A5058037877- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
- Historical and Archaeological Studies
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture
- Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Social and Educational Sciences
- Theatre and Performance Studies
- Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
- Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
- Human Rights and Development
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- European Socioeconomic and Political Studies
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Rhetoric and Communication Studies
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
- Historical Gender and Feminism Studies
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Culinary Culture and Tourism
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- European Union Policy and Governance
- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
University of Copenhagen
2012-2022
Aarhus University
1979-2022
Universidade Federal Fluminense
2022
University College London
2022
University of Toronto
2022
University of London
2022
University of Oslo
2022
National Museum of Denmark
2022
Roskilde University
2022
Wolters Kluwer (Netherlands)
2002
Introduction Kirsten Hastrup and Karen Fog OlwigPart I: Finding a key debate place for cultureCultural Sites: Sustaining home in deteritorialized world Olwig Imaginging the Andes: In borderland of lived, invented analyzed cultures Karsten Paerregaard Which world? On diffusion Algerian Rai to West March Schade-Poulsen Seeking place: Capsized identities contracted belonging among Sri lankan Tamil refugees Ann-Belinda Steen PreisPart II: The Culture Politics PlaceThe nation as human being: A...
In this article the nature of anthropological knowledge is discussed with a view to reassessment call for evidence. It will be argued that traditional evidence as being somehow outside particular argument untenable, given way in which anthropology accesses by engaging field. This may seen lead an uneasy question authority anthropology, yet at closer inspection, it possible establish new grounds and arrive sense ‘getting right’. The general discussion substantiated reference author’s work on...
In 930, Iceland first established a common law for the island and became an autonomous republic, which lasted until it came under sovereignty of Norwegian king nearly three half centuries later. This volume is two-part analysis that society, known as Icelandic commonwealth or Freestate. The section examines how medieval Icelanders classified perceived such domains time, space, kinship, political organization, cosmology, linking together these various realms to present integrated picture...
The North Water is a recurrent polynya in the High Arctic situated between Northwest Greenland and Ellesmere Island of Canada. makes dynamic space, where various processes may enhance or obstruct each other, accelerating halting particular modes human–animal relations region, life itself depends on Water. This will be discussed four steps. first step posits as perceived oasis for explorers whalers hailing from Europe America nineteenth century. second concentrates diverse rhythms inherent...
Abstract In the world of climate science there is an increasing demand for contributions from social sciences, given that current processes change deeply affect societies. This article a response to this call, with specific focus on past and potential anthropology, as we have known it 19th century onwards. It shown how through ages, different anthropological interests shaped distinct perspectives entanglement society nature. argued present global concerns about necessitate refashioning make...
This forum article is the product of interdisciplinary discussion at a conference on climate histories held in Cambridge, United Kingdom, early 2011, with specific aim building network around issue communicating cultural knowledge environmental change. The lead articles, by Kirsten Hastrup as an anthropologist and Simon Schaffer historian science, highlight role agents proxies. These are followed five commentaries, which engage articles through new ethnographic material, set shorter...
The social sciences face a set of complex challenges in an era intensifying global connections that seem to undermine their constitutive object. Cultures, nations and even societies are not what they used be, the ‘methodological nationalism’ once qualified is no longer self-evident. One manifest perforations local communities comes with experience dramatic climate change. Based on fieldwork northwest Greenland, this article addresses question scaling through discussions conversations,...
This article develops a trenchant critique of the rise human rights as main universal standard against which to judge violence and suffering. It begins with case study an act mass atrocity in Surinam that was brought before Inter-American Court Human Rights demonstrates ways rights-based conceptions justice distort our understandings suffering pare down social moral narratives. Legal language instrumentalizes, cutting out symbolic expressive dimensions violence. Anthropology is opposed this...
Until recently, human suffering has received sparse attention in anthropology. It is argued that this due to the theoretical legacy of anthropology, which favours studies whole and largely well-functioninllg social systems. The aim ofthe article discuss potential ofsocial anthropology study hardship, not as something extra-social, but an integral part experience. argument proceeds through a presentation standard conceptions hunger anid famine sornething out order, over discussion experience...
From an anthropological perspective, water is not only the sine qua non of life in general, it also seen to configure societies particular ways, and generate values. This will be substantiated four moves. First, hydrological cycle other elementals discussed. Second, we shall zoom on rivers, transforming natural resources social communities as they bend twist. Third, discuss artificially established canals, emulating flows, but having their own long-term political implications. Fourth, focus...