Beruflicher Werdegang

 

seit 03/2015

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Institut für Afrikanistik / Oswin-Köhler-Archiv der
Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main

DFG-Projekt: "Die Welt der Kxoé-Buschleute" – Wissenschaftliche Bearbeitung des Materials zur Khwe-Kultur im Nachlass des Afrikanisten Oswin Köhler
2014

Consultant beim Legal Assistance Centre, Windhoek/Namibia
2010 – 2013 University of Edinburgh, School of Social and Political Studies, Department of Social Anthropology
2004 – 2009 Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie in Leipzig. VW-Initiative: Dokumentation bedrohter Sprachen
1998 – 2003 Universität zu Köln. SFB 389: Kultur und Landschaftswandel im ariden Afrika
1995 – 1997 Kultur- und Stadthistorisches Museum in Duisburg
1992 – 1995 Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde der Stadt Köln
Publikationen

 
Bücher

 

2014b

(mit Alan Barnard). Southern African Khoisan Kinship Systems. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.

2014a

Khwe kúri-ǀx'ón-djì – Khwe family names. Texts by Fabi Camarongo, Kuconya Djunu, Ou Nboma, Macirico Ndeundeu & Nashira ǀUingyeu. Translated by Thaddeus Chedau and Soner Geria. Compiled and edited by Gertrud Boden. Köln: Kalahari Cultural Heritage Publications.

2007

!Qamtee ǀaa ≠Xanya – Book of Traditions. Histories, Texts and Illustrations of the !Xoon and 'Nǀohan People of Namibia. Compiled and edited by Gertrud Boden. Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien.

2005

Prozesse sozialen Wandels vor dem Hintergrund staatlicher Eingriffe. Eine Fallstudie zu den Khwe in West Caprivi/ Namibia. Dissertation. Köln: Univer­sität zu Köln, Institut für Völkerkunde.
Link zur Publikation

1997

Jäger und Gejagte. Die Buschleute im südlichen Afrika. Begleitband zur Ausstellung im Kultur- und Stadthistorischen Museum Duisburg. 7. September 1997 bis 4. Januar 1998. Oberhausen: Plitt.

1995

Nordamerika. Die Sammlung des Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museums. Köln: Rauten­strauch-Joest-Museum.

Wissenschaftliche Artikel

  
 forthc.-b Oswin Köhler's Beiträge zur Ethnographie der Khwe (Kxoé). Oswin Köhler Symposium. Zum 100. Geburtstag von Oswin Köhler am 14.10.2011. R. Voßen. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.
 forthc.-a Variation and change in Taa kinship terminologies. Proceedings of the the 4th International Symposium on Khoisan Languages and Linguistics. 10-14 July, Riezlern/Kleinwalsertal. F. Berthold. A.-M. Fehn & M. Ernszt. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.
 2014 (with Tom Güldemann & Fiona Jordan) ‟Khoisan” sibling terminologies in historic perspective: A combined anthropological, linguistic and phylogenetic approach. Beyond Khoisan. Proceedings of the Workshop on Genealogical and Areal Linguistic Relations in The Kalahari Basin at the 20th International Con­ference on Historical Linguistics in Osaka/Japan 25-31 July 2011. T. Gülde-mann & A.-M. Fehn. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
 2012 Who were the ancestors of the Namibian !Xoon? – A preliminary approach based on oral and selected written sources. Anthropos 107 (2): 363-386.
 2011b Becoming invisible – Changing land use practices and identity strategies of the !Xoon in Namibia between the 1920s and 1970s. Journal of Namibian Studies 10: 7-29.
 2011a The documentation of place names in an endangered language environment – A case study of the !Xoon in Southern Omaheke/Namibia. Anthropological Lin­guistics 53 (1): 34-76.
 2009b From utility to perceptual salience: Cultural, lexical, and conceptual change in the Southern Kalahari Landscape. Anthropological Linguistics 51 (3-4): 303-327.
2009a The Khwe in West Caprivi before Namibian independence: Matters of land, labour, power and alliance. Journal of Namibian Studies 5: 27-71.
2008 ‟The young people do what they want”. Negotiating intergenerational relationships among the Khwe of Namibia. Generations in Africa. Connections and Conflicts. E. Alber, S. Van der Geest & S. Whyte. Münster: LIT, pp. 141-167.
2007b How history crosses the threshold of the domestic sphere – persistence and change in Khwe residential units. Atlas of Cultural and Environmental Change in Arid Africa. O. Bubenzer, A. Bolten & F. Darius. Köln: Heinrich-Barth-Institut, pp. 190-193.
2007a Mapping culture, representing boundaries and politicizing difference – reflections on two San cases in Namibia. Atlas of Cultural and Environmental Change in Arid Africa. O. Bubenzer, A. Bolten & F. Darius. Köln: Heinrich-Barth-Institut, pp. 112-115.
2003 Caught in the middle. Impacts of state decisions and armed conflict on Khwe economy and ethnicity between 1998 and 2002. San and the State. Contesting Land, Development, Identity and Representation. T. Hohmann. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe, pp. 161-204.
2001b Kxoe Material Culture. Aspects of Change and its Classification. Including Database on CD-ROM. Khoisan Forum Working Paper No. 18. Köln: Universität zu Köln, Institut für Afrikanistik.
2000 (mit Stefanie Michels). Kxoe Material Culture. Aspects of Change and its Documentation. Khoisan Forum Working Paper No. 16. Köln: Universität zu Köln, Institut für Afrikanistik.