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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.

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?

Global Challenges Research project
Global Challenges is the research programme of the Leiden Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology.

Raymond Corbey Professor emeritus Philosophy of Science and Anthropology
Faculteit Archeologie

Pedagogies of Prohibition: Time, Education, and the War on Drugs in Rio de Janeiro’s Zona Norte Research output
Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela published the article 'Pedagogies of Prohibition: Time, Education, and the War on Drugs in Rio de Janeiro’s Zona Norte' in Cultural Anthropology 37. The article’s three sections focus on three forms of temporal control—busyness, punctuality, and rhythm—and each demonstrates…

Learning to see through others’ eyes News - 30 October 2017
How does a farmer decide if his cow is a prize winner? An anthropologist studying these farmers should not only look at the farmers themselves, but should in particular learn how they see the world. This is what Cristina Grasseni, the new Professor of Anthropology contends. Inaugural address on 30 O…

Bart Barendregt Vice-dean of Research/ Professor Anthropology of Digital Diversity
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen