According to Wikipedia, Gerd Spittler is a German ethnologist. Spittler became known through his participation in developing the Africa focus at the University of Bayreuth and through his research on Hausa peasants and Tuareg nomads. While in his early years as a sociologist he concentrated on the area of "power and domination", as part of his professorship in Bayreuth, as an ethnologist he later focused on other main topics: the ethnology of work, the ethnology of material needs, local action in a global context and research methodology. He has written and published many essays and books on these topics.
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Published Works
African children at work : working and learning in growing up for life (2012) (52)
Between resistance and expansion : explorations of local vitality in Africa (2004) (30)
Founders of the Anthropology of Work: German Social Scientists of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries and the First Ethnographers (2008) (22)
From an Anthropology of Astonishment to a Critique of Anthropology's Common Sense : An Exploration of the Notion of Local Vitality in Africa (2004) (4)
Children’s Work in a Family Economy : A case study and theoretical discussion (2012) (4)
Stress, crisis and catastrophe. Communication and survival strategies of Tuareg nomads during a famine. (1999) (1)
How Many Things Does Man Need? Material Possessions and Consumption in Three West African Villages (Hausa, Kasena and Tuareg) Compared to German Students (2009) (1)
Explorations of Local Vitality in Africa : Local Actions inConquest, Resistance, Famine and Interethnic Relations (2004) (0)
