Team > Prof. Dr. Tabea Häberlein
Prof. Dr. Tabea Häberlein
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social Anthropology
Scientific career
Professional experience
UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH, FACULTY OF HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
- 10/24-03/25: Substitute professor at the Professorship of Social and Cultural Anthropology with focus on Africa
- since Sep. 2022: Research Associate at the Cultural & Social Anthropology research group
- Mar. 2019 - Aug. 2022: Research associate in the "Africa Multiple" Cluster of Excellence supporting Vice Dean Research in the Cultural & Social Anthropology research group
- Aug. 2017 - Dec. 2018: Research associate in the DFG research project "Generational Relations and Intra-family Resource Flows in West Africa", Head: Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber, Cultural & Social Anthropology
- Apr. 2017 - Jul. 2017: Research Assosciate at the Cultural & Social Anthropology research group
- Mar. 2014 - Mar. 2017: Research associate in the DFG research project "Generational Relations and Intra-family Resource Flows in West Africa", Head: Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber, Cultural & Social Anthropology
- Nov. 2012 – Feb. 2014: Research Assistant at the Cultural & Social Anthropology research group
- Jul. 2009 – Nov. 2012: Research associate in the DFG research project "Generational Relations and Intra-family Resource Flows in West Africa", Head: Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber, Cultural & Social Anthropology
- May 2005 – Jun. 2007: Part-time research assistant to the Junior Professorship of Ethnosociology, Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber, and in the CRC/RG 560 sub-project B8 "Family Change in Africa”
Career
Oct. 2006 – Oct. 2012: UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH
- Feb. 2008 – Oct. 2012: Doctoral student at Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber
- Title of dissertation (2012): Generational ties. Order, practice and history of generational relations among the Lama (Kabiye) in northern Togo. Grade: magna cum laude (1,0)
- Jul. 2007 – Jun. 2009: Scholarship holder in the Graduate School of the University of Bavaria e.V.
Oct. 2000 – Apr. 2005 FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN
- Studied social anthropology and geography (Master's degree with two main subjects); graduated in April 2005 with the title Magistra Artium, grade 1,0 (distinction)
- Title of master's thesis (2005): Institutional change in post-socialist Mongolia using the example of the Zuunchangai Sum region. Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Political and Social Sciences, 19.04.2005, grade: 1,0 (distinction)
Oct. 1998 – Sep. 2000 LUDWIG-MAXIMILIAN UNIVERSITY MUNICH
- Studies of social anthropology, geography, psychology (“Magister”)
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social Anthropology
Research areas
- West Africa (Togo, Benin) and Central Asia (Mongolia)
- Economics over the course of life, adulthood, old age and ageing; generational relations, age class systems, course of life; intra-societal conflicts, and change of social institutions after political transformation. Rural societies, nomadism
Current research project
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social Anthropology
Publications
2024
Häberlein, Tabea; Irambeshya, Albert
Housing and Food Provision in Old Age : Gendered Positionalities in Rural Rwanda and the Border ...
Old Age, Gender, Social Security in Africa and Europe
Münster : Lit-Verlag, 2024. - page 247-271 . - (Narrating (Hi)stories : Kultur und Geschichte in Afrika = Culture and History in Africa; 8)
Häberlein, Tabea
When parents die : Bereavement, decision-making and achieving adult personhood in rural Togo
in cultura & psyché volume 5 (2024)
doi:10.1007/s43638-024-00092-8 ...
2023
Häberlein, Tabea
Erwachsenes Sein : Konzeptionen, ökonomische und relationale Realisierungen einer spezifischen ...
Bayreuth, 2023. - 299 page
(habilitation, 2024,
)
2021
Liebelt, Claudia; Alber, Erdmute; Häberlein, Tabea; Martin, Jeannett; Maurus, Sabrina; Thelen, Tatjana; Zoanni, Tyler
Revisiting Marilyn Strathern's Relations : A Relational Reading
in Zeitschrift für Ethnologie volume 146 (2021) issue 1/2. - page 219-224
2020
Häberlein, Tabea
Entangled Family : Parenting and Field Research in a Togolese Village
Being a Parent in the Field : Implications and Challenges of Accompanied Fieldwork
Bielefeld : transcript, 2020. - page 127-144 . - (Culture and Social Practice)
2020
Losing or securing futures? Decision-making about young people’s education in Africa
publ: Häberlein, Tabea; Maurus, Sabrina
Children's Geographies
2020
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cchg20/18/6?nav=to ...
