our research

The Proper Place for Lunatics

Asylum, Person and History in a Rural Irish Community
A sticker attached to window. Text reads "Why give aid?".

Changing Vectors of Development

Locating Russia in Development Discourse and Practice
PapuaNewGuinea

Why are men in the Papua New Guinea Highlands Shrinking?

A Dizzying Array of Substances: An Ethnographic Study of Drug Use in the Canal Communities Area

Unpacking IKEA Cultures

A comparative ethnography of IKEA consumers in Stockholm and Dublin. Photo: Hemmets Forskningsinstituts arkiv. *©* Nordiska museet arkiv.

War and Violence

A Biography of Khalil Ibrahim, Rebel Leader of the Justice and Equality Movement of Darfur, Sudan    (photo by T. Krzimar)

Machines for Reading Humans

Are biometric technologies enabling the securitization of life itself?

news & events

  • 11th EASA Biennial Conference

    The 11th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists is coming to NUI...

  • Moving Anthropology Student Network Conference

    The 8th MASN Conference will be held in St. Patrick's College, Maynooth Friday 20th August -Sunday...

  • The Anthropological Association of Ireland (AAI) is pleased to announce that NUI Maynooth student Svenja Gosen has been awarded the AAI Postgraduate Essay Prize. Congratulations Svenja!

    The prize was awarded at the recent AAI conference held in Trinity College Dublin on the 7th &...