Tenured associate professors
Elisabeth Tauber
Short bio
I have done research on nomadism, marriage and death with Sinti in northern Italy. I am interested in begging and gift exchange, and in ethnographic archival research inspired by the mnemonic practices of my interlocutors and postcolonial theories about silenced voices in the archives. Together with my colleagues at the Malinowski Forum, we are researching Malinowski's and Elsie Masson's stay in South Tyrol from 1922-1934.
More recently, I have been focusing on alpine semi-natural grasslands, for which I co-lead the LEAD SNF project "Global pastures". In collaboration with ecologists and designers, we consider grass as a more-than-human subject through which we get a unique perspective on changes in human practices and landscapes embedded in local and global networks.
Courses
Anthropology of Intercultural Processes
17204 · M-DEA/01 · L-20 Communication - 2012 · DE
Ethnographic Fieldwork
54108B · M-DEA/01 · LM-39 Applied Linguistics · DE
Ethnography
15138C · PhD General Pedagogy - 2017 · EN
Inter- and Transcultural approaches in Communicative and Organizational Processes
53137A · M-DEA/01 · LM-87 IRIS - 2020 · EN
Theory: Sociology
95912Q · SPS/08 · Master 1. level Design for children · EN
Main Research Areas
Faculty of Education, area 7: Socio cultural worlds: institutions, welfare, social professions, environment and population.
Info
Co-coordinatior of the Malinowski Forum for Ethnography and Anthropology. https://mfea.projects.unibz.it/