By Igor Von Rosenberg – At the start of 2025, I came to Fiambalá to study how the local population of this small town of approximately five thousand inhabitants in the Northwest of Argentina, experiences…
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By Gijs Koopman – Paired with the failure to explain to my grandmother what it exactly is, I still wonder why I really chose anthropology. But when I think about what I learned from it…
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By Sverre Beijne – It is a sunny autumn day when I visit the park for the first time. As I enter, I see a small sandy path that creeps between two low fences. There…
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By Elena Liberati – Debates on the commons have become increasingly central to analyses of grassroots struggles around mobility and borders in Europe. In the context of the EU border regime, the concept offers a…
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by Sophie Leegwater – A few minutes before 4:30 pm on a Monday afternoon in early January 2024, I hop into the yellow cab that takes me to Adrenalina Studio, one of the pole dance…
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by Peter Versteeg, and the SpW team When it’s dark, where do we go? Where can we stand? Are we looking back, searching for a light we once believed was there? Can we see what…
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Door Sam Heeremans – Ergens in hartje Jordaan woont een oudere, ietwat rommelige maar zachtmoedige man. De eerste keer dat ik er kwam om thuiszorg te brengen, lag op alle meubels een laagje van dertig…
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By Marina de Regt – For a month, I have been in Cairo as a visiting fellow at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute. I am here to finish a number of publications and to do preliminary research…
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By Giulia Sinatti – Ten years since its last edition, the Medical Anthropology Europe (MAE) conference returned in September 2025 with a live (and online) four-day event in Vienna. Hosted at the University of Vienna and co-organized…
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In this series, we invite anthropologists to share stories of growth, change, and discovery throughout their careers. By reflecting on the life choices that shaped them, the unexpected moments in the field that shifted their…
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