Research groups
The research at the Department of Social Anthropology comprises several subjects. Many of our researchers are interested in related topics.
Anthropogenic alterations to human environments, driven by growth-based economic models, affect human and non-human well-being in the twenty-first century. Toxic substances accumulate in the atmosphere, in waterbodies and soils, travel across ecological systems and through the food web, and transform human and non-human bodies and their relations. As these changes affect all life on the planet to varying degrees, social anthropology should address environment, health, and justice jointly by.
Students and teachers at SAI experiment, often collaboratively, with forms of ethnographic writing and dissemination, stretching the boundaries of conventional academic language.
Through the topic LandUse (LandBruk), Nordic Laboratory offers a space for critical anthropological analysis of challenges in agriculture, alternative modes of food production, and rural livelihoods.