Social and Cultural Anthropology
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Visiting address: Room Z-120, Metropolitan Building, Buitenveldertselaan 3
Postal address: De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam
Telephone: +31 (0)20 59 86704
Fax: +31 (0)20 59 86722
E-mail: secretariaat.sca.fsw@vu.nl
Who we are and what we do...
The Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology is a small department, brimming with enthusiasm. In contrast to other Dutch anthropology departments, its curriculum and research programme are characterized by thematic rather than geographic specializations. Religion and poverty & development have always figured prominently. Themes like ethnicity, gender and power have also claim an important part of the research and teaching curricula. The small size of the Department means that frequent face-to-face contacts between students and staff are common and as a consequence staff members are very committed to their students.
Promo Master Anthropology
The Department has its own weblog, StandplaatsWereld. The blog provides a platform for informative, provocative, or surprising opinions about topical issues in the Netherlands and the rest of the world, viewed from an anthropological perspective. Contributions in English are welcome.
Muslim World-Making Research Seminar
Muslim World-Making Research Seminar
This seminar brings together researchers from anthropology, history, religion, sociology and other disciplines who engage with the study of the lived, everyday experiences of Muslims around the world. It explores the question of how we can fruitfully study the contemporary lives of Muslims in ways that take account of the aspirations to piety that many seem to have, while at the same time pay heed to the multifacetedness, complexity and ambiguity of their everyday lives. The seminar takes the notion of ‘Muslim world-making’ as an entry-point to explore methodological and theoretical approaches to studying the everyday worlds Muslims make and live in.
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Global Encounters Seminar
Global Encounters focuses on the everyday interactions between human lives and global processes. It is almost impossible for anthropologists today to conceive of lived experiences, whether in the present or in the past, without asking how these are globally (in)formed. At the same time it is human experiences which shape and define what 'the global' means, how it is contested, and how the answers to these questions vary across spatial, temporal and ideological contexts.
This serie of seminars offers an opportunity for speakers and audiences from a broad variety of fields and disciplinary backgrounds (including anthropology, history, sociology, law, politics, cultural studies, media, and religion) to reflect on the very dynamics of this dialectial relationship. Speakers will include both established scholars and PhD students.
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