Selected publications

New Homes, New Lives? Slum Upgrading, Consumption Dreams and Debt in Brazil

2016.05.30

This PhD thesis by Marie Kolling is a captivating ethnography of forced resettlement in the urban…
The visibility of non-communicable diseases in Northern Uganda

2016.05.27

WHO and Uganda's Ministry of Health emphasize the need to address the growing burden of…
“Children get sick all the time”: A qualitative study of socio-cultural and health system factors contributing to recurrent child illnesses in rural Burkina Faso

2016.05.19

In Burkina Faso, the government has implemented various health sector reforms in order to overcome…
FOCAAL: After Dispossession

2016.05.13

This edition of "Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology", edited by professor Oscar…
Described, Inscribed, Written Off: Heritagisation as (Dis)connection

2016.04.05

In this chapter in the book Connected and Disconnected in Vietnam, Professor Oscar Salemink looks a…
Moments in Collaboration: Experiments in Concept Work

2016.03.29

There is an increasing focus among anthropologists on the theme of collaboration with the people…
Moving facts in an Arctic field: The expedition as anthropological method

2016.03.16

This article by Professor Kirsten Hastrup, Postdoc Janne Flora and Postdoc Astrid O. Andersen…
Occupied Lives

2016.03.07

An ethnographic study of Palestinian refugees in Dheisheh refugee camp, just south of Bethlehem,…
A history of climate change: Inughuit responses to changing ice conditions in North-West Greenland

2016.03.03

This article by Professor Kirsten Hastrup presents a small community of High Arctic hunters (the…
Fragile encounters: exploring public healthcare in Boulgou Province, Burkina Faso

2016.02.24

This dissertation explores the dynamics of social relations between state-employed health workers…
Economies of Security

2016.02.22

In the summer of 2011, newspaper headlines trumpeted stories about maritime piracy attacks off the…
Fragile Elite - The Dilemmas of China´s Top University Students

2016.02.01

Fragile Elite explores the contradictions and perplexities of being an elite student through…
Veterans’ Homecomings - Secrecy and Postdeployment Social Becoming

2016.01.27

For Danish soldiers, returning from the battlefields and army camps of international operations to…
Scholarship and Engagement in Mainland Southeast Asia

2016.01.22

This book, edited by Professor Oscar Salemink, contains nine contributions at the intersection of…
How do we win back those who sympathise with the jihadist insurgency?

2016.01.18

The history of left-wing militancy in Europe suggests that police raids, surveillance techniques,…

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Organisation and Economy (OREO)
Culture, Mobility and Power (CAMP)
Health and Life Conditions (HALC)
Nature, Environment and Climate (NEC)

Department of Anthropology

Selected publications

New Homes, New Lives? Slum Upgrading, Consumption Dreams and Debt in Brazil

The visibility of non-communicable diseases in Northern Uganda

“Children get sick all the time”: A qualitative study of socio-cultural and health system factors contributing to recurrent child illnesses in rural Burkina Faso

FOCAAL: After Dispossession

Described, Inscribed, Written Off: Heritagisation as (Dis)connection

Moments in Collaboration: Experiments in Concept Work

Moving facts in an Arctic field: The expedition as anthropological method

Occupied Lives

A history of climate change: Inughuit responses to changing ice conditions in North-West Greenland

Fragile encounters: exploring public healthcare in Boulgou Province, Burkina Faso

Economies of Security

Fragile Elite - The Dilemmas of China´s Top University Students

Veterans’ Homecomings - Secrecy and Postdeployment Social Becoming

Scholarship and Engagement in Mainland Southeast Asia

How do we win back those who sympathise with the jihadist insurgency?

Find a researcher

Researcher Groups