Dr. Anja Fischer

           Cultural and Social Anthropologist

           Post-doc researcher and lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology / University of Vienna

     

 

 

 

REGIONAL RESEARCH INTERESTS
 

Central Sahara desert - Algeria, Niger, Libya and Mali

 

 

THEMATIC  RESEARCH INTERESTS

         Imuhar - Nomadic and Postnomadic Societies
 

 

Economic Anthropology:
Nomadism, Work,  Processes of Transformation, Globalisation, ...

Nomadology: 
Mobility, Aesthetics,  Lifestyle, ...

Linguistic Anthropology:
Ethnography of Speaking, Genre of Speaking, ...

Sociology of Architecture:
Perception of Space, mobile Architecture,...

 

RESEARCH/CONSULTANCY

2017                 “Séjour de recherche à l'IEA de Nantes“ in Cooperation with Gerd Spittler

2016              Consultant for the UNHCR in Tuareg Refugee Camps in the North of Burkina Faso

 

REVIEW

Since 2012 Peer Reviewer e. g. American Anthropologist

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Since Summer 2015     Lecturer at the University of Vienna (German/English)

 

June 2017          Guest Lecture : University of Bayreuth

Summer 2016     Lecturer , Vienna University of Technology

Winter 2013/14    Lecturer , University of Vienna    

Nov. 2013          Guest Lecture : University of Bayreuth

Summer 2011     Lecturer , Vienna University of Technology

Summer 2010     Lecturer , Vienna University of Technology

SoSe 2009         Assistant of Bambi Schieffelin (NYC) „Exploring Linguistic Anthropology“, University of Vienna

Oct. 2008           Guest Lecture : University of Stuttgart 

Summer  2007    Lecturer , University of Vienna 

Summer 1993     Lecturer , Vienna University of Technology

 

FIELD RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

EUROPE

Since 2012 Research at "Africa-Markets" in Germany and Austria

AFRICA

Senegal, December 2019
Senegal, Februar - March 2019
Senegal, Februar - March 2018
Postnomadic Economy of "Tuareg" Traders

Burkina Faso, August - October  2016
Postnomadic Economy of "Tuareg" Refugee Artisans
(as Part of an UNHCR Consultancy in Tuareg Refugee Camps)

Senegal, Februar - March 2016
Postnomadic Economy of "Tuareg" Traders

Benin, August - September 2013
Postnomadic Economy of "Tuareg" Traders between Niger and Benin 

Central Sahara, Winter 2002-Winter 2011
Nomadic Life of "Tuareg"

Total: Approximately two years’ residence and field research over  a ten-year period in camps of nomads in the Central Sahara desert. Field research among nomads in the Central Sahara desert is hardly possible  in the summer season due to the extreme clima condition.
Since 2012 field research among nomads in the Central Sahara desert is not possible due to security issues.

     

The field researches among nomads were carried out without accompaniment or translator. I mainly carried out  fieldwork  among Imuhar nomads in the Ahnet and Ahaggar Mountains in Algeria but also in the Air Mountains in Niger.