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
Løvschal-Nielsen, Pia	PhD Student	pia.loevschal-nielsen@cas.au.dk	+4587162079	4218
Mannov, Adrienne	Assistant Professor	mannov@cas.au.dk	+4593521128	4236, 212
Mattingly, Cheryl	Professor	au478335@cas.au.dk
Meinert, Lotte	Professor	lotte.meinert@cas.au.dk	+45162118	4236, 115
Mortensen, Sarah-Louise Japhetson	PhD Student	japhetson.mortensen@cas.au.dk
Nielsen, Christian Axboe	Associate Professor	christian.a.nielsen@cas.au.dk	+4587162241	1461, 625
Nielsen, Sigrid Wibe	PhD Student	sigridwibe@cas.au.dk
Nielsen, Stine Hauberg	Postdoc	shn@cas.au.dk
Otto, Ton	Professor	ton.otto@cas.au.dk	+4587162915	4215, 224
Paarup, Bjarke	Associate Professor	bjarke.paarup@cas.au.dk	+4587162158
Pahuus, Katrine Vestergaard	PhD Student	kpa@cas.au.dk
Pedersen, Anna Frohn	Postdoc	anna.frohn.pedersen@cas.au.dk	+4528345741
Poulsen, Christian Skjøtt	Student Teacher
Ramsbøl, Anne Toft	PhD Student	atr@cas.au.dk
Rasmussen, Amanda Møller		amamolras@cas.au.dk
Rasmussen, Gitte Vandborg	PhD Student	gvr@cas.au.dk		4205, 229
Roepstorff, Andreas	Head of Department	andreas.roepstorff@cas.au.dk	+4526362772	1467, 430
Rytter, Mikkel	Professor	mikkel.rytter@cas.au.dk	+4587162126	4235, 230
Sandbye, Clara Rosa	PhD Student	clasa@cas.au.dk
Schlütter, Mette Mørup	Postdoc	mms@ph.au.dk
Schneidermann, Nanna	Associate Professor	nanna.s@cas.au.dk
Schütt, Morten		etnoms@cas.au.dk		4231, 2.51
Seeberg, Jens	Professor	jseeberg@cas.au.dk	+4587162117	4215, 230
Selmer, Bodil	Associate Professor	bodil.selmer@cas.au.dk	+4587162115	4236, 113
Shakya, Mallika
Skaanes, Thea	PhD Student	thea.skaanes@cas.au.dk	+4587162562
Smith, Aja	Research Assistant	aja@cas.au.dk
Suhr, Christian	Professor	suhr@cas.au.dk	+4531600031
Swanson, Heather Anne	Professor	ikshswanson@cas.au.dk	+4587162954	4236, 112
Sørensen, Johanne Korsdal	External Relations Manager	jks@cas.au.dk	+4521301787	4235, 134
Tarpgaard, Johanne Methmann	PhD Student	tarpgaard@cas.au.dk
Tashiro, Shuhei	PhD Student	shutash@cas.au.dk
Terkelsen, Katrine Duus	PhD Student	katrine.duus@cas.au.dk	+4528777912	4231, 211
Thomsen, Sofie Maj	PhD-student	smthomsen@cas.au.dk
Thygaard-Nielsen, Trine My	PhD Student	thygaard@cas.au.dk		4205, 229
Tsing, Anna	Professor	au249039@cas.au.dk
Tørring, Marie Louise	Associate professor, research programme director	mlt@cas.au.dk	+4587162089	4235, 226
Upadhyay, Rashmi	Postdoc	raup@cas.au.dk
Vaisman, Noa	Associate Professor	noa.vaisman@cas.au.dk	+4550357038	4235, 224
Venhovens, Mikel Johannes Hubertus	Postdoc	mjh.venhovens@cas.au.dk		4235, 130
Vium, Christian	Associate Professor	cvium@cas.au.dk	+4529802639	4215, 220
Vohnsen, Nina Holm	Associate Professor	nina.vohnsen@cas.au.dk	+4587162113	4236, 211
Wainman, Nicholas Rowland	PhD-student	nicholas.wainman@cas.au.dk
Warner, Cameron	Associate Professor	etncw@cas.au.dk	+4587162667	4236, 116
Wilms, Sofie Kønig	Research Assistant	skw@cas.au.dk	+4528552299	4235, 238
Yadav, Deepak
Zheng, Yayi	Visiting Researcher	yyz@cas.au.dk
Zhu, Wei	PhD Student	wzhu@cas.au.dk

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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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