Specialist areas of work and services:
Description:
Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer
Political Anthropologist
Department of History and Sociology
University of Konstanz
78457 Konstanz
Germany
Experience, Background and Services:
Judith Beyer specializes in political and legal anthropology. She conducts long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan) and Southeast Asia (Myanmar) and increasingly in the UK. Her research focuses on the anthropology of law, the anthropology of the state, and theories of sociality and social order. Her current thematic interests are: the concept of community, practices of traditionalization, common sense, statelessness and ethnomethodology.