Prof. Judith Beyer to start at the Center of Excellence
21. October 2014
Before, she has been a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Halle/S. (Germany) and a lecturer at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Her publications on the anthropology of the state, constitutional politics, authority, legal pluralism and further topics such as well-being, descent and values are based on long-term fieldwork in different parts of Asia.
In her doctoral thesis (2009, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg) she investigates the “customization” of law, revealing how actors in rural Kyrgyzstan invoked the purported stability of customary law while situationally incorporating state law, shari'a and international norms into this legal repertoire.
Her other research project is located in Myanmar, in Southeast Asia, where she investigated land and property regimes of non-Buddhist religious communities. The project is among the first anthropological projects to trace how religious minorities are dealing with the legal, political and social changes triggered by the country's political and economical opening-up over the last few years.
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