Dr. Reu, Tobias

Postdoctoral Researcher in the DFG funded project „Religious Identity Politics of the Pentecostal Movement: Social and Religious Differentiation, and Transnational Networks at the Example of Guatemala and Nicaragua – a Comparison in the Synchronous Dimension“.

Religious practice and social space, civil society, and democracy in Latin America; anthropology of religion; political anthropology; linguistic anthropology; regional foci: Bolivia and Guatemala.

• in preparation. „We Will not Permit Further Abuse by the Authorities”: Deliberation and the Habits of Democracy in a Bolivian Civil Society Organization. (Zeitschriftenaufsatz).
• 2010. Culture and Rights in Bolivia: Three Ethnographic Contributions. (Sammelrezension). E-misférica 6.2. (online) http://www.hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/e-misferica-62/reu.
• 2009. Folkloric Dance, Civil Society, and Public Sphere in the Bolivian Saint's Festival of the Virgin of Urqupiña. PhD thesis. New York University.
• 2008. Urqupiña Travels: A Meditation on the Virgin Mary, Displacement, and Agency. E-misférica 5.1. (online) http://hemisphericinstitute.org/journal/5.1/eng/en51_pg_reu.html.
• 2005. Urqutaquiña: Algunas consideraciones acerca de entrada folklórica, cerveza y modernidad boliviana. Atar a la Rata: Literatura y afines 13. Cochabamba, Bolivia.

• PhD in cultural anthropology, New York University, 2009
• MPhil in cultural anthropology, New York University, 2003
• Magister Artium in ethnology, Amerindian studies and linguistics, Freie Universität Berlin, 1999

• American Anthropological Association
• Latin American Studies Association
• Bolivian Studies Association