Research
The Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology is running two research programmes. The research of all staff members is connected to one or both of these programmes. Extensive information about the research programmes can be found at:
Annual Reports
Promotions
- 28 oktober 2011: Promotie Rhea Hummel: Kunstlevens: Hedendaagse Nederlandse beeldend kunstenaars en schrijvers over hun levensbeschouwing
- 27 september 2011: Promotie Rhoda Woets: "What is this?" Framing Ghanaian art from the colonial encounter to the present
- 16 september 2011: Linda van de Kamp: Violent conversion Brazilian Pentecostalism and the urban pioneering of women in Mozambique
- 30 June 2011: Miranda Klaver: A semiotic perspective on conversion in an evangelical seeker church and a pentecostal church in The Netherlands
- 10 May 2011: Koert van de Velde: Flirten met God: Religiositeit zonder geloof
- 24 May 2011: Tam Ngo; Transnational Religious Networks and Protestant Conversion among the Hmong in Northern Vietnam
- 27 January 2011: Inge Ruigrok: Negociating Governance: Politics, Culture, and the State in Post-War Angola
- 11 October 2010: João Rickli: Negotiating otherness in the dutch protestant world: Missionary and Diaconal Encounters between the Protestant Church in the Netherlands and Brazilian Organisations
- 22 April 2010: Tuan Anh Nguyen; Kinship as Social Capital: Economic, Social and Cultural Dimensions of Changing Kinship Relations in a Northern Vietnamese Village
- 5 March 2010: Tijo Salverda: Sugar, Sea and Power: How Franco-Mauritians Balance Continuity and Creeping Decline of their Elite Position
- 14 December 2009; B. Tasew; Metaphors of Peace and Violence in the Folklore Discourses of South-Western Ethiopia: A comparative study
- 10 juni 2009; Erella Grassiani: Morality and Normalcy in A-Symmetrical Conflict
Pasts in the present
In 2009, a selection of internationally renowned scholars will talk about their work in “Pasts in the Present,” a series of research seminars on interfaces between history and anthropology.
