Author: Sabrina Otterloo

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…

The mystery of paintings made in blood A goat herder points towards the distant hills of the Panna Tiger Reserve and announces “You will find Khoon se bana…

Where better to carry out an interview about Airbnb than in the lobby of a hotel? Sarah* and I met a couple of weeks after I posted my…

Suits, ties and going native   Erik: During fieldwork I was invited by a business elite to join them for dinner at the most luxurious hotel on Cape…

Childhood in a war region Vager originates from a village in north Iraq, close to the border with Turkey. Until the late 1990s, life in this region was…

A joint place of worship Just outside the Indian border town of Mahendraganj, at the top of a low hill, is a shrine (dargah) containing the graves of a…

Dream theories in the Netherlands Dreams confront us with imagery, experiences and desires unknown to the conscious, bounded and socialised self that we regard as ‘me’ in the…

We live in tumultuous times. Not equally tumultuous for everyone to be sure, but tumultuous nonetheless. Since September 2014, I have been living in Oakland, California working on…

The creative knowledge worker One of the ideas that underlies the promotion of new technologies is that automation liberates people from manual, repetitive, and boring jobs. With the…

For the fifth year in a row a dozen students from Leiden University – some of whom were majoring in Cultural Anthropology and others taking part in the…

My mother has new neighbours every week. They live in the flat opposite her. She knows exactly what they pay per week, even per night. She has never…

Success or failure in local ecosystem preservation Community-conserved areas are popular in the Philippines; they mainly take the form of marine sanctuaries. Ideally, these conserved areas aim to…