Name

Lars Højer

Country of residence

Denmark

Professional position

Assistant Professor/Post Doc

Academic degree

PhD

Institution / Place of work

University of Copenhagen

Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies

Center for Comparative Cultural Studies

Personal website

http://komparativekulturstudier.ku.dk/

E-mail

lhoejer@hum.ku.dk

Language skills

Danish, English, Mongolian

Area of interest (region, country)

Mongolia and Inner Asia

Area of interest (thematic interests)

Sociality and exchange, religion and magic, economic anthropology, history of anthropological theory, postsocialism

Education

PhD (University of Cambridge), Cand.phil. (University of Aarhus)

Teaching experience

University of Aarhus (1998-1999) and University of Copenhagen (2004-2006)

Fieldwork

Mongolia (1995, 1997, 2000-2001, 2002)

(forthcoming)"Historien som myte", conference proceedings of "Kulturhistorie i kulturforskningen", Ethnology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen.

(forthcoming) "Uvidenhed om fænomener; uvidenhed i fænomener; uvidenhed som fænomen - Magiske effekter i det postsocalistiske Mongoliet", Tidsskriftet Antropologi, no. 47.

2005 "Frihedens stilstand - de mongolske nomader og det frie marked", Jordens Folk, no. 1.

2004 "The Anti-Social Contract: Enmity and Suspicion in Northern Mongolia", Cambridge Anthropology 24(3), s. 41-63.

2004 "Schlee, Gänther (ed.). 2002. Imagined Differences: Hatred and the construction of identity" (boganmeldelse), Cambridge Anthropology vol. 24, nr. 1, s. 72-77.

2003 (upubliceret ph.d.-afhandling) "Dangerous Communications: Enmity, Suspense and Integration in Postsocialist Northern Mongolia", Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.