Research Projects

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Current Research Projects

Exclusion practises in the context of immigration in the City of Halle-Saale, Germany

Zahir Musa Abdal-Kareem (Research Fellow) 
Research Initiative on Migration more

Social order and everyday life in Mogadishu

Faduma Abukar Mursal (Ph.D Candidate IMPRS REMEP) 
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Gender and Art in the Quest for Peace. Women's Involvement in Peace Building and the Role of Art in Peace Processes in Sudan

Nadine Rea Intisar Adam (Ph.D Candidate IMPRS REMEP) 
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Christiane Adamczyk (Ph.D Candidate)

Alemayehu Debelo Jorgo (Ph.D Candidate, MaxNetAging) 
PhD Research

Ethnic Differentiation, Interethnic Relations and Conflict in Central Asia: the case of the Uzbeks in Kazakstan

Indira Alibayeva (Ph.D Candidate, Halle-Zurich Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia - CASCA) 
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Contesting Kalmak Identity in Contemporary Kyrgyzstan

Aida Alymbaeva (Ph.D Candidate, Halle-Zurich Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia - CASCA) 
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Haile Selassie Film Project (2016 - 2019)

Ogato Ambaye (Associate)
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Genealogical Relations and Kinship Practice in a Village in Kyrgyzstan

Genealogical Relations and Kinship Practice in a Village in Kyrgyzstan

Louise Bechthold (Research Fellow) 
Kinship and Genealogical Relations: Practices of Name Avoidance, and Networks of Feasting and Gift Exchange in Rural Southern Kyrgyzstan (Kinship Universals and Variation) more

Maarten Bedert (Ph.D Candidate) 
The articulation of belonging in post-war Liberia

Małgorzata Biczyk (Ph.D Candidate, Halle-Zurich Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia - CASCA)

Lucie Buffavand (Ph.D Candidate) 
Political anthropology of the Bodi funeral

Sandra Calkins (Research Partner)

Convivencia - Iberian to Global Dynamics, 500-1750

Brian Campbell (Research Fellow) 
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Current Projects

James Carrier (Associate) 
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Solange Guo Chatelard (Ph.D Candidate)

Ethno-Nationalism Côte d'Ivoire

Youssouf Diallo (Research Partner) 
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Daniela Dietz (Ph.D Candidate, Halle-Zurich Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia - CASCA)

Competing Practices in Conflict?

Albert K. Drent (Ph.D Candidate IMPRS REMEP) 
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Political Economy and Political Clientelism in the Agricultural and Industrial Region South of Leipzig

Political Economy and Political Clientelism in the Agricultural and Industrial Region South of Leipzig

John Eidson (Senior Research Fellow) 
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Ateker People – mutual frontiers and integration

Ateker People – mutual frontiers and integration

Immo Eulenberger (Ph.D Candidate IMPRS REMEP) more

Peter Finke (Cooperation Partner, Halle-Zurich Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia - CASCA)

Lands of the Future

Christina Gabbert (Research Partner) 
Lands of the Future Research Initiative more

Homeland Ties and the Incorporation of Foreigners, Halle, Germany and Manchester, USA

Nina Glick Schiller (Research Partner) 
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Transformations of subject-object-relations in Melanesia

Joachim Görlich (Associate) 
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Between Disintegration and Integration: Fulbe refugees from the Central African Republic in Cameroon

Between Disintegration and Integration: Fulbe refugees from the Central African Republic in Cameroon

Martine Guichard (Senior Research Fellow) 
Kinship Universals and Variation 
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Martine Guichard (Senior Research Fellow) 
Friendship and Kinship: On the difference and relevance of two systems of social relationships. The case of the Fulbe societies of northern Cameroon and northern Benin
Spatial Concentration of Relatives by Macro-Region and Area Type

Spatial Concentration of Relatives by Macro-Region and Area Type

Patrick Heady (Coordinator Kinship) 
Kinship Universals and Variation - Brief Project Description more

Markus V. Hoehne (Research Fellow) 
Research Initiative on Migration

Remadji Hoinathy (Research Partner, C.R.A.S.H.) 
Oil Exploitation and its Impact on Logone Oriental Communities' Modes and Conditions of Living

Wolfgang Holzwarth (Research Partner, Halle-Zurich Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia - CASCA) 
CASCA Project

Current Project

Eliza Isabaeva (Ph.D Candidate, Halle-Zurich Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia - CASCA) 
Migration into ‘Illegality’ and the Making of the State in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan: The Case of a Squatter Settlement in Bishkek more

KUV Project Aksana Ismailbekova

Aksana Ismailbekova (Research Partner) more

Changing Patterns of Interethnic Conflict and Mediation in the Lower Omo Basin: The Daasanech and Their Neighbours, Ethiopia

Kaleb Kassa (Ph.D Candidate IMPRS REMEP) 
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Karimova, Baktygul (Ph.D Candidate, Halle-Zurich Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia - CASCA)

David O´Kane (Senior Research Fellow) 

