What happens when the field is not entirely foreign but you might be? Dispatches from the Field
Tanzania is not my home country. But it is not an abstract elsewhere either.
Tanzania is not my home country. But it is not an abstract elsewhere either.
Inquiries about an anthropologist’s purpose reveal a lot about why anthropology remains illegible to people working for the welfare of Muslims in Hyderabad, India. This blog post reflects…
Inquiries about an anthropologist’s purpose reveal a lot about why anthropology remains illegible to people working for the welfare of Muslims in Hyderabad, India. This blog post reflects…
In this second part of the blog series, Abhimanyu and Anna revisit the multimodal outcomes of their experimental workshop, Sensing Darjeeling, proposing that each sensory experience found its…
In this second part of the blog series, Abhimanyu and Anna revisit the multimodal outcomes of their experimental workshop, Sensing Darjeeling, proposing that each sensory experience found its…
In January, the NWO-funded project Futuring Heritage: Conservation, Community and Contestation in the Eastern Himalayas held an academic workshop in Darjeeling, followed by an ethnographic workshop, S…
In January, the NWO-funded project Futuring Heritage: Conservation, Community and Contestation in the Eastern Himalayas held an academic workshop in Darjeeling, followed by an ethnographic workshop, S…
When CADS convened the first Leiden Anthropology Conference in 2020, the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology – home to 57 people – aimed to create a…
When CADS convened the first Leiden Anthropology Conference in 2020, the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology – home to 57 people – aimed to create a…
Elena Neri, a visiting PhD fellow at Leiden University, explains her research on transforming food systems, multispecies relations, and more-than-human health in a community of rural villages in…
Elena Neri, a visiting PhD fellow at Leiden University, explains her research on transforming food systems, multispecies relations, and more-than-human health in a community of rural villages in…
There has been an outpouring of grief among Shi‘i Muslims across the world at the death of Ayatollah Khamenei. An anthropology of geopolitics that foregrounds relational geographies and…
There has been an outpouring of grief among Shi‘i Muslims across the world at the death of Ayatollah Khamenei. An anthropology of geopolitics that foregrounds relational geographies and…
In January of this year, Johannes Fabian passed away at the age of 88. He will always be remembered, far beyond disciplinary boundaries, for his Time and the…
In January of this year, Johannes Fabian passed away at the age of 88. He will always be remembered, far beyond disciplinary boundaries, for his Time and the…
At lunchtime on university campus one thing stands out: the boterham (sandwich). Coming from Japan’s elaborate bento culture, I was puzzled that so many students eat the same…
At lunchtime on university campus one thing stands out: the boterham (sandwich). Coming from Japan’s elaborate bento culture, I was puzzled that so many students eat the same…
Paying attention to gender relations in north-eastern Gabon leads to an emphasis on ethnography's propensity to provide access to the ‘minor mode of reality’: what flaws, signs of…
Paying attention to gender relations in north-eastern Gabon leads to an emphasis on ethnography's propensity to provide access to the ‘minor mode of reality’: what flaws, signs of…
On 6 March 2025, our beloved colleague Sabine Luning passed away. In this blog, we share some of the speeches of colleagues, students, interlocutors, and friends presented at…
On 6 March 2025, our beloved colleague Sabine Luning passed away. In this blog, we share some of the speeches of colleagues, students, interlocutors, and friends presented at…
The NWO-funded project Futuring Heritage: Conservation, Community and Contestation in the Eastern Himalayas kicked off on January 6, 2025, with a multi-day workshop with our consortium members in…
‘Futuring Heritage: Conservation, Community and Contestation in the Eastern Himalayas’ is a project funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). In the eastern Himalayas, agency is not just…
Since 2018, personal data collected, stored, or otherwise processed in the European Union must comply with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). I would like to share some…