Selected publications

Copenhagen Flea-Markets – Public Spaces of the Informal Economy

2015.05.27

Urban markets, in particular flea markets, have yet to be fully acknowledged as sites of informal…
The 7th Kilometre Market, Odessa, Ukraine

2015.05.27

This essay by Vera Skvirskaja and Caroline Humphrey discusses a vast marketplace of shipping…
Revolution is the way you eat: exemplification among left radical activists in Denmark and in anthropology

2015.05.19

In anthropology, examples have always been an integral part of the investigation of the social life…
The burden of being exemplary: national sentiments, awkward witnessing, and womanhood in occupied Palestine

2015.05.19

This paper by Assistant Professor Lotte Buch Segal offers an analysis of how Palestinian wives of…
Between Magic and Rationality - On the Limits of Reason in the Modern World

2015.05.12

In Between Magic and Rationality, Vibeke Steffen, Steffen Jöhncke, and Kirsten Marie Raahauge bring…
The Purification, Sacralisation, and Instrumentalisation of Development

2015.05.04

This chapter by Professor Oscar Salemink in "Religion and the Politics of Development" seeks to do…
Mobility, education and life trajectories: new and old migratory pathways

2015.04.27

Travel for educational purposes, once the privilege of the upper class, has become a global mass…
The duplicity of diversity: Caribbean immigrants in Denmark

2015.04.20

‘Diversity’ has become a key term in recent years, yet it has been criticized for being a vague…
PhD Dissertation: Hustlers of desire

2015.04.17

The PhD Dissertation by Trine Mygind Korsby investigates the lives and practices of a group of…
The governmentalization of living: calculating global health

2015.03.11

The contemporary global health agenda has shifted emphasis from mapping disease patterns to…
Class trajectories and indigenism among agricultural workers in Kerala

2015.03.06

In this article Assistant Professor Luisa Steur shows how the desire of the people of Kottamurade…
Disembodied Conjugality

2014.12.02

With point of departure in the means and forums available to her interlocutors to sustain conjugal…
The many faces of Turkish Odessa - Ecumenical communities and multiple alliances across the Black Sea

2014.11.12

In this article, Vera Skvirskaja, post doc at the Department of Anthropology, discusses regional…
The Black Sea as region and horizon

2014.11.12

The introduction for Focaals theme section "Black Sea Currents", by Caroline Humphrey and Vera…
Selective Reproductive Technologies

2014.10.29

This review by Professor Tine Gammeltoft and Associate Professor Ayo Wahlberg highlights…

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Researcher Groups

The Researcher Groups provide an organisational framework within which existing as well as new research and teaching activities are allowed to grow, adapt and develop.

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

Department of Anthropology

Selected publications

Copenhagen Flea-Markets – Public Spaces of the Informal Economy

The 7th Kilometre Market, Odessa, Ukraine

Revolution is the way you eat: exemplification among left radical activists in Denmark and in anthropology

The burden of being exemplary: national sentiments, awkward witnessing, and womanhood in occupied Palestine

Between Magic and Rationality - On the Limits of Reason in the Modern World

The Purification, Sacralisation, and Instrumentalisation of Development

Mobility, education and life trajectories: new and old migratory pathways

The duplicity of diversity: Caribbean immigrants in Denmark

PhD Dissertation: Hustlers of desire

The governmentalization of living: calculating global health

Class trajectories and indigenism among agricultural workers in Kerala

Disembodied Conjugality

The many faces of Turkish Odessa - Ecumenical communities and multiple alliances across the Black Sea

The Black Sea as region and horizon

Selective Reproductive Technologies

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Researcher Groups