Niko Besnier, a professor of cultural anthropology (University of Amsterdam) is visiting FHS. At the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, he runs two courses:
Culture as an Anthropological Concept
Sport: Pleasure and Violence, Competition and Sociality
He stays at the Faculty until mid-July 2022.
Niko Besnier is a Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Social Inquiry at La Trobe University, Melbourne. He has previously taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1986–88), Yale University (1989–95), Victoria University of Wellington (1996–2002), and UCLA (2002–05).
He has conducted extensive field research in the Pacific, principally on Nukulaelae Atoll, Tuvalu, where he has spent a total of four years since 1979, as well as Tonga, where he began fieldwork in 1977. He has also conducted field research in Japan and the United States. In 2012–17, Niko Besnier directed a project titled “Globalization, Sports, and the Precarity of Masculinity,” funded by the European Research Council. From 2016 to 2019, he was editor-in-chief of American Ethnologist.
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