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Forsiden på den nye boken til Michelle MacCarthy "Making the Modern Primitive: Cultural Tourism in the Trobriand Islands"
NEW BOOK: Making the Modern Primitive: Cultural Tourism in the Trobriand Islands (05.09.2016)
Post doctor Michelle MacCarthy has published a new book.
Kızılırmak is the longest river in Turkey and it is an important resource for both Statkraft and local farmers.
CSR in Turkey - Electricity or Rice? (01.07.2016)
Read the latest field report from the Energethics-project's case study in Turkey.
Kula Kula's pront page picture spring 2016
An Aussie Reflection of a Year in Bergen (01.07.2016)
- At UiB I felt much more as though I was being treated as belonging with the department I was studying in rather than just a student.
Protrettbilder av Rolf Scott og Elias Bedasso
Disputations at the Department of Social Anthropology (14.06.2016)
In April and June this year two PhD scholars from the Department of Social Anthropology defended their thesis.
Terje Tvedt at BSRS2016
It is time to rename Earth (13.06.2016)
Professor Terje Tvedt criticizes Social Sciences for being “water blind”.
Deler av forsiden til boken
NEW BOOK: Trusting and its Tribulations: Interdisciplinary Engagements with Intimacy, Sociality and Trust (13.06.2016)
Vigdis Broch-Due and Margit Ystanes have edited new book.
Pressebildene til Marry-Anne Karlsen og Thomas Sajan
Disputations at the Department of Social Anthropology (17.12.2015)
In December this year three PhD scholars from the Department of Social Anthropology defended their thesis.
panel diskusjon på Norwegian Anthropology Day i London
Norwegian Anthropology Day in London (12.11.2015)
A few weeks ago Norwegian anthropologists traveled to London to partake in Norwegian Anthropology Day on invitation from The Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI).
Disputaskandidatene
Disputations at the Department of Social Anthropology (30.10.2015)
In October this year three PhD scholars from the Department of Social Anthropology defended their thesis.
Norwegian Anthropology Day at RAI
Norwegian Anthropology Day at the Royal Anthropological Institute (27.10.2015)
The Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) has in recent years organised a series of annual full-day presentations of other countries’ anthropologies, conveyed by speakers and panels from the countries in question. In 2015, the spotlight is on Norwegian anthropology.
Panel Debate
Celebrating 50 years of Bergen Anthropology (23.10.2015)
The Department's 50th anniversary was celebrated with a variety of distinguished guests, an engaging panel debate and the first Fredrik Barth Honorary Lecture.
Forsiden til boken The Event of Charlie Hebdo
NEW BOOK: The Event of Charlie Hebdo: Imaginaries of Freedom and Control (15.10.2015)
Alessandro Zagato edits new book where all the chapters are written by project members from the project “Egalitarianism: Forms, Processes, Comparisons”.
Abdel Ghaffar Ahmed
Celebrating lasting ties with Sudan (27.05.2015)
University of Bergen celebrates 50 years of collaboration in research and education with the University of Khartoum this spring. The first Sudanese PhD candidate enrolled at UiB in 1970.
Thelma Kraft og Kristin Svartveit
Makerere-coordination changes hands (08.04.2015)
Few people at the University of Bergen knows Makerere University in Uganda better than Thelma Kraft. She has facilitated collaboration and capacity building between UiB and "the Harvard of Africa" for fourteen years.
Lively discussions
The Material and Social Intimacies of Waste Infrastructures (20.03.2015)
Maurice Bloch asked us to address the Big Questions.
Thinking Big: Maurice Bloch on 'An evolutionary approach to the beginnings of "religion" and the collapse of states' (17.02.2015)
Professor Emeritus Gunnar Håland foreleser om instituttets historie, mens Professor Emeritus Jan-Petter Blom følger nøye med.
Celebrating 50 years of social anthropology in Bergen (16.01.2015)
The 50-year anniversary of the University of Bergen’s Department of Social Anthropology will be celebrated with a special seminar series.
CSR
Norwegian energy companies abroad - Expanding the anthropological understanding of corporate social responsibility (10.12.2014)
How do Norwegian energy corporations handle corporate social responsibility when they invest abroad? A new project at the Department of Social Anthropology, led by Professor Ståle Knudsen, aims to explore this timely issue. The project is funded by the Research Council of Norway and will involve partners from Christian Michelsen Institute, the University of Sussex, and others.

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