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Greta Thunberg and Nongqawuse: Two sixteen-year-old women challenging the world

Greta Thunberg reminds me of Nongqawuse who, also at the age of sixteen, initiated a movement that attempted to drive white settlers out of nineteenth-century South-Africa.

Anthropologies of and with Asia, at Leiden University

What anthropologies of, and with, Asia do we practice at Leiden University? And how do we want to move forward?

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RE: Email in the Field

How can anthropologists engage with email in organisational ethnography? This blog explores email as a ritualised practice that draws attention to both its performativity and boundary-making work.

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The Negative Impact of Unethical and Fraudulent Research: The Case of Soroush

Unethical social scientific research may negatively impact a society’s trust in our scholarly field. In a recent case of fraudulent research practice the discipline of anthropology, incorrectly, got the blame. This is part three of our impact blog series.

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Data Management in Qualitative Social Science: The Impact of the Leiden Statement

How do anthropologists go about data management? In the second contribution on our series on impact, Peter Pels reflects on the international uptake of the "Leiden statement".

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Highly-Skilled but Unemployed: The Absence of Expat Wives from the Labor Market

“Highly-skilled migration” in the Netherlands is a largely male affair. This is especially true for Indians who make up the largest group of “highly-skilled” migrants to the country. This blog examines why many of the Indian “expat wives” stay unemployed.