Contact
Leopoldstr. 11a, 2. OG, 246
80802 Munich
Room:
246
Phone:
+49 (0) 89 2180 723 78
Email:
Anna-Maria.Walter@lmu.de
Anna-Maria Walter took up a postdoctoral research position at the Rachel Carson Center in January 2023. As a social and cultural anthropologist, she is currently developing a research project on different forms of relating to and engaging with the cryosphere in the Karakoram/Himalayas and the Alps. The project seeks to bring Indigenous expertise of glacier grafting in conversation with the international scientific community’s efforts to save vanishing glaciers and, ultimately, to challenge the complex interplay of epistemological sovereignty and socio-ecological contestation in a globalized world.
Walter received her PhD from LMU Munich in 2018, where she was also a lecturer. Her work focused on the anthropology of emotions, gender relations, and mobile phones in the high mountains of Gilgit, northern Pakistan. She has published on gendered dimensions of love and marriage, conceptions of the self through social media use, digital anthropology, and field methodologies. As a postdoctoral researcher for the University of Oulu, she has worked on socio-ecological dimensions of Alpine ski touring and perceptions of mountain landscapes.
Current Project: Growing Glaciers – Indigenous Expertise and the Making of Scientific Knowledge (preliminary title)
Selected Publications:
- with Tim Burger, Usman Mahar, and Pascale Schild, eds. The Multi-Sided Ethnographer: Living the Field Beyond Research. Bielefeld: Transcript, forthcoming.
- Intimate Connections: Love and Marriage in Pakistan's High Mountains. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2022.
- “Images of the Mountains: Touristic Consumption and Gendered Representations of Landscape and Heritage in Gilgit-Baltistan.” Visual Anthropology 35, no. 3 (2022): 225–47. https://doi.org/10.1080/08949468.2022.2094185.
- “The Self in a Time of Constant Connectivity: Romantic Intimacy and the Ambiguous Promise of Mobile Phones for Young Women in Gilgit, Northern Pakistan.” American Ethnologist 48, no. 4 (2021): 446–61. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.13039.
- with Anna Grieser. "Feminine Intrastructures in a Men-Made City." Roadsides no. 4 (2020): 52–60. https://doi.org/10.26034/roadsides-202000407.