Nyhetsarkiv for Institutt for sosialantropologi

Norsk antropologisk forening (NAF) sin årskonferanse går av stabelen 3-5 mai 2013 i Tromsø.

Thomas Mountjoy is going to present his trial lecture, Thursday 17 January and is to conduct the public defense of his Ph.D. thesis Friday 18 January.

Samson Abebe Bezabeh is going to present his trial lecture, Thursday 13 December and is to conduct the public defense of his Ph.D. thesis Friday 14 December.

The Department of Social Anthropology's PhD candidate Samson Bezabeh has recently been given the African Author Prize, awarded by the high-ranking journal African Affairs.

Kritiske hendelser – nye stemmer undersøker ulike typer politisk engasjement blant unge med minoritetsbakgrunn.

The concept of ‘cosmopolitanism’ has become increasingly important in academic debates on diversity, but is often criticised for being too wide and unspecific to work as an analytical concept. 21-24 June a group of scholars gather in Bergen to explore how cosmopolitanism can best be theorised in order to help us understand diversity, both in contemporary societies and historically. The conference... Les mer

The anthropological work "Legends of People, Myths of State. Violence, Intolerance, and Political Culture in Sri Lanka" has been updated with contributions from anthropological scholars working on Australia and Sri Lanka.

Ørnulf Gulbrandsen's new book - "The State the Social. State Formation in Botswana and its Precolonial and Colonial Genealogies" - is now out. Read more by clicking on the caption of the cover.