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New project about container ships and labour

Most commodities in circulation on this planet are transported on container ships. But what do we know about the ships, the people who build them, work on them, and take them apart?

The bunad: More than a garment

Can anyone wear a bunad? Is it a real bunad if it is made in China? Is it a symbol of origin and roots or a nationalistic symbol? Thomas Hylland Eriksen explains the Norwegian obsession with this tradional garment.

Warns against explosive changes

Ever-increasing rapid changes create powerlessness, resentment and opportunities. Through the Overheating project, Thomas Hylland Eriksen and his colleagues have studied how globalisation is changing our homes, workplaces and plans.

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Events

15 May
Tadashi Yanai: "Anthropology of Images, between Flashbacks and Flash-forwards"
2:15 PM, Blindern, Eilert Sundt's house, Sixth floor meeting room
22 May
Paul Basu:"Museum Affordances: Activating West African Ethnographic Archives and Collections through Experimental Museology"
2:15 PM, Blindern, Eilert Sundt's house, Sixth floor meeting room
05 June
Michael Taussig: "The Wasp and the Orchid: Tales of Metamorphic Sublimity"
2:00 PM, Blindern, Eilert Sundt's house. Sixth floor meeting room
12 June
Tarek Elhaik: "The Art of Cogitation"
2:15 PM, Blindern, Eilert Sundt's house, Sixth floor meeting room
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OVERHEATING

The three crises of globalisation seen from an anthropological perspective

TRACES

Transmitting Contentious
Cultural Heritages with the Arts
From Intervention to Co-Production

MATKIN

Materializing Kinship: Cycles of life at the Norwegian "hytte".

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