Prof. Dr. Barbara Göbel

Selection

• 1. Research Interests
• 2. Current Projects
• 3. Publications
• 4. Teaching
• 5. Reports and Evaluations
• 6. Committees and Professional Associations
• 7. Curriculum Vitae

1. Research Interests

• Socio-ecological Inequalities and Natural Resource Conflicts
• Collecting institutions and digital transformation
• Knowledge circulation, knowledge forms, knowledge infrastructures

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2. Current Projects

Research Projects

Mecila: Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America. Research Area: Medialities of Conviviality and Information Infrastructure

The Mecila - Maria Sibylla Merian International Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America (Mecila) examines past and present forms of social, political, and cultural conviviality in Latin America and the Caribbean. It employs conviviality as an analytical concept to describe ways of living together in specific contexts characterized by diversity and inequality. In order to achieve this, it links studies about interclass, interethnic, intercultural, interreligious and gender relations in Latin America and the Caribbean with studies about conviviality beyond the region. Mecila is financially supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI, Ibero-American Institute) coordinates together with the Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (CONICET / Universidad Nacional de La Plata) the Research Area: “Medialities of Conviviality and Information Infrastructure”. Duration: 2020-2026.
For more information, see
IAI projects funded by third parties.
(https://www.iai.spk-berlin.de/no_cache/drittmittelprojekte/laufende-projekte/drittmittelprojekte/107.html)
Mecila: https://mecila.net/

Socio-ecological Inequalities in Latin America

The Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany) funds the research network “Interdependent inequalities in Latin America - desiguAldades.net" (duration: 2009-2013). The objective of the international and interdisciplinary research network, whose spokesman are Dr Barbara Göbel (Ibero-American Institute) and Prof Dr Marianne Braig and Prof Dr Sérgio Costa (Lateinamerika-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin), is to analyze social inequalities in Latin America, which are characterized by increasing global interdependences. One of the four research dimensions of the network analyzessocio-ecological inequalities. It is coordinated by Barbara Göbel (Ibero-American Institute) and Dr Imme Scholz (Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik, DIE, Bonn). Key interests of the research dimension are environmental conflicts, unequal access to natural resources and unequal distribution of environmental costs and environmental risks. In addition, knowledge asymmetries are studied. Two main foci are the trans-regional interdependencies and local social, economic and political impacts of agri-business (e.g. cultivation of soybeans, forestry) and mining. As part of this focus, I am developing the project "Transnational Mining and socio-ecological inequalities: the use of lithium in the Puna de Atacama".

From the "Field" to the Metropolis of Knowledge

This project will investigate knowledge circulation between the "field" as a specific space of knowledge production and the city of Berlin as a historically established center for the production, exchange and archiving of knowledge from non-European regions. Using historical and recent fieldwork materials, it will seek to answer the following questions: What objects and media originate in the field with respect to the material legacies of the holistic knowledge process taking place there? How do people, objects, media and knowledge circulate between the field and the city of Berlin? How are the objects and media from the field recontextualized and reorganized in Berlin—that is, how are they divided up between the city’s different archives of knowledge (the Ibero-American Institute, Ethnology Museum, Natural History Museum, Museum of Medical History, etc.)? In addition to historical analyses concentrating on the first half of the twentieth century, the project will examine the role that knowledge circulation plays for archives of knowledge today. In so doing, it will shed light on the manner in which new forms and paths of knowledge, as well as differently structured relations between the center and periphery, affect archives of knowledge today. This project is related to the Cluster of Excellence "Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory" of the Universität Humboldt, where I am involved in several projects.

Environment, Worldview and Resource Utilization in the Andean Highlands of Northwestern Argentina

This project will examine the way economic strategies are codetermined by culturally specific environmental perceptions, religious ideas and social interactions. Its goal is a more precise understanding of the complex links between interest, knowledge (attitudes, risk perception, information, conventions) and action. Furthermore, the intercultural comparison of the environmental conceptualizations and risk perceptions held by the indigenous residents of the highlands and representatives of state, church and political organizations will open the way for a deeper understanding of the way environmental knowledge changes in multiple cultural interaction contexts and in various power constellations. The project is based on several ethnographic field studies in northwestern Argentina and northern Chile and on extensive archival work in Argentina, Chile and Bolivia. A monograph is in preparation.

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3. Publications

Monographs and Editions

• ¿Una oportunidad perdida? Boom extractivo y cambios institucionales en el Perú.

  Damonte, Gerardo, Barbara Göbel, Maritza Paredes, Bettina Schorr, Gerardo Castillo (eds).. Lima: Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2021. (252 p.)

• Mobility, Diversity, Inequality, Sustainability: Cross-cutting issues of cultural, scientific and social relations between the European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean

  Hamburg: EU-LAC Foundation 2020 (with Peter Birle, Miriam Boyer and Jakob Krusche).

• Desigualdades interdependentes e geopolítica do conhecimento : negociações, fluxos, assimetrias.

  Martín, Eloísa and Barbara Göbel (eds.). Rio de Janeiro: 7Letras, 2018. 152 pp.

• Transiciones inciertas. Archivos, conocimientos y transformación digital en América Latina. (Colección Variaciones, 1).

