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05 May 2026

Out now: New Podcast on Migration

With Charles Piot

13 Apr 2026 / News

Cumulative outmigration and social thinning in rural Ghana

New (open access) article by Michael Stasik

30 Mar 2026

Out now: New Podcast on Endings

With Anne Allison

11 Mar 2026 / News, Studies, Info

Out now: Video on MA in Social Anthropology in Basel

The Institute of Social Anthropology has created a video on the master's program. The video features the podcast, the Basel Anthropology Papers, the ethnographic fieldwork course and the colloquium.  Have a look and share the video with…

04 Mar 2026 / Studies

The MA field research course “Neighbours“ is present with a small but excellent exhibition at the Sustainability Week Unibas 2026!

In everyday language, the term neighbour refers to a spatial relationship: neighbours are people who live closer to us than others. But how do we actuallydo neighbourhood in everyday life? Through ethnographic research and visual material,…

Book Cover
11 Feb 2026 / News, Research, People

Out now: Walking Together Challenging Philosophical and Ethnographic Paradigms from the Ground Up

New publication by Anna Bloom-Christen

Colloquium
26 Jan 2026 / News, Research, Studies, 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. The colloquium is open to the…

22 Jan 2026 / People

The many futures of gender: Oral histories of feminist theory

Interview with Serena Dankwa (University of Basel), Patricia Purtschert (University of Bern) and Oyeronke Oyewumi

08 Dec 2025 / News

Out now: New Podcast on Display

With Friedrich von Bose

24 Oct 2025 / News

Out now: Online Course on Anthropological Imagination

Members of the Institute of Social Anthropology created an online course on "Anthropological Imagination" for tales.  This course invites you to explore how anthropology examines concrete human practices, while employing imagination to…

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