Dr. Frank Daniel Muttenzer, Privatdoz. LL.M.

Frank Muttenzer received his doctorate in anthropology and development studies from the University of Geneva in 2006, after previous degrees in law and legal philosophy. Based on an ethnography of the marine environment and cultural identity of Vezo fishing people (Madagascar) he received the habilitation in anthropology in 2020 and is Privatdozent at the University of Lucerne. His research interests are in Environmental Humanities, the anthropology of religion, and ethnographic theory of cognition, materiality and practice. Frank Muttenzer has carried out several multi-year field research projects in Madagascar since 2003 and is author of Being Ethical among Vezo people (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020 ), Déforestation et droit coutumier à Madagascar (Karthala, 2010), and co-editor of Perceptions and Representations of the Malagasy Environment across Cultures (with G. Campbell and J. Pollini, Palgrave, 2023). He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology at the University of Toronto in 2013-2014 and a Visiting Scholar at the Indian Ocean World Center at McGill University in Montreal in 2015-2017.