Prof. Dr. Andrea Lauser

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnographic Collection


Theaterplatz 14
37073 Göttingen


Phone: +49(0)551-39 7850
Fax: +49 (0)551 / 39-7359
Email: alauser@sowi.uni-goettingen.de

Office Hours

Thu 12:00 - 14:00 Uhr, advance registration via notice board


Research focus:

Regional focus:

  • Southeast Asia (with many years of fieldwork experience on the Philippines and in Vietnam)
  • Europe, especially Germany

  • Thematic focus:

    • Gender relations and intercultural gender dynamics
    • Gender theory and ethnography
    • Migration and identity politics
    • Performativity and cultural identity
    • Methods of anthropology
    • Representation of cultures and postcolonial theory
    • Transnationalism
    • Transformation processes and concepts of tradition and modernity
    • Religion and politics in late socialist contexts
    • Ethnic diversity in Southeast Asia