By Romy de Vos and William Arfman – Friday the 28 th of November 2025. “Feel your feet on the ground. Look each other in the eyes. Give each other a hug. We’re here again!”…
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By Romy de Vos and William Arfman – Friday the 28th of November 2025. As we approach the ritual site, the waxing gibbous moon casts a faint reflection of light over the dark forest on the…
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By Maaike Matelski, Eva van Roekel and Htet Hlaing Win – On 3 January 2026, the United States carried out a military intervention on Venezuelan soil, abducting President Maduro and bringing him to the US to stand…
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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 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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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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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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By Pablo Ampuero-Ruiz – I remember very clearly the first lecture of my Master’s degree at Peking University in China. Professor Pan Wei was giving an introductory lecture on the cultural foundations of China’s political…
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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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