48 hours of digital detox: can you survive without your digital devices?

Digital Anthropology students stayed offline for 48 hours to understand their relationship with digital technologies. How did they survive without devices? Their experiences ranged from strong 'FOMO' to empowerment. What would digital detox mean to you?

Zane Kripe • January 16, 2017 • 1 comment

1.000.000 views! Blogging, sharing, and countering clichés

A million views in two years. The Leiden Anthropology Blog is a resounding success! Apart from these numbers, what goals have we achieved and what future do we see for blogging anthropologists?

Erik Bähre and Sabrina Otterloo • January 25, 2016

Practising Visual Methods

Researchers from a variety of disciplines and countries flock to Leiden in August. Exploring the ‘ordinary’, showing emotion, and challenging existing images: they tell what draws them to spend their summer on audiovisual methods.

Janine Prins • October 09, 2015

One of us: Tarik Z. and Conspiracy Culture

Should we view Tarik Z., who tried to hold the Dutch national television news hostage, as a would-be terrorist? To me, he represents something more humdrum, ordinary, and closer to home: latter-day conspiracy thinking.

Peter Pels • February 10, 2015

A new boost for feminism

The word feminism has negative connotations. Yet, the stereotypes of feminists as ‘man-hating’, unsexy, complaining women have recently been shaken by Emma Watson, Beyoncé, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. How did they give feminism a new stimulus?

Floor Hendriks • November 25, 2014 • 6 comments

Turkish herring, laughter yoga, and taxidermy: Visual Ethnography NL

Mixed media as an ethnographic research method. The Visual Methods Weblab projects 2014 show colorful, creative and accessible films and websites on Dutch society, made by our bachelor students. They also reveal some challenges and ethical implications.

Metje Postma and Rosanne van den Berg • September 25, 2014 • 2 comments

What’s on your anthropological blog roll?

Where do you turn if you want to get an anthropological take on current issues? Of course, you turn to this blog! But what other blogs should be on your anthropological blog roll? Here are some of my personal favorites...

Henrike Florusbosch • April 02, 2014 • 12 comments

Dompas: Apartheid in Utrecht?

There is an app that shows you the shortest way to downtown Utrecht, called the Dompas. It is embarrassing that the developers of this app haven’t ‘googled’ this term, and so missed its dirty history in apartheid policy.

Jan Jansen • March 10, 2014

Why anthropology matters: a critique on De Social Club’s take on hunting safaris

Anthropologists study difference: We go to other places to examine how, and why, people do things differently. However, the insights of these studies do not only teach us about other places and peoples - they can also shine a light upon our own society

Marlous van den Akker • February 21, 2014

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