Selected publications

'A Blessing in Disguise': The Art of Surviving HIV/AIDS as a Member of the Zionist Christian Church in South Africa

2014.10.26

In this article, Associate Professor Bjarke Oxlund explores the manner in which the Zionist…
Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda

2014.10.24

During the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would…
An 'Expanded' Class Perspective: Bringing capitalism down to earth in the changing political lives of Adivasi workers in Kerala

2014.10.15

Demonstrating the usefulness of ethnographic curiosity driven by an ‘expanded’ class analysis, as…
Routledge Handbook of Religions in Asia

2014.10.03

The Routledge Handbook of Religions in Asia provides a contemporary and comprehensive overview of…
Converting experiences in communities of practice: 'educational' migration in Denmark and achievements of Ukrainian agricultural apprentices

2014.09.29

This article by post doc Vera Skvirskaja looks at ‘educational’ migration instigated by the Danish…
PhD dissertation: "Water is life". An ethnography of urban ecology and water politics in Arequipa, Peru

2014.06.12

The PhD dissertation by Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen explores how people, materials, knowledge and…
Why is Muna crying? Event, relation, and immediacy as criteria for acknowledging suffering in Palestine

2014.04.30

Based on extensive fieldwork in the occupied territories, the article provides a situated analysis…
Adivasis and Communists in Post-Reform Kerala

2014.04.30

In 1957, Kerala was the first state to democratically elect a Communist government. Ever since,…
TASTES: Foods, bodies, and places in Denmark

2014.04.29

In the context of the advancement of the New Nordic Cuisine in Denmark in the last decade, this…
Herbs, Laboratories, and Revolution: On the Making of a National Medicine in Vietnam

2014.04.01

This article examines the making of a national medicine in Vietnam. How can it be that the medical…
Haunting Images - A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam

2014.03.03

Based on years of careful ethnographic fieldwork in Hanoi, Haunting Images offers a frank and…
Migration and care - intimately related aspects of Caribbean family and kinship

2014.02.20

Article by Karen Fog Olwig, professor at department at Anthropology, about how relations of care ar…
Notions and practices of difference: an epilogue on the ethnography of diversity

2014.02.18

The notion of diversity, which has gained increasing prominence in recent years, promises to…
Article: "Drowning Piracy Threats: The Binary of Land and Sea"

2014.01.22

Seafarers downplay, keep secret or even lie about piracy threats.
Article: The Problem of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Today: Eyes Half Closed?

2014.01.13

Article by John I. MacArtney, University of Queensland, and Ayo Wahlberg, associate professor at…

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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

'A Blessing in Disguise': The Art of Surviving HIV/AIDS as a Member of the Zionist Christian Church in South Africa

Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda

An 'Expanded' Class Perspective: Bringing capitalism down to earth in the changing political lives of Adivasi workers in Kerala

Routledge Handbook of Religions in Asia

Converting experiences in communities of practice: 'educational' migration in Denmark and achievements of Ukrainian agricultural apprentices

PhD dissertation: "Water is life". An ethnography of urban ecology and water politics in Arequipa, Peru

Why is Muna crying? Event, relation, and immediacy as criteria for acknowledging suffering in Palestine

Adivasis and Communists in Post-Reform Kerala

TASTES: Foods, bodies, and places in Denmark

Herbs, Laboratories, and Revolution: On the Making of a National Medicine in Vietnam

Haunting Images - A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam

Migration and care - intimately related aspects of Caribbean family and kinship

Notions and practices of difference: an epilogue on the ethnography of diversity

Article: "Drowning Piracy Threats: The Binary of Land and Sea"

Article: The Problem of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Today: Eyes Half Closed?

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