18. Nov 2024 / News, Forschung, People

Emplacing Arrivals: The Infrastructural Accommodation of Migratory Difference in Urban West Africa

New publication by Michael Stasik

06. Nov 2024 / News

Out now: Podcast on Erotics

With Anima Adjepong

11. Sep 2024 / Events

Out now: Program of the Colloquium "Anthropological Crossroads"

The weekly colloquium in social anthropology explores ways of using the ethnographic imagination to better understand the contemporary world order and its shifting cultural, political, and economic trends. Recent ethnographies of late…

11. Sep 2024 / People

Commodification of Ethnic Sexuality and Social Belonging - George Paul Meiu on Political Representation and the Role of Objects

Podcast with George Paul Meiu

09. Aug 2024 / Forschung

In the Thunderstorm of War

New project in collaboration with Olena Sobolieva, University of Basel

04. Jul 2024 / News

Bericht: Prophétique (on est déjà né.es) von Nadia Beugré (Kaserne Basel, 21.11.2023)

Betrag von Studierenden im Newsletter der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Afrikastudien

26. Jun 2024 / Forschung

Burden of chronic pain among adult pastoralists in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional household survey New article by Piet van Eeuwijk and colleagues

New article by Piet van Eeuwijk and colleagues

17. Jun 2024 / Forschung

Contemporary Ethnographic Aesthetics: The TikTok Turn

New article by Lesley Nicole Braun and Anna Vollmer Mateus

07. Jun 2024 / News, Forschung

Out now: Basel Anthropology Papers #1: Drawings

Inaugural issue of our institute’s new periodical

14. Mai 2024 / Doktorat, People

PhD Position / Assistantship in Social Anthropology (60%)

The Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Basel, Switzerland, is searching for a doctoral fellow with a strong training in - and innovative ideas for - the theory and methods of socio-cultural anthropology. Candidates'…

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