Nila Jeep
Nila Jeep is currently working at the University of Heidelberg (Germany) where she is finishing her BA in social and cultural anthropology as well as in sociology. Her interests vary from processes of identification, displacement, homeward journeys, environmental and water politics, embodiment, debates on representation and knowledge production, to histories and stories of all kind. She sees anthropology as a tool to engage with the underlying hierarchies, haunts and quests within the self and the world. After a first fieldwork on capoeira, she started to engage with ethnographic photography and the anthropology of expositional practices in Kassel, Germany. She is currently exploring the relations between anthropology and poetry: "I see anthropological-poetical writing as a first attempt to make an unintelligible world graspable for a short moment. For oneself and, hopefully, for a broader public - whatever different engagements will follow – they will have to be political".
