Ort
95440 Bayreuth
Universität
Bayreuth
Mitglied seit
13.08.2020
E-Mail
tilman.musch@uni-bayreuth.deTelefon
+49 921 555103
Links
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4851-7151
Kurzvita
Tilman Musch has specialized in the ethnology of the Central Sahara. He works on pastoral nomadism, the anthropology of space and time, environmental change and the Anthropocene, customary law and ethnobotany. He received his doctorate at the INALCO / Paris in 2008 with a thesis on Buryat nomadism. From 2018-2020 he did research on customary law of the Tubu Teda, a project funded by Gerda Henkel Stiftung. He is based at Bayreuth University / Germany. He is currently (09/2022-08/2024) conducting research at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.
Forschungsthemen
Central Sahara, nomadism, human-environment relationships, customary law.
Aktuelles Projekt
SAHARAGÄRTEN. The project “Saharan gardens” (funded by Gerda Henkel Stiftung) establishes small-scale gardens in oases of the Central Sahara, using methods close to agroforestry which are adapted to Saharan environments and gardening traditions. With their innovative technologies (drip irrigation and pumps working with solar energy), they both serve as a sustainable model for horticulture in the desert and contribute to improve the local economic situation.
Publikationen
MONOGRAPHS
2012. Brunnen und Felder. Territorialität in Westniger (Abala). [Wells and Fields. Territoriality in Western Niger (Abala).] Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
2008. Espaces nomades bouriates. L’éleveur face à ses environnements en Sibérie et Mongolie. [Buryat Nomadic Spaces. The Herder in Front of his Environments in Siberia and Mongolia.] Paris: L’Harmattan.
2006. Nomadismus und Sesshaftigkeit bei den Burjaten. Gesellschaftlicher Wandel im Spiegel zeitgenössischer Folklore. [Nomadism and Sedentarity among Buryat. Social Change in the Mirror of Folklore.] Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag.
SCIENTIFIC PAPERS
2023. Au-delà du désordre. Les lois, le médiateur et les valeurs du kundugu dans la société teda. Anthropos 118: 383-393.
2023. The FROLINAT and the Saharan footprint on an African Revolution: The case of the Chadian North. In: Pascal Bianchini, Ndongo Samba Sylla & Leo Zeilig (eds.). Revolutionary Movements in Africa. An Untold Story: 141-157. With Moussa Bicharra Ahmed & Djiddi Allahi Mahamat.
2023. Three fish species from Horchi (Tibesti Mountains, Central Sahara): Rediscovery after decades of drought. Bulletin of Fish Biology 20. 23-27. https://www.ichthyologie.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Musch-2023-Three-fish-species-from-Horchi-Bull-fish-Biol-20-23-027.pdf
2023. Saharagärten. Ein landwirtschaftliches Pionierprojekt im Tibesti-Gebirge (Zentralsahara). Berichte über Landwirtschaft. Zeitschrift für Agrarpolitik und Landwirtschaft. https://doi.org/10.12767/buel.v101i2.475
2023. A neighbor of Gonoa: ‚The Man of Bunige‘ and his game. Journal of Global Archaeology 2023(04): 2-15. https://doi:10.34780/lc92-3ecc
2022. Tesissendar. Une collecte de vire-langues touarègues provenant de l‘ouest nigérien. [Études berbères IX – Essais sur la linguistique et la documentation écrite en berbère et autres articles. Actes du 9. Bayreuth-Frankfurt-Leidener Kolloquium zur Berberologie, Francfort am Main, 20–23 juillet 2016, ed. by R. Voßen et al.] Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. 125-132.
2021. Déclin et ancienne plénitude d’un village au Tibesti. Une « archéologie locale » par les habitants de Zoui. Africa. Rivista semestriale di studi e ricerche. III/1. 49-68.
