Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Description of research and teaching
Anni Kajanus is a social and cognitive anthropologist, working at the interfaces between culture and cognition, morality and cooperation. Her regional focus is China, where she has worked on a range of topics including migration, one-child policy, gender, education, and child-development.
Her most recent research brings together methods and approaches from anthropology and psychology, for a comparative study of human social and cognitive development across cultural-historical contexts, including cooperative behaviours, morality, emotional life, etc. Currently Anni is leading two projects that investigate the role of irritation in human sociality, funded by ERC Starting Grant, and Research Council of Finland.
Before joining UH, Anni held postdoctoral fellowships (Marie Sklodowska-Curie; Leverhulme) at the Department of Anthropology, LSE, and the Department of Psychology, Harvard.
Anni received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Helsinki, MSc in Migration Studies from the University of Amsterdam, and BA in Anthropology from the University of Kent.
Anni is the author of Chinese Student Migration, Gender and Family.
Education/Academic qualification
Ph.D., Univeristy of Helsinki
M.Sc., University of Amsterdam
BA, University of Kent
External positions
Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics
1 Jan 2024 → 31 Dec 2027
Fields of Science
- 5143 Social and cultural anthropology
- Cognitive anthropology
- China
- Morality
- Migration
- Kinship
- Personhood
- Cooperation
- Competition
- Conflict
- Culture and ontogeny
- Education
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Ethnographic authority and cross-disciplinary collaboration
Kajanus, A., 2024, In: Current Anthropology. 65, 5, p. 781-782 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › Scientific › peer-review
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Prestige and dominance in egalitarian and hierarchical societies: children in Finland favor prestige more than children in Colombia or the USA
Sequeira, M., Afshordi, N. & Kajanus, A., May 2024, In: Evolution and Human Behavior. 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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A developmental perspective on social status: children's understanding of hierarchy in Nanjing and London
Kajanus, A., 2023, In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 30, 2, 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Cooperation and punishment
Kajanus, A. & Stafford, C., 2023, Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Ethics. Laidlaw, J. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 610-628 19 p. (Cambridge Handbooks in Anthropology).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Children's understanding of dominance and prestige in China and the UK
Kajanus, A., Afshordi, N. & Warneken, F., Jan 2020, In: Evolution and Human Behavior. 41, 1, p. 23-34 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Open AccessFile
Projects
- 2 Active
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IRRITATION: Irritation and Human Sociality
Kajanus, A. (Project manager), Augustyniak, N. (Participant), Medzani, J. M. (Participant), Sarasjärvi, R. E. (Participant) & Wu, H. (Participant)
01/10/2022 → 30/09/2027
Project: EU Horizon Europe: European Research Council (HORIZON-ERC)
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Ärtymys ja ihmisen yhteistyö
Kajanus, A. (Project manager), Cui, F. (Participant) & Scalco, P. (Participant)
Suomen Akatemia Projektilaskutus
01/09/2022 → 31/08/2026
Project: Research Council of Finland: Academy Project
Datasets
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Children's views on prestige and dominance in Colombia, Finland and the United States 2021-2022
Sequeira, M. (Creator), Afshordi, N. (Creator) & Kajanus, A. (Creator), Yhteiskuntatieteellinen tietoarkisto (FSD), 2024
https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3852
Dataset
Activities
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Culture and Cognition
Kajanus, A. (Chair of organizing committee)
9 Jan 2025 → 10 Jan 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
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Conflicts over Duldung and Deportation: West African Perspectives on Germany Immigration Enforcement and European Borders
Kajanus, A. (Member of thesis committee / follow-up group)
14 Sept 2024Activity: Examination types › Supervisor or co-supervisor of doctoral thesis
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Bringing together ethnographic and experimental approaches for culturally grounded comparative research on human cooperation
Kajanus, A. (Speaker)
27 Sept 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Becoming an adequate child: Learning to relate to others in cultural context
Kajanus, A. (Supervisor)
28 Oct 2024Activity: Examination types › Supervisor or co-supervisor of doctoral thesis
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Negative Emotions Research Group
Kajanus, A. (Member of organizing committee)
9 Oct 2024 → 10 Oct 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
Press/Media
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Raising children for the 21st Century – Changing methods and moralities in Chinese primary education
04/04/2019
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Kahden lapsen politiikka - Onko Kiinaan odotettavissa vauvabuumi?
18/02/2019
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media