Prof. Dr. Guido Sprenger 

Teaches sociocultural anthropology at Heidelberg University

Prof. Dr. Guido Sprenger teaches sociocultural anthropology at Heidelberg University since 2010, after positions at the Academia Sinica, Taipei, and the University of Münster. He has done research in the uplands of Laos since 2000. His research interests include society as a future-oriented project, ritual systems, exchange, animism, human-environment relations, cultural identity, kinship and social structure. Among his publications are Die Männer, die den Geldbaum fällten (The Men who cut the Money Tree: Concepts of Exchange and Society among Rmeet of Takheung, Laos) (2006), Animism in Southeast Asia (edited with Kaj Århem, 2016), Plural Ecologies in Southeast Asia (ed. with T. Duile, K. Großmann and M. Haug, 2023) and numerous journal articles in, among others, Social Analysis, HAU – The Journal of Ethnographic Theory and The Journal of Asian Studies.