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"Anthropology is art" says social anthropologist Andrew Lattas.

"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".

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Urban Enclaving Compares African and East-Asian Trajectories of Housing and Urbanization in Shanghai

In mid-September 2023, the innovative Urban Enclaving Futures project convened its third workshop entitled, “Urban Trajectories: Comparing Integration, Enclaving and Development in Africa and China” in Shanghai. While the UEF project focuses on processes related to housing, enclaving, and...

Open courses autumn 2023
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Ukraine, sensing, mass migration and transhumanism: Open courses autumn 2023

Do you want to learn more about how anthropology approaches technology that will make us immortal? Or about how our senses – sight, smell, sound, taste, and touch – can be experienced differently in different cultures? Do you want to understand how Eastern Europe as a region is affected by the war...

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Anthropology on Air: listen now to the new departmental podcast

Anthropology on Air (AoA), a new podcast from the Department of Social Anthropology, launches 15.03.2023.