Podcast #4 is online! Guest: Jochem Kootstra
Jochem Kootstra is onderzoeker, copywriter en programma-maker (om maar een greep uit zijn bezigheden te geven) en bekijkt technologie door een antropologische bril. Door deze bril ziet hij…
Tag: Muziek, kunst & media
Face masks as freedom and belonging
By Quirina Geijsen Face masks, you can see them everywhere now. They come in different shapes and sizes and are offered in multiple choices of the most beautiful…
While we live – a compass to connection
Musical journalist Andrea Voets maakte een sociale roadtrip door Griekenland, op zoek naar uitwegen uit een sterke onderstroom van eenzaamheid in de samenleving. Samen met 150 jonge Grieken…
JA! aldus Nasrdin Dchar
Beeld: nasrdinspeelt.nl Door Matthias Teeuwen en Elisabeth IJmker JA! is de nieuwste theatervoorstelling van Nasrdin Dchar (met regie van Floris van Delft), wij bezochten het in Stadsschouw…
Bystander: On a migration experience
By Peter Versteeg A waiting room with benches and very bright light from a fluorescent tube. Clothes and shoes lying all around. There’s sand on the floor. I…
Film and theory: Knots and Holes
By Matthias Teeuwen “What becomes of the medium of film in the hands of an anthropologist?” asks Mattijs van de Port in the introduction to his new…
Banksy’s Donkey
By Peter Versteeg In 2007 street artist Banksy organized a project called Santa’s Ghetto in the city of Bethlehem, where international artists would work on the (‘security’ or…
Re-viewing The Truman Show
By Peter Versteeg. “We accept the world with which we are presented” is probably the best summary of The Truman Show, a modern classic film from 1998. We,…
The representation of Africa in Hollywood movie Black Panther.
By Rhoda Woets Almost every month, I join a small group of anthropologists from the VU to go to the movies. Last month, we went to the action…
Graduation speech Class 2016/2017
By Dominique van de Kamp During the pre-master of Social and Cultural Anthropology, we followed a course called “Core themes of Anthropology,” by Ton Salman.…
Living with the End
By Peter Versteeg Recently Chris Cornell, singer of the bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, died. Soundgarden is probably best known for their early nineties song ‘Black Hole Sun’, whic…
Thin Description? Notes on the Amsterdam Anthropology Lecture Series (AALS)
Dr Paolo Favero giving his AALS lecture at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam By Matthias Teeuwen Last AALS lecture was an inspiring and thought-provoking presentation by Dr. Paolo Favero…
Some thoughts on film in ethnography
Still from ‘Inside the Mind of Favela Funk’ By Ina Keuper On 7 December the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology organized its second Ethnographic…
Exotische Folklore: Barok
Barok musici in San Ignacio de Moxos, Bolivia Door Ton Salman Het zijn, wereldwijd, tijden van eerbetoon aan culturele tradities. Tot en met in de vakantiefolders worden de “authentieke…