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Louise Bechtold studied ethnology and philosophy at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen. From 2010 to 2014, she was a research assistant in the research project 'Funeral Culture in Rural Kyrgyzstan' by Prof. Dr. Roland Hardenberg, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. From 2015 to 2018, she worked as a research assistant in the department 'Integration and Conflict' at the Max Planck Institute for Ethnological Research in Halle (Saale) on the topic 'Kinship and Genealogical Relations: Practices of Name Avoidance, and Networks of Feasting and Gift Exchange in Rural Kyrgyzstan'. In the fall semester 2019/20, she worked as an assistant at the chair of Peter Finke at the Institute of Social Anthropology and Empirical Cultural Studies at the University of Zurich. Since May 2022, she has been working as a research associate at the Frobenius Institute.
Main research topics
Thematic focus
Women's relational practices, kinship, substances and relatedness, feasting, gender, post-socialism
Regional focus
Central asia
Publications
2017 ‘Approaching the Ritual Economy of a Hajji Feast: Resources, Status, and Sharing in Southern Kyrgyzstan’, in Roland Hardenberg (ed.), Approaching Ritual Economy. Socio-Cosmic Fields in Globalised Contexts, Tübingen: SFB ResourcenKulturen, pp. 37-70.
2017 ‘The Ritual Economy of Bread and Women’s Identity in Southern Kyrgyzstan’, in Aida Aaly Alymbaeva (ed.) CASCA – Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia II. Food and Identity in Central Asia, pp. 103-116.
