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Courses and programmes

We offer basic level courses and programs as well as advanced level studies in Social Anthropology.

Incoming exchange students

Welcome to the Department of Social Anthropology! Here you can find information for incoming exchange students.

Research

Global and comparative perspective toward the diversity of social and cultural forms of the contemporary world.

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News

2025-10-06

Department of Social Anthropology

Antroperspektiv: Issue 1 Outreach, Reaching Out: Tredje Uppgiften Today

Read the new issue of Antroperspektiv edited by Ella Hillström and Zarreen Kamalie

2025-08-26

Department of Social Anthropology

Gustav Peebles in Mother Jones

Gustav Peebles interviewed in Mother Jones "An Economy Based on Carbon Waste? Don’t Laugh. It Might Just Save Us".

2025-06-02

Department of Social Anthropology

Special Issue of Anthropology Today: Caring for Ocean Creatures

Special Issue of Anthropology Today: Caring for Ocean Creatures. Edited by Rasmus Rodineliussen and Paula Uimonen.

2025-03-27

Department of Social Anthropology

Special Issue: The Enemy of Kinship and Kinship with the Enemy

Special Issue: The Enemy of Kinship and Kinship with the Enemy, edited by Karin Ahlberg and Panos Kompatsiaris

Calendar

November

Seminar

Research seminar with Greg Feldman: “Hannah Arendt’s politics of relationality: An unlikely..."

Research seminar with Greg Feldman: “Hannah Arendt’s politics of relationality: An unlikely partnership with anthropology and decolonization”

Research seminar with Greg Feldman: “Hannah Arendt’s politics of relationality: An unlikely..."

Research seminar with Greg Feldman: “Hannah Arendt’s politics of relationality: An unlikely partnership with anthropology and decolonization”

December

Seminar

Research seminar with Ghassan Hage: "Book talk: Bourdieu as an anthropologist of viability"

December

Seminar

Research seminar with Sahana Ghosh: "Threshold: The Transformative Promises of Soldiering in..."

Research seminar with Sahana Ghosh: "Threshold: The Transformative Promises of Soldiering in Postcolonial India"

Research seminar with Sahana Ghosh: "Threshold: The Transformative Promises of Soldiering in..."

Research seminar with Sahana Ghosh: "Threshold: The Transformative Promises of Soldiering in Postcolonial India"

December

Thesis defence

Doctoral thesis defense: Daniel Escóbar López

Walking for Power: Gender, Hierarchies, and Mobility in the Peruvian Andes. Opponent is Andrew Canessa from University of Essex.

Doctoral thesis defense: Daniel Escóbar López

Walking for Power: Gender, Hierarchies, and Mobility in the Peruvian Andes. Opponent is Andrew Canessa from University of Essex.

Department of Social Anthropology

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News

Antroperspektiv: Issue 1 Outreach, Reaching Out: Tredje Uppgiften Today

Gustav Peebles in Mother Jones

Special Issue of Anthropology Today: Caring for Ocean Creatures

Special Issue: The Enemy of Kinship and Kinship with the Enemy

Calendar

Research seminar with Greg Feldman: “Hannah Arendt’s politics of relationality: An unlikely..."

Research seminar with Greg Feldman: “Hannah Arendt’s politics of relationality: An unlikely..."

Research seminar with Ghassan Hage: "Book talk: Bourdieu as an anthropologist of viability"

Research seminar with Ghassan Hage: "Book talk: Bourdieu as an anthropologist of viability"

Research seminar with Sahana Ghosh: "Threshold: The Transformative Promises of Soldiering in..."

Research seminar with Sahana Ghosh: "Threshold: The Transformative Promises of Soldiering in..."

Doctoral thesis defense: Daniel Escóbar López

Doctoral thesis defense: Daniel Escóbar López

Department of Social Anthropology

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