Anthropology is characterized by a robust grounding in social and cultural theory; a unified focus on the problem of scale, particularly the tensions between global and local dynamics, as well as other levels of analysis that intervene; and a commitment to empirical work, particularly in basing analysis and interpretation on field research. The members focus on a variety of topics at the core of theoretical debates in contemporary anthropology.

Research

Research is organised in 3 Anthropology programme groups, which are part of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research:

1. Exploring Diversity: The Exploring Diversity programme group investigates how people experience globalised conditions, partake in their production and are affected by them, as well as how they strategise, accommodate, resist or simply make do within the structures of daily existence.
2. Health, care and the body: This group studies the changes in experiences of health and well-being, health practices and biomedical power and medical regimes, including research on AIDS/HIV, the body and food, morality, reproductive health, children, crime, pharmaceuticals, genetics, medical technologies and practice. 
3. The (international) mobility of people, goods, power and ideas: What are the social consequences of the growing mobility of people and goods and the changing networks of solidarity, knowledge and power.

Education

The Department of Anthropology provides education in Religion and Society, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Anthropology, Sociology and History of Asia:

Bachelor's programmes

• Interdisciplinaire sociale wetenschap (Dutch)
• Culturele antropologie en ontwikkelingssociologie (Dutch)
• Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology

Master's programmes

• Applied Anthropology (Cultural and Social Anthropology)
• Cultural and Social Anthropology
• Medical Anthropology and Sociology

Research Master's programmes

• Social Sciences

Summer and winter programmes

Short and intensive English-language summer and winter programmes on specific themes are offered to which the discipline of Anthropology also contributes. For example, on themes such as Sexuality, Addiction, The City, Culture and Psychiatry and Medicine and Human Rights.

• UvA summer School
• Winterprogramma's

PhD programme

For questions about PhD Trajectories you can refer to the research institute: aissr@uva.nl or go to aissr.uva.nl.

Contact

Roeterseiland Campus
Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
1018 WV Amsterdam
Email: secr-antr-fmg@uva.nl
Phone: +31 20 5252504 

Scientific staff