred in Burkina Faso during the West African … »

Mourning, Grief, and the Loss of Politics in Palestine: The Unvoiced Effects of Military Occupation in the West Bank

08.12.2015

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the oPt conducted between 2007 and 2011 this chapter by Lotte … »

Bangalore Beginnings - An Ethnography of Return Migration among Highly Skilled Indians

19.11.2015

This Ph.d. dissertation by Helene Ilkjær investigates return migration among highly skilled Indian … »

Læs mere om: Maternal healthcare in context: A qualitative study of women's tactics to improve their experience of public healthcare in rural Burkina Faso

Maternal healthcare in context: A qualitative study of women's tactics to improve their experience of public healthcare in rural Burkina Faso

10.11.2015

Improving the use of public maternal health facilities to prevent maternal death is a priority in … »

Change in the University: A Result of Travelling Ideas?

02.11.2015

This article by Associate Professor Helle Bundgaard explores the introduction of a “common market” … »

En praktisk videnskab - Forretningslivet som etnografisk felt

30.10.2015

Antropologien er efterhånden blevet attraktiv som leverandør af metoder og analytiske ind- blik i … »

Hjem og arbejde for hjemløse og arbejdsløse EU medborgere: rumænske romaers erfaringer fra København og Malmø

24.10.2015

Dette studie af ph.d.-studerende Camilla Ida Ravnbøl er baseret på 10 måneders feltarbejde med … »

Den nye landbefolkning

21.10.2015

Denne rapport af post doc Birgitte Romme Larsen, ekstern lektor Zachary Whyte og professor Karen Fog … »

The mealtimes that bind? Filipina au pairs in Danish families

16.10.2015

Focusing on mealtimes, this article by post doc Karina Märcher Dalgas examines how culturally … »

The Social Life of Disasters: An Anthropological Approach

13.10.2015

In this chapter in the book Disaster Research Associate Professor Birgitte Refslund Sørensen and … »

Securing Access

30.09.2015

This book chapter by Professor Oscar Salemink offers a series of reflections on how to access the … »

The Chinese Race to the Bottom: The Precarious Lives of Unemployed University Graduates in Beijing's "Ant Tribe"

30.09.2015

This article by Susanne Bregnbæk is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out among what Lian Si … »

Revolutionary and Christian Ecumenes and Desire for Modernity in the Vietnamese Highlands

28.09.2015

This article by Professor Oscar Salemink is inspired by James Scott's The Art of Not Being Governed … »

Figurations of the Future: Forms and Temporalities of Left Radical Politics in Northern Europe

14.09.2015

Built around key events, from the eviction of a self-managed social centre in Copenhagen in 2007 to … »

Mobilitet og Tilknytning - Migrantliv i et globaliseret Danmark

13.09.2015

Bogen "Mobilitet og tilknytning" (red. Professor Karen Fog Olwig og Karen Valentin), der har bidrag … »

Community Governance and Citizen-Driven Initiatives in Climate Change Mitigation

05.09.2015

This book, edited by Associate Professor Quentin Gausset and Jens Hoff, analyses the strengths and … »

Perspectives from the Invisible Workforce: Lessons Learned for the Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia

03.07.2015

The shipping industry is often referred to as the Invisible Industry. Although 90% of all goods are … »

Mobile Misfortune

24.06.2015

This article by Professor Henrik Vigh examines how the emergent cocaine trade in Bissau, the capital … »

Universitetslärare i Förändring

12.06.2015

Studenter anklagar universitetslärarna för ett oprofessionellt beteende, medan universitetslärarna … »

Enhancing Well-Being - Urban Karimojong Youth between Security and Development in Uganda

10.06.2015

This phd dissertation by Marianne Bach Mosebo focuses on male youths living in Moroto Town in … »

Copenhagen Flea-Markets – Public Spaces of the Informal Economy

27.05.2015

Urban markets, in particular flea markets, have yet to be fully acknowledged as sites of informal … »

The 7th Kilometre Market, Odessa, Ukraine

27.05.2015

This essay by Vera Skvirskaja and Caroline Humphrey discusses a vast marketplace of shipping … »

Revolution is the way you eat: exemplification among left radical activists in Denmark and in anthropology

19.05.2015

In anthropology, examples have always been an integral part of the investigation of the social life … »

The burden of being exemplary: national sentiments, awkward witnessing, and womanhood in occupied Palestine

19.05.2015

This paper by Assistant Professor Lotte Buch Segal offers an analysis of how Palestinian wives of … »

