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Research groups

The research at the Department of Social Anthropology comprises several subjects. Many of our researchers are interested in related topics.

Kenyan farmer spraying insecticides against Fall Army Worm

Human-made toxic threats have become a central theme in Social Anthropology. This inter-faculty research group approaches toxicity from various perspectives, to better understand attendant threats to human and non-human life, and to rethink our ways of knowing, writing, and doing anthropology.

Men in suits on a busy street with other pepole in the background

This group seeks to ethnographically explore the performative effect of ascribing ‘dependence’ to others as a means of politically shaping the world we live in.

Photography of photography, originally taken by Dr. Bagster-Wilson in Tanzania in the 1950s. The black and white picture displays a fisherman on a lake in the woods. Photo: Wenzel Geissler

An attempt to foster experimentation with the form of ethnographic work, including but not limited to writing, photo and film, exhibitions, book design, drawing, performance, conceptual art, dance, collaborative practice, across our department and involving colleagues from elsewhere.

Aerial view of spoil site

A network for researchers interested in engaging with questions that relate to resource politics.

Huge containership

The reading group brings together members of the research projects PORTS (funded by the ERC) and “Life Cycle of Container Ships” (funded by the NFR) to engage with social scientific work on maritime logistics.