Erdmute Alber
German professor
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Anthropology
Erdmute Alber's Degrees
- PhD Anthropology University of Bayreuth
- Masters Anthropology University of Bayreuth
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)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.
Erdmute Alber's Published Works
Published Works
- Denying biological parenthood: fosterage in Northern Benin (2003) (66)
- Generational connections and conflicts in Africa: An introduction (2008) (48)
- Grandparents as Foster-Parents: Transformations in Foster Relations Between Grandparents and Grandchildren in Northern Benin (2004) (48)
- Changing Webs of Kinship: Spotlights on West Africa (2010) (32)
- Generations in Africa. Connections and Conflicts (2008) (31)
- Anthropological Perspectives on Care: Work, Kinship, and the Life-Course (2015) (30)
- The anthropology of sibling relations : shared parentage, experience, and exchange (2013) (24)
- "The real parents are the foster parents" : social parenthood among the Baatombu in Northern Benin (2004) (23)
- Reconnecting state and kinship (2017) (21)
- Motorization and colonial rule: Two scandals in Dahomey, 1916 (2002) (20)
- Lifetimes Intertwined: African Grandparents and Grandchildren (2003) (19)
- Child Trafficking in West Africa (2011) (17)
- Of culture, consumption and cost: A comparative analysis of household energy consumption in Kenya, Germany and Spain (2018) (17)
- Child Fostering in West Africa (2013) (17)
- Anthropological Perspectives on Care (2015) (17)
- Child Fostering in West Africa: New Perspectives on Theory and Practices (2013) (14)
- Transfers of Belonging: Child Fostering in West Africa in the 20th Century (2018) (8)
- Anthropology of sibling relations: explorations in shared parentage, experience, and exchange (2013) (8)
- Reconnecting State and Kinship: Temporalities, Scales, Classifications (2018) (7)
- The transfer of belonging : Theories on child fostering in West Africa reviewed (2013) (6)
- Within the Thicket of Intergenerational sibling Relation : A Case Study from Northern Benin. (2013) (6)
- The kinning of foreigners: transnational adoption in a global perspective by Howell, Signe (2009) (5)
- Age-Inscriptions and Social Change (2018) (4)
- No School without Foster Families in Northern Benin : A Social Historical Approach (2010) (4)
- Schooling or Working? How family decision processes, children's agencies and state policy influence the life path of children in northern Benin. (2012) (4)
- Within the Thicket of Intergenerational Sibling Relations (2013) (4)
- Préparer la Retraite: New Age-Inscriptions in West African Middle Classes (2018) (3)
- Fans and states at work: a Ghanaian fan trip to the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa (2016) (3)
- Changes in African families: a review of anthropological and sociological approaches toward family and kinship in Africa (2011) (2)
- Schlichtung von Landkonflikten = Settling of land conflicts by mediation (1999) (2)
- Politics of Kinship: Child Fostering in Dahomey/Benin (2019) (1)
- Vital conjunctures and the negotiation of future : rural girls between urban middle class households and early marriage (2016) (1)
- Lifetimes intertwined? Grandparents and grandchildren in Africa (2004) (1)
- Violent conflicts in West African Borgou on the eve of colonization (1999) (1)
- Attachment and Care in West African Webs of Kinship (2011) (1)
- Parenthood in Rural Borgu (2018) (0)
- Familie in Afrika (2015) (0)
- Who moves to Huayopampa? Mobility and structural change in an Andean village in Peru. (1990) (0)
- Child Fostering in the Twentieth Century (2018) (0)
- No School without Foster Families in Northern Benin (2021) (0)
- Preparing old age in Kenya and Benin : A contribution to the debates on social differentiation in Africa (2019) (0)
- Adoption and Fostering (2018) (0)
- Theoretical Perspectives on Child Fostering (2018) (0)
- Einleitung: Explorations in Shared Parentage, Experience, and Exchange (2013) (0)
- Siblingship as Life-Long Exchange (2013) (0)
- 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)
- From Tightrope Walks to Entangled Families (2020) (0)
- Siblingship as Shared Parentage and Experience (2013) (0)
- Disputes over Transfers of Belonging in the Gold Coast in the 1870s: Fosterage or Debt Pawning? (2018) (0)
- Women's Life Worlds 'In-Between' : Foreword (2011) (0)
- Grandparenthood in Africa (2005) (0)
- Demand limiting the implementation of national law : An analysis of legal reality, disputing and legitimacy in a Baatombu village in Benin (2003) (0)
- Author index (2000) (0)
- Heterogeneity and Heterarchy : Middle-Class Households in Benin (2019) (0)
- Multiplicities of Kinship and Family in Africa (2019) (0)
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