News archive for Department of Social Anthropology

NEW BOOK: Against Exoticism: Toward the Transcendence of Relativism and Universalism in Anthropology (26.04.2017)

Professor Bruce Kapferer, at the Egalitarianism project and Professor Dimitrios Theodossopoulos from the University of Kent, have recently published a new edited book.

Anna Szolucha, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen (UiB), photographed in March 2017.

Dealing with the future of energy (20.04.2017)

In her new project, social anthropologist Anna Szolucha wants to look at citizen engagement in climate and energy transformation. In particular, she asks: how do you involve people from the bottom and up?

CSR in Iraqi Kurdistan – Economic Crisis and Feelings of Exploitation (29.03.2017)

Read the latest field report from the Energethics-project. Synnøve Bendixsen has been to Iraqi Kurdistan exploring how DNO operates and the local communities’ expectations of oil investments.

Perfomance of the Pacific legend Moana at the 2015 Bergen Festival, at an outdoor event.

Anthropologists in Bergen consolidate position (08.03.2017)

For the second consecutive year, the anthropology environment at the University of Bergen is in the QS by Subject top 100.

Launch of Energy Anthropology Network (01.03.2017)

Bringing together scientists and practitioners with common interest on energy, and to support new approaches to energy questions is at the core of the new Energy Anthropology Network that was launched at University of Bergen in March.

What do the rocks say? - by professor Olaf H. Smedal

What do the rocks say? (27.01.2017)

A new film category at the department opens with a paper by Professor Olaf H. Smedal given at the AAA Conference in 2014. With the help of anthropological film producers and colleagues Rolf Scott and Frode Storaas, the paper is now available as a screen version.

Mining experiences shapes the petroleum sector in Tanzania (13.01.2017)

New study in Tanzania shows that previous experiences in the extractive industries are a central factor for public sentiments and debates on resource nationalism and local content in the petroleum sector.

The Fredrik Barth Memorial Lecture 2016 (20.12.2016)

Students, anthropologists and other invited guests had found their way to the University of Bergen for this year’s Fredrik Barth Memorial Lecture held by Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen.

Disputation at the Department of Social Anthropology (09.12.2016)

On 9 December Espen Helgesen from the Department of Social Anthropology defended his thesis.

Exploring ‘the Nordic model’ (08.12.2016)

This December, the Energethics group met in Bergen to present the ongoing case studies and to discuss the way forward for the project.

Book launch at the Department of Social Anthropology (30.11.2016)

Several staff members from the Department of Social Anthropology have edited and written chapters in new books. The latest release is "The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America", edited by Iselin Å. Strønen and Margit Ystanes.