Staff - 3rd phase of research

Dr. Andreea Bretan

Main fields of research:

Social Anthropology of Development • Social Anthropology of the Near and Middle East • Curating.

Since August 2004 researcher at the Collaborative Research Centre "Difference and Integration" • 2009 Ph.D. Thesis: “Who ‘owns’ the Steppe? Mobile Pastoralism, Development Interventions und Market Structures in Syria” • 2004 Master thesis: "Identity of Arabs in Leipzig: Bilingualism and its Impact on German-Arabic Families" • 2002 Study of Anthropology of the Middle East at the University of Texas at Austin (USA) • 2000–2001 Internship and Study of the Arabic language at the exchange programme of the DAAD at Cairo (Egypt) • 1998–2004 Study of Arabic Studies, Political Science and Hispanic Studies at the University of Leipzig.

Selected Publications:

Die syrische Steppe. Mobile Viehzucht, internationale Entwicklungshilfe und globale Märkte. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2010.

„Die Beduinen und die syrische Steppe – beherrscht, verwaltet, entwickelt? Strategien von Anpassung und Widerstand am Beispiel der Haswe“, In: Franz, Kurt (ed.): Mitteilungen des SFB "Differenz und Integration" 11: Verwaltete Nomaden. Mobile Viehzüchter und Dienstleister zwischen Autonomie und staatlicher Anbindung. Halle 2007, 132-155.