"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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Roundtable on the Anthropology of Life, w/Perig Pitrou (Maison Française d’Oxford/Collège de France)
Department of Social Anthropology (Lauritz Meltzers hus), 8th floor, room 843
07.10.2024
10:30–12:00
Faculty of Social Science (Lauritz Meltzers hus), 9th floor
Martijn Oosterbaan, Utrecht University: “Rule and Religion in Rio de Janeiro” (Seminar)
14:15–16:00
Faculty of Social Science (Lauritz Meltzers hus), 9th floor
Karin Lillevold, University of Bergen: “Unruly Fluffy Cows and Shy Reindeer. The Spectacle of Wilderness and Multispecies Relationalities in Dovrefjell” (Seminar)
14:15–16:00
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