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Professor Erdmute Alber

Full Professor, University of Bayreuth, Germany

Email: Erdmute.alber@uni-bayreuth.de

Profile

Erdmute Alber is a social anthropologist with a focus on the intersection of politics, kinship and childhood. Her research focused on inter-generational relations, child fostering and parenting in West Africa. A special attention is given to Northern Benin. She has lead the research group “kinship and politics” at the ZIF, Bielefeld and is currently working at the University of Bayreuth.

Research

Publications

  • 2018 Transfers of Belonging. A Social History of Child Fostering in West Africa. Brill: Leiden, Boston
  • 2022 Kinship and politics. A reader. New Yorck: Routledge (with Tatjana Thelen)
  • 2018 Age-Inscriptions and Social Change. Anthropology & Aging 39/1. University of Pittsburgh Press. (with Cati Coe)
  • 2017 Reconnecting State and Kinship. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia (with Tatjana Thelen)
  • 2015 Anthropological Perspectives on Care. Work, Kinship and the Life Course. Palgrave MacMillan: New York. (with Heike Drotbohm)
  • 2013 The Anthropology of Sibling Relations – Shared Parentage, Experience and Exchange. Palgrave MacMillan: New York (with Cati Coe and Tatjana Thelen)
  • 2013 Child fostering in West Africa – new perspectives on theories and practices. Brill: Leiden, Boston (with Jeannett Martin and Catrien Notermans)

Expertise

Child fostering, kinship, politics, inter-generational relations, youth, schooling
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