Richard Kuba (Johann Wolfgang Goethe - Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Submitted: Mon, 22 February 2010


Dr. Richard Kuba
Frobenius-Institut
Johann Wolfgang Goethe - Universität
Grüneburgplatz 1
60323 
Frankfurt am Main
Germany

phone:  +49 (0)69 79833056
fax:    +49 (0)69 79833101
e-mail: Kuba@em.uni-frankfurt.de

Web: http://www.frobenius-institut.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=86&Itemid=129&lang=en


Responsible for The German Research Foundation Project: Digitisation and 
Cataloging of the Frobenius Institute's Pictorial Archive (2006-2009). 
In charge of the pictorial archive (except the photographic holdings) and the 
scientific papers and correspondance left by Leo Frobenius and other institute
members.

Research

West Africa; Nigeria; Benin (Borgu); Burkina Faso (Lobi/Dagara): 
precolonial & medieval history; cultural, political, 
& economic history; ethnicity ; land rights ; political ethnology


Selected books

2005.   With Carola Lentz (ed.): Land and the politics of belonging in 
West Africa. Leiden: Brill.

2003.   With Carola Lentz & Claude N. Somd (ed.): Histoire du 
peuplement et relations interethniques au Burkina Faso. Paris: Karthala.

2001.   With Carola Lentz & Katja Werthmann (ed.): Les Dagara et leurs 
voisins: Histoire de peuplement et relations au sud-ouest du Burkina Faso 
(Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268, Bd. 15). Frankfurt a.M

1998.  With Elisabeth Boesen & Hardung, Christine (ed.): Regards sur 
le Borgou. Pouvoir et altérité dans une région 
ouest-africaine. Paris: L'Harmattan.

1996.  Wasangari und Wangara. Borgu und seine Nachbarn in historischer 
Perspektive. Hamburg, Münster: Lit.