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Prof. Dr. Thomas Widlok

Professor of the cultural anthropology of Africa

E-mail: thomas.widlok[at]uni-koeln.de
Phone: +49 (0)221 470 4741
Secretary: +49 (0)221 470 3504
Fax: +49 (0)221 470 5158

Office hours: Tuesday 16:00-17:00 (after prior arrangement by email)

Recent Publications

  • 2024. Foreword. In: Palgrave Handbook of Violence in Africa (ed. by Obert Bernard Mlambo and Ezra Chitando). Cham: Palgrave, pp. v-vi
  • 2024. "Seasonality and schismogenesis: Doing seasons and doing difference after ‘dawn’" Hunter Gatherer Research Volume 8, Number 3-4 https://doi.org/10.3828/hgr.2022.5
  • 2024.“The cultural, linguistic and cognitive relativity of time concepts” In: Anthropological Linguistics: Perspectives from Africa (ed. by N. Nassenstein, A. Mitchell and A. Hollington). Leiden: Benjamins, pp. 30-48.
  • 2024. Eight arguments why biodiversity is important to safeguard food security. Plants, People, Planet, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10492 [co-published with Dannenberg, P., Braun, B., Greiner, C., Follmann, A., Haug, M., Semedi Hargo Yuwono, P., Stetter, M.& Kopriva, S.]
  • 2023. „Hide and Seek a Share: The Ethics of Sharing Between Presence and Distance“. Ethnoscripts 25 (1).  https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/ethnoscripts/article/view/2176.

Most Relevant Research Topics

  • Comparative ethnography of hunter-gatherers
  • Social practices of sharing and (re-)distribution
  • Anthropological approaches to time and place
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