According to Wikipedia, Erdmute Alber is a German ethnologist with research focus in political and kinship anthropology. Since 2010 she has held the chair in Social Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth. Education From 1983 to 1990, Erdmute Alber studied literature, Spanish and history at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and the Freie Universität Berlin. After completing her master's degree, she worked from 1993 to 2000 as a research assistant at the Institute for Ethnology at the Freie Universität Berlin supervised by Georg Elwert. During this time she received her doctorate in 1997 on Transformations of power and rule among the Baatombu in northern Benin . Her dissertation was awarded the research promotion prize of the Frobenius Society. In the years 2001/02 she was employed as a research assistant in the DFG funded project Social Parenthood in West Africa.
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Schooling or Working? How family decision processes, children's agencies and state policy influence the life path of children in northern Benin. (2012) (4)
Un-selfish genes? : Preferential upbringing of adopted and genetically distant children as a stable pattern among the Baatombu in the precolonial Slave Coast, Dahomey and modern Bénin (2004) (0)
When Implementation of National Law Is Determined by Local Demand (2004) (0)