  Göbel, Barbara und Gloria Chicote (eds.). La Plata: FAHCE,Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, 2017. 376 pp., Papierversion (ISBN 978 – 950 – 34 – 1564 -1) und Onlineversion (ISBN 978 – 950 – 34 – 1565 - 8)

• Gundermann, Hans and Barbara Göbel, Comunidades indígenas, empresas del litio y sus relaciones en el Salar de Atacama.

  Chúngara 50 (3/2018): 471-486.

• Desigualdades en un mundo globalizado

  Henríquez, Narda, Gerardo Damonte, Marianne Braig, Barbara Göbel (Hrsg.), Lima: PUCP, 2015

• Desigualdades socioambientales en América Latina. Colección General Biblioteca Abierta. Perspectivas Ambientales.

  Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia e Instituto Ibero-Americano. 508 pp. (with Manuel Góngora- Mera and Astrid Ulloa), 2014.

• Extractivismo minero en Colombia y América Latina.

  Colección General Biblioteca Abierta. Perspectivas Ambientales. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia e Instituto Ibero-Americano. 511 pp. (co-authored with Astrid Ulloa), 2014.

• Globalización de la naturaleza y la ciudadanía: resistencias, conflictos, negociaciones. Dossier. Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal, 49, 2013. p. 89-162 (co-edited with Marianne Braig)

• Investigación sobre América Latina en Alemania en el ámbito de las Ciencias Económicas, las Ciencias Sociales y las Humanidades. Situación y perspectivas (co-authored with Peter Birle

  Berlin: IAI 2012

• Ideas viajeras y sus objetos: el intercambio científico entre Alemania y América austral (co-edited with Gloria Chicote)

  Madrid / Frankfurt: Iberoamericana / Vervuert 2011. (Bibliotheca Ibero-Americana 146)

• Wirtschafts-, sozial- und geisteswissenschaftliche Lateinamerikaforschung in Deutschland. Situation und Perspektiven (co-authored with Peter Birle and Johannes Specht).

  Berlin: IAI 2009.

• Risk and Uncertainty in Pastoral Societies (co-edited with Michael Bollig).

  Nomadic Peoples (NS) 1. Oxford: Berghahn, 1997 (176 pages).

• Cartilla de capacitación en sanidad y manejo animal (co-authored with Juan A. Bárbarich and Juan P. García).

  Jujuy: Programa Social Agropecuario, 1997 (brochure, 15 pages).

• Die Anfänge des Bodenbaus in Meso- und Südamerika: Quellenkritik und Analyse von Erklärungsmodellen.

  Mesoamericana 6. Mockmühl, 1993 (463 pages).

Articles and contributions in books

• Göbel, Barbara, Who does nature belong to? Latin America and the right to self-determination

  In: NatureCulture, Ronald Grätz and Maike Weißflug (eds.), 177-120. München: Steidl-Verlag 2022.

• Göbel, Barbara, Wem gehört die Natur? Lateinamerika und das Recht auf Selbstbestimmung.

  In: NaturKultur, Maike Weißpflug and Ronald Grätz (eds.), 114-117 (Perspektiven Außenkulturpolitik). Stuttgart: Steidl-Verlag. 20221

• Göbel, Barbara, Prólogo. Vorwort.

  Poesía Mexicana contemporánea. Zeitgenössisches Lyrik aus Mexiko, Mexico City: Relaciones Exteriores México, 1-6. 2021.

• Göbel, Barbara, Archivos, objetos y circulación de conocimientos. El antropólogo Robert Lehmann-Nitsche en La Plata: prácticas antropológicas, objetos y redes científicas.

  In: El americanismo germano an la antropología argentina de fines del siglo XIX al siglo XX, Dávila, Lena and Patricia Arena (eds.),267-283. Buenos Aires: Ciccus, CLACSO. 2020.

• Birle, Peter, Göbel, Barbara and Jakob Krusche, The cultural dimension of European Union - Latin American relations through the lens of cross-cutting issues of mobility, inequality, diversity and sustainability.

  In: The challenges of cultural relations between the European Union and Latin America and the CaribbeanLluís Bonet and Héctor Schargorodsky (Eds.), pp. 85-108.(Colección Cuadernos de Cultura nº 5). Barcelona: Editorial Quaderns Gescènic, 2019.

• Birle, Peter, Göbel, Barbara and Jakob Krusche,La dimensión cultural de las relaciones entre la Unión Europea y América Latina bajo el prisma de cuestiones transversales de movilidad, desigualdad, diversidad y sostenibilidad.

  En: Retos de las relaciones culturales entre la Unión Europea y América Latina y el Caribe, Lluís Bonet y Héctor Schargorodsky (Eds.), pp. 87-112. (Colección Cuadernos de Cultura nº 5). Barcelona: Editorial Quaderns Gescènic, 2019.

• Göbel, Barbara, Contested Natures: Cultural valuations of nature and environmental practices in the Puna de Atacama (northwestern Argentina).

  In: Nature and Human: An Intricate Mutuality, Gert Melville and Carlos Rafael Ruta (eds.), 169-188.(Challenges of Life: Essays on Philosophical and Cultural Anthropology 5.)Berlin / Oldenbourg: De Gruyter, 2018.

