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Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Tenured associate professors | Sociocultural anthropology

Elisabeth Tauber

Elisabeth.Tauber@unibz.it

+39 0471 015347

BZ F4.05
Faculty of Design and Art
Universitätsplatz 1 - piazza Università, 1
39100
Bozen-Bolzano

Short bio

Elisabeth Tauber is Associate Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology. She received her PhD (2007) in Sociocultural Anthropology from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich  in a joint project with the University of Florence. Her doctoral research was funded by an FP5 fellowship and the Heinrich Böll Foundation (Berlin). She was a Thyssen Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the LMU Munich and has conducted long-term ethnographic fieldwork with semi-nomadic Romani people, within European institutions, and currently with various actors involved in European grasslands. She has published extensively on Romani marriage, nomadism, gift economies, ethnography and archives, and more recently on grassland socialities. She is a co-founder of the Malinowski Forum for Ethnography and Anthropology (MFEA) and leads several research projects on ethnography and archives and on how to enhance dialogue between species.
 

Courses

Anthropology of Intercultural Processes

17204 · M-DEA/01 · Bachelor in Communication Sciences and Culture · DE

Cultural Anthropology

96114 · M-DEA/01 · Master in Eco-Social Design · EN

Cultural Anthropology

97133 · M-DEA/01 · Bachelor in Design and Art - Major in Art · EN

Cultural Anthropology

97133 · M-DEA/01 · Bachelor in Design and Art - Major in Design · EN

Ethnographic research methods

15144E · PhD Programme in Education and Social Sciences · EN

Methods of ethnographic research

95204 · PhD Programme in Experimental Research through Design, Art and Technologies · EN

Main Research Areas

Nomadism, marginality, Romani people, marriage, gift economies, gender, archive and ethnography, grasslands, grass socialities, species in dialogue. Elisabeth Tauber works in interdisciplinary teams with ecologists, historians and designers.

Info

Co-coordinatior of the Malinowski Forum for Ethnography and Anthropology. https://mfea.projects.unibz.it/

Selected publications

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