Author: Sabrina Otterloo

Personal encounters with financial globalisation Good news. For the research project 'Moralising Misfortune: A Comparative Anthropology of Commercial Insurance to examine the morality of life …

Unexpected sides of the ordinary When Dirk Nijland first took him on as a student in his class in ethno-cinematography (1976/77) at Leiden University, Steef had already embarked…

I’m reminded of one of my students, whose parents are Moroccan, who told me that after the Charlie Hebdo attack she would deliberately sit in the no-talking carriage…

Already more than two years ago the Amsterdam court ruled that renting for short stay is a change in the use of the property (commercial exploitation) and is,…

Already more than two years ago the Amsterdam court ruled that renting for short stay is a change in the use of the property (commercial exploitation) and is,…

When I was a student, I always bought used books. My main sources were brick-and-mortar book stores, such as De Slegte (remember, they were acquired by a big…

The many faces of sustainability The concept of sustainability – the way most of us use it today – has emerged in the 1960s in response to concern…

Do hunter-gatherer anthropologists still exist? A 400 presentations large conference on hunter-gatherers anno 2015? Do they still exist and if so, where? And are modern anthropologists still doing…

Do hunter-gatherers still exist? A 400 presentations large conference on hunter-gatherers anno 2015? Do they still exist and if so, where? And are modern anthropologists still doing research…

Committee on Data Management and Ethics Henrike: Zane, I was wondering why you volunteered for the committee on data management and ethics of our Leiden institute. I know…

Committee on Data Management and Ethics Henrike: Zane, I was wondering why you volunteered for the committee on data management and ethics of our Leiden institute. I know…

Committee on Data Management and Ethics Henrike: Zane, I was wondering why you volunteered for the committee on data management and ethics of our Leiden institute. I know…

Committee on Data Management and Ethics Henrike: Zane, I was wondering why you volunteered for the committee on data management and ethics of our Leiden institute. I know…

Committee on Data Management and Ethics Henrike: Zane, I was wondering why you volunteered for the committee on data management and ethics of our Leiden institute. I know…

Committee on Data Management and Ethics Henrike: Zane, I was wondering why you volunteered for the committee on data management and ethics of our Leiden institute. I know…

Data Management and Ethics Committee Henrike: Zane, I was wondering why you volunteered for the Data Management and Ethics Committee of our Institute here in Leiden. I know that…

The specialisation in Visual Anthropology in Leiden has been ticking along nicely since the 1960s. But recently its popularity has surged, both inside and outside anthropology’s own disciplina…

The specialisation in Visual Anthropology in Leiden has been ticking along nicely since the 1960s. But recently its popularity has surged, both inside and outside anthropology’s own disciplina…

The hysterical carriage Recently it once more paraded the streets of The Hague on Prinsjesdag, 'our' Golden Carriage. This is not your everyday means of transport: it is…

The hysterical carriage Recently it once more paraded the streets of The Hague on Prinsjesdag, 'our' Golden Carriage. This is not your everyday means of transport: it is…

Plastic Soup and The Ocean Cleanup In 1997 Charles Moore “discovered” the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the middle of the Pacific Ocean: large areas in the ocean…

It has been 15 years since I last set foot in Kazïbek, the last village before the Chinese border in Kyrgyzstan. As I walk towards the house where…

The annual conference of the Dutch Anthropological Society (Antropologen Beroepsvereniging, ABv) took place on May 29, in the recently inaugurated Research Center for Material Culture in Leiden. The…

The daily life of Greeks in crisis For the past 10 days I have been staying in Athens to contribute to a summer school in Visual Ethnography at…