Dr.
Jan Patrick
Heiss
Senior Assistant
Telephone:
+41 44 635 22 24
janp.heiss@access.uzh.ch
Research interests
Anthropology of work, anthropological linguistics, individual and society, methods, peasants
Research areas
Niger, Nigeria, Chad
Teaching
West-Africa, anthropology of communication, anthropology of work, methods, political anthropology
Short bio
Undergraduate studies: social anthropology, African linguistics and philosophy; Frankfurt, Edinburgh and Berlin
Title of M.A. thesis: On the understanding of Hausa texts by Hausa readers – a case study in the anthropology of literature
Ph.D. in social anthropology, University of Bayreuth
Title of Ph.D. thesis: On the Complexity of Peasant Agricultural Work – a Case Study in a Manga Village (Niger)
Postdoctoral researcher, University of Mainz, Research on the Yedina of Lake Chad and on patterns of communication in a Hausa village
Lecturer at the ESZ. Research on „Individual and society in a Hausa village (Niger)
Editor of Sociologus – Journal of empirical social anthropology