Between Magic and Rationality - On the Limits of Reason in the Modern World

12.05.2015

In Between Magic and Rationality, Vibeke Steffen, Steffen Jöhncke, and Kirsten Marie Raahauge bring … »

The Purification, Sacralisation, and Instrumentalisation of Development

04.05.2015

There is a flourishing literature, both academic and popular, which are critical and sympathetic to … »

Mobility, education and life trajectories: new and old migratory pathways

27.04.2015

Travel for educational purposes, once the privilege of the upper class, has become a global mass … »

The duplicity of diversity: Caribbean immigrants in Denmark

20.04.2015

‘Diversity’ has become a key term in recent years, yet it has been criticized for being a vague … »

PhD Dissertation: Hustlers of desire

17.04.2015

The PhD Dissertation by Trine Mygind Korsby investigates the lives and practices of a group of … »

The governmentalization of living: calculating global health

11.03.2015

The contemporary global health agenda has shifted emphasis from mapping disease patterns to … »

Class trajectories and indigenism among agricultural workers in Kerala

06.03.2015

In this article Assistant Professor Luisa Steur shows how the desire of the people of Kottamurade … »

Sandhed og genre

02.02.2015

At læse en akademisk tekst kan være som at dumpe ned midt i en debat, hvor ingen fortæller præcist, … »

Brasilien

08.12.2014

I dette kapitel i bogen Verdens Magter (Red. Clement Kjersgaard) ser Marie Kolling, Phd-studerende … »

Disembodied Conjugality

02.12.2014

With point of departure in the means and forums available to her interlocutors to sustain conjugal … »

The Black Sea as region and horizon

12.11.2014

The introduction for Focaals theme section "Black Sea Currents", by Caroline Humphrey and Vera … »

The many faces of Turkish Odessa - Ecumenical communities and multiple alliances across the Black Sea

12.11.2014

In this article, Vera Skvirskaja, post doc at the Department of Anthropology, discusses regional … »

Selective Reproductive Technologies

29.10.2014

This review by Professor Tine Gammeltoft and Associate Professor Ayo Wahlberg highlights … »

'A Blessing in Disguise': The Art of Surviving HIV/AIDS as a Member of the Zionist Christian Church in South Africa

26.10.2014

In this article, Associate Professor Bjarke Oxlund explores the manner in which the Zionist … »

Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda

24.10.2014

During the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would … »

An 'Expanded' Class Perspective: Bringing capitalism down to earth in the changing political lives of Adivasi workers in Kerala

15.10.2014

Demonstrating the usefulness of ethnographic curiosity driven by an ‘expanded’ class analysis, as … »

Routledge Handbook of Religions in Asia

03.10.2014

The Routledge Handbook of Religions in Asia provides a contemporary and comprehensive overview of … »

Læs mere om: Converting experiences in communities of practice: 'educational' migration in Denmark and achievements of Ukrainian agricultural apprentices

Converting experiences in communities of practice: 'educational' migration in Denmark and achievements of Ukrainian agricultural apprentices

29.09.2014

This article by post doc Vera Skvirskaja looks at ‘educational’ migration instigated by the Danish … »

PhD dissertation: "Water is life". An ethnography of urban ecology and water politics in Arequipa, Peru

12.06.2014

The PhD dissertation by Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen explores how people, materials, knowledge and … »

Ph.d.-afhandling: Medborgerskab og tilpasning: Ældre mennesker med hjemmesygepleje

02.05.2014

Bodil Ludvigsens phd-afhandling "Medborgerskab og tilpasning - Ældre mennesker med hjemmesygepleje: … »

Adivasis and Communists in Post-Reform Kerala

30.04.2014

In 1957, Kerala was the first state to democratically elect a Communist government. Ever since, … »

Why is Muna crying? Event, relation, and immediacy as criteria for acknowledging suffering in Palestine

30.04.2014

Based on extensive fieldwork in the occupied territories, the article provides a situated analysis … »

TASTES: Foods, bodies, and places in Denmark

29.04.2014

In the context of the advancement of the New Nordic Cuisine in Denmark in the last decade, this … »

Familier til forhandling

28.04.2014

Artiklen undersøger hvilke forståelser og betydninger danske unge, anbragt i familiepleje, tillægger … »

Free e-book: A Papuan Plytocracy: Ranked Exchange on Rossel Island

27.04.2014

For the rest of April you can download John Liep´s book "A Papuan Plytocracy: Ranked Exchange on … »

