1,727 search results for “anthropology of maria and witchcraft” in the Public website
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Skills and social change in postsocialistic Mongolia
How do people living in a remote part of Northern Mongolia experience the post-socialist transition that occurred twenty years ago? Based on extensive fieldwork, cultural anthropologist Richard Fraser argues that this is not at all clear. In his PhD dissertation, he developed a new framework based on…
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HAPPY - Qualitative research in Higher education teaching APProaches for sustainabilitY and well-being in Bhutan
This 3-year EU Erasmus+ co-funded project focuses on the strengthening and improvement of teaching qualitative research methods across a range of disciplines in the Social Sciences and Humanities in Bhutan.
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Career prospects
Your theoretical knowledge and hands-on research experience fit very well with current labour market demands.
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Education
Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University is renowned for its international orientation and broad range of theoretical, methodological, and regional expertise.
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The field and the classroom
The field and the classroom invites ethnographers to engage with critical and engaged pedagogies. Breaking down the barriers between fieldsite and lecture hall, this research cluster aims to interrogate the structures and values that shape anthropological and sociological education today.
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Challenged by cognition
Toward optimal measurement and greater understanding of youth cognition in school refusal and cognitive behavioural therapy outcome
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Barbarism and Its Discontents
This study interrogates contemporary and historical uses of barbarism, arguing that barbarism also has a disruptive, insurgent potential.
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Languages of Resistance, Transformation, and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes
From Crisis to Critique
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Christian Missions and Humanitarianism in The Middle East, 1850-1950 - Ideologies, Rhetoric, and Practices
This anthology contributes to a historically grounded understanding of the complex relationship between Christian missions and the roots of humanitarianism and its contemporary uses in a Middle Eastern context.
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Bilingualism and Minority Languages in Europe: Current Trends and Developments
This collection considers such issues as the cognitive, linguistic and emotional benefits of speaking two languages, the perceptions, attitudes and issues relating to identity in minority language areas, and the number of grammatical aspects amongst those who speak these minority languages.
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Inextricable ties between chemical complexity and dynamics of embedded protostellar regions
Promotor: E. F. van Dishoeck, Co-promotor: C. Walsh
- Networked Diplomacy
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Subjects Barbarian, Monstrous, and Wild: Encounters in the Arts and Contemporary Politics
Subjects Barbarian, Monstrous, and Wild responds to a contemporary political climate in which historically invested figures of otherness—barbarians, savages, monsters—have become common discursive currency.
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Arts as an Interface of Law and Justice: Affirmation, Disturbance, Disruption
On 25 Februarry 2021 Hart Bloomsbury brings out a monograph by Frans-Willem Korsten: Arts as an Interface of Law and Justice: Affirmation, Disturbance, Disruption. Its working title was 'Annoyance' but that did not sell. A sign in itself; most struggles for justice have been considered as annoying.
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Conflict Management in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, 1000-1800
Pre-modern long-distance trade was fraught with risks which often created conflicts of interest. The ensuing disputes and the ways the actors involved dealt with them belong to the field of conflict management.
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Gli artigiani e la città
Over the last decades, the systematic investigation of urban settlements in Central-Tyrrhenian Italy led to the discovery of a growing number of contexts revealing both direct and indirect evidence of artisanal workshops. Such research commitment has yielded a vast amount of new data that greatly contribute…
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HOPES Study
The HOPES study is one of the largest investigations of this kind to date! By studying existing brain scans and data collected form over 4,000 14-25 year olds, the project team hopes to identify specific changes in the brain that make young people vulnerable to suicidal thoughts and behaviours.
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Molecular characterization of copper-dependent enzymes involved in Streptomyces morphology
Promotor: G.P. van Wezel, Co-promotor: D. Claessen
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Compact Cinematics: The Moving Image in the Age of Bit-Sized Media
Compact Cinematics challenges the dominant understanding of cinema to focus on the various compact, short, miniature, pocket-sized forms of cinematics that have existed from even before its standardization in theatrical form, and in recent years have multiplied and proliferated, taking up an increasingly…
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G.F. Stout and the Psychological Origins of Analytic
The philosopher and psychologist G.F. Stout was the teacher of Moore and Russell around 1894. This book shows that Stout's ideas have played a role in Moore and Russell's development from their early idealism towards analytic realism, where Stout's ideas often find their origin in early phenomenolog…
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Threat-induced prosocial behavior: enhanced exogenous attention to protect others from harm
In a new study, we found that when we are exposed to potential harm to the other person, it improves our automatic attentional processes to avoid harm to that person.
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Social Policy, Poverty, and Inequality in Ecuador 1980-2021 [Política social, pobreza y desigualdad en el Ecuador 1980-2021]
This book offers a detailed analysis of social policy in Ecuador, covering its evolution over the past four decades. It examines how social relations and institutional frameworks have influenced concepts of well-being, the implemented policies, and the outcomes achieved.
