The Uppsala Perspective

Research undertaken in several continents has become the hallmark of our Department. For those who are looking for a future with work as an expert in cultural relations the Department offers a warm and promising atmosphere. Our two sister disciplines are committed to community involvement and have long experience dealing with the needs of international students.

Internationally high standard

Among the principal foci of the complementary disciplines forming our Department of anthropology and ethnology are changing identities and multiculturalism, leading to questions concerning political ecology and globalisation which in their turn impinge upon social and political organisation. The ambition of the anthropological and ethnological research in Uppsala is that it should not only be theoretically innovative and informed, but also have an impact on social practices at the local level.

The Uppsala Perspective

With research conducted in quite different regional areas ranging from West Africa and the circumpolar rim (anthropology) to mainly urban areas in Sweden (ethnology), different research groups and individual scholars have pursued a broad spectrum of questions; even so, there is a repeated return to conflict, exclusion and vulnerability. The perspectives of the anthropology and ethnology disciplines and their regional and methodological specialities amount to a truly humanistic approach.

"A truly humanistic approach"

► The international evaluation report KoF 2007

► International courses

ANNOUNCING THE SECOND UPPSALA SYMPOSIUM ON SAAMI RIGHTS ISSUES – NOV. 25-26, 2009

Chair in Ethnology at Uppsala University

Deadline for application is 23 November 2009. For more information, click here

Ethnographic Practice and Public Aid

A new book has been published by researchers of the department. For more information, click here

A New Book is published, focusing on anthropologists involvement in development!