Academic Staff
almut.schneider (at) em.uni-frankfurt.de
Human-environment and human-animal relations, concepts of person and land, Value- und idea-systems, Theories of ritual and exchange, Kinship and new kinship, Pacific (in particular Melanesia), Austronesian region, Europe (in particular the alpine region)
2011 | PhD Thesis (Social Anthropology) at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris (« Life that comes from elsewhere; Growth, exchanges and rituals in the Papua-New Guinea Highlands ») |
1997 | MPhil (Social Anthropology) at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris |
1996 | MA (Social Anthropology, Ancient History, Philosophy) at the FU Berlin |
2013–2016 | Senior lecturer, Institute for Ethnology, Münster University |
2011–2013 | Lecturer, Institute for Ethnology, Heidelberg University |
Since 2001 | Teaching at Free University Berlin, Münster University, Heidelberg University, Free University Bolzano |
2023-2025 | Switzerland (with shepherds, ecologists and institutions) |
2012–2016 and 2019-2022 |
Fieldwork with high-altitude farmers in South-Tyrol (Italy) |
2013 |
Papua New Guinea (Highland and Massim region; 2 months) |
2006 |
Papua New Guinea (in collaboration with M.Strathern), comparative research in Kuk and Tambul (2 months) |
1998–1999 |
Fieldwork in Highland Papua New Guinea (Tambul; 18 months) |
1997 |
Papua New Guinea (pilot research in the Highland region; 3 months) |
2024 | Exploring ethnography for moving mountain confines - an introduction. In: Schneider, Almut and Elisabeth Tauber, New Horizons for the Alps: Ethnographies, reshaping challenges and emerging more-than-alpine relationsn Schneider, Bolzano: bu,press. |
2024 | “What does a high-altitude farmer do? Different perspectives on mountain practices". In Schneider, Almut and Elisabeth Tauber (eds.) New Horizons for the Alps: Ethnographies, reshaping challenges and emerging more-than-alpine relations, Bolzano: bu,press. |
2022 |
Land's constraints and possibilities – High-altitude farmers in the Eastern Alps, in: CAFE - Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, Special Issue: Rural livelihood strategies and public policy in Europe: the issue of self-sufficiency; Guest editors: Escribano, Paula and Agata Hummel. |
2022 |
Die da oben und die da unten. Verständnisschwierigkeiten in einer europäischen Bergregion. In: Hardenberg, Roland; Platenkamp, Josephus, Widlok, Thomas (Hg.), Ethnologie als angewandte Wissenschaft – Das Zusammenspiel von Theorie und Praxis, Berlin: Reimer (33-44). |
2020 |
with E. Tauber, Beziehungsgeflechte – ethnologische und historische Perspektiven auf Südtiroler Bergbauern, in Zeitschrift für Agrargeschichte und Agrarsoziologie 68. (1): 105-111. |
2019 |
with E. Tauber, Relations to land in the Eastern Alps The challenge of framing comparative questions, in: Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa 2019(2): 265-271. |
2019 |
“Placing the newcomer – staying with the Gawigl of Highland Papua New Guinea", in: Platenkamp, Jos and Almut Schneider (eds.) Integrating Others – Perspectives from Elsewhere, Palgrave Macmillan (185-198). |
2017 |
“Parler des 'raisons' dans la société Gawigl", in: Gibeault, David and Stéphane Vibert (eds.) Autorité et pouvoir en perspective comparative, Textes en hommage à Daniel de Coppet, Paris: Presses de l'Inalco.
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2016 |
“ 'Making the Spirit' - The Potential of Knowledge from Elsewhere" in: Prager, Laila; Michael Prager und Guido Sprenger (Hg.), Parts and Wholes – Essays on Social Morphology, Cosmology, and Exchange in Honour of J.D.M. Platenkamp, Münster: Lit. (413-421).
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2011 |
with M. Strathern, “Obligations in Relationships, A Western Highlands Case Study", Publications of the National Research Institute, Occasional paper No. 3,: Port Moresby.
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2011 |
“L'amour est-il un concept pertinent dans les Hautes-Terres de la Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée?" Online-publication on the website of the Réseau Asie (4e °ä´Ç²Ô²µ°ùè²õ)
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2010 |
“The Distinction of Sex and Generation in Gawigl Relationship Terminology", in: Berger, Peter, Roland Hardenberg, Ellen Kattner und Michael Prager (eds.) The Anthropology of Values: Essays in Honour of Georg Pfeffer, New Delhi: Pearson-Longman (59-76). |
2007 |
“Aspects de l'espace-temps dans un rituel des Gawigl (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée)", Online-publication on the website of the Réseau Asie (3e °ä´Ç²Ô²µ°ùè²õ)
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2024 |
with Elisabeth Tauber (eds.) New Horizons for the Alps: Ethnographies, reshaping challenges and emerging more-than-alpine relations, Bolzano: bu,press. |
2019 |
with Jos Platenkamp (eds.), Integrating Others – Perspectives from Elsewhere, Palgrave Macmillan. |
2017 |
La vie qui vient de loin; croissance, échanges et rituel dans les Hautes Terres de la Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, Berlin : Lit (in the series Social and Ritual Morphology) (332 pages). |
Unpubl. |
1997 Le 'cycle cultural' du moka, une société qui 'plante' afin de danser: Les Melpa dans les Hautes Terres de la Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée. MPhil. (90 pages). |
2020 |
with E. Tauber, Salto Gespräch “Die Pandemie als Katalysator"; in: Salto.bz, |
2015 |
Book review: Smith, Michael French: A Faraway, Familiar Place. An Anthropologist returns to Papua New Guinea. Honolulu: University of Hawai'I Press 2013. In: Anthropos 110 (2): 658-9. |
2007 |
Papous, Texte zum Bildband von Eric Lafforgue, Paris: Kubik (160 Seiten, french). |