Herbs, Laboratories, and Revolution: On the Making of a National Medicine in Vietnam

01.04.2014

This article examines the making of a national medicine in Vietnam. How can it be that the medical … »

Book: "Living with Environmental Change"

19.03.2014

'Living with Environmental Change' is edited by Kirsten Hastrup. … »

Haunting Images - A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam

03.03.2014

Based on years of careful ethnographic fieldwork in Hanoi, Haunting Images offers a frank and … »

Migration and care - intimately related aspects of Caribbean family and kinship

20.02.2014

Article by Karen Fog Olwig, professor at department at Anthropology, about how relations of care are … »

Notions and practices of difference: an epilogue on the ethnography of diversity

18.02.2014

The notion of diversity, which has gained increasing prominence in recent years, promises to … »

Article: "Drowning Piracy Threats: The Binary of Land and Sea"

22.01.2014

Seafarers downplay, keep secret or even lie about piracy threats. … »

Online Forum: The Politics of Ontology

20.01.2014

The proceedings of last year's AAA (American Anthropological Association) roundtable discussion on … »

Article: The Problem of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Today: Eyes Half Closed?

13.01.2014

Article by John I. MacArtney, University of Queensland, and Ayo Wahlberg, associate professor at … »

Ph.d.-afhandling: Galskabens bureaukrati

13.01.2014

Ph.d.-afhandling af Julie Rahbæk Møller, Institut for Antropologi. Afhandling handler om … »

Bog: Ting - I nære og fjerne verdener

20.12.2013

Gennemgående i bogen er, hvordan nyere antropologiske teorier søger at overskride velkendte … »

PhD dissertation: Innovation i Praksis - Omstilling til markedsorientering i Post Danmark

29.11.2013

Innovation er fremtiden. Den danske regering og dansk erhvervsliv poster milliarder af kroner i … »

Kapitel: Hærens Officersskole som erindringssted

29.10.2013

Danske officerer skal i dag være i stand til at begå sig både på de bonede gulve, i kampzoner, … »

Book chapter: "Therapeutic Clientship"

08.10.2013

Ugandans with HIV have gained a second chance to live and survive AIDS with anti-retroviral therapy, … »

PhD dissertation: "A Generation in the Making"

29.08.2013

The formation of young Muslim volunteers in the charity organisation Resala in Egypt prefigured an … »

Book with contributions from Department of Anthropology: "Farmers' Choice"

21.08.2013

Five researchers from the Department of Anthropology have contributed to a book that evaluates an … »

Article: "Change management at a Danish university"

12.08.2013

University leaders should take an ‘improvisational’ approach to leadership which recognizes local … »

Book: "Anthropology and Nature"

06.08.2013

Societies and nature are inseparable categories. This is the main perspective in a new book edited … »

PhD dissertation: "Evasive Politics"

26.06.2013

The everyday perceptions of Jospeh Stalin in the Republic of Georgia are paradoxical - he can be … »

Book: "Times of Security"

25.06.2013

This new volume co-edited by Morten Axel Pedersen, which includes contributions from other scholars … »

Article: "The material subject as political: Style and pointing in public performance"

17.06.2013

In this article Inger Sjørslev shows two examples of public manifestations where the material … »

Article: "Common Nonsense: A review of Certain Recent Reviews of the Ontological Turn"

29.05.2013

The so-called ontological turn in anthropology and cognate disciplines has received both widespread … »

Article: "From global bioethics to ethical governance of biomedical research collaborations"

08.05.2013

The internationalization of advanced life sciences calls for new ethical governance approaches. This … »

Ny bog: "Familie og Slægtskab"

03.05.2013

I det danske samfund spiller familie en stor rolle, og afvigende forståelser bliver ofte forsøgt … »

Article: "Do health systems delay the treatment of poor children? A qualitative study of child deaths in rural Tanzania"

02.05.2013

The organization of health-care facilities in Tanzania is delaying the treatment of poor children in … »

PhD dissertation: "Shadow Soldiering"

16.04.2013

Sierra Leonean ex-militias engage in global processes of militarisation and security outsourcing … »

Article: "The Promise of Education and the Practice of Filial Duty: A Story of Inter-Generational Aporias in Contemporary China"

09.04.2013

Young Chinese who enter into the top of the educational system are often caught between the social … »

PhD dissertation: "Medicines for Life"

