I am currently fellow at the Research Center of Social and Cultural Studies Mainz (SoCuM) and at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies (ifeas) at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. I studied Anthropology, Sociology and African Studies at the Universities of Bayreuth and Leiden. After finishing my PhD in Anthropology at the University of Freiburg in 2019, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in a project on cultural and arts education at the Department of Political Science, University of Leipzig. Having previously done research on topics such as migration, work and leisure, I am about to develop a new project on music as a medium of sharing and communicating lived experience. 

Publications include:

2021. Ohne die Stunden zu zählen. Alltag, Arbeit und der Umgang mit Zeit im ländlichen Cantal. [Without counting the hours. Everyday Life, Work and Ways of Dealing with Time in rural Cantal.] Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

2018. Autonomy and Adaptivity. Farmer’s Work in France. In: Spyridakis, Manos: Market versus Society: Anthropological Insights. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 209-226.

2017. Verschwendung. Thorstein Veblen’s Theorie der feinen Leute. [Extravagance and Exhaustion. Thorstein Veblens Theory of the Leisure Class] In: Muße. Ein Magazin 3, 1, 24-28.

2017, (together with Christian Ungruhe). Im Spiel bleiben. Ethnologische Perspektiven auf Fußballmigrationen aus Afrika. [Staying in the Game. Ethnological Perspectives on Football Migration from Africa]. In: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 141, 81-100.

Contact:

Martin Büdel
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