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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Tejsner, P. (2019). Fra globale kvoter til lokale forhandlinger: Deling og konflikt blandt fangere i Qeqertarsuaq. Aarhus Universitet.

Suhr, C. (2019). Fra offentlige debatter om islam til religiøs erfaring og mikrofænomenologi. Jordens Folk, 54(1), 71-92.

Elbek, L. L. (2019). From Clans to Co-Ops: Confiscated Mafia Land in Sicily. Ethnos, 85(2), 393-394.

Eilenberg, M. & Cons, J. (2019). Frontier Assemblages: The Emergent Politics of Resource Frontiers in Asia. Wiley. Antipode Book Series

Leer, J., Krogager, S. G. S., Povlsen, K. K. & Højlund, S. (2019). Gender and Children's Food Practices: A Qualitative Study of 12-14 Year Old Children in a Danish School Setting. NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 27(3), 181-193. https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2019.1609087

Venhovens, M. J. H. (2019). Hardening Porousness: Borderization & Abandonment among the borderland ruins of Abkhazia. IIAS Newsletter, 82(Spring), 38-39. https://www.iias.asia/the-newsletter/article/hardening-porousness-borderization-abandonment-among-borderland-ruins

Sparre, S. L. (2019). Helligt kød: Religiøsitet og materialitet i frivilligt arbejde blandt unge muslimer i Kairo. Jordens Folk - Etnografisk Tidsskrift, (2), 39-51.

Daugbjerg, M. (2019). Heroes Once Again: Varieties of Danish ‘Activism’ in Conflated Commemorations of The War in Afghanistan and the Prusso-Danish War of 1864. Ethnos, 84(1), 160-178. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2017.1396232

Løvschal, M., Gullbekk, S. H., Johansen, M-L., O'neill, S. & Willerslev, R. (2019). Human Sacrifice and Value. Antiquity, 93(370), [e23]. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2019.104

Høiris, O. (2019). Hunden. In O. Høiris & P. K. A. Jensen (Eds.), Evolutionens menneske – menneskets evolution (pp. 305-320). Aarhus Universitetsforlag.

Hansen, A. S., Højlund, S., Schou Pallesen, C. M. & Rytter, M. (Eds.) (2019). Hvad vi deler: Antropologiske perspektiver på deling som socialt fænomen. Aarhus Universitetsforlag. Antropologiske Studier No. 5

Hansen, A. S. (2019). Hvem tjener ordene: Tre samtaler om at tage del i den offentlige samtale. In A. S. Hansen, S. Højlund, C. M. S. Pallesen & M. Rytter (Eds.), Hvad vi deler: Antropologiske perspektiver på deling som socialt fænomen (pp. 125-141). Aarhus Universitetsforlag. Antropologiske Studier Vol. 5

Nielsen, A. G. & Rytter, M. (2019). I krig og kærlighed: Hjemsøgelser fra den delte fortid blandt afghanske flygtninge. In A. S. Hansen, S. Højlund, C. M. Pallesen & M. Rytter (Eds.), Hvad vi deler: Antropologiske perspektiver på deling som socialt fænomen (pp. 195-212). Aarhus Universitetsforlag. Antropologiske Studier No. 5

Høiris, O. (2019). Ilden. In O. Høiris & P. K. A. Jensen (Eds.), Evolutionens menneske – menneskets evolution (pp. 293-305). Aarhus Universitetsforlag.

Frederiksen, M. D. (2019). In the house of un-things: decay and deferral in a vacated Bulgarian home. In F. Martinez & P. Laviolette (Eds.), Repair, brokenness, breakthrough: ethnographic responses Berghahn Books. Politics of repair Vol. 1

Høiris, O. & Marquardt, O. (2019). Indledning. In O. Høiris, O. Marquardt & G. A. Reimer (Eds.), Grønlændernes syn på Danmark: historiske, kulturelle og sproglige perspektiver (pp. 7-20). Aarhus Universitetsforlag.

