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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Flora, J. & Andersen, A. O. (2019). Taking note: a kaleidoscopic view on two, or three, modes of fieldnoting. Qualitative Research, 19(5), 540-559. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794118782897

Høiris, O. (2019). Teknologien. In O. Høiris & P. K. A. Jensen (Eds.), Evolutionens menneske – menneskets evolution (pp. 321-344). Aarhus Universitetsforlag.

Richards, M. J. & Gunther, J. (2019). The Past, Present and Future Values of the Polynesian Stone Adzes and Pounders Collected on the Pandora. Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 29(1), 1-15. [4]. https://doi.org/10.5334/bha-622

Swanson, H. A. (2019). The entrapment of trap design: materiality, political economy and the shifting worlds of fixed gear fishing equipment. Journal of Material Culture, 24(4), 401-420. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183519828769

Rytter, M. (2019). The hair of the Prophet: Relics and the affective presence of the absent beloved among Sufis in Denmark. Contemporary Islam, 13(1), 49-65. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-017-0400-z

Warner, C. D. (2019). Tibetan Heritage in Urban China. Volume, 55(Intangible Cultural Heritage).

Tejsner, P. (2019). Tilværelsens ukrænkelige lethed: et studie i forskelle på verdensanskuelse blandt grønlændere og danskere . In O. Høiris, O. Marquardt & G. A. Reimer (Eds.), Grønlændernes syn på Danmark: historiske, kulturelle og sproglige perspektiver (pp. 417-432). Aarhus Universitetsforlag.

Steenberg, M., Christiansen, C. & Ladegaard, N. (2019). Time to read: a mixed method study of mental health effects of shared reading. In J. Billington (Ed.), Reading and mental health (pp. 272-279). Palgrave Macmillan.

Lund, J. F., Amanzi, N., Baral, S., Basnyat, B., Chhetri, B., Eilenberg, M., Hansen, C., Lund, C., Mbeyale, G., Meilby, H., Ngaga, Y., Pokharel, R., Rayamajhi, S., Sungusia, E. & Treue, T. (2019). Towards Participatory Forestry: Policy Briefs - Copenhagen Centre for Development Research, University of Copenhagen. Policy Brief, 1(May).

Sieckelinck, S., Sikkens, E., San, M. V., Kotnis, S. & De Winter, M. (2019). Transitional journeys into and out of extremism: A biographical approach. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 42(7), 662-682. https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2017.1407075

Høiris, O. (2019). Tøjet. In O. Høiris & P. K. A. Jensen (Eds.), Evolutionens menneske – menneskets evolution (pp. 345-354). Aarhus Universitetsforlag.

Hughes, G., Mehtta, M., Bresciani, C. & Strange, S. (2019). Ugly Emotions and the Politics of Accusation: Introduction. The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 37(2), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.3167/cja.2019.370202

Köhn, S. (2019). Unpacking El Paquete: The Poetics and Politics of Cuba’s Offline Data Sharing Network. Digital Culture and Society, 5(1), 105-124.

Vine, M. D. (2019). Vector. Society & Space.

Vejlin, F. (2019). What Robots Want: Android Autonomy and Artificial Sociality at the Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories. Abstract from MEGA Seminar, Denmark.

McDonald, I., Whitehead, C., Bozoğlu, G., Eckersley, S. & Daugbjerg, M. (2019). Who is Europe? Staging the making of Europe in creative documentary film. In C. Whitehead, S. Eckersley, M. Daugbjerg & G. Bozoğlu (Eds.), Dimensions of heritage and memory: multiple Europes and the politics of crisis (pp. 182-207). Routledge.

Rytter, M. (2019). Writing against integration: Danish imaginaries of culture, race and belonging. Ethnos, 84(4), 678-697. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2018.1458745

Høiris, O. (2019). Æstetikken. In O. Høiris & P. K. A. Jensen (Eds.), Evolutionens menneske – menneskets evolution (pp. 267-292). Aarhus Universitetsforlag.

Bresciani, C. (2019). Énergies renouvelables en Amérique latine : les apports de l'anthropologie. À propos du « Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology », vol. 20, 2015. Lectures Anthropologiques. Revue de comptes rendus critiques, 5. http://lecturesanthropologiques.fr/lodel/lecturesanthropologiques/index.php?id=670&file=1

Sparre, S. L. & Rytter, M. (2019). ’Selvudpegede hjælpere’ som omsorgsgivere for plejekrævende ældre indvandrere og flygtninge. Tidsskriftet Gerontologi, 35(2), 26-32.

Elbek, L. L. (2018). "Det lader til, at han hed Yassin". Jordens Folk, 3-4, 16-22.

Pedersen, S. H. (2018). "Listen! We made these Potatoes Crispy!": Danish Adolescents Sharing Taste in a School Class. In C. Counihan & S. Højlund (Eds.), Making Taste Public: Ethnographies of Food and the Senses (pp. 99-112). Bloomsbury Academic.

Gade, C. B. N. (2018). "Restorative Justice": History of the Term's International and Danish Use. In A. Nylund, K. Ervasti & L. Adrian (Eds.), Nordic Mediation Research (pp. 27-40). Springer. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-73019-6_3.pdf

Willerslev, R. & Nielsen, J. L. (2018). "Saving the Dead": Fighting for Life in the Siberian North. In S. Seebach & R. Willerslev (Eds.), Mirrors of Passing: Unlocking the Mysteries of Death, Materiality and Time (pp. 107-122). Berghahn Books.

