Footage of Failure: Multimodality in Practice

Failure is an unavoidable aspect of the ethnographic enterprise. And yet, failure should not be seen as a dead end. In the context of the FR&T program, we piloted a multimodal research collaboration that required embracing failure as a reoccurring theme.

Sabine Luning and Mark Westmoreland • March 22, 2018

Towards a heterodox and reflexive economics

After the 2008 financial crisis, the call for a more heterogeneous approach to studying and teaching economics intensified. But how can heterodoxy take up a more prominent place in economic science? A Cultural Anthropologist offers three suggestions.

Erik Bähre • October 25, 2016 • 8 comments

Moralising misfortune: The morality of life insurance

Erik Bähre has received an ERC Consolidator Grant for research on the morality of life insurance. What issues are raised when insurance companies define responsibility and solidarity? Has insurance changed since the crisis of 2007?

Erik Bähre • January 05, 2016 • 1 comment

Practising Visual Methods

Researchers from a variety of disciplines and countries flock to Leiden in August. Exploring the ‘ordinary’, showing emotion, and challenging existing images: they tell what draws them to spend their summer on audiovisual methods.

Janine Prins • October 09, 2015

Practice makes perfect: fieldwork methods at the Field School NL

January is Fieldwork Month for many of our staff and students. This year, the first edition of the Field School NL provided MA students with intensive training in fieldwork methods, from food diaries to focus groups.

Henrike Florusbosch • February 06, 2015 • 3 comments

Conference chat: Revolution and collaboration at the EASA Conference 2014

Janine Prins and Zane Kripe discuss their experiences at the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) conference this summer in Tallinn, Estonia. Did it live up to the promise of being revolutionary?

Janine Prins and Zane Kripe • October 08, 2014 • 4 comments

Why reading novels benefits ethnographic writing

These days I mostly spend writing. On the precious moments that I manage to liberate myself from my laptop, I devour novels. Below some reflections on how reading fiction helps me improve my own anthropological writing (...and means to distract myself).

Marlous van den Akker • April 14, 2014 • 4 comments

January: Fieldwork Month

January is traditionally known as the leatherworking month or wolf month, but I spent this January involved in the anthropological tradition of fieldwork, by supervising four groups of students carrying out field research on De Veluwe.

Henrike Florusbosch • February 06, 2014

The daily life of an anthropologist?

Anthropologists are known for studying how people go about their every day lives. It may be interesting to turn the tables and ask what a day in the life of an anthropologist looks like.

Zane Kripe • November 04, 2013 • 2 comments

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