2021. Exploring Environments through Water: An Ethno-Hydrography of the Tibesti Mountains (Central Sahara). Ethnobiology Letters 12(1). https://doi.org/10.14237/ebl.12.1.2021.1709
2020. Am Rande und im Zentrum – die Teda und das Tibesti. [In the center and on the margins – the Teda and the Tibesti]. Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläonthologie I(1): 151-181.
2020. Clayton rings and ancient beekeeping. An ethno-zoological contribution. Journal of Global Archaeology 2020: § 1-28. Together with D. Brückner. https://doi.org/10.34780/joga.v2020i0.1004
2019. Der Nashornspur folgen, wo es kein Nashorn mehr gibt. Fährtenlesen in der Zeit, oder: Tubu Teda als Archäologen. [Following the rhino’s tracks where no rhino is left. Tracking in time, or: Tubu Teda as archaeologists] Anthropos, 114. 145-156. https://doi.org/10.5771/0257-9774-2019-1-145
2019. Un mariage par rapt chez les Toubou Teda. Transgresser pour conserver la paix sociale. [A marriage by abduction among Tubu Teda. Transgressing to maintain social peace.] In: Hüsken, Thomas; Solyga, Alexander; Badi, Dida (eds.). The Multiplicity of Orders and Practises. A Tribute to Georg Klute. Topics in Interdisciplinary African Studies, 50. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. 363-384. (With Mahama Abalaiyi Sedike).
2018. Sorten der Kulturdattel (Phoenix dactylifera) im Kaouar-Tal (Niger). [Varieties of date-palm (Phoenix dactylifera) in the Kaouar Valley (Niger)] In: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Dendrologischen Gesellschaft, 103. 186-194.
2018. Alhadirou et son carnet d’adresses : Pour une réécriture des tifinagh sur le téléphone portable. [Alhadirou and his telephone book. For a rewriting of tifinagh on the cellphone.] In: Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Winkelmann, Kerstin; Vossen, Rainer; Stroomer, Harry (Hrsg.). Études berbères VIII. Essais sur la linguistique historique berbère et autres articles. Actes du « 8. Bayreuth-Frankfurt-Leidener Kolloquium zur Berberologie ». Bayreuth 9.-11. Oktober 2014. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. 177-187.
2017. Footprints in the mud of Agadem. Eastern Nigers way towards the Anthropocene. In: Modern Africa, 5(2). 105-126. https://doi.org/10.26806/modafr.v5i2.198
2017. In den Sand geschrieben. Spuren, Brände und das Suchen von Kamelen bei den Teda. [Written in the sand: Tracks, brands and the search for camels among Teda.] In: Paideuma 63. 207-230.
2017. Teda drivers on the road between Agadez and Assheggur. Taking over an ancient Tuareg caravan route. In: Beck, Kurt; Klaeger, Gabriel; Stasik, Michael (eds.). The Making of the African Road. Brill: Leiden. 220-240.
2015. Six days towards the polar star. Orientation among Tubu Teda. In: Journal des Africanistes. 85. 282-310. http://journals.openedition.org/africanistes/4609
2015. Snakes, Spirits and Healers in the Middle Dallol Bosso (Western Niger). A Classificatory Approach. In: Annali. Università degli Studi di Napoli "L’Orientale", 75 (1-4). 17-29.
2015. Notiz zur Walnuss (Juglans regia) in Zentralasien: Zu einer Sorten-Sammlung aus Žalal-Abad (Südkirgisien). [Note on the Walnut (Juglans regia) in Central Asia: on a variety collection from Žalal-Abad (Southern Kyrgyzstan).] In: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Dendrologischen Gesellschaft, 100. 273-276.
2014. Herbal Treatments for Bites of Viperidae in Western Niger. In: Curare. Zeitschrift für Medizinethnologie, 37. 234-237.
2014. Outline of an anthropological contribution to the study of snake venom variability: The case of Echis sp. envenomation. In: Ethnobiology Letters, 5. 24-30
2014. Pflanzliches Gegengift bei Bissen der Speikobra Naja nigricollis. [Herbal antidote for bites of the spitting cobra Naja nigricollis]. In: Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau. 67(3). 139-140.
