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“The Netherlands Meat Land” Campaign: Towards an Ethnography of Meat

Ramadan as an anthropologist

Summer break!!

Identiteitspolitiek tussen recht, rechts en averechts

Introducing: Anthrocine

Unearthing a Fragile Root of Democracy

The Noise of Russian Silence

There and back again

Het doodlopend pad naar de brede avenue: Lithium in Bolivia

Entering the World of Fieldwork: first experiences at the NDSM Wharf in Amsterdam

Who needs shopping malls?

Ethnographic Monographs – or now for something else?

Ekeko

Rituals to help us out, and beliefs one professes tongue in cheek – Part II

The meaning of crisis: reflections on doing fieldwork in Lebanon

Why the world needs anthropology of religion

The flea, the canyon, and racism: Reflections on outrage

Alasitas Festival

Rituals to help us out, and beliefs one professes tongue in cheek – Part I

Vegan in Buenos Aires

Loneliness and despair in the field: Revisiting my first fieldwork

Een mens heeft het recht van gedachten te veranderen

Gotong Royong: a recent flood and strong leadership strengthen a system of solidarity in Lombok

Can it get worse? Yemen under attack again

Van VMBO-kader naar een master Antropologie: Het verhaal van Rayn Ramkishun

End of the year

Unsung heroes: Jakarta’s waste picker women and their unpaid care work

Before you ‘Just Eat’

Positioning your position

Yasuní Camera trapping photos; the very rare and beautiful melanic jaguar of tropical rain forest. Photo © Conservation International, courtesy of the TEAM Network

The black jaguar and the guardian of the forest

My journey in applied anthropology

“Take your skills to the streets”: Skateboarding and social and physical urban space

Photo by Andrei Lasc on Unsplash

Summer break!

Het ontstaan van een nationale held

Labeling the Schilderswijk

Listening to your gut

Myanmar anthropologists dismissed

Mourning for Amina, mourning for Yemen

Writing your thesis – some tips and tricks

Anthropology and religion at the Vrije Universiteit – a short history

De ondergang van de yup: The Nest en het failliet van het neoliberalisme

Mobility and immobility during the pandemic: Experiences on a journey from Amsterdam to Semarang

A picture of a trocha through which David passes almost every day to reach Cúcuta.

Localising the pandemic: Understanding global disruption through online media

A different perspective on “child marriages” among Syrian refugees in Jordan

Military coup in Myanmar: back to square one?

The discomfort surrounding talks on historic and present-day racism in class

“Actually it’s pretty chill”: taking and giving online education

copyright Yatou Sallah

Photo Essay: Finding a place for historical nostalgia in Postcolonial Anthropology

Podcast #4 is online! Guest: Jochem Kootstra

Racisme: Daar heb jij toch niet mee te maken?

Podcast #3 is online! Guest: Haiyue (Fiona) Shan

In the meantime on the other side of the world…