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Being the Connection

Through her position as Professor II at the Department of Social Anthropology, Penny Harvey has tried to put people intellectually in touch with each other.

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An Anthropological View: Building the city from below

- How can you build out an area in the immediate vicinity to an underground station so that people will actually want to be there? asks Thomas Hylland Eriksen. The employment market is opening up for applied anthropology.

Research on ports financed by the EU

Elisabeth Schober has received a prestigious research grant from the EU to ethnographically explore how global capitalism plays out in four key ports across the world.

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Events

29 Jan.

Lorenzo Cañas Bottos: "Performances and Palimpsests. The shades of Argentine Cosmopolitanism"

2:15 PM, Blindern, Eilert Sundt's house, sixth floor meeting room

19 Feb.

Axel Rudi: "'Without the Leader There is No Life': Abdullah Öcalan, the Kurdish Movement, and the Resurgence of Sacred Kingship"

2:15 PM, Blindern, Eilert Sundt's house, Sixth floor meeting room

04 Mar.

Filippo Osella: "The Unbearable lightness of trust: trade, masculinity and the life-world of Indian export agents in Yiwu, China"

2:15 PM, Blindern, Eilert Sundt's house, Sixth floor meeting room

18 Mar.

Dace Dzenovska: "School of Europeanness: Tolerance and Other Lessons in Political Liberalism in Latvia"

2:15 PM, Blindern, Eilert Sundt's house, Sixth floor meeting room

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Being the Connection Jan. 9, 2020
Marianne Lien and Keir Martin recieves funding from RCN Dec. 19, 2019
An Anthropological View: Building the city from below Dec. 19, 2019
Arnd Schneider interviewed in GIS Dec. 12, 2019

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Publications

Domestication Gone Wild:Politics and Practices of Multispecies Relations Jan. 13, 2020 9:41 AM
Art, Anthropology, and Contested Heritage Oct. 22, 2019 11:17 AM

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Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Anthropology
Department: Department of Social Anthropology
Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
Languages: English
Deadline: Sunday, February 23, 2020

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