Daniel Münster

Biography

Daniel Münster is a social anthropologist working on South Asia with interests in agrarian environments, political economy, global food regimes, science and technology, and social theory. He holds a doctorate (Dr.phil.) in anthropology from Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (2005) and has studied in Munich, Mexico City (ENAH), and, as a Fulbright scholar, in Lexington (University of Kentucky). Daniel has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in rural Tamil Nadu and Kerala (South India). Before joining the Heidelberg Cluster of Excellence as a Junior Research Group Leader in April 2013, he taught social anthropology at Bielefeld University (2005-2007) and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (2007-2013).

Research Interest

India, esp. South India (Tamil Nadu, Kerala) | Environmental Anthropology: Political Ecology, Environmental Humanities, Science and Technology Studies, Multispecies Studies | Agrarian Studies: Political Agronomy, Tropical cash-crops, Pesticides, Agrarian Frontiers, Agrarian Crisis, Natural Farming | Legal and Political Anthropology, Anthropology of the State, Critical Development Studies | Anthropology of Suicide | Economic Anthropology: Neoliberalism, Globalization, Inequality | Colonial and Postcolonial Theory, Subaltern Studies, Transcultural Theory | Anthropology of Religion: Aesthetics of Religion, Anthropology of the Senses, Hinduism, Christianity | Anthropology of the Future.