Department of Social Anthropology

News

Department seminar 14th May at 10.15: Rosemary Coombe (York): "The Making, Marking and Marketing of Culture: Neoliberal Technologies and their Detournement. Or: Standardizing "Your difference"
SANT8004:Nordic PhD/Research Course in Social Anthropology: From Text to Field and Field to Text, 21-23 May 2012

Photo: Jens Røyrvik The Department of Social Anthropology at NTNU was established in 1975. Today we have a staff of 12 permanent researchers, 3 working in the administration and approximately 10 Phd-scholars.

The department offers study programmes at all levels - bachelor's degree, master's degree and PhD-degree. The department is also host of the Programme for African

Photo: Harald Aspen

Studies, a multidisciplinary programme with teaching on bachelor and master level.

Totally, the department of Social Anthropology annually has more than 400 undergraduate students and approximately 75 graduate students.

Current research and teaching at the department covers a wide variety of subjects. In addition to classical anthropology, themes such as anthropology of organizations, colonialism/postcolonialism, themes concerning the body and understanding of illnesses, and Homo Faber - the tool using man, are central.

See two of the Research Networks established at the Department:

Africa Network Norway

Community of Organizational Anthropology

Sosialantropologi

Recent Publications

Emil A. Røyrvik, 2011. The Allure of Capitalism. An Ethnograpy of Management and the Global Economy in Crisis
Iversen, Gunnar og Simonsen, Jan Ketil, 2010, "Beyond the visual. Sound and image in ethnographic and documentary film - NAFA 5"
Williksen, Solrun og Rapport, Nigel, 2010: Reveries of Home:Nostalgia, Authenticity and the Performance of Place
Fyhn, Håkon (red) 2009, Kreativ Tverrfaglighet , teori og praksis
Larsen, Tord, 2009, Den globale samtalen

More publications

Conferences/events

Department seminar

Workshop 5-7. januar 2012: Objectification, Measurement and Standardization

The Biennal Trondheim Colloquium in Social Anthropology 27-28th October 2011 - Land Tenure and Development in the North Ethiopian Highlands

Latin-America Seminar "Working Lives, Praying Lives. 29th-30th September 2011 : Programme Information about the Seminar

Workshop 14th June 2011: Work and migration; Global borders as barriers and bridges. About the seminar and Programmememe

Contact info, Department of Social Anthropology

Phone: (+47) 73 59 65 52
E-mail: sosant@svt.ntnu.no
Web: www.ntnu.edu/sosant
Opening hours:
  Monday - Thursday 12.30-14.30
Visiting adress:
   Building 7, level 4
   Dragvoll
   Trondheim
Postal adress:
   NTNU Dragvoll
   Department of Social Anthropology
   NO-7491 Trondheim
   Norway