Members of CASCA
Peter Finke, Prof. Dr.
Head of Department, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zurich
Research interests
Economic anthropology, political economy and social change, post-socialist transformation, pastoralism, nationalism, identity and migration studies, norms and ideology, social theory
Research Area(s)
Zentralasien, Mittlerer Osten, post-sozialistische Gesellschaften. Pastoralism in Western Mongolia: Mongolia (Xovd-sum, Xovd), Repatriation of Kazaks: Kazakstan (Pavlodar and Temirtau), Economic and social change in rural Kazakstan (Almaty province, Taldykorgan )
Links
Online Publications
http://www.eth.mpg.de/cms/en/publications/working_papers/wp0003.html
C. V.
Peter Finke ist Ordentlicher Professor für Ethnologie an der Universität Zürich seit 2006 und Mitglied des Universitären Forschungsschwerpunkts “Asien und Europa”. Er ist zudem zum SEG-SSE Präsidenten gewählt (mit Wirkung ab 01.01.2012), Mitglied im Editorial Board der Brill’s book series Eurasian Studies Library, Leiden, NL und wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Publikationsreihe Gesellschaften und Staaten im Epochenwandel (GSE). Auch ist er Vorstandsmitglied bei der Schweiz. Asiengesellschaft SAG. Peter Finke studierte Anthropologie und Zentralasiatische Studien in München, Göttingen und Berlin. Er machte seinen M.A. an der Freien Universität Berlin (1994), doktorierte an der Universität Köln (1999) und habilitierte an der Universität Leipzig (2006). Von 2000 bis 2005 war er wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Max Planck Institut für Soziale Anthropologie, und 2005 wurde er Leiter der Forschungsgruppe Zentralasien. Von 2002 bis 2003 war er Gastprofessor an der Universität New Hampshire, U.S.A. und von 2004 bis 2006 an der Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Türkei.
Contact
Tel.: +41 44 635 22 33
Email: finke@casca-halle-zurich.org
Max-Planck Institut für ethnologische Forschung
Telefon: +49 (0) 345 29 27 109
E-mail: finke@eth.mpg.de
Curriculum vitae
Current position
Since 2013 Co-Director, Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia (CASCA), Halle-Zurich
Since 2009 Chair, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Zurich
Since 2006 Full Professor for Social Anthropology, University of Zurich
Education
Habilitation, Social Anthropology, University of Leipzig, April 2006
Title of thesis: „Variations on Uzbek Identity: Concepts, Constraints and Local Configurations“
Ph.D., Social Anthropology, University of Cologne, Germany (grade: “summa cum laude”), May 1999
Title of thesis: “Transformation einer pastoralen Gesellschaft. Ökonomischer und sozialer Wandel bei den Kasachen in der Westmongolei nach dem Ende des Sozialismus”, Supervisor: Prof. Michael J. Casimir
M.A., Social Anthropology (major subject), Turcology and Mongolian Studies (Minor subjects), Free University Berlin and Humboldt-University Berlin, January 1994
Title of thesis: “Pastoral Nomadismus bei Kasachen im Westen der Mongolischen Volksrepublik”, Supervisor: Prof. Lawrence Krader
Previous positions
2005 – 2006 Head of Research Group ‘Integration and Conflict in Central Asia, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany
2004 – 2006 Visiting Assistant Professor at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
2002 – 2003 Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of New Hampshire, Department of Anthropology
2001 – 2002 Lecturer at the University of Leipzig, Department of Social Anthropology, and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Department of Oriental Studies
2000 – 2005 Research staff at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany
1997 – 1999 Lecturer at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn, Department of Central Asian Studies
1995 – 2000 Lecturer at the University of Cologne, Department of Social Anthropology
Areas of specialization
Substantive areas: economic anthropology, rural development, political economy and social change; post-socialist societies; ethnicity, nationalism and migration studies, norms and ideology, social theory
Geographic areas: Central Asia, Middle East
Field research
Since 1991 Field experience in Central Asia (Mongolia, Kazakstan, Uzbekistan) for a total of 40 months
Languages
German native speaker
English excellent
Kazak very good
Turkish very good
Uzbek good
Mongolian good
Russian advanced
Romansh beginner
Professional Affiliations
Swiss Association of Social Anthropology (SEG-SSE), President (2012-2014)
German Association of Social Anthropologists (DGV) (Board Member 2005-2007)
Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) (President in 2009-2010)
European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS) (Board Member 2007-2009)
Editorial Work and Reviews
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, Co-Editor
Central Asian Survey, Member of the International Advisory Board
Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography SASA, Member of the International Editorial Board
Berghahn book series ‘Integration and Conflict’, Member of the Editorial Board
Regular journal reviews for: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, Current Anthropology, American Anthropologist, Anthropology Today
