Georg Klute

Georg Klute (* 1952 ) is a German ethnologist .

Life

From 1973 to 1975 he was a development worker in the north of Niger (NRO EIRENE). From 1975 to 1990 he studied at the University of Göttingen with the subjects of ethnology, Arabic studies, anthropogeography ( Magister Artium Ethnologie 1980, Dr. phil. At the University of Bayreuth 1990, habilitation in ethnosociology and developmental sociology at the University of Siegen 2002). From 1985 to 1987 he was a research assistant in a DFG project “Qualification Crises in Academic Careers” at the educational seminar in Göttingen . From 1987 to 1993 he was a research associate in the research project “Work with Nomads” and “Preindustrial Work” at the University of Freiburg and in the SFB 214 “Identity in Africa” in Bayreuth . From 1993 to 1994 he was a scientific advisor and production manager for the movie "Middle of the Moment", CineNomad Film. From 1995 to 1998 he was a research assistant in a DFG project at the Chair of Sociology in Siegen ( Trutz von Trotha ); Research on issues of ethnicity, state and violence in Africa. From 1998 to 2000 he was a university assistant at the chair for sociology at the University of Siegen (Trutz von Trotha). From 2000 to 2002 he was a freelance reviewer and lecturer at the German Foundation for International Development. In 2002 he was a research assistant at the Center for the Modern Orient . From 2002 to 2003 he taught as a visiting professor at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the Free University of Berlin . Since 2003 he has been Professor of African Ethnology at the University of Bayreuth. In 2005 he was a tutor in the master’s course at the École nationale d'administration . Since 2012 he has been teaching as a visiting professor at the University of Addis Ababa .

Fonts (selection)

• The hardest work in the world. Daily life of Tuareg nomads . Munich 1992, ISBN 3-923804-67-9 .
• From administrative chieftainship to regional para-sovereignty . Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-86093-173-3 .
• with Thomas Hüsken: Emerging forms of power in contemporary Africa. A theoretical and empirical research outline . Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-87997-650-8 .
• Tuareg uprising in the desert. A contribution to the anthropology of violence and war . Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-89645-732-5 .

literature

• as editors Thomas Hüsken, Alexander Solyga and Dida Badi: The multiplicity of orders and practices. A tribute to Georg Klute . Cologne 2019, ISBN 3-89645-850-7 .

Web links

• Georg Klute