A war of images

We live in a world of images, more than ever before. That statement is still often heard, but we can doubt its historical correctness.

Pieter ter Keurs • September 09, 2013

Anthropologists in the company of gatekeepers

My recent start of new fieldwork in Suriname and French Guiana raises interesting questions about ‘entering the field’. How is it that the process of negotiating access to people and places is in itself a major source of knowledge about power relations?

Sabine Luning • September 03, 2013

Walking and protesting in Brasília

Protests in Brazil are heating up preparations for the football World Cup. These demonstrations and other ways of using the streets of Brasília emphasize that the future did not turn out to be as utopian and rich as imagined before.

Erik Bähre • July 15, 2013 • 4 comments

Liberating visual methods

New adventures have appeared in the field of Anthropology. ‘Liberating!’ students say. Social theory and fieldwork combine in new ways, thanks to contemporary audiovisual practices. A glimpse into a few experiences.

Janine Prins • July 04, 2013

Data confessions of the quantified self

'Quantified Selfers' are people who spend a lot of their time tracking, measuring and counting physical, mental and emotional aspects of their 'selves'. Critics refer to them as narcissistic 'datasexuals'. Dorien Zandbergen offers another explanation.

Dorien Zandbergen • July 01, 2013

Glamour ladies

Rethinking modernity by studying 20th century Asian divas.

Bart Barendregt • June 25, 2013

National imagination in two Dutch commercials

Print capitalism has played a crucial role in the making of nations in modern times. However, it is a technology which has drastically changed. By looking at two to recent Dutch commercials I would like to show how.

Andrea Cerda-Pereira • June 17, 2013

Is the UNESCO Office in Paris falling to pieces? Musings on Picasso

In 1958 Pablo Picasso painted a mural for the UNESCO office, but after its installation he refused to sign it. Is this unfinished, soulless work of art perhaps emblematic for the state the organization is in?

Marlous van den Akker • June 10, 2013 • 1 comment

Mummies and coffins in Leiden

Somehow mummies and coffins have always fascinated people. Why? From the moment archaeologists excavated many of them, mummies and coffins started lives that were not originally intended.

Pieter ter Keurs • June 03, 2013 • 2 comments