Prof. Dr. em Kurt Beck

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social and Cultural Anthropology

Scientific career

since 2006: Social Anthropology research group at the University of Bayreuth
2000 - 2006: Professor of Anthropology, LMU Munich
1997 - 2000: Deputy professorships (Bayreuth, Frankfurt, Bielefeld)
1993 - 1997: Research associate in the research project "Pre-industrial work" as part of CRC 214 "Identity in Africa", University of Bayreuth
1987 - 1993: Research fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin
1986 / 1994: Social Anthropological consultant for Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau
1980 - 1981: Research Associate at the Institute for African and Asian Studies, University of Khartoum
1974 - 1986: Degree, University of Freiburg, subjects studied: social anthropology, Islamic studies, sociology, and German studies
M.A. Social Anthropology 1979, doctorate Dr.rer.nat. 1986, habilitation in Social Anthropology 1999

Research areas

Africa and Middle East; Sudan

Social structure of non-industrial societies; Muslim society and culture; creativity, knowledge, and technology

Research projects

Research interests

2018

Beck, Kurt
reviewed by: Abroma to Ziziphus and Beyond: Forests, surveys, rivers and roads of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 1 ...
in Sudan Studies for South Sudan and Sudan volume 57 (2018) . - page 60-62

Prof. Dr. em Kurt Beck
retired Chair of Social and Cultural Anthropology

University of Bayreuth
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