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The Fredrik Barth – Sutasoma/University of Bergen Fellowship in Social Anthropology
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Edvard Hviding and Cato Berg from the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen has edited this critical and reflective book about the two antropological pioneers A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers' fieldworks in Melanesia, 1908
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The Department of Social Anthropology in Bergen continues its exciting collaboration projects. Read more about them here!
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Ruy Llera Blanes, Postdoctor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Bergen, is out with a new book on Christianity in Africa and Europe.
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Kjetil Fosshagen is out with a new book, exploring the structural dynamics underpinning popular resistance and their support or suppression during the Arab Spring. The book asks; has the revolutions since been hijacked and the uprisings already usurped by the upper classes?
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Bruce Kapferer has recently published a new book - 2001 and Counting: Kubrick, Nietzsche, and Anthropology. Read more about it here!
Vacant position
At the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, there is a vacant position as Researcher/Administrator for the ERC-funded Egalitarianism Project.
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Michelle MacCarthy started as a postdoctoral fellow here at the Department of Anthropology in February 2013, and is a contributor to the Norwegian Research Council funded project "Gender and Pentecostalism in a Comparative Perspective". Read on for her profile!
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Ruy Blanes is post doctoral research fellow here at the Department of Anthropology in Bergen. Together with Diana Espírito Santo, he has edited a new and exiting book on the social life of spirits. Published by Chicago Books, the book is now available for purchase.

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