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Honorary doctorate for anthropologist Rosemary Joyce
American anthropologist Rosemary Joyce will be awarded an honorary doctorate from Leiden University on its Dies Natalis on 8 February. Joyce has delivered important new insights into the ancient Mayan cultures of Central America.
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NISIS publication: Islamic Studies in the Twenty-first Century
This month, the NISIS publication “Islamic Studies in the Twenty-first Century: Transformations and Continuities” was published by Amsterdam University Press. This volume brings together contributions of various speakers at past NISIS Autumn Schools, providing an overview of important issues in the…
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How should we use AI? The Islamic world may have an answer
The secular West is struggling with the rise of AI, but so too is Muslim Southeast Asia. What can we learn from each other?
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Sada Mire’s Leiden Experience: "the Johnny Cash of Archaeology"
Pioneering in the archaeology of Somaliland, hosting international TV and radio shows, and producing a very successful MOOC: Dr Sada Mire already has a formidable track record.
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Graduation ceremony bachelor's programme Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Festival, Graduation ceremony
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Barbarism: History of a fundamental European concept and its literary manifestations from the 18th century to the present
This collaborative project aims to explore the history of the concept “barbarism” in Europe from the 18th century to the present, with a particular emphasis on the role of literature and art in the concept’s shifting functions.
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Potentialities of bringing together anthropology and political science
Debate, Roundtable
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Van Vollenhoven Staff Participate in Annual Law and Society Association Conference
Nine staff members of the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance, and Society participated in the Law and Society Association’s (LSA) annual conference from 27-30 May. VVI staff presented ten conference papers, organised multiple sessions, as well as served as chairs and discussants for numerous…
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Reconciling conflicting interests
If a society is to be secure, sustainable and resilient, conflicting interests must be reconciled. Researchers at Leiden University study the behaviour of individuals, groups and states in relation to this issue, and use their knowledge to promote equality within and between communities.
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Marianne Maeckelbergh receives ERC Consolidator grant for project ‘Property and Democratic Citizenship’
Marianne Maeckelbergh has received a Consolidator grant from the European Research Council for a project on the impact of property regimes on experiences of citizenship. The project will be carried out in five democratic countries: Greece, The Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United St…
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Building a sustainable future: 'Combine the forces of natural and social sciences'
The United Nations has declared May 22 the International Day for Biological Diversity. A moment of global reflection on everything on Earth and its indispensability. Anthropologist Marja Spierenburg stresses the importance of the interaction between natural and social sciences in addressing sustainability…
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Woman, man or somewhere in between? You decide (and not just your body)
A female body equals a woman. Nonsense, says Professor by Special Appointment to the Socrates Chair Annemie Halsema. She argues that our sense of identity and social environment also determine our identity. ‘We should stop assigning people’s sex at birth.’
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Professor Marja Spierenburg in the House of Representatives of The Netherlands
On 15 June 2022 Professor Anthropology of Sustainability and Livelihood Marja Spierenburg was one of the invited speakers at the round table in the House of Representatives of The Netherlands.
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Winter School: Digital Visual Engagements in Anthropological Research
Course, Winter school
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Extra challenge
Would you like to create an extra challenge for yourself? The international bachelor's programme in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology gives you plenty of room to do so.
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Yemen’s history of slavery and its lasting impact on social and racial hierarchies
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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POSTPONED - Gastro-Politics & Gastro-Ethics of Diversity: Negotiating Islam in an Entangled World
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Cultural framing of rights and subjectivities
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Application deadlines
If you are aware of the admission requirements of the bachelor’s programme Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Leiden University, it's time to check the application deadlines.
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Da‘wa as Development: Kuwaiti Islamic Charity in Africa
Lecture
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Social and Behavioural Sciences
There are five institutes at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences:
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Bosnian Hajj Literature: Multiple Paths to the Holy
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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How to Work for Peace: A Dialogue with Dionysius Mintoff, the ‘Father of Peace’
Debate, Fireside Peace Chats
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Course and exam registration
After your arrival the Faculty will register you for all preapproved courses and exams.
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Divine Fertility: Practices, Materiality and Sacred Landscapes in the Horn of Africa
This project examines the notion of sacred fertility and sacred landscapes, associated rituals and material culture, both archaeological and ethnographic manifestations in the Horn of Africa.
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ReCNTR
ReCNTR is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to the advancement of multimodal and audiovisual research methods in the social sciences and humanities. It is supported by the Institute of Cultural Anthropology, the Institute of Political Science, the Center of the Arts in Society at Leiden…
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The Third Avant-garde: contemporary art from Southeast Asia recalling tradition
How are contemporary art practices from Southeast Asia negotiating notions of art and tradition?