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

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Keisalo, M. P. (2016). Review of: DURANTI, ALESSANDRO. Anthropology of Intentions: Language in a World of Others (Cambridge 2015): Book review. Suomen Antropologi, 41(2), 72-74.

Keisalo, M. P. (2017). ‘Picking People to Hate’: Reversible reversals in stand-up comedy. Suomen Antropologi, 41(4), 62-76.

Keisalo, M. P. (2017). The Revolution Will Be a Joke: Morality, Transgression, and Semiotic Ideologies in Finnish Stand-Up Comedy. Abstract from 106th Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Washington DC, United States.

Keisalo, M. P. (2017). “Laugh or I’ll Die”: Facing Death on the Stand-up Comedy Stage. Abstract from MEGA SEminar .

Keisalo, M. P. (2018). The invention of gender in stand‐up comedy: transgression and digression. Social Anthropology, 26(4), 550–563. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12515

Keisalo, M. P. (2018). Set-Up and Punchline as Figure and Ground: The Craft and Creativity of Stand-up Comedy. Open Anthropology Cooperative. Working Paper Series Vol. 25 http://openanthcoop.net/press/2018/03/19/set-up-and-punchline-as-figure-and-ground/

Keisalo, M. P. (2018). Perspectives of (and on) a Comedic Self: A Semiotics of Subjectivity in Stand-up Comedy. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology, 62(1), 116-135. https://www.berghahnjournals.com/abstract/journals/social-analysis/62/1/sa620108.xml

Johnsen, U. H. (2016). Introduction. In U. Høj Johnsen, A. W. Geertz, S. Castenfeldt & P. B. Andersen (Eds.), In the Footsteps of Halfdan Siiger: Danish Research in Central Asia (pp. 7-26). Moesgård Museum.

Johnsen, U. H. (2016). On Collections and Collectors: The Double Gaze of Museum Collections. In U. Høj Johnsen, A. W. Geertz, S. Castenfeldt & P. B. Andersen (Eds.), In the Footsteps of Halfdan Siiger: Danish Research in Central Asia (pp. 207-220). Moesgård Museum.

Johnsen, U. H., Geertz, A. W., Castenfeldt, S. & Andersen, P. B. (Eds.) (2016). In the Footsteps of Halfdan Siiger: Danish Research in Central Asia. Moesgård Museum.

Johansen, M-L. & Jensen, S. (2017). 'They want us out': Urban regeneration and the limits of integration in the Danish welfare state. Critique of Anthropology, 37 (3), 297-316. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X17719990

Johansen, M-L. (2016). Mor på fængselsbesøg. Jordens Folk - Etnografisk Tidsskrift, 2016 årg. 51(3-4), 26-33.

Johansen, M-L. (2017). Velfærdsstaten set fra udsatte flygtningeforældres perspektiv: ”Tillid” som markør for social inklusion. Dansk Paedagogisk Tidsskrift, 3, 7-16.

Johansen, M-L. (2017). ”Aarhus indsatsen”: Udveksling og relationsarbejde i den danske velfærdsstat: The Aarhus Model: Exchange and Relational work in the Danish Welfare State. In A. Anderson, S. A. E. Høgestøl & A. C. Lie (Eds.), Fremmedkrigere: Forebyggning, straffeforfølgning og rehabilitering i Skandinavia (pp. 265-296). Gyldendal Norsk Forlag.

Johansen, M-L., Sandrup, T. & Weiss, N. (2018). Introduction Special Issue: The Generative Power of Political Emotions. Conflict and Society, 4(1), 1-8.

Johansen, M-L. (2018). Navigating the politics of anxiety: Moral outrage, responsiveness and state accountability in Denmark. Conflict and Society, 4(1), 9-22. https://doi.org/10.3167/arcs.2018.040102

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

Johansen, M-L. (2019). Epidemic Policing: Reconfigurations of the Muslim 'other' as a figure of fear. Paper presented at ICSRU Workshop .

Johansen, M-L. (2016). Transforming state-margin relationships in Denmark. Paper presented at Parenting Encounters in the New Europe, Netherlands.

Johansen, M-L. (2016). The production of complex intimacies between welfare state agencies, immigrant communities and refugee families in Denmark. Paper presented at EASA, Milan, Italy.

Johansen, M-L. (2016). Experiencing the welfare state’s frontline from the front: biopolitical intensities and the limits to cooperation. Paper presented at Analyzing the history and sociology of welfare work, Denmark.

Johansen, M-L. (2016). Who is Rashid?. Paper presented at Moral Outrage and Political Emotions, Denmark.

Johansen, M-L. (2017). Policing between the welfare state and family relations in Denmark. Paper presented at Urban policing in a global perspective, Denmark.

Johansen, M-L. (2017). Ambivalent parenting: Raising children across the private/public domain. Paper presented at Muslim Care Beyond the Self, Denmark.

Johansen, M-L. (2018). Racialization, class and the policing of ethnic minorities in Denmark. Paper presented at Race in Contemporary Denmark, Denmark.

Johansen, M-L. (2018). The chronic double bind position of immigrant parents. Paper presented at Negotiating Good Lives in Europe , Netherlands.

Johansen, M-L., Sandrup, T. & Weiss, N. (Eds.) (2018). Moral Outrage. Berghahn Journals. Conflict and Society Vol. 4 No. 1

Johansen, M-L. (2019). Rethinking the relational state: New approaches to state proximity in Scandinavia. Paper presented at Inaugural Meeting EASA AnthroState Network, Netherlands.

