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Prof. Dr. em Kurt Beck

Beck Kurt 180x180 6.2018 Prof. Dr. em Kurt Beck
Beck Kurt 180x180 6.2018

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
Beck Kurt 180x180 6.2018

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

Research interests

Beck Kurt 180x180 6.2018

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social and Cultural Anthropology


Publications

year    2019   2018   2017   2013   2012    all years

2019

Beck, Kurt
On Claiming Non-Creativity, or: "The One who has no Guide, his Guide is the Devil"
The Multiplicity of Orders and Practices : a Tribute to Georg Klute
Köln : Köppe, 2019. - page 401-417 . - (Topics in Interdisciplinary African Studies; 50)

Beck Kurt 180x180 6.2018

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
Homepage: Anthropology | Universität Bayreuth

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