People
- Prof. Dr. Mamadou Diawara
- Prof. Dr. Hans Peter Hahn
- Prof. Dr. Roland Hardenberg
- Prof. Dr. Susanne Schröter
- Prof. Dr. Mirco Göpfert
- Prof. apl. Dr. Iris Gareis
- Prof. apl. Dr. Volker Gottowik
- Prof. apl. Dr. Holger Jebens
- Prof. apl. Dr. Verena Keck
- PD Dr. Birgit Bräuchler
- Prof. Dr. Jean-Louis Georget
- PD Dr. Andrea Reikat
- Prof. apl. Dr. Ute Röschenthaler
- PD Dr. Susanne Fehlings
- Dr. Gabriel Klaeger
- Dr. Markus Lindner
- Dr. Andrea Luithle-Hardenberg
- Dr. Almut Schneider
- Dr. Marko Scholze
- Dr. Nikolaus Stolle
- Dr. Judit Tavakoli
- Dr. Sophia Thubauville
- Dr. des. Yanti Hoelzchen
- Dr. des. Baktygul Tulebaeva
- Sabine Barth
- Harriet Annuscheit, M.A.
- Oliver Bertrand, M.A.
- Sandra Hüfner
- Dipl.-Bibl. Kirsten Lankenau
- Ronja Metzger, M.A.
- The Student Council
Dr. Almut Schneider
Academic Staff
almut.schneider (at) em.uni-frankfurt.de
Thematic and regional research foci
Human-environment and human-animal relations, concepts of person and land, Value- und idea-systems, Theories of ritual and exchange, Kinship and new kinship, Pacific (in particular Melanesia), Austronesian region, Europe (in particular the alpine region)
Education
2011 | PhD Thesis (Social Anthropology) at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris (« Life that comes from elsewhere; Growth, exchanges and rituals in the Papua-New Guinea Highlands ») |
1997 | MPhil (Social Anthropology) at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris |
1996 | MA (Social Anthropology, Ancient History, Philosophy) at the FU Berlin |
Teaching
2013–2016 | Senior lecturer, Institute for Ethnology, Münster University |
2011–2013 | Lecturer, Institute for Ethnology, Heidelberg University |
Since 2001 | Teaching at Free University Berlin, Münster University, Heidelberg University, Free University Bolzano |
Fieldwork
2012–2016 and 2019 |
South Tyrol (4 months pilot research with high altitude farmers; 6 months) |
2013 |
Papua New Guinea (Highland and Massim region; 2 months) |
2006 |
Papua New Guinea (in collaboration with M.Strathern), comparative research in Kuk and Tambul (2 months) |
1998–1999 |
Fieldwork in Highland Papua New Guinea (Tambul; 18 months) |
1997 |
Papua New Guinea (pilot research in the Highland region; 3 months) |
Publications
In press |
with J. Platenkamp (eds.), Integrating Others – Perspectives from Elsewhere, Palgrave Macmillan. |
In press |
“Placing the newcomer – staying with the Gawigl of Highland Papua New Guinea”, in: Platenkamp and Schneider (eds.) Integrating Others – Perspectives from Elsewhere, Palgrave Macmillan |
2017 |
“Parler des ‘raisons’ dans la société Gawigl”, in: David Gibeault und Stéphane Vibert (Hg.) Autorité et pouvoir en perspective comparative, Textes en hommage à Daniel de Coppet, Paris: Presses de l’Inalco. |
2017 |
La vie qui vient de loin; croissance, échanges et rituel dans les Hautes Terres de la Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, Berlin : Lit (Studies in Social and Ritual Morphology) (xiii, 332 pages). |
2016 |
“ ‘Making the Spirit’ - The Potential of Knowledge from Elsewhere” in: Prager, Laila; Michael Prager und Guido Sprenger (Hg.), Parts and Wholes – Essays on Social Morphology, Cosmology, and Exchange in Honour of J.D.M. Platenkamp, Münster: Lit. (413-421). |
2015 |
Reviw: Smith, Michael French: A Faraway, Familiar Place. An Anthropologist returns to Papua New Guinea. Honolulu: University of Hawai’I Press 2013. In Anthropos 110 (2); 658-9. |
2011 |
with M. Strathern, “Obligations in Relationships, A Western Highlands Case Study”, Publications of the National Research Institute, Occasional paper No. 3,: Port Moresby. |
2011 |
“L’amour est-il un concept pertinent dans les Hautes-Terres de la Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée?” Online-Publikation auf der Webseite des Réseau Asie (4e Congrès) http://www.reseau-asie.com/userfiles/file/E06_schneider_amour_papouasienvleguinee.pdf |
2010 |
“The Distinction of Sex and Generation in Gawigl Relationship Terminology”, in: Peter Berger, Roland Hardenberg, Ellen Kattner und Michael Prager (Hg.) The Anthropology of Values: Essays in Honour of Georg Pfeffer, New Delhi: Pearson-Longman (59-76). |
2007 |
Papous, Texte zum Bildband von Eric Lafforgue, Paris: Kubik (160 pages, in french). |
2007 |
“Aspects de l’espace-temps dans un rituel des Gawigl (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée)”, Online-Publikation auf der Webseite des Réseau Asie (3e Congrès) http://www.firsturl.de/sGhe7yL |
1998 |
Entry ”Melpa”, in: Dictionnaire des peuples. Sociétés d’Afrique, d’Amérique, d’Asie et d’Océanie, Paris: Larousse (2 pages). |
Unpubl. manuscript |
1997 Le 'cycle cultural' du moka, une société qui 'plante' afin de danser: Les Melpa dans les Hautes Terres de la Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée. MPhil. (90 pages) |
Unpubl. manuscript |
1996 Geburt und Tod bei den Melpa im Hochland von Papua Neuguinea. Master-Thesis (104 pages) |