Anthropology

Anthropology at Aarhus University

Humans are social beings. Anthropology is all about what this means for how we arrange our lives, organize our society and perceive the world around us – everywhere on earth. How are people's worlds different and how do they experience the world differently – across societies or within the same society? And still what is it that we have in common? Read more here

Our degree programmes

In addition to educational programs in Anthropology from bachelor to PhD level, the department of Anthropology also offers a masters-degree in Human Security, supplementary subjects in anthropology and sociology respectively, as well as a one-year masters-degree in health anthropology.

A strong research environment

The department of Anthropology is among the strongest academic environments in Europe and the department attracts guest-researchers, PhD-students and students from across the world. Our teaching is deeply anchored in our research with particular specializations within globalization and development, innovation and design, medical as well as visual anthropology.

Department staff

Academic and administrative staff

Academic staff

Name	Job title	Email	Phone	Building
Andersen, Amalie Bakkær Munk	Research Assistant	amalie.bma@cas.au.dk
Andersen, Rikke Sand	Professor with Special Responsibilities	rsa@cas.au.dk	+4587167984	4235, 126
Baann, Cecilie	PhD Student	ceciliebaann@cas.au.dk
Bach, Katrine Mandrup	PhD-student	kmbach@cas.au.dk
Baskin Coffey, Victoria	PhD Student	victoriabaskincoffey@cas.au.dk
Beek, Martijn van	Associate Professor	mvanbeek@cas.au.dk	+4587162119	4236, 111
Bhutia, Anisa	Postdoc	anisa@cas.au.dk
Bjerregaard, Sofie Budhoo	PhD Student	sobj@cas.au.dk
Blanton, Amos Bokonen	PhD Student	amos@cas.au.dk	+4587169029
Brendtner, Fine	PhD Student	brendtner@cas.au.dk
Bræmer Warburg, Anna	PhD Student	warburg@cas.au.dk		4231, 211
Bubandt, Nils Ole	Professor	bubandt@cas.au.dk	+4587162116	4236, 120
Bune, Julie Nynne	PhD Student	jnb@cas.au.dk
Capelán, Annika	Postdoc	ancapekoh@cas.au.dk
Christensen, Laura Munk	Student Teacher
Cortês, Carla Mirella De Oliveira	PhD studerende	ccortes@cas.au.dk
Dalsgård, Line	Professor	ald@cas.au.dk	+4587162121	4236, 219
Daugbjerg, Mads	Associate Professor	mads.daugbjerg@cas.au.dk	+4587162128	4236, 119
Eilenberg, Michael	Associate Professor	etnome@cas.au.dk	+4587162172	4236, 220
Evaldsen Christensen, Marie	PhD Student	mech@cas.au.dk
Flora, Janne	Associate Professor	jakf@cas.au.dk	+4587161968	4236, 215
Frederiksen, Martin Demant	Associate Professor	demant@edu.au.dk	+4587162065	4235, 234
Frederiksen, Rikke Elisabeth		au182045@cas.au.dk
Gade, Christian B. N.	Associate Professor	gade@cas.au.dk	+4587163276	4236, 214
Gammelby, Ane Kathrine Lolholm	Postdoc	ak@cc.au.dk	+4561707411
Gravers, Mikael	Associate professor emeritus	etnomg@cas.au.dk	+4521758809	Villaen, Moesgård Alle 18
Grüner, Line Brandbyge Schmidt	PhD Student	line.gruner@cas.au.dk		4231, 211
Hansen, Anders Sybrandt	Associate Professor	etnoash@cas.au.dk	+4587162082	4236, 213
Harrisson, Annika Pohl	Postdoc	apha@cas.au.dk	+4528782021	4236, 216
Hede, Kenni	PhD Student	hede@cas.au.dk
Helligsøe, Kasper	PhD Student	kph@cas.au.dk
Høiris, Ole	Emeritus professor	etnooh@cas.au.dk	+4587162565	4215, 216
Pedersen, Susanne Højlund	Associate professor, head of department	etnosh@cas.au.dk	+4587162125	4236, 114
Iversen, Marie Kølbæk	PhD Student	mki@cas.au.dk
Jensen, Emilie	PhD Student	e.e.jensen@cas.au.dk
Jeppesen, Maja Kirstine Dahl	PhD Student	madje@cas.au.dk
Kayser, Lis	PhD Student	lika@cas.au.dk		4205, 229
Kieffer-Døssing, Astrid		akd@cas.au.dk
Knudsen, Anne Sofie Galst	Student Teacher
Knudsen, Lasse Bech		lbk@cas.au.dk
Kramer, Cæcilie Kildahl	PhD Student	kramer@cas.au.dk
Kristensen, Catrine Sundorf	PhD Student	csun@cas.au.dk
Kusk, Mette Lind	Postdoc	melk@au.dk
Köhn, Steffen	Assistant Professor	steffenkoehn@cas.au.dk		4235, 138
Laursen, Camilla Brændstrup	PhD Student	cbl@cas.au.dk	+4522622974	4215, 228
Lini, Janne Bleeg	Teaching Associate Professor	etnobleeg@cas.au.dk	+4587163237
Louw, Maria E.	Associate Professor	etnolouw@cas.au.dk	+4587162062	4235, 222
Lovelady, Astrid Stampe		asl@cas.au.dk
Lund Mortensen, Emilie	Assistant Professor	elm@cas.au.dk	+4526211250	4235, 138
Lykkegård, Jeanette	Postdoc	etnojln@cas.au.dk	+4587162886

