02. Juni 2025 / News, Forschung

Navigating (im)mobility in an urban space: migrant’s lived experience in Kyiv/Ukraine before 2022

New publication by Olena Sobolieva

23. Mai 2025 / Forschung, Studium

Program of the second edition of the "Anthropology Field School"

The second edition of the “Anthropology Field School” takes on the topic of Objects, Time, Transmission. It explores how artefacts—their materiality, surfaces, and substances, but also their investment with meaning, affect, and desire—shape…

21. Mai 2025 / Forschung, People

Out now: Basel Anthropology Paper #2: Companion

14. Mai 2025 / News, Forschung, People

Chop money life: Joblessness, unretirement, and dependence among transport workers in urban Ghana

New (open access) article by Michael Stasik

05. Mai 2025 / News, Forschung, People

Out now: Podcast on Sensing

With David Howes

05. Mai 2025 / Forschung, People

George Paul Meiu won the Amaury Talbot Prize 2025

George Paul Meiu’s book "Queer Objects to the Rescue: Intimacy and Citizenship in Kenya" (University of Chicago Press, 2023) just won the 2025 Amaury Talbot Prize of the Royal Anthropological Institute in the U.K. for “the most valuable…

22. Apr. 2025 / News, Forschung, People

Unisonar Podcast with George Paul Meiu

George Paul Meiu talks about historical origins, social attributions and the political power of sexuality in the Unisonar podcast from the University of Basel.

14. März 2025 / News, Forschung, People

Out now: Bus Station Hustle: Transport Work in Urban Ghana

New book by Michael Stasik

14. März 2025 / News, Forschung

Out now: Podcast on the Devil

With Birgit Meyer

28. Jan. 2025 / News, Events

Out now: Program of 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. For detailed information on the…