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

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social and Cultural Anthropology

Research areas

Africa and Middle East; Sudan

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

Research projects

• Roadside and travel communities. Towards an understanding of the African long-distance road (Kurt Beck, Gabriel Kläger, Michael Stasik, Rami Wadelnour)
  
• Bedford's metamorphosis (description in German language)
  
• Supervised promotion projects
  

Research interests

• Africars
• Appropriation studies (mainly in German language)
• Traffic in Africa (in German language)
• Pre-industrial work (mainly in German language)
• Resettlement (partly in German language)
• State and Governance (mainly in German language)

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social and Cultural Anthropology

Publications

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social and Cultural Anthropology

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

University of Bayreuth
Building: GW II
Room: 00.19
Universitätsstraße 30
​D-95447 Bayreuth

Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-4133
E-mail: kurt.beck@uni-bayreuth.de
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