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51 search results for “ethnography” in the Public website

• Ethnographies of Insurance Research project

  How do insurance products transform intimate and personal relations? What are the consequences of the classifications that insurance companies use and how do these affect solidarity, morality and inequality?

• Embodied borders: an ethnography of female migrants in Singapore Research project

  This ethnographic research is a joint project with the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University, and KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies. It aims to understand the experiences of social inclusion and exclusion of female migrants…

• How Boys Deflect Responsibility for Street Harassment: Class, Race, and Responses to Sexual Violence Awareness Programs Research output

  Research reveals how boys respond to harassment awareness training and why they often fail to see street harassment as 'their' problem.

• Embodied narratives of disaster: the expression of bodily experience in Aceh, Indonesia Research output

  Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute published Annemarie Samuels' article on the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean. It's a detailed ethnographic account of the experiences of three Indonesian survivors.

• At Home Otherwise: Rethinking Heritage through Diversity Research project

  This project investigates diversifying and democratizing heritage through practices of “home-making”. We propose to research ‘home-making’ as a non-binary practice of combining memories of roots and routes, dwelling in the present, and desires for the future.

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  Thijs Jan van Schie PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  t.j.van.schie.2@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273451

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  Aditree Amin Student Assistant

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.aditree.amin@fsw.leidenuniv.nl |

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  Nina Adriaanse

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  n.adriaanse@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273451

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  Salwa Tareen Postdoc

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  s.n.tareen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Multimodality: Reshaping Anthropology Research output

  In the article Multimodality: Reshaping Anthropology, Mark Westmoreland describes how multimodality provides anthropologists with a new perspective on how we conduct research, produce scholarship, teach students, and interact with diverse audiences.

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  Aslihan Öztürk PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.ozturk@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Moralising Misfortune: A comparative anthropology of commercial insurance Research project

  Research on the morality of life insurance. What issues are raised when insurance companies define responsibility and solidarity? Has insurance changed since the crisis of 2007?

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  Misato Okaneya PhD candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  m.okaneya@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Gabriel Spautz Vieira PhD candidate

  g.spautz.vieira@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Fien Steenbergen PhD candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  f.r.steenbergen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Anna Notsu PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.notsu@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• The Heritage Arena Research output

  In Europe a number of production and communication strategies have long tried to establish local products as resources for local development. At the foot of the Alps, this scenario appears in all its contradictions, especially in relation to cheese production. The Heritage Arena focuses on the saga…

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  Elsa Mertala PhD candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  e.l.m.mertala@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Futuring Heritage: Indigenous Perspectives on Conservation in the Eastern Himalayas Research project

  Exploring the intersection of environmental conservation, indigenous cultural expectations, and human-nonhuman relationships in the Eastern Himalayas. Developing inclusive approaches to ecological preservation through community-centered research.

• Data Governance for Equitable and Sustainable Digital Food Systems (DIGIFOOD) Research project

  DIGIFOOD is a transnational research project that investigates how data governance can support equitable and sustainable digital food systems. Around the world, digital technologies are transforming agriculture. Sensors in soil, satellites in space, and mobile phones in farmers’ hands are generating…

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  Suzanne Naafs Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  s.naafs@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273839

• The Agta of the Northern Sierra Madre. Livelihood strategies and resilience among Philippine hunter-gatherers Research output

  Promotores: G. Persoon, R. Schefold

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  Zulfadhli Nasution PhD

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  z.nasution@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Zifan Meng

• 3 student films show why we need to celebrate Audiovisual Heritage Day News - 26 October 2016

  From Roma standing up for their rights in Ghent, to the comeback of African fashion in Ghana. The documentaries from Visual Ethnography students showcase the beautifully diverse world we live in. On UNESCO Audiovisual Heritage Day, they show why it's so important to document.

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  Marianne Maeckelbergh Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  mmaeckelbergh@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Costanza Franceschini Postdoc

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  c.franceschini@fsw.leidenuniv.nl |

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  Francesca Sofia Selano PhD candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  f.s.selano@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Hanum Atikasari PhD

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  h.atikasari@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Vincent Walstra PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  v.r.walstra@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Syeda Shawkat

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  Andrew Littlejohn Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.l.littlejohn@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273754

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  Peter Pels Emeritus hoogleraar

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  pels@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jasmijn Rana Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  j.rana@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273732

• The Third Avant-garde: contemporary art from Southeast Asia recalling tradition Research project

  How are contemporary art practices from Southeast Asia negotiating notions of art and tradition?

• Luca Bruls Awarded Fellowship Grant for Research and Ethnographic Filmmaking News - 14 November 2025

  Luca Bruls has received a Catharina Halkes Fonds fellowship grant to finalize her fieldwork in Chad and Senegal and to complete her first ethnographic film.

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  Erik de Maaker Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  maaker@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276612

• The Future of Dying: End-of-Life Care in a Time of De-medicalized Death Research project

  This project investigates ethnographically how patients, their relatives, and healthcare professionals in the Netherlands make decisions about end-of-life care. We study the new dilemmas around what constitutes

• Globalizing Palliative Care? A Multi-sited Ethnographic Study Research project

  This project investigates the globalization and cultural mediation of palliative care practices, policies and discourses.

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  Erik Bähre Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  ebaehre@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273997

• Between Canon and Coincidence: using data-driven approaches to understand Art Worlds (BECACO) Research project

  Indigenous Latin American artifacts have attracted the interest of Europeans since the earliest moment of contact between Europeans and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. The ERC-funded BECACO project uses an innovative multidisciplinary framework to investigate the provenance of ethnographic and…

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  Metje Postma Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  postmama@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Igor Boog Director of Studies / Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  i.boog@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276606

• Diversity Outdoors: Embodied Ethnoracial Inequalities and Outdoor Recreation in Europe Research project

  Through a comparative analysis of participation in outdoor recreation in Europe, this project seeks to investigate how social inequalities are embodied.

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  Marie Kolbenstetter PhD candidate

  m.m.kolbenstetter@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Marja Spierenburg Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  m.j.spierenburg@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276699

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  Tessa Minter Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  mintert@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273816

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  Tanja Ahlin Research Fellow

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  t.ahlin@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Annemarie Samuels Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.samuels@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271724

• Logging in tropical forests has a major social impact on local people News - 4 September 2023

  Exploring logging's real impact: Insights from Anthropologist Tessa Minter in the Solomon Islands.