• Göbel, Barbara, Convivialidad, diferencia, desigualdades: desafíos institucionales paralas politicas culturales.

  In: Zapopan. Políticas culturales para el desarrollo de comunidad en áreas metropolitanas, Tejada, Carlos; Beckert, Steven; Migoya-Iriso, Isabel; Pulido, José(eds.), pp. 116-123.México: UNESCO, 2018.

• Göbel, Barbara, Diversidad de conocimientos e infraestructuras de información.

  In: Dos temas de colonización y Dossier: Propaganda peronista en alemán, ed. Regula Roland Langbehn, 106-112. (Cuadernos del Archivo II.1, 3) Buenos Aires: DIHA, 2018.

• Göbel, Barbara and Eloísa Martin, Introducao: Assimetrias persistentes: circulacao e (in)visibilizacao do conhecimento cientifico.

  In: Martin, Eloisa y Barbara Göbel (eds.), Desigualdades interdependentes e geopolitica do conhecimiento: negociacoes, fluxos, asimetrias, 9-15. Rio de Janeiro: 7Letras, 2018.

• Göbel, Barbara and Christoph Müller, Transformacao digital, arquivos e assimetrias do conhecimiento.

  In: Martin, Eloisa y Barbara Göbel (eds.), Desigualdades interdependentes e geopolitica do conhecimiento: negociacoes, fluxos, asimetrias, 132-147. Rio de Janeiro: 7Letras, 2018.

• Göbel, Barbara und Gloria B. Chicote, Transiciones inciertas: una introducción.

  In: Transiciones inciertas. Archivos, conocimientos y transformación digital en América Latina,Göbel, Barbara und Gloria Chicote (eds.), pp. 9-20. La Plata: FAHCE,Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, 2017.

• Göbel, Barbara und Christoph Müller (2017), Archivos en movimiento: ¿Qué significa la transformación digital para la internacionalización de los archivos?

  In: Transiciones inciertas. Archivos, conocimientos y transformación digital en América Latina,Göbel, Barbara und Gloria Chicote (eds.), pp. 21-40. La Plata: FAHCE,Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, 2017.

• Die Reise der Ritualgesänge. Aufnahmen der Cora und Huichol kehren nach Mexico zurück (with Margarita Valdovinos)

  In: Jahrbuch der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, vol. 50, 247-254. Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 2015

• Desigualdades sociales e interdependencias globales en América Latina: una valoración provisional (with Marianne Braig, Sérgio Costa)

  In: Desigualdades en un mundo globalizado, Henríquez, Narda, Gerardo Damonte, Marianne Braig, Barbara Göbel (Hrsg.), pp. 21-48. Lima: PUCP, 2015

• Extractivismo minero y desigualdades sociales. Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal, 58, 2015, 161-165.

• Desigualdades sociales e interdependencias globales en América Latina: una valoración provisional (with Marianne Braig, Sérgio Costa)

  Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales 223, 209-236. México DF: UNAM, 2015

• Colombia y el extractivismo en América Latina. (with Astrid Ulloa)

  In: Extractivismo minero en Colombia y América Latina, Barbara Göbel / Astrid Ulloa (eds.). (Colección General Biblioteca Abierta. Perspectivas Ambientales.) pp. 15-36. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia e Instituto Ibero-Americano, 2014.

• Las interdependencias entre la valorización global de la naturaleza y las desigualdades sociales: abordajes multidisciplinarios (with Manuel Góngora-Mera and Astrid Ulloa).

  In: Desigualdades socioambientales en América Latina, Barbara Göbel / Manuel Góngora -Mera / Astrid Ulloa (eds.). (Colección General Biblioteca Abierta. Perspectivas Ambientales.) pp. 13-46. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia e Instituto Ibero-Americano, 2014

• Agronegocio y desigualdades socioambientales: la soja en Argentina, Brasil y Uruguay. (with Carla Gras)

  In: Desigualdades socioambientales en América Latina, Barbara Göbel / Manuel Góngora -Mera / Astrid Ulloa (eds.). (Colección General Biblioteca Abierta. Perspectivas Ambientales.) pp. 211-254. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia e Instituto Ibero-Americano, 2014

• La minería de litio en Atacama: disputas sociales alrededor de un nuevo mineral estratégico.

  In: Extractivismo minero en Colombia y América Latina, Barbara Göbel / Astrid Ulloa (eds.). (Colección General Biblioteca Abierta. Perspectivas Ambientales.) pp. 167-195. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia e Instituto Ibero-Americano, 2014.

• Archives of knowledge and the First World War: Between Science 1.0 and Science 2.0.

  In: The world during the First World War, Helmut Bley, Anorthe Kremers (Hrsg.), 365-368. Essen: Klartext 2014.

• "Entrelazamientos transpacíficos desiguales: las relaciones económicas entre América Latina y China". (co-authored with Marianna Braig)

  In TransPacíficos. Conexiones y convivencias en AsiAmérica. Un simposio transareal, edited by Ottmar Ette, Werner Mackenbach, and Horst Nitschak, 53-64, Berlin: edition tranvía 2013.