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Gravers, M. (2020). 'Being Excluded: Muslim and Hindu Communities in Karen State.'. In H. M. Kyed (Ed.), Everyday Justice in Myanmar: Informal Resolutions and State Evasion in a Time of Contested Transition (pp. 219-254). NIAS Press. NIAS Studies in Asian Topics

Lowe, S. J., George, L. & Deger, J. (2020). A Deeper Deep Listening: Doing Pre-Ethics Fieldwork in Aotearoa New Zealand. In Indigenous Research Ethics: Claiming Research Sovereignty Beyond Deficit and the Colonial Legacy Advances in Research Ethics and Integrity (pp. 275–291). Emerald Group Publishing. Advances in Research Ethics and Integrity Vol. 6

Nielsen, S. H., Andersen, R. S. & Tørring, M. L. (2020). A Shot at a Healthy Future: An extended case analysis of the turbulent beginning of HPV vaccination in Denmark. Tidsskrift for Forskning i Sygdom og Samfund, 17(33), 65-86. https://doi.org/10.7146/tfss.v17i33.123588

Liversage, A. & Rytter, M. (2020). A cousin marriage equals a forced marriage: Transnational marriages between closely related spouses in Denmark. In A. Shaw & A. R. (Eds.), Cousin Marriages: Between Tradition, Genetic Risk and Cultural Change (Paper back ed., pp. 130-153). Berghan Books. Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality Vol. 28

Bræmer Warburg, A. & Jensen, S. (2020). Ambiguous Fear in the War on Drugs: A reconfiguration of social and moral orders in the Philippines. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 51(1-2), 5-24. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463420000211

Andersen, A., Dalsgård, L., Kusk, M. L., Nielsen, M., Rubow, C. & Rytter, M. (Eds.) (2020). Anthropology inside out: fieldworkers taking notes. Sean Kingston Publishing. https://doi.org/DOI 10.26581/B.ANDE01

Høiris, O. (2020). Antropologen Johannes Nicolaisen: feltforsker, fornyer og formidler. Aarhus Universitetsforlag.

Kjærgaard Thorsen, M. & Dalsgård, A. L. (2020). Balancing Blood Sugar: Fasting, Feeling, and Time Work During the Egyptian Ramadan. In M. Flaherety, A. L. Dalsgård & L. Meinert (Eds.), Time work: Studies of Temporal Agency (pp. 193-208). Berghahn Books.

Daugbjerg, M. (2020). Battle. In V. Agnew, J. Lamb & J. Tomann (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Reenactment Studies: Key Terms in the Field (pp. 25-29). Routledge.

Lund Mortensen, E. (2020). Being Care-full In Exile: Intimate tensions among Syrian men in Amman. Aarhus Universitet.

Seeberg, J. (2020). Biosocial Dynamics of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A Bacterial Perspective. In J. Seeberg, A. Roepstorff & L. Meinert (Eds.), Biosocial Worlds: Anthropology of Health Environments beyond Determinism (pp. 124-145). UCL Press London. Culture and Health Vol. 1 No. 1 https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787358232

Seeberg, J., Roepstorff, A. & Meinert, L. (Eds.) (2020). Biosocial worlds: anthropology of health environments beyond determinism. UCL Press. Culture and Health Vol. 1 No. 1 https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787358232

Seeberg, J. (2020). Bombarding microbial life with antibiotics creates an explosion of drug resistance. In A. L. Tsing, J. Deger, A. Keleman Saxena & F. Zhou (Eds.), Feral atlas: the more-than-human anthropocene Stanford University Press. Digital Projects Section https://doi.org/10.21627/2020fa

Lovelady, A. S. (2020). Bygningsarbejdernes dobbeltliv: drømme og udstationering. In D. V. Hirslund, J. Rahbæk Møller & K. L. Salamon (Eds.), Prekarisering uden grænser (pp. 117-135). U Press.

