By Matthias Teeuwen Over the course of my studies I have received a lot of advice on how to best go about writing my thesis. In this blog, I have curated some of the more…
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By Matthias Teeuwen The Vrije Universiteit originally had a strong confessional commitment to the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and I have always wondered how anthropology meshed with this confessional background. I wondered particularly at…
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VINCENT DE ROOIJ Historici verdedigen de relevantie van hun discipline vaak door te beweren dat kennis van het verleden nodig is om het heden te begrijpen en beter te doen in de toekomst. In die…
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DOOR TOON VAN MEIJL De vraag naar de staat van de Nederlandse antropologie en eventuele veranderingen die zich daarin hebben voltrokken is interessant. In het buitenland wordt mij die vraag regelmatig gesteld, maar dan moet…
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DOOR MATTHIAS TEEUWEN Vergeleken met de heftige discussies over de staat van de Nederlandse antropologie die in de jaren ’80 gevoerd werden is het de afgelopen 20 jaar opmerkelijk stil gebleven rond dit onderwerp. In…
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By Matthias Teeuwen Standing at the end of my Master’s, the topic of this year’s anthropology day particularly spoke to me: Futures. What can I expect of the future as a newly trained anthropologist? What…
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By Matthias Teeuwen Some time ago, I heard Tim Ingold deliver a lecture on the topic of light. I wondered: what could an anthropologist possibly have to say about light? Isn’t light more of a natural scientific thing to study?
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By Matthias Teeuwen Inspired by Paul Stoller’s 2017 blog ‘Doing Anthropology In Troubled Times’, the goal of this year’s ‘Dag van de Antropologie’ (Annual Anthropology Day) was to reflect upon the role of anthropology in some…
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By Matthias Teeuwen – Some time ago I wrote a blog about the possibilities emerging technologies offer to the practice of qualitative research. Back then, I wrote that ‘it seems that emerging technologies constitute a…
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