The Uppsala Perspective
The Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology offers a lively environment for higher education and research. The disciplines of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology represent different research traditions and educational trajectories in terms of thematic and regional focus. But the two disciplines also collaborate, for instance, in our joint basic level programme entitled Culture, Society and Ethnography, and in master courses, as well as in specific research activities.
Research undertaken in several continents has become our hallmark. The department offers a warm and promising atmosphere in close connection to ongoing research and societal engagement. Our two sister disciplines are committed to community involvement and have long experience dealing with the needs of international students.
We organise our work in research groups and focus areas. In addition, the departments hosts several inter-disciplinary research initiatives, including Forum for Africa Studies, School Forum, and the Good City.
Student Association Etnograferna
Our newly started Student Association Etnograferna is open to staff and students, as well as anthropologists and ethnologists working outside academia. The Association organises activities and events on a regular basis.
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 with relevance to social change, development, conflict, exclusion and vulnerability.
The Uppsala perspective of anthropology and ethnology with its regional and methodological specialisations amounts to a truly humanistic approach.