• Soziale Ungleichheiten und globale Interdependenzen in Lateinamerika. Eine Zwischenbilanz. (desiguALdades.net Working Paper Series 4, co-authored with Marianne Braig und Sérgio Costa)

  Berlin: IAI 2013

• "La minería del litio en la Puna de Atacama: interdependencias transregionales y disputas locales".

  In Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal, 49, 2013, 135-150.

• "Lithium - das neue Öl der Anden? Sozio-ökologische Konfliktdynamiken im Lithiumbergbau Argentiniens".

  In Umwelt und Entwicklung im 21. Jahrhundert. Impulse und Analysen aus Lateinamerika, edited by Hans-Jürgen Burchardt, Kristina Dietz, and Rainer Öhlschläger, 165-180, Baden- and Baden: Nomos 2013. (Studien zu Lateinamerika 20)

• "Ideas, prácticas y objetos que viajan: el aporte de los científicos alemanes al desarrollo de las Ciencias Antropológicas en América austral".

  In Ideas viajeras y sus objetos: el intercambio científico entre Alemania y América austral, edited by Gloria Chicote and Barbara Göbel, 193-207, Madrid / Frankfurt: Iberoamericana / Vervuert 2011.

• "Die vernetzte Welt anders denken. Das Kompetenznetz 'desiguALdades.net' zur Untersuchung interdependenter Ungleichheiten in Lateinamerika".

  In Jahrbuch Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Vol. 46. Berlin: Gebr. Mann 2010, 245-254.

• "Los estudios latinoamericanos en Alemania".

  In Anuario Americanista Europeo, 8, 2010, 174-186.

• "La cooperación científica y académica hispano-alemana: desafíos y perspectivas." / "Die deutsch-spanische Zusammenarbeit in Wissenschaft und Hochschule: Potenziale, Herausforderungen und Perspektiven." (co-authored with Christine Arndt)

  In Traspasar fronteras: un siglo de intercambio científico entre España y Alemania. / Über Grenzen hinaus: Ein Jahrhundert deutsch-spanische Wissenschaftsbeziehungen, edited by Sandra Rebok, 383-408. Madrid: CSIC 2010.

• Räume, Kulturen und ihre Verflechtungen. Welche Rolle können die „Area Studies“ für das Humboldt-Forum spielen? / Spaces, Cultures and their Entanglements? What Role can Area Studies play for the Humboldt Forum?

  In Humboldt Forum Berlin. Das Projekt. / The Project, edited by Th. Flierl und H. Parzinger, 220-223. Berlin: Theater der Zeit 2009.

• "La cooperación científica y cultural entre Alemania y España".

  In: Relaciones hispano-alemanas. Prejuicios y esterotipos, encuentros y desencuentros: Un balance, Miguel Ángel Cernuda, Pino Valero Cuadra, edited by María -Rosario Marti Marco et. al, 276-282. San Vicente: Universidad de Alicante 2008.

• "Netzwerke des Wissens."

  In Vogel Phoenix: Die Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, 342 f. Berlin: Berlin University Press, 2007.

• "Regionalforschung braucht Wissensarchive - Wissensarchive brauchen Vernetzung" (co-authored with Marianne Braig).

  In Jahrbuch Preußischer Kulturbesitz, vol. 44, 283-294. Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 2007.

• "What Social and Natural Sciences Could Learn from Each Other."

  In Communicating Global Change Science to Society: An Assessment and Case Studies, edited by H. Thiessen, M. Brklacich, G. Breulmann and R. Menzes, 89-96. Washington: Island Press, 2007.

• "Steering Research toward Policy Relevance."

  In Communicating Global Change Science to Society: An Assessment and Case Studies, edited by H. Thiessen, M. Brklacich, G. Breulmann and R. Menzes, 2-20. Washington: Island Press, 2007.

• "Dangers, experience, and luck: Handling uncertainty in the Andes."

  In Culture and the changing environment: Uncertainty, cognition, and risk management in cross-cultural perspective, edited by M. Casimir and U. Stahl. Oxford: Berghahn, 2007.

• "Grenzgänge(r): Das Ibero-Amerikanische Institut als Mittlerinstitution."

  Jahrbuch Preußischer Kulturbesitz, vol. 43, 171-184. Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 2006.

• "Challenges for Human Dimensions Research of Global Environmental Change" (co-authored with Coleen Vogel).

  Special Issue: Global Environmental Change, 2006.

• "Una patria ajena - la patria en el extranjero: La migración entre Alemania y América Latina. Fremde Heimat - Heimat in der Fremde: Migration zwischen Deutschland und Lateinamerika."

  In B 26°: Europa-Lateinamerika 1, 2 (2006): 37-39.

• "Globalisation, IHDP, ESSP."

  In The Earth's Changing Land: An Encyclopedia of Land-Use/Cover-Change, edited by H. Geist. Greenwood (CT), 2005.

• "La economía pastoril en Susques (Puna de Atacama): continuidad y cambio en una región periférica."

  In Actas del III. Congreso Internacional de Etnohistoria, edited by J. L. Martínez. Santiago: Universidad Nacional de Chile.

• "Departamento de Susques: la historia olvidada de la Puna de Atacama” (co-authored with Fanny Delgado).