03.04.2013

Confidentiality is hardly ever adhered to in Ugandan HIV/AIDS treatment programs. In her PhD thesis … »

Waterworlds contributions in special issue of "Danish Journal of Geography"

22.03.2013

Can societal and climate changes be linked – and if so – how? That is what this issue of Danish … »

Book chapters: "Education and violent conflict" and "Gendering violent conflict"

19.03.2013

A renewed focus on education and a different approach to gender are of great importance for studies … »

Nyt kapitel i bog: "Mötet med lokalsamhället"

18.03.2013

Lokalbefolkningen i danske landområder søger at opfostre nytilkomne flygtningebørn og -unge til … »

Book chapter: "Expressions and Experiences of Personhood"

05.03.2013

Vera Skvirskaja, Post Doc. at Department of Anthropology, has contributed to a new book about … »

Article: "Resala - a message about giving: Charity, youth voluntarism and an emerging imaginary of Egypt"

05.02.2013

A recently founded charity organization turned out to be an important arena for the preparation of … »

Article: "Living by Numbers"

29.01.2013

Preventive health care has become pivotal in the everyday lives of seniors in Denmark. A new article … »

Book: The Social Life of Climate Change Models - Anticipating Nature

18.01.2013

Drawing on a combination of perspectives from diverse fields, this book offers an anthropological … »

PhD dissertation: "Prisms of Water"

20.12.2012

PhD thesis concerning the political and socio-cultral importance of water in the Peruvian highland … »

Project: Ghetto NO Ghetto

31.10.2012

Karen Waltorp og Karen Lisa Salamon optræder begge i publikationen 'Danmark for hele folket - 13 … »

Book: "Post-Cosmopolitan Cities: Explorations of Urban Coexistence"

26.09.2012

Examining the way people imagine and interact in their cities, this book explores the … »

Book chapter: Appropriating culture

01.08.2012

Oscar Salemink has a new book chapter out “Appropriating culture – The politics of intangible … »

Book: "Climate Change and Human Mobility"

01.08.2012

Edited by Kirsten Hastrup & Karen Fog Olwig … »

Book: "The Byways of the Poor"

15.07.2012

Organizing Practices and Economic Control in the Developing World. By Neil Webster and Karsten … »

Journal: "Tidsskriftet Antropologi"

01.07.2012

Tidsskriftet Antropologi nr. 65 om tavshed. Udkommet juli 2012 … »

Book: "Migration, Family and the Welfare State"

21.06.2012

Edited by Karen Fog Olwig, Birgitte Romme Larsen, Mikkel Rytter. Published June 21st 2012 by … »

Article: "Hjemkomstparader for danske soldater"

12.06.2012

Artikel af Birgitte Refslund Sørensen og Thomas Pedersen i tidsskriftet Slagmark. Tidsskrift for … »

Special Issue of Norma: Sexography

11.06.2012

Bjarke Oxlund has edited a Special Issue of Norma (Nordic Journal for Masculinity Studies) and has … »

Special Issue of "Third World Quaterly"

02.05.2012

Edited by Ayo Wahlberg and Ravinder Kaur. … »

Book: "Southern Medicine for Southern People"

31.01.2012

Vietnamese Medicine in the Making Edited by Laurence Monnais, C. Michele Thompson and Ayo Wahlberg … »

Article: "Greece must not leave asylum seekers at the mercy of extremists"

11.01.2012

Written by Hans Lucht. … »

Book: "Darkness before Daybreak"

01.12.2011

"African Migrants Living on the Margins in Southern Italy Today" … »

Journal: "Tidsskriftet Antropologi"

01.11.2011

Tidsskriftet Antropologi nr. 64 om klima. Udkommet november 2011 … »

Article: "The Material Subject: Style and pointing in public performance"

01.10.2011

By Inger Sjørslev, 2011 In Anthropological Theory … »

Article: "Ingen fatter, hvad de venstreradikale har gang i"

13.09.2011

Hverken den traditionelle venstrefløj, politiet eller offentligheden kan forstå de venstresnoede … »

Book: "Weathering the World"

02.09.2011

"Recovery in the Wake of the Tsunami in a Tamil Fishing Village" Author: Frida Hastrup Publisher: … »

Article: "Cost of Integrated Vector Control With Improved Sanitation and Road Infrastructure Couples With the Use of Slow-Release Bacillus sphaericus Grnules in a Tropical Urban Setting"

01.09.2011

By Skovmand, O, Ouedraogo, TDA, Sanogo … »