Andersen, R. S., McArtney, J., Berhnhardson, B-M., Malmstrøm, M., Hajdarevic, S., Rasmussen, B. & Ziebland, S. (2020). Caring as sharing Negotiating the moral boundaries of receiving care. Critical Public Health, 30(5), 567-576. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2019.1623381

Povlsen, K. K., Krogager, S. G. S., Leer, J. & Højlund, S. (2020). Children, Food and Digital Media: Questions, Challenges and Methodologies. In E. E. Ødegaatd & J. S. Borgen (Eds.), Childhood Cultures in Transformation: 30 Years of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in Action towards Sustainability (pp. 162-177). Brill.

Otto, T. (2020). Clifford Geertz: Mod en fortolkende antropologi. In K. Hastrup (Ed.), Klassiske og moderne antropologiske tænkere (pp. 397-422). Hans Reitzels Forlag.

Daugbjerg, M. (2020). Coastal concrete: cumbersome heritage at the water’s edge. Abstract from Association of Critical Heritage Studies Biennial Conference: Futures, London, United Kingdom. https://achs2020london.com/book-of-abstracts/

Bubandt, N. (2020). Corals. In M. Krogh (Ed.), Connectedness: An Incomplete Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene (pp. 128-129). Strandberg Publishing.

Swanson, H. A. (2020). Curious ecologies of knowledge: more-than-human anthropology. In P. Zurn & A. Shankar (Eds.), Curiosity studies: a new ecology of knowledge (pp. 15-36). University of Minnesota Press.

Grøn, L. (2020). Cutting/Belonging. Sameness and Difference in the Lived Experience of Obesity and Kinship in Denmark. Ethnos, 85(4), 679-695. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2019.1626465

Bubandt, N. & Tsing, A. (2020). Dear Grain of Wheat. In Seeding Stories: A Guide To The Interior Of A Salt Water Crocodile: Migrant Ecologies Project https://seeding-stories.org/Nils-Bubandt-Anna-Tsing

Chettri, M. & McDuie-Ra, D. (2020). Delinquent Borderlands: Disorder and Exception in the Eastern Himalaya. Journal of Borderlands Studies, 35(5), 709-723. https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2018.1452166

Köhn, S. (2020). Desktop Documentary: Screens as Film Locations. In The Routledge Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video

Suhr, C. (Producer) & Petitmengin, C. (Producer). (2020). EPOCHE (ethnographic film). Pictures, Video and sound recordings (digital), Mind and Life Europe. https://vimeo.com/369014148

Frederiksen, M. D. (2020). Emptiness and Surface. Cultural Anthropology. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/emptiness-and-surface

Boertmann, D. M., Johansen, K. L. & Flora, J. (2020). Environmental status and pressures in the assessment area: 6.2 Human activities. In D. Boertmann, D. Blockley & A. Mosbech (Eds.), Greenland Sea – an updated strategic environmental impact assessment of petroleum activities (2nd revised edition ed., pp. 212-217). Aarhus Universitet, DCE - Nationalt Center for Miljø og Energi. Scientific Report from DCE - Danish Centre for Environment and Energy Vol. 375 https://dce2.au.dk/pub/SR375.pdf

Johansen, M-L. (2020). Epidemic policing: The spreading of counter-radicalization in Denmark. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 38(3), 472–489 . [0263775819864119]. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775819864119

Hede, K. & Boelsbjerg, H. B. (2020). Et udvidet moralsk laboratorium: En autoetnografisk undersøgelse af det danske begravelsesritual, og hvordan dets praksisser genforhandles som følge af COVID-19. Jordens Folk - Etnografisk Tidsskrift, 55(2), 67-74. https://tidsskrift.dk/jf/article/view/127067/173402

Brichet, N. S. & Hastrup, F. (2020). Ethnography, exhibition practices and undisciplined encounters: the generative work of amulets in London. In P. Bjerregaard (Ed.), Exhibitions as research: experimental methods in museums (pp. 53-64). Routledge. Routledge research in museum studies No. 29

Seeberg, J. (2020). Fear of Drug-resistant Tuberculosis as Social Contagion. Ethnos. Journal of Anthropology, 85(4), 665-678. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2019.1634615

Gade, C. B. N., van Mastrigt, S., Christensen, S. R. B., Andersen, L. K., Strang, H. & Sherman, L. (2020). Forurettedes og gerningspersoners oplevelse af at mødes i konfliktråd: Foreløbige spørgeskemaresultater fra Konfliktråd Impact Project (KIP). Aarhus Universitet.

