Forschung

Aktuelle Forschungsprojekte
Abgeschlossene Forschungsprojekte

Aktuelle Forschungsprojekte

Gerhard Anders: Der Special Court for Sierra Leone: internationale Strafgerichtsbarkeit im lokalen soziokulturellen Kontext (Habilitationsprojekt finanziert vom Schweizerischen Nationalfonds)

Carlo Caduff: Microbial Matters: An Anthropological Account of Pandemic Influenza in the United States (Forschungsprojekt finanziert vom Schweizerischen Nationalfonds)

Willemijn de Jong: SNF-Projekt „Fertility and Family in Switzerland. Local Processes of Reproduction and Kinship in Transnational Contexts of Biomedical Technologies“ (2010-2013)

Willemijn de Jong: „New Reproductive Technologies (NRT) and the Making of Bodies, Persons and Families in Russia and Switzerland“ (2006-2008), funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, research partnership with Eastern Europe (SCOPES) (co-ordinator and research)

Willemijn de Jong: Social security networks, old age and gender in Kerala, India

Willemijn de Jong: Changes in ritual and social life in Flores, Indonesia

Werner Egli: Zur Konstruktion ethnischer Identität bei den Sunuwar Ostnepals mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Rolle ethnischer Organisationen, Jugendlicher und neuer Medien

Werner Egli: Rechtspluralistische Verhältnisse ostnepalesischer Lokalkulturen im Wandel (1988-2011) – Von kipat-ähnlichen Verhältnissen zu modernem Privateigentum?

Eliza Isabaeva: Social Citizenship from Below and the Making of State in Kyrgyzstan: Migrants Making a Living in the Squatter Settlements of Bishkek

Eva Keller: "Imagining the Other": The Masoala National Park and the Masoala Exhibit at the zoo in Zurich

Nikola Kosmatopoulos: Governing Conflict: Expertennetzwerke in Libanon und darüber hinaus

Nikola Kosmatopoulos: Programme de bourses "Jeunes Chercheurs"

Michaela Pelican: Transnationale Beziehungen kamerunischer muslimischer MigrantInnen

Shalini Randeria: Legal pluralism and family law in western India: the interplay of state and non-state actors

Shalini Randeria: A comparative study of cases before the World Bank Inspection Panel (in preparation)

Stefanie Strulik: “Politics Embedded: Political Participation of Women in Local Governance and Changing Gender Relations” (Indien)

Dilyara Suleymanova: Education, language and politics of identity in the Republic of Tatarstan (PhD project supported by the URPP Asia and Europe)

Dilyara Suleymanova: Census politics and transformation of identity in the post-Soviet Russia (in collaboration with the Centre franco-russe de recherche en sciences humaines et sociales, Moscow).

Tatjana Thelen: "Local State and Social Security in Rural Hungary, Romania and Serbia" (gefördert durch die VolswagenStiftung), link unter http://www.eth.mpg.de/deutsch/index.html

Abgeschlossene Forschungsprojekte

Gerhard Anders: Im Schatten von Good Governance - Ethnographie einer Verwaltungsreform in Afrika

Willemijn de Jong: Intercultural communication and labour migration in Switzerland (PhD research)

Willemijn de Jong: Work, marriage and gender in Indonesia, funded by the Canton of Zurich (habilitation / postdoc research)

Willemijn de Jong: “Local Social Security and Gender in India and Burkina Faso“, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Swiss Development Cooperation, research partnership with developing countries (co-ordinator and research)

Willemijn de Jong: “Disabled Professional Education of Adolescent Migrants in Switzerland“, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, NFP 43 “Education and Occupation” (head of the PhD project)

Werner Egli: Schamanismus und indigene Psychologie der Sunuwar Ostnepals

Werner Egli: Kindheit bei den Sunuwar Ostnepals

Michael Guggenheim: Umnutzung. Eine vergleichende Ethnographie von Gebäuden und Gesellschaft (A comparative study on the history and ethnography of change of use of buildings)
Funded by Swiss National Science Foundation 2005

Eva Keller: The Road to Clarity

Michaela Pelican: Interethische Beziehungen im kameruner Grasland