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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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Research events

25 Mar.

Paul Hockings: "Documentary film, commercial cinema, and the slow growth of ethnographic filming"

2:15 PM, Blindern, Eilert Sundt's house, Auditorium 7

27 Mar.

Artful claim-making: rethinking relationships of dependence at a hospital in rural Zambia

2:15 PM, Rom 648, Eilert Sundts hus

03 Apr.

The return of Gbabgo: Oratory, history and performance in Abidjan street parliaments

2:15 PM, Rom 648, Eilert Sundts hus

10 Apr.

Matt Tomlinson: "God Is Samoan: Dialogues between Anthropology and Theology in the Pacific Islands"

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

Research events

News from OVERHEATING

Globalization has broken the chain of responsibility Aug. 15, 2018
Inclusion and exclusion in an overheated world Nov. 2, 2017
Free e-book from Overheating Oct. 27, 2017
Videos from the Closing Conference June 29, 2017

More news from OVERHEATING

Publications

Between Uneven Hermeneutics and Alterity: The Dialogical Principle in the Art – Anthropology Encounter Nov. 13, 2018 3:12 PM
Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism. Ethnographies from South America Nov. 9, 2018 9:09 AM

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There is currently three active research groups at the department .

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