{"id":11758,"date":"2019-12-09T10:43:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T08:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.univie.ac.at\/?p=11758"},"modified":"2026-07-14T15:56:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:56:49","slug":"between-cultural-and-social-anthropology-and-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.univie.ac.at\/en\/humans-of-university-of-vienna-en\/between-cultural-and-social-anthropology-and-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Human of #univie Richard: Between Cultural and Social Anthropology and Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI have recently found my old student ID card in a moving box. \u2018Unbelievable\u2019, I thought as I looked at the picture. A young version of myself with long hair, a wild beard and piercings calmly smiled at me. Nearly ten winter and summer semesters have passed since then. It really is \u2018unbelievable\u2019 that I am now already in my second degree programme, often wearing a shirt and working \u2013 always cleanly shaved \u2013 in a law firm besides my studies.<\/p>\n

After finishing school, I came to Vienna and started my degree programme in Cultural and Social Anthropology. Already back then I thought about taking Law as a second degree programme. \u2018But will I be able to manage it?\u2019, I asked myself. I waited patiently for a few semesters before I felt ready. That one year really was \u2018unbelievable\u2019 because I did not only complete my bachelor\u2019s degree in Cultural and Social Anthropology, but also passed the difficult introductory and orientation period of Law. I even managed to move and take a vacation during, in-between and somehow parallel to my studies. I spent many, many hours in the reading room filling up piles of notebooks and using up countless pens.<\/p>\n

During that special time you tend to think that you are not moving forward at all, like everything is at a standstill: every day the same reading room, every semester the same seminar rooms, buying the semester public transport ticket again and again, choosing courses and planning ECTS credits. But when I look at my old student ID card, I realise that nearly everything has changed rapidly and continuously since then. Looking back, it was a lively and very eventful time.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of my degree programme, I rarely went to lectures in the morning, had parties on Mondays or Wednesdays and constantly celebrated someone\u2019s birthday, new flat shares or just my own independence.
\nTwo years ago, shortly before completing my first degree programme, a lot of things have started to change gradually and almost unnoticed: During the day I would sit in the reading room over a pile of books to work on my seminar paper on voodoo and read about foreign cultures and exotic customs. In the evenings, I would sit on the balcony of my former shared flat and read introductory lecture notes on law. One thing eventually started to feel like taking a \u2018break\u2019 from the other and I had turned into a full-time student.<\/p>\n

During the summer, I completed my last exam in Cultural and Social Anthropology and became a full-time law student. If I had to describe my first impression in one word, I would say that the transition from Cultural and Social Anthropology to Law was somewhat of a \u2018cultural shock\u2019.<\/p>\n

By now I have settled in just fine, learn a lot and feel motivated again each semester.<\/p>\n

One day I would like to be a legal anthropologist or at least have works published in this field. The path to reach this goal will definitely be long and difficult \u2013 but I have already surprised myself once and I am sure that I will be able to do so a second or third time.\u201d \u2013 Richard Bonomo<\/p>\n

Richard is studying Law<\/a> at the University of Vienna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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