Martin Sökefeld

Martin Sökefeld (* 1964 ) is a German ethnologist .

Life

From 1983 to 1990 he studied ethnology , philosophy and Romance studies (Spanish) at the University of Cologne (1990 master’s degree ). From 1991 to 1994 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the University of Tübingen in the DFG- Priority Program Karakoram Cultural Area . In 1995 he worked for a German-foreign meeting place in Hamburg-Altona , cultural management. After receiving his doctorate in 1996 at the Faculty of Cultural Studies in Tübingen, he taught from 1997 to 1999 as a lecturer at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the University of Hamburg . In May 1998 he was a short-term visiting professor at the Center d'Études de l'Inde et de Asie du Sud of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales . From 1999 to 2005 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the University of Hamburg. After completing his habilitation in May 2005 at the Department of Cultural History and Cultural Studies at the University of Hamburg, he was assistant professor at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the University of Bern from 2005 to 2008 . Since October 2008 he has been professor of social anthropology at the LMU Munich .

A labyrinth of identities in Northern Pakistan. Between land ownership, religion and the Kashmir conflict . Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-89645-158-8 .
as editor: Beyond the paradigm of cultural difference. New perspectives on immigrants from Turkey . Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-89942-229-5 .
as editor: Alevis in Germany. Identity processes of a religious community in the diaspora . Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 3-89942-822-6 .
Struggling for recognition. The Alevi movement in Germany and in transnational space . New York 2008, ISBN 1-84545-478-2 .