Häberlein, Tabea; Maurus, Sabrina
Losing or securing futures? Looking beyond 'proper' education to decision-making processes abou ...
in Children's Geographies volume 18 (2020) issue 6. - page 569-583
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00005159 ...
2018
Häberlein, Tabea
reviewed by: Beer, Bettina ; Fischer, Hans ; Pauli, Julia (Hrsg.): Ethnologie : Einführung in die Erforschun ...
in EthnoScripts volume 20 (2018) issue 1. - page 119-123
https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/ethnoscripts/a ...
Häberlein, Tabea
Complexities of elder livelihoods : changing age-inscriptions and stable norms in three village ...
in Anthropology & Aging volume 39 (2018) issue 1. - page 33-47
doi:10.5195/aa.2018.174 ...
2016
Häberlein, Tabea
Generationen-Bande : Ordnung, Praxis und Geschichte der Generationenbeziehungen bei den Lama (K ...
Berlin, Lit, 2016. - 370 page (dissertation, 2012,
)
2016
Images, Imagination, and the Making of Future in Africa : Children, Youth and the Role of Educa ...
publ: Martin, Jeannett; Ungruhe, Christian; Häberlein, Tabea
AnthropoChildren
2016
https://popups.uliege.be/2034-8517/index.php?id=24 ...
Martin, Jeannett; Ungruhe, Christian; Häberlein, Tabea
Young Future Africa : Images, Imagination and its Making ; an Introduction
in AnthropoChildren (2016) issue 6
doi:10.25518/2034-8517.2508 ...
2015
Alber, Erdmute; Drotbohm, Heike; Liebelt, Claudia; Skornia, Anna Katharina; Lidola, Maria; Leinaweaver, Jessaca; Thelen, Tatjana; Häberlein, Tabea; Coe, Cati; Feldman-Savelsberg, Pamela
Anthropological Perspectives on Care : Work, Kinship, and the Life-Course
publ: Alber, Erdmute; Drotbohm, Heike
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. - X, 237 page
rev.: Chirinos, Carlos: Lectures sur le Thème, In: Ethnologie francaise 2018/3
Häberlein, Tabea
Intergenerational Entanglements : Insights into Perceptions of Care for the Elderly and Life Co ...
Anthropological Perspectives on Care : Work, Kinship, and the Life-Course
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. - page 159-179
2014
Häberlein, Tabea; Schröder, Philipp; Stodulka, Thomas; Spittler, Gerd
Dichte Teilhabe : Erkenntnisse aus sozialen Beziehungen im Feld
publ: Häberlein, Tabea
Sociologus
2014
http://ejournals.duncker-humblot.de/toc/soc/64/2
Häberlein, Tabea; Thiemann, André
Doing Politics – Making Kinship : Back towards a future Anthropology of Social Organisation and ...
2014
http://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungs ...
Doing Politics – Making Kinship: Back towards a future Anthropology of Social Organisation and Belonging, Berlin
Häberlein, Tabea
Einleitung : Teilnehmende Beobachtung weiter gedacht: Erkenntnisgewinne durch Reflexionen zur e ...
in Sociologus volume 64 (2014) issue 2. - page 117-126
doi:10.3790/soc.64.2.117 ...
Häberlein, Tabea
Teilnehmende Beobachtung als dichte Teilhabe : ein Plädoyer zur ethnologischen Forschung über s ...
in Sociologus volume 64 (2014) issue 2. - page 127-154
doi:10.3790/soc.64.2.127 ...
