Introducing: Anthrocine
by Jasper Schotte Anthrocine is the film club of the anthropology department -for students, and organised by students and faculty members. An important film or documentary is screene…
Tag: Standplaats Wereld
Unearthing a Fragile Root of Democracy
By Pia K. R. Beiermann, second-year student of CADS This Saturday I wake up slowly, a bit later than usual. Still in a morning fogginess best described as…
There and back again
by Shunita Gerritsen With a loud, blunt clonk the ferry arrives. The gate slowly comes down while the flashing lights and loud beeping alert the impatiently waiting passengers.…
Who needs shopping malls?
By Ton Salman There are markets. There are big markets. And there is the superlative degree of market. Arguably, that is the Feria de 16 de julio, in…
The meaning of crisis: reflections on doing fieldwork in Lebanon
By Viviane Hamans Almost anyone who has been ‘in the field’, will confirm that at some point, crisis is part of the process. The amounts of time that…
Rituals to help us out, and beliefs one professes tongue in cheek – Part I
By Ton Salman People celebrate, joke and banter. Hunger, disaster, conflict, violence, repression, all ruin people’s lives and cause enormous pain. But people will not cease to honor…
Vegan in Buenos Aires
Bondiola, matambre, chinchulines, choripan en milenasa napolitana zijn slechts een paar voorbeelden van de enorme keur aan vlees en worst in Argentinië. Vaak vergeten we de stapels pizza’s,…
Loneliness and Despair in the Field: Revisiting my First Fieldwork
By Marina de Regt. Recently, during a supervision meeting with three of my Master students (all of them women), one of them asked about my own experiences in…
Een mens heeft het recht van gedachten te veranderen
door Vivian Mac Gillavry In december 2021 zag ik dat een artikel van mij uit 2013 in de “Top Posts” stond, acht jaar na dato. Ik vroeg de…
Van VMBO-kader naar een master Antropologie: Het verhaal van Rayn Ramkishun
Door Zoë Tjon A Ten. “Geinig, ik zal nooit weten wat die mensen hier doen, waar ze zich mee bezig houden, wat hun interesses zijn, hoe ze praten…
End of the year
It has been 70 years since a life-size Father Christmas doll was burned in Dijon in protest against the “paganization” of Christmas. A year later, Claude Lévi-Strauss published…
Before you ‘Just Eat’
By Qusai Khwes I opened my eyes; waking up to my back hurting a bit, and my feet a lot. The day before, I spent more than fifteen…
Positioning your position
In the picture above, you see me reading along with Hebrew psalms and prayers during a synagogue (shul) service on simchat torah. Simchat torah is a festive day…
The black jaguar and the guardian of the forest
By Maycon Melo and Barbara Arisi In Brazil, a group of hunters killed a black jaguar. Not satisfied with the crime of killing an endangered animal, they made a video…
Summer break!
This past academic year we have continued with our regular content featuring anthropological analyses of current events (the pandemic and the assassination of Peter R. de Vries, for…
Mourning for Aicha, Mourning for Yemen
By Marina de Regt. “Marina, if I die, will you then forgive me for all the trouble that I caused you?” my Yemeni friend Aicha wrote me ten…
Writing your thesis – some tips and tricks
Over the course of my studies I have received a lot of advice on how to best go about writing my thesis. In this blog, I have curated…
Anthropology and religion at the Vrije Universiteit – a short history
By Matthias Teeuwen The Vrije Universiteit originally had a strong confessional commitment to the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and I have always wondered how anthropology meshed with…
De ondergang van de yup: The Nest en het failliet van het neoliberalisme
Door Peter Versteeg Veranderen, verandering – waarom willen we dat eigenlijk? Weten we werkelijk waarom we soms ons leven om willen gooien of zijn onze motieven ten diepste…
A different perspective on “child marriages” among Syrian refugees in Jordan
By Marina de Regt For years, humanitarian organisations in Jordan and Lebanon have been concerned about the increasing number of “child marriages” among Syrian refugees. While early marriages…
Military coup in Myanmar: back to square one?
In the early morning of 1 February, the day that a newly elected government was supposed to convene, Myanmar’s military staged a coup, taking government leaders captive and…
The discomfort surrounding talks on historic and present-day racism in class
Image from a Dutch high school history book. Photo by author. By Sientje Trip When browsing one of the history books of the high school I researched I…
“Actually it’s pretty chill”: taking and giving online education
by Anne and Freek Colombijn The Corona lockdown has forced schools and universities to switch to online teaching. While we recognize the often justified complaints voiced by many…