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

by Luiza Fonini Reis and Luisa Voss / Images: Ella Bowler Anthropology is the study of intersections, of community and its inherent conflict between the self and the other, and of the real and the…

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Hazes is ook erfgoed

door Annemarie de Wildt

Een oratie die aantoont hoe we van alles erfgoed maken: de redding van het Thaise jeugdelftal, de monsterzwemtocht van Maarten van der Weijden en de BVO-tjes (Biertje Voor Onderweg) van André Hazes, daar gaat mijn museale hart van open. Irene Stengs aanvaardde met een zeer inspirerend verhaal het ambt van bijzonder hoogleraar Antropologie van Ritueel en Populaire Cultuur aan de Vrije Universiteit. Ze eindigde haar oratie met de hoop op een mooie samenwerking met Amsterdam Museum, Tropenmuseum en het Catharijne Convent. En vervolgens speelde de organist ‘Zij gelooft in mij’. Dat ik dat nog mocht meemaken op ‘mijn’ VU.

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Living with the End

Black Hole sunBy Peter Versteeg          Recently Chris Cornell, singer of the bands Soundgarden and Audio-slave, died. Soundgarden is probably best known for their early nineties song ‘Black Hole Sun’, which is the invocation of a sort of natural disaster that will swallow everything ugly and false. It is a cry to be released from a depression that is caused by an awareness that life has become hollow and that the earth has been delivered into the hands of frauds, crooks, and idiots. Cornell took his own life. Announcing his tragic death, news shows showed exactly this song as he played it during the last earthly gig he ever played. It is not difficult to feel its ominousness.

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Some thoughts on film in ethnography

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Still from ‘Inside the Mind of Favela Funk’

By Ina Keuper     On 7 December the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology organized its second Ethnographic Film Day, which featured four rather different ethnographic documentaries. Former staff member Ina Keuper was there and shares some thoughts on Standplaats Wereld about these particular films and the role of this visual medium in anthropology.

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