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Dr. PD Tilman Musch

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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Gerda Henkel Foundation research

Scientific career

since 2021: Implementation of the research project "Saharagärten (Saharan gardens)" supported by the Gerda Henkel Foundation
2018-2020: Implementation of the research project "The Tubu Teda's customary law and its contribution to stabiltiy: A citizen-science approach" supported by the Gerda Henkel Foundation
2013-2016: Management of own research project "Spatial concepts and autochthony among Tubu in eastern Niger", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2011-2013: Research on spatial anthropology among nomads and on ethnobiology, supported by the Anthropology of Africa professorship at the University of Bayreuth, and by the Institut de Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO / Paris)
2009-2010: Participation in the project "Nouveaux enjeux dans l'espace saharo-sahelien" (NESS) of the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (FMSH / Paris)
2008-2009: Work on own project "Land and water rights in the Sahel. Local orders and state legislation and their Interdependence" in western Niger and at the University of Bayreuth, sponsored by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation
2008, 2010: Two short-term scholarships for research in Nigeria (livestock markets, veterinary medicine) from Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique (IFRA / Ibadan)
2007: doctorate in anthropology at Institut National de Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO / Paris). Dissertation on nomadic spatial concepts among the Buryats (Espaces nomades. Paroles et regards bouriates. L'éleveur face à ses environnements à partir des sources orales)
2002-2007: Doctoral studies in anthropology with three years of field research at Institut National de Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO/ Paris) after master’s studies in Germany and France (Mainz, Dijon and Paris).

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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Gerda Henkel Foundation research

Research areas

West and Central Africa and Siberia
Spatial anthropology (spatial planning, mobility, land law, migration), nomadism, livestock market, ethnobiology and ethnomedicine

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