2014. Linking regions by men and animals. Note on transnational livestock trade in Banki / Bornu State. In: Baldi, Sergio; Magrin, Geraud (eds.). Les échanges et la communication dans le bassin du Lac Tchad. Actes du colloque de Naples du réseau Megatchad. Napoli: Università de gli Studi di Napoli "L’Orientale". 187-196.
2013. Territoriality through migration: cases among the Tubu Teda Guna (Niger). In: Nomadic Peoples, 17(2). 68-81. DOI: 10.3167/np.2013.170206
2013. Drugging cattle: On the use of certain psychoactive herbs in Fulani veterinary medicine. In: Curare. Zeitschrift für Medizinethnologie, 36(3). 205-210.
2012. The transnational choice. Young Tuareg traders between Niger and Nigeria. In: Hahn, Hans Peter; Kastner, Kristin (eds.). Urban Life-Worlds in Motion. African Perspectives. Bielefeld: Transcript. 157-171.
2012. Prostranstvo i mobil’nost’. K voprosy o kočevoj territorial’nosti. [Space and mobility. Concerning the question of nomadic territoriality.] In: Voprosy Istorii Kyrgyzstana, 2-3(26). Bischkek. 208-214.
2012. Territorial’nost’ i mobil’nost’: o migrirujuščix soobščestvax i territorial’noj "ukorennosti". [Territoriality and mobility: About migrating groups and territorial rootedness]. In: Ural’skij Istoričeskij Vestnik, 2(35). Ekaterinburg. 15-19.
2012. Saignée et cautérisation chez les pasteurs nomades de N’guigmi. La dichotomie du chaud et du froid. [Bleeding and branding among pastoral nomads of N’guigmi.The dichotomy of hot and cold.] In: Eva Rothmaler, Rémi Tchokothe, Henry Tourneux (eds.). Man and Health in the Lake Chad Basin. Proceedings of the 14th Mega-Chad Conference Bayreuth, 15-17 April 2010. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. 121- 136.
2011. Discourses about the "landlessness" of former nomads. Two conflict cases in Sadina (western Niger). In: Recht in Afrika / Law in Africa / Droit en Afrique, 2011/1. 87-102.
2010. Die Kühe der Illoghmatan. Zwei Konfliktfälle im Kontext von Dezentralisierung und iklan-Emanzipation in Bankilare / Niger. [The cows of the Illoghmatan. Two conflict cases in the context of decentralisation and iklan-emancipation in Bankilare / Niger.] In: Recht in Afrika / Law in Africa / Droit en Afrique 2010/1. 123-141.
2008. Chansons soviétiques bouriates. Louanges du 'progrès' et de la collectivisation. [Soviet Buryat songs. Praising the ‘progres’ and collectivization.] Études mongoles et sibériennes, centreasiatiques et tibétaines, 38/39. 255-267.
2008. Speaking to the Ewe. Note about tėėgė-sayings collected in Aga / February 2004. In: Tsyrendorzhiyev Society (Hrsg.). Tibetan Civilization and Nomadic Peoples of Eurasia: Cross-Cultural Contacts. Kiev. 351-354.
2007. Burjatische Rätsel aus Cagaan-Ovoo Sum. [Buryat riddles from Cagaan-Ovoo Sum.] In: Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher, 21. 203-211.
2005. Folklore und deutschsprachiger Text. Zu den Schamanengesängen von Galsan Tschinag. [Folklore and German text. On the Shaman Songs of Galsan Tschinag.] In: DAAD (Hrsg.). Das Wort. Germanistisches Jahrbuch, 04 GUS. Bonn. 273-286.
