Leidenanthropologyblog

Diversity

The peculiar case of (non) creativity

Creativity is one of the buzzwords everyone seems to be after - individuals, businesses, education institutions and even states. Some seem to succeed better than others. But is that really the case? What are our views on what is creative and what is not?

Zane Kripe • 10-09-2013

Digitalisation

A war of images

We live in a world of images, more than ever before. That statement is still often heard, but we can doubt its historical correctness.

Pieter ter Keurs • 09-09-2013

Sustainability

Anthropologists in the company of gatekeepers

My recent start of new fieldwork in Suriname and French Guiana raises interesting questions about ‘entering the field’. How is it that the process of negotiating access to people and places is in itself a major source of knowledge about power relations?

Sabine Luning • 03-09-2013

Sustainability · Diversity

Walking and protesting in Brasília

Protests in Brazil are heating up preparations for the football World Cup. These demonstrations and other ways of using the streets of Brasília emphasize that the future did not turn out to be as utopian and rich as imagined before.

Erik Bähre • 15-07-2013

Digitalisation

Liberating visual methods

New adventures have appeared in the field of Anthropology. ‘Liberating!’ students say. Social theory and fieldwork combine in new ways, thanks to contemporary audiovisual practices. A glimpse into a few experiences.

Janine Prins • 04-07-2013

Digitalisation

Data confessions of the quantified self

'Quantified Selfers' are people who spend a lot of their time tracking, measuring and counting physical, mental and emotional aspects of their 'selves'. Critics refer to them as narcissistic 'datasexuals'. Dorien Zandbergen offers another explanation.

Dorien Zandbergen • 01-07-2013

leidenanthropologyblog — page 35

The peculiar case of (non) creativity

A war of images

Anthropologists in the company of gatekeepers

Walking and protesting in Brasília

Liberating visual methods

Data confessions of the quantified self