Dorothea Schulz

Dorothea Elisabeth Schulz is a German ethnologist .

Life

From 1982 to 1983 she studied art history at the Université Paul-Valéry in Montpellier , from 1983 to 1984 biology (Dipl.) At the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and from 1984 to 1990 ethnology, sociology and biology at the University of Mainz . After completing her Magistra Artium in 1990 in Ethnology, Sociology and Biology in Mainz , she obtained an M.Phil from 1993 to 1996 . and Ph.D. at the Department of Social & Cultural Anthropology at Yale University . In 1996 she was a research assistant at the Frobenius Institute . From 1997 to 2004 she was a research assistant at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the Free University of Berlin . After her habilitation in 2005 at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the Free University of Berlin ( venia legendi for Social Anthropology), she taught as an assistant professor at the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University Bloomington from 2005 to 2008 . From 2008 to 2018 she taught as a professor (W2) for ethnology at the University of Cologne . Since 2018 she has been Professor (W3) for Social Anthropology at the University of Münster .

Her main research interests are religious anthropology, health and well-being, political anthropology, Islam in Africa, ethnological gender studies, and media anthropology.

Fonts (selection)

• "Ni wari t'i bòlò" or "when you have no money". Scope of action for women farmers in the Sahel zone . Mainz 1990, ISBN 3-926080-13-2 .
• Territorial displacement and moral relocation. Voices and images of womanhood in televised ladili performances in Mali . Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-86093-223-3 .
• Obscure powers, obscuring ethnographies. "Status" and social identities in Mande society . Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-86093-259-4 .
• Perpetuating the politics of price. Jeli singers, radios, and political mediation in Mali . Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-89645-213-4 .

Web links

• Professor Dorothea Schulz