Andreas Dafinger    

 

Associate Professor
Habilitation 2008 (Anthropology), University of Leipzig.
Ph.D. 2000 (Anthropology), J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt.
M.A. (Magister) 1995 (Sociology and Anthropology), J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt.

Contact:
Address: Zrinyi 14, Room 511
Phone Number: (36-1) 327 3000
Email: dafingera[at]ceu.hu

Areas of Research / Interest

Anthropology of development ; urbanization and rural-urban relations;
autochthony, ethnicity and nationalism; anthropology of space; the ethnography of governance; economic anthropology and class formation.

Selected Publications

/2006/ “Sharing or Dividing the Land? Land Rights and Herder-Farmer Relations in a Comparative View”. /Canadian Journal of African Studies/ 40/1, 2006

/2004// Anthropologie des Raums. Soziale und räumliche Ordnung im Süden
Burkina Fasos /(Anthropology of Space. Social and Spatial Order in Southern Burkina Faso). Frankfurt: Köppe

2003 “Towards an Ethnography of Governance”. In /Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology 2003/ 19-30

2002 /Land Rights and Changing Identities. A Comparative Paper on the Policies of Formal Land Allotment to Pastoral Groups in Northwest Cameroon and Burkina Faso. /Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 48

2001 “An Anthropological Case Study on the Relation between Space, Language, and Social Order” . /Environment and Planning A /33 (12): 2189 – 2203

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