Author: Ståle Wig

Ståle Wig is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, interested in the analysis of economy, politics and meaning under authoritarian government. He carried out ethnographic research among retail traders, housing intermediaries, taxi drivers, and fruit sellers in Havana between 2015 and 2018. Wig published his second book, Havana Taxi. Life and lies in the new Cuba in 2021. He is currently writing his third, a monograph about market reforms in Cuba.

Ståle Wig

Ståle Wig is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, interested in the analysis of economy, politics and meaning under authoritarian government. He carried out ethnographic research among retail traders, housing intermediaries, taxi drivers, and fruit sellers in Havana between 2015 and 2018. Wig published his second book, Havana Taxi. Life and lies in the new Cuba in 2021. He is currently writing his third, a monograph about market reforms in Cuba.

Anthropology of the Absurd Thematic thread Threads

The folly of little kings

April, 2024 / By Ståle Wig

On Monday, May 25th, 2020, Cuba’s new president, Miguel Diaz-Canél, involuntarily found himself in the spotlight. Diaz-Canél had become the […]

Anthropology of the Absurd Threads

Anthropology and absurdity: Introduction

April, 2024 / By Ståle Wig, Charline Kopf and Catherine Alexander

Anthropology is often seen as the discipline that makes “the strange familiar and the familiar strange”. Here, however, we are