"Anthropology is art" says social anthropologist and former professor at the department Andrew Lattas. "It is like being a novelist, putting yourself in another character's position and see the world".
The film is a glimpse of Lattas' long standing work in Papua New Guinea. He immaculately describes the kindness and imagination of people who are really poor, and their understanding of poverty in terms of their own experiences of race, class and colonialism. Sensitivity and empathy is important, as well as comedy and humor. "If you don’t have humor it’s really hard".
Anthropological films: ideas and presentations
Study at The Department of Social Anthropology
Calendar
Achille Mbembe: Thinking the World from Africa
SKOK's meeting room in Parkveien 9 and online
26.04.2024
12:00–14:00
Faculty of Social Science (Lauritz Meltzers hus), 9th floor
BSAS - Jayaseelan Raj: Ghettos of the state: Spatiality of caste in Kerala (Seminar)
14:15–16:00
Faculty of Social Science (Lauritz Meltzers hus), 9th floor
Future Endings: Comparative Apocalypses, Impending Sovereignties, and Cataclysmic Utopias with Suzanne Schneider, the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. (Seminar)
14:30–16:00
Faculty of Social Science (Lauritz Meltzers hus), 9th floor
BSAS - Kelly McKowen: Down and Out in Utopia: Unemployment, Morality, and Social Democracy in Norway (Seminar)
14:15–16:00
The Grand Hall, Nygårdsgaten 5
Glitches: Towards a framework for critique of cultures of AI (Lecture)
10:15–10:45
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