Dalsgaard, S. & Otto, T. (2020). From Drifters to Asylum Seekers. The Contemporary Pacific, 32(2), 503-511. [774143]. https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2020.0043

Zuppi, A. (2020). Gestion de la chasse et des chasseurs. L’entrelacement du niveau cynégétique officiel et non officiel dans la chasse en battue au grand gibier dans les Pyrénées-Orientales. In De la bête au non-humain : perspectives et controverses autour de la condition animale Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. Actes des congrès nationaux des sociétés historiques et scientifiques

Lovelady, A. S., Rytter, M., Selmer, B., Bertram Larsen, P., Wilms, S. & Sørensen, J. K. (2020). GoInGlobal: Afrapportering og praksisanbefalinger vedrørende inklusion og forankring af internationale medarbejdere og tilflyttere i Ringkøbing-Skjern Kommune. Aarhus Universitet. https://cas.au.dk/fileadmin/ingen_mappe_valgt/GoInRKSK_rapport.pdf

Vaisman, N. (2020). Hacking Time and Looping Temporalities in the Identification of the Adult 'Living Disappeared' in Argentina. In M. Flaherty, A. L. Dalsgård & L. Meinert (Eds.), Time Work: Studies of Temporal Agency (pp. 67-82). Berghahn Books.

Meinert, L. (2020). Haunted Families after the war in Uganda: Doubt as Polyvalent Critique. Ethnos, 85(4), 595-611. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2019.1629981

Overstreet, K. (2020). How to Taste Like a Cow: Cultivating Shared Sense in Wisconsin Dairy Worlds. In C. Counihan & S. Højlund (Eds.), Making Taste Public: Ethnographies of Food and the Senses (pp. 53-67). Bloomsbury Academic.

Christensen, M. K., Sørensen, J. K., Jensen, R. D., Gjedde Brøndt, S., Norberg, K., O’Neill, L. D., Mortensen, L. S. & Charles, P. (2020). How to play the game of medical education: Sociocultural analyses of educational difficulties among medical residents. MedEdPublish. https://doi.org/10.15694/mep.2020.000125.1

Schou Pallesen, C. M. (2020). Hytta. Fire vegger rundt en drøm. Jordens Folk, 55(2), 113.

Seeberg, J., Meinert, L. & Roepstorff, A. (2020). Introduction: Biosocial Worlds. In J. Seeberg, L. Meinert & A. Roepstorff (Eds.), Biosocial Worlds: Anthropology of Health Environments beyond Determinism (pp. 1-14). UCL Press London. Culture and Health Vol. 1 No. 1 https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787358232

Holdgaard, M., Magnúsdóttir, A. & Selmer, B. (2020). Introduction. In Nordic Inheritance Law through the Ages: Spaces of Action and Legal Strategies (pp. 1-20). Brill | Nijhoff. Legal History Library Vol. 38 https://brill.com/view/title/56281?rskey=GeebWo&result=1

Schneidermann, N. (2020). Introduction to the 2020 December Issue. Nordic Journal of African Studies, 29(4), 1-3. https://www.njas.fi/njas/article/view/602/428

Dalsgård, L., Rubow, C. & Rytter, M. (2020). Introductory notes. In A. Andersen, L. Dalsgård, M. L. Kusk, M. Nielsen, C. Rubow & M. Rytter (Eds.), Anthropology inside out: fieldworkers taking notes (pp. 1-10). Sean Kingston Publishing. https://doi.org/10.26581/B.ANDE01

Tørring, M. L. & Seeberg, J. (2020). Introduktion: Corona-etnografier. Jordens Folk - Etnografisk Tidsskrift, 55(2), 3-5.

Birkedal, N. B. & Sørensen, J. K. (2020). Køn og studievalg i Randers: en undersøgelse af, hvad der påvirker valget af ungdomsuddannelse blandt 19 elever i 9. klasse på Randers Realskole og Tirsdalen skole i Randers. Aarhus Universitet. https://cas.au.dk/fileadmin/arts/Kulturinitiativers_sundhedsfremme/TRADIUM_rapport.pdf

Meinert, L. & Whyte, S. R. (2020). Legacies of violence: the communicability of spirits and trauma in Northern Uganda. In J. Seeberg, A. Roepstorff & L. Meinert (Eds.), Biosocial worlds: anthropology of health environments beyond determinism (pp. 168-190). UCL Press. Culture and Health No. 1 https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787358232

Selmer, B. (2020). Life Companionship as an Argument for Inheritance Rights: Disputing Bona Vacantia with the Danish State. In M. Holdgaard, A. Magnúsdóttir & B. Selmer (Eds.), Nordic Inheritance Law through the Ages: Spaces of Action and Legal Strategies (pp. 231-250). Brill | Nijhoff. Legal History Library Vol. 38

Morris, A. & Verdasco Martinez, A. (2020). Loneliness and housing tenure: Older private renters and social housing tenants in Australia. Journal of Sociology, Mo. https://doi.org/10.1177/1440783320960527

Otto, T. (2020). Maloat, Sir Paliau (c. 1907-1991). In Australian Dictionary of Biography National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/maloat-sir-paliau-29941

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