Anders Norge Lauridsen
Doctoral Student
School of GlobalAbout Anders Norge Lauridsen
- PhD student in Social Anthropology, University of Gothenburg, 2017-
- Visiting PhD student, Aarhus University, 2018
- MSc in Anthropology, Aarhus University, 2014-2016
- BA in History of Ideas and Anthropology, Aarhus University and Université Libre de Bruxelles, 2010-2014
PhD Project: Pivoting Sihanaka Spirituality
Spirits of various kinds inform life among the Sihanaka of Madagascar; ancestors, dead kings, apparitions, and spirits of the wild influence everyday life through taboos, dream visions, possession rituals, etcetera. Through ethnographic fieldwork, experimental methods, and archival research I investigate how spirituality in the Sihanaka village of Anororo gemmates and alters over time. Moreover, I am developing a new method called 'pivotation' to probe into how the Sihanaka experience spirits, how they relate to them, and how they conceive of them. In short, the method is about using read aloud stories as narrative pivots to bring about discussions among Sihanaka informants about the doings, capabilities, and intentions of spirits.
Supervised by: Jörgen Hellman (University of Gothenburg), Anders Burman (University of Gothenburg), and Andreas Roepstorff (Aarhus University)
Research Interests
Thematic: experimental anthropology, spirituality, doubt, uncertainty, ethnographic theory, rituals, narrativity, agency, empirical philosophy, ontology, epistemology, ethnicity, cultural translation
Regional: Madagascar, the Austronesian world
Fieldwork Experience
- Anororo, Madagascar (four months in 2015, two months in 2016, two months in 2017, two weeks in 2018, five weeks in 2019)
Teaching Experience
- Lectures and seminars in the courses “Anthropological Theory”, “The Global Politics of Heritage”, and “Global Studies: Key Concepts”, University of Gothenburg, 2019-2020
- "Qualitative Methods", BA Minor in Sociology, Aarhus University, April 3-13, 2018
- "Ethnographic Methodology and Field Preparation", MA in Anthropology, Aarhus University, Guest Lecture on Experimental Approaches, March 5, 2018
Conference and Seminar Presentations
- The Narrative Experiment: An Experimental Approach to Malagasy Spirits, Mayday - Experiments and Experimentality in Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies, May 15-16, 2018, Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Malagassiske Ånder og en Død Fremmedkonge, Center for Samtidsreligion, Aarhus University, March 23, 2021
Other Anthropological Projects
- Ethnographic objects collected for Moesgaard Museum in Aarhus: two mohara amulets, a lambahoany cloth, a fototra tomb pole and a complete spirit medium garb
- Visualising Anthropological Imaginations: An experiment in which illustrators turn anthropological concepts into works of art. Link to the VAI experiment
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Anthropological Speculations: Could ‘Tsindrimandry’ Originate in Sleep
Paralysis?
Anders Norge Lauridsen
School of Blogal Studies - 2021-01-01 -
The Fear of Dahalo Bandits on a Drive Through the Alaotra Night
(Madagascar)
Anders Norge Lauridsen
ethnography.com - 2020-01-01 -
Tsindrimandry: Nocturnal Hauntings in
Madagascar
Anders Norge Lauridsen
Kulturo: Tidsskrift for Kunst, Litteratur og Politik - 2020-01-01 -
På sporet af fortidens rituelle renselse på
Madagaskar
Anders Norge Lauridsen
Det Badende Menneske: Nedslag i Badets Kulturhistorie - 2019-01-01 -
Gravpæl fra Anororo, Antsihanaka,
Madagaskar
Anders Norge Lauridsen
De Etnografiske Samlinger, Moesgaard Museum - 2019-01-01 -
The Narrative Experiment: An Experimental Approach to Malagasy
Spirits
Anders Norge Lauridsen
Mayday - Experiments and Experimentality in Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies, May 15-16, 2018, Lomonosov Moscow State University - 2018-01-01 -
Review of "Spirits and Trance in Brazil: An Anthropology of Religious Experience" by Bettina E. Schmidt, 2016, London: Bloomsbury, ISBN:
9781474255677
Anders Norge Lauridsen
Social Anthropology - 2018-01-01 -
Review of "Translating Worlds: The Epistemological Space of Translation" by (eds.) William F. Hanks & Carlo Severi, 2015, Chicago: HAU, ISBN:
978-0986132513
Anders Norge Lauridsen
Anthropos: Internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- und Sprachenkunde - 2018-01-01 -
Løftebrud mod Ånderne: Om Farlige Løfteofre til Ånder i en Turbulent
Tid
Anders Norge Lauridsen
Jordens Folk - 2018-01-01 -
Feraomby – The Polyvalent Legacy of a Stranger
King
Anders Norge Lauridsen, Arnaud De Grave
Word of Mouth - 2017-01-01 -
Mohara: Material Spirits of the
Sihanaka
Anders Norge Lauridsen
Ethnographica - 2017-01-01 -
The Malagasy raffia cloth – A convergence of three historical
trajectories
Anders Norge Lauridsen
Ethnographica - 2017-01-01 -
Inscrutable Spirits and the Concept of
Subjunctivity
Anders Norge Lauridsen
Semikolon - Journal of History of Ideas, Philosophy and Semiotics - 2017-01-01 -
The Mirror of the
Seer
Anders Norge Lauridsen
Ethnographica - 2016-01-01 -
Åndernes Agens (The Agency of the Spirits), M.Sc. Thesis in Anthropology at Aarhus
University
Anders Norge Lauridsen
M.Sc. in Anthropology at Aarhus University - 2016-01-01