fieldwork

Diversity

Ethnography and the work of the ancestors

Fieldwork makes one think again about one’s own society. This blog is about how fieldwork taught me what ancestors mean in South Africa and forced me to think again about attitudes to ancestors in Europe.

Erik Bähre • 18-04-2016

Diversity

The anthropologist and the key

This year’s ‘Veldwerk NL’ students revealed the importance of the key in anthropological research. It not only symbolises access, it creates possibilities to break down prejudices and pave the way to constructive human interaction.

Nienke van der Heide • 05-02-2016

Digitalisation

Steef Meyknecht (1951- 2015) - A salute by his colleagues

This in memoriam for Steef Meyknecht, who passed away on 21 November, was composed by Metje Postma from the memoires and appreciative notes by colleagues in Visual Ethnography in the Netherlands, Dirk Nijland, Eddy Appels, Janine Prins, and Erik de Maaker.

Metje Postma • 21-12-2015

Sustainability

The revival of hunter-gatherer research

In September, 50 years after the famous Man the Hunter symposium (1965), the International Society for Hunter Gatherer Research celebrated its foundation at the vibrant, interdisciplinary CHAGS conference, launching the Hunter Gatherer Research Journal.

Gerard Persoon + 1 other • 22-10-2015

Diversity

From Beyoncé to Markets – Anthropologists Studying Elites

What does it entail to study elites: How do we anthropologists approach the rich and powerful? In this conversation Erik Bähre and Zane Kripe share some experiences and ideas.

Erik Bähre + 1 other • 27-05-2015

Sustainability

Cold showers and amazing little buckets

A story on how students from Leiden went to do research on problems with water in the Philippines and then very physically experienced their research topic. Or: How you can have both too little and too much water at the same time.

Nina Simic • 04-03-2015

Sustainability · Diversity · Digitalisation

Practice makes perfect: fieldwork methods at the Field School NL

January is Fieldwork Month for many of our staff and students. This year, the first edition of the Field School NL provided MA students with intensive training in fieldwork methods, from food diaries to focus groups.

Henrike Florusbosch • 06-02-2015

Digitalisation

Postcards from the field

Just before leaving for my fieldwork I received a gift from two of my colleagues to take with me: a set of colouring pencils and blank postcards. What became of these empty pages and the promise to send drawings home while I was in the field?

Zane Kripe • 09-07-2014

Diversity

January: Fieldwork Month

January is traditionally known as the leatherworking month or wolf month, but I spent this January involved in the anthropological tradition of fieldwork, by supervising four groups of students carrying out field research on De Veluwe.

Henrike Florusbosch • 06-02-2014

Blogs

Ethnography and the work of the ancestors

The anthropologist and the key

Steef Meyknecht (1951- 2015) - A salute by his colleagues

The revival of hunter-gatherer research

From Beyoncé to Markets – Anthropologists Studying Elites

Cold showers and amazing little buckets

Practice makes perfect: fieldwork methods at the Field School NL

Postcards from the field

January: Fieldwork Month