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