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Research at the Department of Social Anthropology (SAI) is globally oriented, systematically comparative, anchored in extensive field work and thematically quite varied.
 

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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.

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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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