Bubandt, N. (2018). A Non-secular Anthropocene: Spirits, Specters and Other Nonhumans in a Time of Environmental Change. Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus University. More-than-human - AURA Working Papers Vol. 3 http://anthropocene.au.dk/fileadmin/Anthropocene/MORE_THAN_HUMAN_vol.3.pdf

Gravers, M. (2018). A Saint in Command? Spiritual Protection, Justice, and Religious Tensions in the Karen State. Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship, 1 (2), 87-119.

Walsh, M. J., O’Neill, S., Riede, F. & Willerslev, R. (2018). A Soul by Any Other Name: The Name-Soul Concept in Circumpolar Perspective. Cross-Cultural Research, 53(3), 312-349. https://doi.org/10.1177/1069397118813078

Green, S., Strathern, M., Dulley, I., Holbraad, M., Jiménez, A. C., Keisalo, M. & Damon, F. H. (2018). A celebration of Roy Wagner and ‘The reciprocity of perspectives’. Social Anthropology, 26(4), 511-518. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12581

Dalsgård, A. L. (2018). After sympathy, a question. In N. Rapport & H. Wardle (Eds.), An Anthropology of the Enlightenment: Moral Social Relations Then and Today (pp. 23-36). Bloomsbury Academic. ASA Monographs Vol. 53

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.

Beek, M. V. (2018). All in the Brain? Contemplative Life and the Anatomical Theatre of the Mind. In P. Vinje (Ed.), Anthology - Anatomical Theatre (pp. 14-23). Uten tittel.

Louw, M. E. (2018). Allah Always Hears the Prayers of a Traveler: Nationalized Shrines and Transnational Imaginaries in Bukhara. In S. Coleman & J. Eade (Eds.), Pilgrimage and Political Economy: Translating the Sacred (pp. 75-92). Berghahn Books.

Brichet, N. S. (2018). An Anthropology of Common Ground: Awkward Encounters in Heritage Work. Mattering Press. http://matteringpress.org/books/an-anthropology-of-common-ground

Frederiksen, M. D. (2018). An Anthropology of Nothing in Particular. Zero Books.

Venhovens, M. J. H. (2018). An Anxious Border: Material Embodiment, Anxiety and Diffusion in the De-Facto Abkhazian Borderlands.. Paper presented at Violence, Space and the Political - Conference, Galway, Ireland.

Bubandt, N. & Tsing, A. (2018). An Ethnoecology for the Anthropocene: How A Former Brown-Coal Mine in Denmark Shows Us the Feral Dynamics of Post-Industrial Ruin: [Online Supplement]. Journal of Ethnobiology, 38(1 ), 1-13. https://bioone.org/journals/supplementalcontent/10.2993/0278-0771-38.1.001/joe_38n1_bubandt_supp.pdf

Venhovens, M. J. H. (2018). An anxious Border: Material Embodiment, Diffusion and Social Abandonment in the Abkhazian Borderlands. Paper presented at Borderland Spaces Ruins, Revival(s) and Resources. 6th Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

Waltorp, K. (2018). An infrastructure of images across the everyday life, the digital and the Imaginal realm. Abstract from Royal Anthropological Institute: Art, Materiality and Representation, London, United Kingdom. https://nomadit.co.uk/rai/events/rai2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6148

Rytter, M. (2018). Anm.: Marieke van Houte: Return Migration to Afghanistan. Moving Back or Moving Forward? Tidsskriftet Antropologi, 77, 157-160.

Bubandt, N. (2018). Anthropocene Uncanny: Nonsecular Approaches to Environmental Change. (pp. 2-18). More-Than-Human Working Paper Series Vol. Volume 3 http://anthropocene.au.dk/fileadmin/Anthropocene/MORE_THAN_HUMAN_vol.3.pdf

Latour, B., Stengers, I., Tsing, A. & Bubandt, N. O. (2018). Anthropologists Are Talking - About Capitalism, Ecology, Apocalypse. Ethnos, 83(3), 587-606. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2018.1457703

Rytter, M. & Fog Olwig, K. (2018). At snakke om det: Måder at interviewe på. In H. Bundgaard, H. Mogensen & C. Rubow (Eds.), Antropologiske projekter: En grundbog (pp. 181-194). Samfundslitteratur.

Vium, C. (2018). Audio-Visual Dialogues. Paper presented at Writing With Light , Austin , United States.

Waltorp, K. & Jensen, S. (2018). Awkward Entanglements: Kinship, Morality and Survival in Cape Town’s Prison - township Circuit. Ethnos. Journal of Anthropology, 84(1), 41-55. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2017.1321565

Rytter, M. (2018). Back to the future: Religious mobility among Danish Pakistani Sufi Muslims. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 44(16 (1)), 2667-2683.

Skewes, L., Fine, C. & Haslam, N. (2018). Beyond Mars and Venus: The Role of Gender Essentialism in Support for Gender Inequality and Backlash. PLOS ONE, 13(7), [e0200921]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200921

Xygalatas, D., Kotherova, S., Mano, P., Kundt , R., Cigan, J., Klocová, E. K. & Martin, L. (2018). Big Gods in small places: the Random Allocation Game in Mauritius. Religion, Brain, and Behavior, 8(2), 243-261. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2016.1267033

Vium, C. (2018). Born (again) in the USA?. Paper presented at Optimism at the End of the World, Copenhagen , Denmark.

Crawford, P., Otto, T. & Suhr, C. (Eds.) (2018). Camera as Cultural Critique (SPECIAL ISSUE). Visual Anthropology, 31(4-5), 307-444.

Suhr, C. (2018). Camera monologue: Cultural critique beyond collaboration, participation, and dialogue. Visual Anthropology, 31(4-5), 376-393. https://doi.org/10.1080/08949468.2018.1497332

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