02.10.2025

Pragmatismus und Vorsicht prägen die wirtschaftlichen Beziehungen zwischen der Schweiz und China seit den 1970er-Jahren. Mit Unterstützung des SNF untersuchen eine Anthropologin und ein Historiker diese…

26.09.2025

We are happy to announce the open-access publication of "Mountainscapes. Pathways and Mobilities in the Alps and Beyond", edited by Viviane Cretton and Andrea Boscoboinik (Berghahn, 2025).

04.09.2025

Entdecken Sie bei einem Spaziergang in der Nähe des Campus Miséricorde die Bedeutung der ethnografischen Arbeit und diskutieren Sie mit Mitgliedern und Studierenden der Einheit für Sozialanthropologie…

27.05.2025

To understand each other, we need to get to know each other! Under this motto, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Canton of Fribourg and the University of Fribourg have invited entrepreneurs to…

22.05.2025

This talk by Dr. Claudia Eggart will take place on Thursday, June 12 at 10.30am in room A303 (PER 21).

12.05.2025

On February 5-7, 2026, the Social Anthropology Unit at the University of Fribourg will host the Swiss Anthropological Association Annual Meeting 2026. The conference theme is "Care, Maintenance, Decay:…

29.04.2025

On 27 May, 6pm, in room B130 (PER 21) our guest lecturer Dr. Jovana Dikovic will give a talk introducing her newly published book "The Laissez-Faire Peasant: Post-socialist rural development in Serbia"…

15.04.2025

In her project called "Back to the Roots: Medicinal Plant Supply Chains in Post-Covid Asia" Dr. Emilia Sulek will study medicinal plant supply chains that have multiplied across Asia. A grant from Delta…

13.02.2025

If you would like to experience a short fieldwork in Romania with an international team, consider this new proposition for a summer school organized by the UNIFR Social Anthropology Unit, together with…