Current Project

Jonas Klee (Ph.D Candidate) 
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Current Research

Jacqueline Knörr (Head of Research Group) 
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Hassan Hussein Kochore (Ph.D Candidate, MaxNetAging)

Florian Köhler (Associate) 
Contemporary pastoralist identities and changing forms of mobility among Woɗaaɓe in Eastern Niger

Religious Change, Identity Politics and Uncertainty in Peri-Urban Northern Mozambique

Christian Laheij (Reserach Fellow) 
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Kin Relationships, Trade and Social Change among Uighurs in Southeastern Kazakhstan

Kin Relationships, Trade and Social Change among Uighurs in Southeastern Kazakhstan

Verena La Mela (Ph.D Candidate, Halle-Zurich Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia - CASCA) 
Kinship Universals and Variation more

Siri Lamoureaux (Associate) 
Language, communication technologies and identity in South Kordofan, Sudan

Shauna LaTosky (Associate)
Current Project - Agathe Menetrier

Current Project - Agathe Menetrier

Agathe Menetrier (Ph.D Candidate) 
Between Belonging and Exclusion: Refugees' adaption to UNHCR strategies and practices of 'Local Integration'. The case of long-term refugees in Dakar, Senegal more

Current Project

Munkh-Erdene Lkhamsuren (Associate, Georg Forster Research Fellowship) 
Making Mongolia Multi-Ethnic: Knowledge, Power and Identity more

Current Project

Mossa Hamid Wassie (Ph.D Candidate IMPRS REMEP) 
Conflict Dynamics in a Three-Level Game: Conflict Formation in Gambella, Southwest Ethiopia more

Harald Müller-Dempf (Associate)

On the practices of seeing health and illness in Central Asia: collective identities, legitimacies and purification in the case of Turkistani Khojas

Bakyt Muratbayeva (Ph.D Candidate, Halle-Zurich Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia - CASCA) more

Sophie Nakueira (Research Fellow)
Cross-Cultural Research on Asymmetric Kin Invenstment

Cross-Cultural Research on Asymmetric Kin Invenstment

Alexander Pashos (Senior Research Fellow) 
Kinship Universals and Variation - Brief Project Description more
Kinship Network in Late-Life Transitions

Kinship Network in Late-Life Transitions

Barbara Pieta (Ph.D Candidate MaxNetAging) more

Laotian Transnational Spaces. From Laos to East and West Germany

Nicole Reichert (Ph.D Candidate) 
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Andrea Riester (Associate)

Global warring

Stephen Reyna (Research Partner) 
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Ameyu Godesso Roro (Ph.D Candidate IMPRS REMEP) 
Transformation in Gumuz-Oromo Relations: Identity, Conflict and Social Order in Ethiopia

Meltem Sancak (Associate, Halle-Zurich Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia - CASCA)

Placemaking: Somali migrants in Kenyan cities

Tabea Scharrer (Research Fellow) 
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Belonging nowhere or everywhere? Somalian return migrants in East Africa

Tabea Scharrer (Research Fellow) more

Merle Schatz (Associate)

Current Projects and Consultancy Reports

Günther Schlee (Director) 
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Haile Selassie Film Project (2016 - 2019)

Günther Schlee (Director) more
Kinship and Political Systems

Kinship and Political Systems

Günther Schlee (Director) 
Kinship Universals and Variation - Brief Project Description more

Ina Schröder (Associate) 
“The Time of Singing Arrows”: role-play, tourism and self-presentation in indigenous culture camps for children and youth, Western Siberia

Anita Schroven (Research Fellow) 
After Ebola: generational changes after crisis

Disputing amidst Uncertainty Procedures of dispute management in ‘post-war’ times – disputing parties’ accounts, Bamyan/Afghanistan 2009

Friederike Stahlmann (Ph.D Candidate IMPRS REMEP) 
Disputing amidst Uncertainty Procedures of dispute management in ‘post-war’ times – disputing parties’ accounts, Bamyan/Afghanistan 2009 more

Jessica Steinecke (Ph.D Candidate)

Christian Straube (Ph.D Candidate) 
Mining with Chinese Characteristics? Sino-Zambian encounters on the African Copperbelt

Timm Sureau (Research Fellow and Coordinator IMPRS REMEP) 
National integration at a turning point – The case of South Sudan

Convivencia - Iberian to Global Dynamics, 500-1750

Mark Sweha (Ph.D Candidate) 
CONVIVENCIA more

Turaeva Rano (Associate, Halle-Zurich Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia - CASCA)

Current Project

Han Vermeulen (Associate) 
Anthropology, Ethnology, and Ethnography in Europe and the USA more

Margarethe Waldt (Ph.D Candidate, Halle-Zurich Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia - CASCA)

Comparing Creole proto-nationalism and mutual-aid institutions in processes of integration and conflict in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde

Wilson Trajano Filho (Research Partner) 
Comparing Creole proto-nationalism and mutual-aid institutions in processes of integration and conflict in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde more

*List of current projects sorted alphabetically by researcher.

(Update: January, 2019)

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