368:. She has been researching and living intermittently in West Africa for over 25 years. Her research interests are processes of social change and the resulting dynamics in politics and kinship. The focus is on two research fields: the anthropology of politics, law and power and the anthropology of kinship, family and childhood. Of particular interest to her are topics at the interface of both fields, such as family and childhood policies, social parenting or child trafficking. Current concrete research topics are intergenerational relations, social parenthood and adoption, recent kinship constructions, siblings, football migration. and the emergence and dynamics of new middle classes. In addition to her own field research, Erdmute Alber supervises and accompanies field research in
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From 2004 to 2010, Alber held the position of deputy chairperson for two years, then chairperson of the Social
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2013 âA qui appartiennent les enfants?â Des norms et des practices de parentĂ© sociale en
Afrique de lâOuest. In: Ute Fendler, Liliana Feierstein (eds.):
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2023 âInventing the
Extended Family in Colonial Dahomey/Benin'â. In: Erdmute Alber, David Warren Sabean, Simon Teuscher and Tatjana Thelen (eds.):
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2012 âKinderhandel in
Westafrika? Nationale Kinderschutzinitiativen und die Problematik der MĂ€dchenarbeit in Nordbeninâ. In: Heinz Heinen (Hg.):
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2018 âIrresponsible Boys, Promiscuous Girls: Maturity, Gender, and Rape Myths in the
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2010 âNo School without Foster
Families in Northern Benin: A Social Historical Approachâ. In: Haldis Haukanes, Tatjana Thelen (eds.):
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Alber carried out her first field research in Peru in 1988 and 1989. Since 1991, this has been followed by regular research stays in
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COVID-19 und nomadischer
Pastoralismus im Kontext von Krise und Strukturreform in Benin: von lokalem Risikomangement lernen
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2011 âBindung und FĂŒrsorge als Leitmotiv im westafrikanischen Beziehungsgeflechtâ. In: Hans Bertram, Nancy Ehlert (eds.):
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BeitrĂ€ge zur Tagung des Akademievorhabens Forschungen zur antiken Sklaverei. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, pp. 43â62.
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at the University of Bayreuth. Also since 2004, she has been a liaison lecturer for the
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Studien zur Kulturkunde, vol. 116. Cologne: RĂŒdiger Köppe, ISBN 3-89645-211-8.
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Im Gewand von Herrschaft. ModalitÀten der Macht bei den Baatombu (1895-1995).
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2019 âPolitics of Kinship: Child Fostering in Dahomey/Beninâ.
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