Jewish, N., Chang, A., Robertson, D., Bürk, T., Hohne, S., Thelle, M., Fabian, L., Nielsen, M. & Hansen, A. L. (2017). URO Lab Report #4: Occupying Urban Seams: Homelessness, community activism and culture & catastrophe profiteering in New Orleans . Urban Orders Research Network (URO) Aarhus University.

Jensen, H., Tørring, M. L., Overgaard, J., Fenger-Grøn, M., Olesen, F. & Vedsted, P. (2015). Standardised cancer patient pathways (‘fast-track’) in Denmark: How is it used by the GP and what impact did ‘fast-track’ have on diagnostic interval across time?.

Jensen, H., Tørring, M. L., Olesen, F., Overgaard, J., Fenger-Grøn, M. & Vedsted, P. (2015). Diagnostic intervals before and after implementation of cancer patient pathways - a GP survey and registry based comparison of three cohorts of cancer patients. BMC Cancer, 15(1), 308. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-015-1317-7

Jensen, H., Tørring, M. L., Olesen, F. & Vedsted, P. (2015). Use of standardised cancer patient pathways, and the impact on faster and early diagn osis of cancer inDenmark. Abstract from Cancer and Primary Care Research International Network (Ca-PRI), Aarhus, Denmark. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecc.12373/epdf

Jensen, H. & Beek, M. V. (2015). Miteinander: Wie Empathie Kinder stark macht. In M. Roth, V. Schönefeld & T. Altmann (Eds.), Trainings- und Interventionsprogramme zur Förderung von Empathie: Ein praxisorientiertes Kompendium (pp. 77-91). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48199-8_7

Jensen, H., Tørring, M. L., Fenger-Grøn, M., Olesen, F., Overgaard, J. & Vedsted, P. (2016). Tumour stage and implementation of standardised cancer patient pathways: a comparative cohort study. British Journal of General Practice, 66(647), 434-443. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp16X684805

Jensen, H., Tørring, M. L. & Vedsted, P. (2017). Prognostic consequences of implementing cancer patient pathways in Denmark: a comparative cohort study of symptomatic cancer patients in primary care. B M C Cancer, 17(1), 627. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-017-3623-8

Jensen, A. L., Wind, G., Langdahl, B. L. & Lomborg, K. (2018). The Impact of Multifaceted Osteoporosis Group Education on Patients' Decision-Making regarding Treatment Options and Lifestyle Changes. Journal of Osteoporosis, 2018, [9703602]. https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/9703602

Ismail, A. M. (2018). Ageing, Care and Religiosity: Ethnographic reflections on attitudes towards elderly care in Arab Muslim Families. Paper presented at 19th Nordic Migration Research Conference 2018 (NMR-Conference)
, Norrköping, Sweden.

Irving, A. J., Kuehner, S. M., Andreasen, R., Lapen, T. J. & Chennaoui-Aoudjehane, H. (2015). Petrologic and Radiogenic Isotopic Assessment of Olivine-Phyric, Diabasic and Microgabbroic Shergottites from Northwest Africa. 46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, held March 16-20, 2015 in The Woodlands, Texas, 46, 2290. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015LPI....46.2290I

Højrup, M. & Swanson, H. A. (2018). The Making of Unstable Ground: The Anthropogenic Geologies of Søby, Denmark. Journal of Ethnobiology, 38(1), 24-38. https://doi.org/10.2993/0278-0771-38.1.024

Højlund, S. (2015). Taste as a Social Sense: Rethinking Taste as a Cultural Activity . Flavour, 4(6), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1186/2044-7248-4-6

Højlund, S. & Rasmussen, J. S. (2015). Disgust as a cultural expression: Exploring relations between food, taste and emotions. Paper presented at Enacting Modalities of Feeling, Wien, Austria.

Højlund, S. & Squarzon, C. (2019). The (im)permanence of a dish: a temporal analysis of the material culture of food . In I. Mihalache & E. Zanoni (Eds.), The material cultures of food Bloomsbury Academic.

Højlund, S. & Selmer, B. (2019). Det brankede: Tanker om grillpølsen. Jordens Folk, 54(2), 69-75.

Høiris, O. (2015). Om tordenkiler, stenøkser og uddøde dyr. Kuml: Årbog for Jysk Arkæologisk Selskab, 2015, 9-48.

Høiris, O. (2016). Peter Martyr d'Anghieras liv, værk og verdensbillede: Indledning. In O. Høiris (Ed.), Peter Martyr: Den ny verden (pp. 7-60). Aarhus Universitetsforlag.

Høiris, O. (2016). Reflections on Jørgen Jensen: The Prehistory of Denmark; from Stone Age to the Vikings. Gyldendal, Copenhagen, 2013. Danish Journal of Archaeology, 4(2), 97-108. https://doi.org/10.1080/21662282.2016.1177783

Høiris, O. (2016). Ideer om menneskets oprindelse: Fra Det Gamle Testamente til senmoderne videnskab. Aarhus Universitetsforlag.

Høiris, O. & Ingesman, P. (Eds.) (2017). Reformationen: 1500-tallets kulturrevolution. Aarhus Universitetsforlag.

Høiris, O. & Ingesman, P. (2017). Reformationen i internationalt perspektiv. In O. Høiris & P. Ingesman (Eds.), Reformationen – 1500-tallets kulturrevolution: Europa (Vol. 1, pp. 7-18). Aarhus Universitetsforlag.

Høiris, O. & Ingesman, P. (2017). Reformationen i Danmark. In O. Høiris & P. Ingesman (Eds.), Reformationen - 1500-tallets kulturrevolution: Danmark (Vol. 2, pp. 7-18). Aarhus Universitetsforlag.

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