2003. Arxaičeskij opyt i nemezkij tekst: Šamanskie pesni Galsana Činaga. [Archaic experience and German text: The Shaman Songs of Galsan Tschinag.] In: Academy of Culture (ed.). Etnokul’turnoe obrazovanie: soveršenstvovanie podgotovki specialistov v oblasti tradicionnyx kultur, II. Ulan- Ude: Izdatel’stvo Akademii kul’tury. 66-70.
AUDIO- AND VIDEO-MEDIA
2023. Ein Schmied singt / Un forgeron chante. Würzburger Archiv zur Musik des Sahels und der Sahara WAMSaSa. https://www.musikwissenschaft.uni-wuerzburg.de/musikinstrumente/organologie/doku/wamsasa/musch-forgeron-2017/
2023. Das Fest von Woui / La fête de Woui. Würzburger Archiv zur Musik des Sahels und der Sahara WAMSaSa. https://www.musikwissenschaft.uni-wuerzburg.de/musikinstrumente/organologie/doku/wamsasa/woui-musch-de/
2009. Buryat Oral Testimonies. (Metadata-files). In: DOBES-Archives of Endangered Languages (http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES). Nijmwegen: Max Planck Institut Nijmwegen. http://corpus1.mpi.nl/ds/imdi_browser?openpath=MPI669556%23
2008. Burâad duun. Buryat Songs. (Audio-CD). Series: Treasures of Mongolian Culture and Tibeto-Mongolian Buddhism. Budapest: University of Budapest.
POPULAR SCIENCE
2020. Savoirs environnementaux au Sahara : comment suivre un chameau ? [Environmental knowledge in the Sahara: How to follow a camel?] Toumaï Action 82. CNRD N’Djamena. 3-4.
2020. Constat sur la désertification au B.E.T. [Note on the desertification in the B.E.T.] Toumaï Action 80. CNRD N’Djamena. 4.
2019. Die Tubu - ein zentralsaharanisches Hirtenvolk. [Tubu – pastoral nomads oft he Central Sahara.] In: Joger, U. (ed.). Die Wüste soll leben. Bedrohte Natur in Arabien, Nordafrika und dem Sahel. [Catalogue of the exposition “Die Wüste soll leben” at Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum Braunschweig (03/10/2019-01/03/2020).] Schwülper: Cargo-Verlag.
2019. Us et coutumes changeants au fil du temps dans la culture Toubou. Approche anthropologique et historique. [Changing habits and customs in Tubu culture. Anthropological and historical approach.] Toumaï Action 63. CNRD, N’Djamena / Tchad.
2013. Les marchés au Kirghizstan: de la rencontre entre nomades et sédentaires aux échanges entre villes et campagne. [Markets in Kyrgyzstan: from the meeting between nomads and sedentary people to exchanges between towns and the countryside.] In: Stepanoff, Charles; Ferret, Carole; Lacaze, Gaëlle; Thorez, Julien (eds.). Nomadismes d’Asie central et septentrionale. Paris: Armand Colin. 265-266.
2013. Le yak. [The yak.] In: Stepanoff, Charles; Ferret, Carole; Lacaze, Gaëlle; Thorez, Julien (Hrsg.). Nomadismes d’Asie central et septentrionale. Paris: Armand Colin. 265-266. 196.
WORKING PAPERS
2010. Wild Fauna and Flora of the N’guigmi Region. Lists of names in Tubu, Arabic and Fulfulde. London 2010: Mandaras Publishing. http://www.mandaras.info/MandarasPublishing/TilmanMusch-wordlist-wild-fauna-and-flora-of-Nguigmi-region.pdf
2007. Gli animali selvatici nella fiaba e nella credenza popolare mongola. [Wild animals in the Mongolian fairy tales and popular beliefs.] Convegno internazionale “La via delle fiabe”, 12 e 13 Ottobre 2007, Pavia.
EDITORSHIP
Sediké, Mahuma Abaliy. 2021. DAGA TUDAA. Pensées Toubou: Proverbes du Sahara Central. [Saharastudien / Saharan Studies / Études Sahariennes]. Münster: LIT-Verlag.