  In Puna de Atacama: sociedad, economía y frontera, edited by Alejandro Benedetti, 81-104. Buenos Aires/ Córdoba: Alción, 2003 (revised edition from 1995).

• "Identidades sociales y medio ambiente: la multiplicidad de los significados del espacio en la Puna de Atacama."

  Cuadernos del Instituto Nacional de Antropología 19 (2003): 267-296. Buenos Aires.

• "’La plata no aumenta, la hacienda sí’: Continuidades y cambios en la economía pastoril de Susques (Puna de Atacama)."

  In Puna de Atacama: sociedad, economía y frontera, edited by Alejandro Benedetti, 199-242. Buenos Aires/ Córdoba: Alción, 2003.

• “Llegamos a un pueblo de indios abandonado …”: Aportes de la expedición sueca a la etnografía de la Puna argentina.

  In: « Un país más allá de las nubes » A 100 años de la expedición sueca de Erland Nordenskiöld, M. Albeck und M.Ruíz. (Hrsg.). (Pacarina 3). S. 143-158. Jujuy : Universidad Nacional de Jujuy 2003.

• "Arquitectura del pastoreo: Uso del espacio y sistema de asentamientos en la Puna de Atacama (Susques)."

  Estudios Atacameños 23 (2002/2003): 53-76. San Pedro de Atacama: Universidad Católica del Norte.

• "La arquitectura de la movilidad: Economía pastoril, sistema de asentamientos e uso del espacio en la Puna (Susques, Pcia. de Jujuy)."

  In "La otra arquitectura": Vivienda espontánea y uso del espacio doméstico, edited by C. Saugy. Online-publication 2002.

• "The symbolism of llama breeding in north-western Argentina."

  In Progress in South American camelids research: Proceedings of the 3rd European Symposium and Supreme European Seminar, edited by M. Gerken and C. Renieri, 175-180 (Universität Göttingen, Göttingen 27-29.05.99). Wageningen: Wageningen Pers., 2001 (EAAP publication No. 105).

• "El ciclo anual de la producción pastoril en Huancar (Jujuy, Argentina)."

  In El uso de los camélidos a través del tiempo, edited by G.L. Mengoni Goñalons, D.E. Olivera and H.D. Yacobaccio, 91-115. Buenos Aires: GZC-ICAZ-Ediciones del Tridente, 2001.

• "Risk and culture in the Andes: A comparison of indigenous and Western developmental perspectives."

  In Environmental risks: Perception, evaluation and management (Research in Social Problems and Public Policy 9), edited by G. Böhm, J. Nerb, T. Mac Daniels and H. Spada, 191-220. New York: JAI - Elsevier Science, 2001.

• "(Über-)Leben in risikoreicher Umwelt: Weltbild und Ressourcennutzung im Andenhochland Nordwest-Argentiniens."

  Forsch. Bonner Universitäts-Nachrichten 2 (2001): 25-26.

• "Survival in a dangerous environment: Worldview and use of resources in the Highlands of Argentina."

  Bonn University News International (2001): 14-15.

• "Atkheologi kak etnografy: vozmozhnosti i granizy etnoarkheologii."

  Etnograficheskoe obozrenie 5, Moskau 2000 (Russische Übersetzung von: Archäologen als Ethnographen: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Ethnoarchäologie [Russian translation of: Archaeologists as Ethnographers: Possibilities and Boundaries of Ethnoarchaeologists]).

• "Why herd animals die: environmental perception and cultural risk management in the Andes."

  In In Coping with changing environments - social dimensions of endangered ecosystems in the developing world, edited by H. Geist and B. Lohnert, 205-229. London: Ashgate, 1999.

• "Räume geschlechtlicher Differenz und ökonomisches Handeln (Andenhochland Nordwest-Argentiniens)".

  In Differenz und Geschlecht: Neue Ansätze in der ethnologischen Forschung, edited by B. Hauser-Schäublin und B. Röttger-Rössler, 136-162. Berlin: Reimer Verlag, 1998.

• "Risk, uncertainty and economic exchange in a pastoral community of the Andean highlands (NW-Argentine)".

  In Kinship, networks and exchange, edited by Th. Schweizer and D. White, 158-177. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

• "'Salir de viaje': Producción pastoril e intercambio económico en el noroeste argentino".

  In 50 años de Estudios americanistas en la Universidad de Bonn: Nuevas contribuciones a la arqueología, etnohistoria, etnolingüística y etnografía de las Américas. 50 Years Americanist Studies at the University of Bonn: New contributions to the archaeology, ethnohistory, ethnolinguistics and ethnography of the Americas (Bonner Amerikanistische Studien 30), edited by S. Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz, C. Arellano Hoffmann, E. König and H. Prümers, 867-891. Markt Schwaben: Verlag Anton Saurwein, 1998.

• "Risk, uncertainty, and pastoralism: An introduction" (co-authored with Michael Bollig).

  In Risk and uncertainty in pastoral societies, edited by B. Göbel and M. Bollig, 5-21. Nomadic Peoples (NS) 1. Oxford: Berghahn, 1997.