Hansen, A. S. & Højlund, S. (2019). Indledning: Antropologiske perspektiver på deling. In A. S. Hansen, S. Højlund, C. M. S. Pallesen & M. Rytter (Eds.), Hvad vi deler : Antropologiske perspektiver på deling som socialt fænomen (pp. 7-18). Aarhus Universitetsforlag. Antropologiske Studier No. 5

Rytter, M. & Ghandchi, N. (2019). Integration via arbejde: Prekær inklusion og udvidet usikkerhed blandt afghanske flygtninge . Social Kritik:Tidsskrift for social analyse & debat, 160, 4-17.

Walsh, M. J., Prentiss, A. M. & Riede, F. (2019). Introduction to cultural microevolutionary research in anthropology and archaeology. In A. M. Prentiss (Ed.), Handbook of evolutionary research in archaeology (pp. 25-47). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11117-5_2

Høiris, O. (2019). Inuitters beretninger om optræden i Danmark, Europa og USA. In O. Høiris, O. Marquardt & G. A. R. (Eds.), Grønlændernes syn på Danmark.: historiske, kulturelle og sproglige perspektiver (pp. 303-364). Aarhus Universitetsforlag.

Chiodelli, F. & Mazzolini, A. (2019). Inverse Planning in the Cracks of Formal Land Use Regulation: The Bottom-Up Regularisation of Informal Settlements in Maputo, Mozambique. Planning Theory and Practice, 20(2), 165-181. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2019.1604980

Vaisman, N. (2019). Kinship knowledge and the state: the case of Argentina's adult 'living disappeared'. In The Cambridge handbook of Kinship (pp. 279-305). Cambridge University Press.

Ahmad, M. & Waltorp, K. (2019). Kontroversen on Exitcirklen: Racialisering af muslimske kvinder i den danske mediedebat. Jordens Folk, 54(1), 65-79.

Bubandt, N. (2019). Koralteori, eller hvad hvad koraller kan lære antropologi om multispecies socialitet. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift, 30(3-4), 186-204. https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.1504-2898-2019-03-04-02

Skaanes, T. (2019). Kødkraft - En historie om køddeling fra feltarbejde blandt hadza i Tanzania. Jordens Folk, 54(2), 17-29. https://tidsskrift.dk/jf/issue/view/9054/1325

Chahine, A. (2019). Looking for Mr. Right Now. Anthropology News, 60(1). https://doi.org/10.1111/AN.1071

Chettri, M. (2019). Making ‘Green Citizens’ in Ilam: Development and Transformation in East Nepal. South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies, 42(5), 971-987. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2019.1653029

Swanson, H. A. (2019). Multispecies research. In P. Atkinson, S. Delamont, A. Cernat, J. W. Sakshaug & R. A. Williams (Eds.), The Sage encyclopedia of research methods SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781526421036833388

Russi, A. & Kieffer-Døssing, A. (2019). Museums and indigenous memory: the Katxuyana’s collections and the contemporaneity of musealized material culture. Museum & Society, 17(3), 494-509. https://doi.org/10.29311/mas.v17i3.2980

Bubandt, N. (2019). Of Wildmen and White Men: Cryptozoology and Inappropriate/d Monsters at the Cusp of the Anthropocene. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 25(2), 223-240. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13023

Cons, J. & Eilenberg, M. (2019). On the new politics of margins in Asia: mapping frontier assemblages. In J. Cons & M. Eilenberg (Eds.), Frontier assemblages: the emergent politics of resource frontiers in Asia (pp. 1-18). Wiley-Blackwell. Antipode

Andersen, R. S. (2019). Ordinary Medicine: Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line by Sharon Kaufmann, 2015, Duke University Press. Ethnos. Journal of Anthropology, 85(2), 397-399. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2019.1600567

Wackers, G., Raunkiær, M., Grønmo, K. & Schlütter, M. M. (2019). Palliativ omsorg og urfolk i Norge og Danmark. Omsorg. Nordisk tidsskrift for palliativ medisin, 36(3), 3-6. [1].

Bubandt, N., Mathews, A. & Anna, T. (Eds.) (2019). Patchy Anthropocene: The Frenzies and Afterlives of Violent Simplification. Current Anthropology, 60(Supplement 20).

