Staff - 3rd phase of Research

Prof. Dr. Richard Rottenburg

Main fields of research:

Law, Organization, Science and Technology (LOST) • Sudan-Ethnography • Africa (mainly Sudan and South Africa) • Europe and interstitial spaces.

Since 2002 Professor of Social Anthropology at "Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg" • Since 2005 Max Planck Fellow • 1999 Habilitation at "Europa-Universität Viadrina" (Frankfurt/Oder) • 1987 PhD at "Freie Universität Berlin" • Fieldwork in several African countries and Europe, teaching of Social Anthropology at Umtata (South Africa), Berlin, Frankfurt/Oder and Halle.

Ausgewählte Veröffentlichungen:

In preparation. Bewahrung des Lebens. Krieg, Erinnerung und Vitalität in den Nuba-Bergen (Sudan). Edition Trickster im Hammer Verlag (Monograph, 300 pages).

2009. Far-fetched Facts. A Parabel of Development Aid. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

1991. Ndemwareng. Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft in den Morobergen. München: Trickster.

2006. With Burkhard Schnepel and Shingo Shimada (editors). 2006. The making and unmaking of differences. Anthropological, sociological and philosophical perspectives. Bielefeld: Transcript.

2008. Nomadic-sedentary relations and failing state institutions in Darfur and Kordofan (Sudan). Orientwissenschaftliche Hefte 26.

2008. Übersetzung und ihre Dementierung. In Bruno Latours Kollektive. Kontroversen zur Entgrenzung des Sozialen, edited by Kneer, Georg, Marcus Schroer & Erhard Schüttpelz. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.

2007. With Christoph Hubig: Technikkultur in Afrika. In Technik und Interkulturalität, edited by Hubig, Christoph & Hans Poser. Düsseldorf: VDI, 59-71.

2007. With Christoph Hubig: Trading zones. Eine zielführende Strategie des Konfliktmanagements im interkulturellen Transfer. In Technik und Interkulturalität, edited by Hubig, Christoph & Hans Poser. Düsseldorf: VDI, 221-226.

2006. Social constructivism and the enigma of strangeness. In The making and unmaking of differences. Anthropological, sociological and philosophical perspectives, edited by Rottenburg, Richard, Burkhard Schnepel and Shingo Shimada. Bielefeld: Transcript, 27-41.

2006. The figure of the third in the field. Folk. Journal of the Danish Ethnographic Society: 41-53.