A Christmas Story: Health Insurance in the Netherlands What do christmas and health insurance have in common? By using christmas as an example two underlying principles of health insurance become apparent: solidarity and consumer practices. Nikkie Buskermolen • December 22, 2017
Multimodal Anthropology? In his blog series, visual anthropologist Mark Westmoreland sets out to explore the new vibrant mode of scholarship called multimodal anthropology, and what it means for (visual) anthropology. This is part one. Mark Westmoreland • November 27, 2017
Learning and Belonging in Ladies-Only Kickboxing Kickboxing has been promoted to young Muslim and Moroccan-Dutch women as a tool for empowerment. How can we understand their participation in sports? How are their practices influenced by dominant discourses, policies, and media on the female Muslim body? Jasmijn Rana • October 24, 2017
Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est If knowledge itself is power, then how should we relate to data-hungry companies eager to improve our lives and lifestyles? The science fiction TV-show ‘Orphan Black’ might offer us some interesting answers. Nikki Mulder • September 25, 2017
'The Right to Vote' and Catalan Independence Politicians in Barcelona are preparing for a new political battle as the Catalan nationalists' referendum is bound to take place on 1 October. Will it lead to new court cases because the referendum is unconstitutional? Gerard Persoon • July 11, 2017 • 2 comments
Positioning Science: Post-Truth, Back to the Facts, or Morality? The authority of knowledge, science, and academic institutions is not as self-evident as it maybe was in the past. How to position as scholar in a post-truth world? Should we deal with these challenges by simply studying facts, as some scholars argue? Erik Bähre • June 29, 2017 • 1 comment
Provisioning Activism An increasing body of literature identifies and compares various strategies for alternative provisioning, namely procuring food and other goods and services in a consciously oriented way. Why is this anthropologically interesting? Cristina Grasseni • June 07, 2017
4 May: Who Do We Commemorate Today? It is a recurring pattern in the Netherlands as we reach 4 and 5 May: Who is included and who is excluded from whom we commemorate? Let’s examine indirect knowledge transmission in South Africa and how this translates into the Dutch context. Maike Lolkema • May 04, 2017
How to Deal with Puzzling Brokers in Ethnographic Fieldwork? As anthropologists, we rely heavily on gatekeepers. They are crucial figures in facilitating our access to the field and they might profoundly influence our ethnographic experience. But what to do when your main gatekeeper behaves like a puzzling broker? Irene Moretti • April 21, 2017
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