Projects according to Project Group
A Frontiers and Transitions
A1 The development of nomadism in the Syrian-Mesopotamian region between the 4th and the 1st millennium BC · Prof. Dr. Felix Blocher, Halle
A3 Land Use in the Syrian Steppes – Practice and Argument · PD Dr. A. Nippa, Leipzig
A4 Nomads without pastures? Globalization, Regionalization and Livelihood Security · Prof. Dr. J. Gertel, Leipzig
A7 Mobile life-strategies in dependence on ecological resources in the northwestern coastal zone of Egypt from antiquity to early islamic times · Prof. Dr. G. Brands, Dr. Thomas Vetter, Dr. M. Zierdt, Halle
B Conflict and Control
B1 Bedouin Groups in Syria and Egypt: Interplays between Nomads and the Aiyûbid and Mamlûk State Systems · Prof. Dr. St. Leder
B4 Nomads and State – Changing balances of power in Mesopotamia:
Subject 1: Aramaic tribes and the Syro-Mesopotamian homeland 12th–9th century B.C. · Prof. Dr. F. Blocher, Halle
Subject 2: Between Pasture, Town and Palace: Nomads and Settled Population in the Mari Kingdom (19./18. C. B.C.) · Prof. Dr. M. Streck, Leipzig
Subject 3: State control of the open range – nomadic control of the state: constant factors in the history of the Ancient Near East? · Prof. Dr. Cl. Wilcke, Leipzig
B5 Roman Rule in the Maghreb between Sedentariness and Nomadism · Prof. Dr. Ch. Schubert, Dr. A. Weiß, Leipzig
B6 Orientation in, perception and utilisation of space on the edge of the Arctic: Nomads and Sedentary people in Northwest Siberia · Prof. Dr. G. Schlee, Halle
D Integration and Attachment
D3 Transfers of arms and armour from nomadic to sedentary peoples and vice versa in the Parthian and Sasanian periods · Prof. Dr. M. Mode, Prof. Dr. J. Tubach, Halle
D5 Between loss of power and market integration: Central Asian nomads in Colonial times · Prof. Dr. J. Paul
D6 Mountainous and piedmont zones of Central Asia as areas of interaction between nomads and sedentaries. Case studies in the archaeology and history of the area between Zerafshan and Shakhristansay (Tadzhikistan) · Prof. Dr. M. Mode, Halle
D7 Nomadic and Sedentary Peoples – Northern Mesopotamia in the Arsacid and Sasanian Period · Dr. St. R. Hauser, Halle
D8 Nomads on the Territory of the Late Roman and Byzantine Empire from 3rd to 14th Century · Prof. Dr. A. Mehl, Dr. O. Schmitt, Halle
D9 Contested Autochthony. Land and water rights, and the relation of nomadic and sedentary people in South Kordofan (Sudan) · Prof. Dr. R. Rottenburg
E Reflexion and Concepts
E4 The image of the nomad in the Syriac literature (4th – 13th century) · Prof. Dr. J. Tubach, Dr. Ute Pietruschka
E5 Russian Perceptions of the Nomads of the Czarist Empire · Prof. Dr. J. Paul, Prof. Dr. M. G. Müller
E6 Interaction of language and social norms: a sociolinguistic investigation into the conflict and integration of nomadic and sedentary lifestyles among Kazak speakers living in Kazakstan and Mongolia · Dr. I. Bellér-Hann
F Associated Projects
F2 The Arabic dialects of the Beni Guil (North-Eastern Morocco). Way of life, language and identity · Dr. S. Gralla
F3 The Gabor people – Horizontal and vertical mobility among service nomads in Transylvania (Romania) · Prof. Dr. B. Streck, Fabian Jacobs M.A.
F4 Nukhba-yi Sayfiya: an Ethnographic Representation of the Yumut Turkmen in the Early 20th Century · Prof. Dr. I. Schneider, Esther Ohanecian M.A.