Tsing, A. L., Mathews, A. S. & Bubandt, N. (2019). Patchy anthropocene: Landscape structure, multispecies history, and the retooling of anthropology: An introduction to supplement 20. Current Anthropology, 60(S20), S186-S197. https://doi.org/10.1086/703391

Swanson, H. A. (2019). Patterns of Naturecultures: Political Economy and the Spatial Distribution of Salmon Populations in Hokkaido, Japan. In J. Cons & M. Eilenberg (Eds.), Frontier Assemblages: The Emergent Politics of Resource Frontiers in Asia (pp. 117-130). Wiley. Antipode Book Series

Flora, J., Johansen, K. L., Kyhn, L. A. & Mosbech, A. (2019). Piniariarneq: Hunting in East Greenland mapped by hunters. Poster session presented at Greenland Science Week 2019, Nuuk, Greenland.

Gade, C. B. N. (2019). Proklamerede fællesskaber: En kritik af Benedict Andersons tænkning om et delt mentalt billede af nationen. In A. S. Hansen, S. Højlund, C. M. S. Pallesen & M. Rytter (Eds.), Hvad vi deler: antropologiske perspektiver på deling som socialt fænomen (pp. 213-223). Aarhus Universitetsforlag. Antropologiske Studier No. 5

Billington, J., Corcoran, R., Watkins, M., Steenberg, M., Christiansen, C. E., Ladegaard, N. & Kuiken, D. (2019). Quantitative Methods. In J. Billington (Ed.), Reading and Mental Health (pp. 265-292). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21762-4_12

Chettri, M. & Eilenberg, M. (2019). Reading Space, Society and History in Asia through its Ruins. International Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter - IIAS, 82(Spring), 28-40. https://www.iias.asia/the-newsletter/article/reading-space-society-history-asia-through-its-ruins

Ellis, C., McCann, E. & Dalsgård, A. L. (2019). Reading for Depression/Mental Health. In J. Billington (Ed.), Reading and mental health (pp. 71-90). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21762-4

Whitehead, C., Bozoğlu, G. & Daugbjerg, M. (2019). Remapping European heritage and memory: positions, inspirations, approaches. In C. Whitehead, S. Eckersley, M. Daugbjerg & G. Bozoğlu (Eds.), Dimensions of Heritage and Memory: Multiple Europes and the Politics of Crisis (pp. 26-49). Routledge.

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

Daugbjerg, M., Bozoğlu, G. & Whitehead, C. (2019). Reversion and reprisal: the allure of going back and the negotiation of historical identities. In C. Whitehead, S. Eckersley, M. Daugbjerg & G. Bozoğlu (Eds.), Dimensions of Heritage and Memory: Multiple Europes and the Politics of Crisis (pp. 72-95). Routledge.

Christiansen, C. (2019). Rhythms of Writing. An Anthropology of Irish Literature. Ethnos. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2019.1600568

Sparre, S. L. & Galal, L. P. (2019). Routes to Christianity and religious belonging among Middle Eastern Christians in Denmark. In M. Juul Petersen & S. Jensen (Eds.), Faith in the system?: Religion in the (Danish) asylum system (pp. 41-52). Aalborg Universitetsforlag.

Mikkelsen, T. C. (2019). Ruined pondscapes in North Kalimantan, Indonesia. IIAS Newsletter, 82(Spring), 32-33. https://www.iias.asia/the-newsletter/article/ruined-pondscapes-north-kalimantan-indonesia

Vium, C. (2019). Spectres of Undocumented Migration in Paris: A Photographic Approach. African Diaspora, 11(1-2), 101-122.

Høiris, O. (2019). Sproget. In O. Høiris & P. K. A. Jensen (Eds.), Evolutionens menneske – menneskets evolution (pp. 239-267). Aarhus Universitetsforlag.

Petitmengin, C., Beek, M. V., Bitbol, M., Nissou, J-M. & Roepstorff, A. (2019). Studying the experience of meditation through micro-phenomenology. Current Opinion in Psychology, 28(August), 54-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2018.10.009

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