2012
Alber, Erdmute; Häberlein, Tabea; Martin, Jeannett
Verwandtschaft in Afrika : Transformationsprozesse im 20. Jahrhundert
Bierschenk, Thomas ; Spies, Eva (Hrsg.): 50 Jahre Unabhängigkeit in Afrika : Kontinuitäten, Brüche, Perspektiven
Köln : Rüdiger Köppe, 2012. - page 141-170 . - (Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung; 29)
Häberlein, Tabea
Über die Klagen der Alten : Ein Nachruf: Dr. Claudia Roth (1955 – 2012)
in Sociologus volume 62 (2012) issue 1. - page 95-97
doi:10.3790/soc.62.1.95 ...
2011
Alber, Erdmute; Häberlein, Tabea
Attachment and Care in West African Webs of Kinship
Family, Ties and Care : family transformation in a plural modernity ; the Freiberger Survey about family transformation in an international comparison
Opladen : Barbara Budrich, 2011. - page 481-502
Alber, Erdmute; Häberlein, Tabea
Bindung und Fürsorge als Leitmotive im westafrikanischen Beziehungsgeflecht.
Bertram, Hans ; Ehlert, Nancy (Hrsg.): Familie, Bindungen und Fürsorge : familiärer Wandel in einer vielfältigen Moderne ; Freiberger Studie zum familiären Wandel im Weltvergleich
Opladen : Barbara Budrich, 2011. - page 533-556
2010
Alber, Erdmute; Timm, Elisabeth; Bovensiepen, Judith; Schareika, Nikolaus; Alex, Gabriele; Beer, Bettina; Drotbohm, Heike; Fischer, Gundula; Thelen, Tatjana; Hauser-Schäublin, Brigitta; Häberlein, Tabea; Schnegg, Michael; Pauli, Julia
Verwandtschaft heute : Positionen, Ergebnisse und Perspektiven
publ: Alber, Erdmute; Beer, Bettina; Pauli, Julia; Schnegg, Michael
Berlin : Reimer, 2010. - 335 page
Alber, Erdmute; Häberlein, Tabea; Martin, Jeannett
Changing Webs of Kinship : Spotlights on West Africa
in Africa Spectrum volume 45 (2010) issue 3. - page 43-67
http://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/afsp/artic ...
Alber, Erdmute; Häberlein, Tabea
Ethnologische Generationenforschung in Afrika
Verwandtschaft heute : Positionen, Ergebnisse und Perspektiven
Berlin : Reimer, 2010. - page 281-304
2009
Häberlein, Tabea
Familie
Handbuch Anthropologie : Der Mensch zwischen Natur, Kultur und Technik
Stuttgart : Metzler, 2009. - page 324-328
2008
Häberlein, Tabea
Togo
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Children's Issues Worldwide : Sub-Saharan Africa
Westport : Greenwood, 2008. - page 507-523
2007
Häberlein, Tabea
Das abgewandte Gesicht : Konflikt und Meidung in Zuunchangai Sum (Mongolei)
in Zeitschrift für Ethnologie volume 132 (2007) issue 2. - page 287-314
http://www.jstor.org/stable/25843103
Häberlein, Tabea; Ungruhe, Christian
Fosterage and adoption in West Africa reviewed : New theoretical approaches on the basis of emp ...
in Africa Spectrum volume 42 (2007) issue 2. - page 367-372
http://www.jstor.org/stable/40175192
Alber, Erdmute; Häberlein, Tabea
Kultur und Identität – sind Afrikaner anders?
Afrika verstehen lernen : 12 Bausteine für Unterricht und Projekttage
Bonn , 2007. - page 207-240
2006
Häberlein, Tabea; Martin, Jeannett
Sektion Entwicklungssoziologie und Sozialanthropologie : Bericht über die Frühjahrstagung Famil ...
in Soziologie volume 35 (2006) issue 1. - page 98-104
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11617- ...
2005
Häberlein, Tabea
Institutionenwandel in der post-sozialistischen Mongolei am Beispiel der Region Zuunchangai Sum
2005
((magister) thesis, 2005,
)
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social Anthropology
Prof. Dr. Tabea Häberlein
Social and Cultural Anthropology with focus on Africa
University of Bayreuth
Building: GW II
Room: 00.16
Universitätsstraße 30
D-95447 Bayreuth
Office hours: Tuesdays, 2-4 pm
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-4106
E-mail: Tabea.Haeberlein@uni-bayreuth.de
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