• "Geschlecht und Produktion: Hirtinnen im Andenhochland Nordwestargentiniens."

  In Sie und Er: Frauenmacht und Männerherrschaft im Kulturvergleich: Materialband zur Sonderausstellung in der Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, edited by Gisela Völger, 367-374. Köln, 1997.

• "'You have to exploit luck: Pastoral household economy and the cultural handling of risk and uncertainty in the Andean highlands."

  In Risk and uncertainty in pastoral societies, edited by B. Göbel and M. Bollig, 37-53. Nomadic Peoples (NS) 1. Oxford: Berghahn, 1997.

• "Departamento de Susques: la historia olvidada de la Puna de Atacama” (co-authored with Fanny Delgado).

  In Jujuy en su historia: Avances de investigación, edited by M. Lagos, 117-142. Jujuy: Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, 1995.

• "Management of camelids in a pastoral community of NW-Argentine (Puna de Atacama)."

  In Proceedings of the European Symposium on South American camelids, edited by M. Gerken M. und C. Renieri, 85-94. Matélica: Universitá degli Studi di Camerino, 1994.

• "La incorporación de la agricultura a la economía de cazadores-recolectores."

  In Arqueología de cazadores-recolectores: Límites, casos y aperturas (Arqueología Contemporánea 5), edited by J.L. Lanata und L.A. Borrero, 33-40. Buenos Aires: Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1994.

• "El manejo de riesgo en la economía pastoril de Susques".

  In Zooarqueología de Camélidos: Perspectivas teóricas y metodológicas 1, edited by D. Elkin, C. Madero, et al, 43-56. Buenos Aires: Universidad de Buenos Aires - GZC, 1994.

• Collaboration in: Ursula Dyckerhoff: "Geschichte der Indianer bis zur Conquista".

  In Handbuch der Geschichte Lateinamerikas, vol. 1: Mittel-, Südamerika und die Karibik bis 1760, edited by Horst Pietschmann, 103-203. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1994.

• "Report from European Symposium on South American camelids."

  Nomadic Peoples 32 (1994): 125-126. Uppsala.

• "Archäologen als Ethnographen: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Ethnoarchäologie."

  In Handbuch der Ethnologie, edited by Thomas Schweizer, W. Kokot and M. Schweizer, 415-440. Berlin: Reimer, 1993.

• "Estudio Preliminar" (co-authored with Fanny Delgado).

  In El Territorio de los Andes (República Argentina): Reseña geográfica descriptiva, edited by Daniel Cerri, 1-8 (facsimile of the original version). Jujuy: Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, 1993.

• "The Beginnings of Agriculture in Mesoamerica and South America: A View from Decision Theory".

  Cultural Dynamics 4 (1991): 135-157. Leiden.

• "Los calendarios aztecas de Sahagún" (co-authored with Renate Bartl und Hanns J. Prem).

  Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 19 (1989): 23-82. México.

Encyclopedia Articles, Reviews, etc.

• Review of "Deathly water and hungry mountains: Agrarian ritual and class formation in an andean town".

  Anthropos 92 (1997): 250-51. St. Augustin. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1994.

• Review of "The Flocks of the Wamanis: A Study of Llama Herders on the Punas of Ayacucho", by K.V. Flannery, J. Marcus and R. Reynolds.

  Anthropos 86 (1991): 611-613. St. Augustin. New York 1989.

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4. Teaching

Sammlungen und digitale Transformation: neue Teilhabe, neue Ungleichheiten?

Bachelor Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (Modul Verflochtene Welten), Freie Universität Berlin, Winter Term 2022/23

Archive Fever: Cultures and Knowledges in an Unequal World

Dartmouth College, Hanover / NH, USA, Summer Term 2022

Wissensinfrastrukturen: Ethnologische Perspektiven

Master-Studiengang Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (Modul Verflochtene Welten), Freie Universität Berlin, Winter Semester 2021/22

“Antropología de la naturaleza”

Programa de Doctorado en Antropología, Universidad Católica del Norte / Universidad de Tarapacá, S.P. de Atacama/Tarapacá, Chile, July – August 2021

Umstrittenes Kulturerbe

Master-Studiengang Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (Modul Verflochtene Welten), Freie Universität Berlin, Wintersemester 2020/21

Archiv, Objekte und digitale Transformation: ethnologische Perspektiven, Modul Kultur, Medien und Globalisierung

B.A.degree program Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Freie Universität Berlin, winter term 2018/19

Circulación de saberes, archivos y transformación digital

(Seminario de Posgrado, Maestría de Estudios Sociales y Culturales, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Argentinien), Juni 2017

Desigualdades socioambientales

Universidad Católica del Norte / Universidad de Tarapacá, S.P. de Atacama/Tarapacá, Chile. September 2016

Desigualdades socioambientales en América Latina

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Lima, Peru. Dezember 2014

Current research on interdependent inequalities in Latin America

Freie Universität Berlin, Lateinamerika Institut. 2010-2014

Antropología de la naturaleza. Cosmovisión, economía y percepción del medio ambiente.