National Science Foundation (NSF), Member of the Senior Scholar Panel, Section Cultural Anthropology
Regular reviews for: Swiss National Science Funds (SNFS), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Current projects
Ethnic Differentiation, Interethnic Relations and Conflict in Central Asia: The Case of the Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Kazakstan
http://casca-halle-zurich.org/en/ethnic-differentiation-interethnic-relations-and-conflict-in-central-asia/
Private: Migration Movements, Transnational Ties and Pathways of Integration among the Kazaks in Central Asia
http://casca-halle-zurich.org/en/migration-movements-transnational-ties-and-pathways-of-integration/
Completed projects
Publications
Books
2004 Nomaden im Transformationsprozess. Kasachen in der post-sozialistischen Mongolei. Münster: Lit-Verlag
2001 (co-edited with Meltem Sancak) Zwischen Markt- und Mangelwirtschaft. Berichte eines Feldforschungsaufenthaltes im ländlichen Kasachstan und Kirgizstan im Jahre 1999. Almaty: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Articles
2005 (with Meltem Sancak) Migration and Risk-Taking. A Case Study from Kazakstan. Lilian Trager (ed.),Migration and Economy. Global and Local Dynamics. Society for Economic Anthropology Monographs. Walnut Creek (CA): Altamira: 127-161
2005 Contemporary Pastoralism in Central Asia. Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek, Julia Katschnig (eds.), Central Asiaon Display. Proceedings of the VII. Conference of the European Society for Central Asian Studies (Series: Wiener Zentralasien Studien – Vienna Central Asian Studies). Vienna: LIT: 397-410
2003 Le pastoralisme dans l’ouest de la Mongolie: contraintes, motivations et variations. Cahiers d’Asie centrale.Vol. 11-12: 245-265
2003 Does Privatization mean Commoditization? Market exchange, barter, and gift-giving in post-socialist Mongolia. Norbert Dannhaeuser & Cynthia Werner (eds.), Anthropological Perspectives on Economic Development and Integration. Research in Economic Anthropology Vol. 22. Elsevier science
2002 (with Meltem Sancak). Tadjiki. In: Alisher Ilkhamov (ed.), Etnicheskij atlas Uzbekistana. Tashkent: Institut “Otkrytoe Obshchestvo” – Fond sodejstvija. Pp. 195-202
2002 Wandel sozialer Strukturen im ländlichen Mittelasien. Andrea Strasser, Siegfried Haas, Gerhard Mangott & Valeria Heuberger (eds.) Zentralasien und Islam/Central Asia and Islam, Hamburg, Deutsches Orient-Institut: 137-149
2001 Kasachstan und Kirgizstan im 20. Jahrhundert: Tradition und Wandel. In: Peter Finke & Meltem Sancak (eds.) Zwischen Markt- und Mangelwirtschaft. Berichte eines Feldforschungsaufenthaltes im ländlichen Kasachstan und Kirgizstan im Jahre 1999. Almaty, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung: 10-15.
2001 (with Meltem Sancak) Nurli: Glanz und Verfall eines sowjetischen Musterbetriebes. In: Peter Finke & Meltem Sancak (eds.) Zwischen Markt- und Mangelwirtschaft. Berichte eines Feldforschungsaufenthaltes im ländlichen Kasachstan und Kirgizstan im Jahre 1999. Almaty, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung: 96-103.
2001 Zwischen Markt und Mangel: Die Neuordnung ökonomischer und sozialer Beziehungen im ländlichen Kasachstan und Kirgizstan. In: Peter Finke & Meltem Sancak (eds.) Zwischen Markt- und Mangelwirtschaft. Berichte eines Feldforschungsaufenthaltes im ländlichen Kasachstan und Kirgizstan im Jahre 1999.Almaty, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung: 104-107.
2000 (with Sarah Robinson & Bettina Hamann) The impacts of de-collectivisation on Kazak pastoralists. Case studies from Kazakstan, Mongolia, and the People’s Republic of China. Journal of Central Asian Studies Vol. IV, No. 2: 2-33
2000 Changing Property Rights Systems in Western Mongolia: Private Herd Ownership and Communal Land Tenure in Bargaining Perspective. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Working Papers No. 3.
2000 Nomads in a Post-Socialist World: A Case study from Western Mongolia. Anthropology at Thompson learning.
1999 The Kazaks of Western Mongolia. In: Ingvar Svanberg (ed.) Contemporary Kazaks. Cultural and Social Perspectives. London: Curzon: 103-139
1995 Kazak Pastoralists in Western Mongolia. Economic and Social Change in the Course of Privatization.Nomadic Peoples 36/37: 195-216
Forthcoming articles
Forthcoming Competing Legacies of Statehood and Leadership in Central Asia: Turkic Dynasties of Transoxania and the Uses of Historical Imagination. David Sneath (ed.), States of Mind: Power, Place and the Subject in Inner Asia
Forthcoming (with Meltem Sancak) Konstitutsiya buzildi! Gender relations in Kazakstan and Uzbekistan. Russell Zanca & Jeff Sahadeo (eds.), Everyday Life in Central Asia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Forthcoming Property rights in livestock among pastoralists in western Mongolia: Categories of ownership and categories of control. Günther Schlee & Anatoly Khazanov (eds.), Proceedings of the conference “Collective and multiple forms of property in land and animals: cattle, camels, reindeer”. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, August 2002
Peter Finke, Prof. Dr.