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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…

23 Jan 2025 / News, Research

Chains of Dependency: Changing Importation Practices in the Democratic Republic of Congo

New publication by Lesley Nicole Braun

18 Dec 2024 / News, People

George Paul Meiu's book "Queer Objects to the Rescue" is finalist for the Bethwell A. Ogot Prize of the African Studies Association, USA

The ASA’s Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize recognizes the best book on East African studies published in the previous calendar year. Established in 2012, the award is named in honor of Prof. Bethwell A. Ogot, a leading Kenyan historian, public…

Münsterplatz 19, Basel

Organizer:
Institute of Social Anthropology

Public event, Colloquium

Coming To Our Senses: Proposal for the Creation of a Multisensory Collaboratory for the Enhancement of Individual and Collective Well-Being

Presentation by David Howes, FRSC, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal

Münsterplatz 19, Basel

Organizer:
Institute of Social Anthropology

Behind the scenes: Human Library - from Theory to Everyday Practices

Session organized by the Fachgruppe Ethnologie

Münsterplatz 19

Organizer:
Institute of Social Anthropology

Public event, Colloquium

The Reconfiguration of Kin Networks through Separation and Estrangement

Presentation by Bettina Beer, University of Lucerne

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