Lecture and doctoral seminar, Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 2009 (Visiting professor, funded by the DAAD)

Mensch-Tier Beziehungen in den Anden

Advanced seminar, Freie Universität Berlin, summer semester 2009

Gapping technical and indigenous knowledge

Module “Livestock Production Systems and Development,” University of Hohenheim, International M.Sc. program “Agricultural Sciences, Food Security and Natural Resource Management in the Tropics and Subtropics,” February 2001-2005, 2007-2009

Überleben in einer risikoreichen Umwelt: Ökonomische Strategien im Andenhochland

Advanced seminar, Freie Universität Berlin, winter semester 2007/2008

Anthropologie der Natur

Advanced seminar, Freie Universität Berlin, summer semester 2006

Globaler Umweltwandel: Ethnologische Perspektiven

Advanced seminar, University of Cologne, Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology, summer semester 2005

Umweltkonflikte und ethnische Konflikte: Ethnologische Perspektiven

Advanced seminar, together with Prof Nikolai Grube, University of Bonn, Department of Amerindian Studies and Cultural Anthropology, winter semester 2004/2005

Globaler Umweltwandel und nachhaltige Entwicklung

Advanced seminar, University of Bonn, Department of Amerindian Studies and Cultural Anthropology, winter semester 2003/2004

Antropología de la Naturaleza. Maestría en Antropología Social

Multidisciplinary master’s program in social anthropology, Universidad Católica del Norte and Universidad Tarapacá, Chile, May 2003

Rechtspluralismus in Lateinamerika: Die Debatte um ökonomische, kulturelle und intellektuelle Eigentumsrechte

Advanced seminar, University of Bonn, Department of Amerindian Studies and Cultural Anthropology, summer semester 2003

Ethnologie und Beruf

Advanced seminar, University of Bonn, Department of Amerindian Studies and Cultural Anhtropology, winter semester 2002/2003

Körper, Geschlecht und Person

Advanced seminar, University of Bonn, Department of Amerindian Studies and Cultural Anthropology, summer semester 2002

Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen in den Anden: ökonomische, soziale und kosmologische Aspekte

Advanced seminar, University of Göttingen, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology and the Ethnographic Collection, summer semester 2001, winter semester 2001/2002

Antropología de la naturaleza.

Postgraduate seminar, Maestría en Antropología Social, multidisciplinary master’s program in social anthropology, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Córdoba, Argentina, August 2001

Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen in den Anden

Advanced seminar, University of Göttingen, Institute for Social and Cultural Anhtropology and the Ethnographic Collection, summer semester 2001, winter semester 2001/2002

Cultura y Medio Ambiente: Un acercamiento desde la economía doméstica

Postgraduate seminar, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia, July 1997 (Visiting professor, funded by the DAAD)

El medio ambiente en la antropología: perspectivas ecológicas, económicas y culturales

Lecture and accompanying postgraduate seminar, Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, Jujuy, Argentina, June – August 1997 (Visiting professor, funded by the DAAD)

Umwelt, Weltbild und Ressourcennutzung

Advanced seminar, University of Bonn, Department of Amerindian Studies and Cultural Anthropology, summer semester 1996

Grundzüge der Wirtschaftsethnologie

Undergraduate seminar, University of Bonn, Department of Amerindian Studies and Cultural Anthropology, winter semester 1995/1996

Economías campesinas y sus transformaciones históricas: Enfoques teóricos y metodológicos

Postgraduate seminar, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Córdoba, Argentina, July 1995 (Visiting professor, funded by the DAAD)

Antropología económica y trabajo de campo

Lecture and accompanying doctoral seminar, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May – August 1995 (Visiting professor, funded by the DAAD)

Grundbegriffe der Ethnologie

Undergraduate lecture, University of Bonn, Department of Cultural Anthropology, winter semester 1994/1995

Risiko und Unsicherheit: Entscheidungstheoretische Modelle in Archäologie und Ethnologie

Advanced seminar, University of Bonn, Department of Cultural Anthropology, winter semester 1994/1995

Gegenwart und Geschichte der Atacama-Region

Advanced seminar, University of Bonn, Department of Cultural Anthropology, winter semester 1994/1995

Ethnologisch-Altamerikanistisches Kolloquium

Together with other staff members, University of Bonn, Department of Cultural Anthropology, winter semester 1994/1995

Ethnologie des südlichen Südamerika: Fallbeispiele undErklärungsansätze

Undergraduate seminar, University of Bonn, Department of Cultural Anthropology, summer semester 1994

El pastoreo andino: Enfoques teóricos y problemas metodológicos

Postgraduate seminar, Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, Jujuy, Argentina, June 1993

Die Anfänge des Bodenbaus in Mesoamerika und Südamerika

Undergraduate seminar, University of Tübingen, Department of Ethnology , summer semester 1990

Neuere Untersuchungen zur Wirtschaftsethnologie des Anden-Hochlandes

Undergraduate seminar, University of Göttingen, Ethnological Institute and Collection, summer semester 1991

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5. Reports and Evaluations

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (2022)

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)

Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo, ANID, Chile (2020, 2021)

Comisión Sectorial de Investigación Científia, CSIC, Uruguay (2020)

Schweizer Nationalfonds (2010, 2014-2021)

Forum Transregionale Studien (2016-2019)

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, Peru (2015-2019)

VolkswagenStiftung, Germany (2014, 2017-18)

