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Christian Strümpell serves as an External Lecturer at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology within the Department of Cultural History and Cultural Studies at the University of Hamburg. His academic trajectory includes significant research positions at Humboldt University Berlin, Heidelberg University's South Asia Institute, Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology, and Free University Berlin.
His academic credentials include:
- PhD in Social Anthropology (summa cum laude), Free University Berlin, 2004
- M.A. in Social Anthropology, Romance Philology (Spanish), and Prehistory, Free University Berlin, 1999
Strümpell's research centers on Economic Anthropology with emphasis on labor systems and exchange economies; Anthropology of Religion focusing on Hinduism; Urban Anthropology examining industrial settlements; and Kinship Studies intersecting with class and caste hierarchies in eastern India. His fieldwork in Odisha investigates how global capitalism reshapes local social structures through steel industry development, dispossession, and stress manifestations.
His publication pattern reveals consistent ethnographic engagement with eastern Indian industrial contexts, analyzing historical transformations of labor-land relations, inequality reproduction in company towns, and class-caste politics. These works demonstrate interdisciplinary approaches bridging economic anthropology, political economy, and postcolonial theory to examine neoliberal restructuring in South Asia.
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