Conicyt (Fondecyt/Fondap), Chile (2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018)

Freie Universität Berlin, Dahlem Research school (2009, 2016, 2018)

The Research Council of Norway (2013-2017)

Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, Germany (2015)

Member of Doctoral Commissions: Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Freie Universität Berlin

Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (Argentina) (2010)

Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, France)(2009)

BMBF-DLR (2006-2011)

EU-ALFA (2008)

United Nations University (UNU-EHS) (2005)

Swedish Research Council (Sweden) (2005)

Scientific member of the assessment panel "10 Years of Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research" (2005)

Natural Environment Research Council (NERC, Great Britain) (2004-2005)

Global Change System for Analysis Research and Training (START) (2003-2005)

Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) (2002-2005)

External consultant for academic journals (including Ecology and Society; GAIA-Ecological Perspectives in Science, Humanities and Economics; Mountain Research and Development; Regional Environmental Change; Población y Sociedad; Arqueología)

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6. Committees and Professional Associations

Committees

• Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Heidelberg Centrum für Ibero-Amerika-Studien HCIAS, Universität Heidelberg, (2023-)
• Member, Advisory Board, Academy in Exile, coordinated by Freie Universität Berlin, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut (KWI), Essen, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin. (2020-2023)
• Member, Board Collaborative Research Project „Digital Netwok Collections“, Berlin University Alliance (2020-2022)
• Member, Editorial Board, Online-Journal REVLATT, Revista Latinoamericana de Trabajo y Trabajadores (since 2020)
• Member, Scientific Advisory Board, ZEF – Center for Development Studies der Universität Bonn, Bonn (2019-2025)
• Member, Editorial Board, Journal Estudios Atacameños (since 2019)
• Executive Board, Center Director Section, Latin American Studies Association (LASA)(2018-2020 )
• Member, Scientific Advisory Board, International Conference, "Resources for a socio-ecological transformation", (28.02.-02.03.19, Innsbruck), Österreichische Forschungsstiftung für internationale Entwicklung (ÖFSE) (2018-2019)
• Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Forum Transregionale Studien, Max Weber Stiftung und Einstein-Stiftung, Berlin (2015-2020)
• Member, Research Advisory Board "Culture and Foreign Policy", Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, ifa, Stuttgart (2014-2022)
• Selection committee, German Chancellor Fellowship Program (Bundeskanzler-Stipendienprogramm of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2014-2022)
• Mentor, Mentoring Programmfor early career researchers Universität zu Köln (2014-2016)
• Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Conference "Towards International Resource Fairness. Theories, Conflicts and Policies" (4.-6.12.2014, Viena), Österreichische Forschungsstiftung für internationale Entwicklung (ÖFSE)
• Member, Comité Académico, Colección en Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentinien (since 2013)
• Member, Comité Editorial, Revista Universitas Humanística, Universidad Javeriana, Kolumbien (since 2013)
• Member of the Board of the Latin American Programme, The Research Council of Norway (2012-2017)
• Member of the Scientific Board of the EU-Project "Environmental Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean: Developing Frameworks for Sustainable and Equitable Natural Resource Use" (ENGOV; EU-FP7 Project) (2011-2015)
• Member of the editorial board of the magazine "Environmental Development (SCOPE - Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environmental / Elsevier) (since 2011)
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt am Main (since 2010)
• Member of the "Forum Transregionale Studien", Berlin (2009-2014)
• Member of the editorial board of the magazine "Población y Sociedad" (Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina) (since 2008)
• Member of the editorial board of Itinerarios, University of Warsaw (since 2007)
• Ordinary Member, Executive committee, International Social Science Council, ISSC-UNESCO, Paris (2006-2010)
• Member of the “Wege des Wissens. Transregionale Studien” forum, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2006-2009)
• Member of the editorial board of Indiana, Ibero-American Institute (since 2006)
• Member of the editorial board of Humboldt, Goethe Institute (2005-2012)
• Board member, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsche Lateinamerikaforschung (ADLAF, German Association for Latin America Research) (2005-2006)
• Member of the International Scientific Planning Committee, ESSP Open Science Conference 2006, Beijing, China (2004-2005)
• Co-chair, International Scientific Planning Committee, 6th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community, Bonn, Germany, 2005 (2004-2005)
• Scientific Committee, Global Change System for Analysis, Research and Training (START) (2002-2005)
• Scientific Committee, Assessment of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change (AIAAC) (2002-2005)
• Co-chair, International Scientific Planning Committee, 5th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community, Montreal, Canada, 2003 (2002-2003)
• Academic Advisory Board, Deutsches Komitee für Katastrophenvorsorge (DKKV, German Committee for Disaster Reduction) (2002-2005)
• Member of the editorial board of Nomadic Peoples, Commission on Nomadic Peoples, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (1995-2003)

Professional Associations

• Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsche Lateinamerikaforschung (ADLAF, German Association for Latin American Research)
• Arbeitsgemeinschaft Tropische und Subtropische Agrarforschung (ATSAf, Council for Tropical and Subtropical Agricultural Research)
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde (DGV, German Anthropological Association)
• European Association of Anthropology (EASA)

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7. Curriculum Vitae