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Gudrun Dahl

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Gudrun Dahl
Born (1948-04-03) 3 April 1948 (age 78)
Known forHaving Herds: Pastoral Herd Growth and Household Economy
ParentSven Dahl
Academic work
DisciplineAnthropologist
InstitutionsStockholm University

Gudrun Dahl (born 3 April 1948 in Enskede, Sweden) is a Swedish social anthropologist. She grew up in Stockholm and Gothenburg. Since 1989 she has been a professor at Stockholm University,[1] and is currently a professor emerita. Her current research interests lie in "[m]oral arguments in environmental work."[2] In the Fall of 1992, Dahl was a Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, Sweden.[3]

Professor Dahl has published several books, including Having Herds: Pastoral Herd Growth and Household Economy and Suffering Grass: Subsistence and Society of Waso Borana.[4]

She is the daughter of the Swedish geographer Sven Dahl (1912–1979), who himself was the son of the Swedish professor Carl G. Dahl, a pomologist, and Sven's wife, the genealogist Olga Dahl. Her brother, Östen, is also a professor emeritus at Stockholm University, where he teaches linguistics.

References

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  1. ^ "Gudrun Dahl - Uppslagsverk - NE.se". www.ne.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2017-11-26.
  2. ^ "Gudrun Dahl". www.socant.su.se. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
  3. ^ "Former Fellows SCAS".
  4. ^ "Results for 'Gudrun Dahl' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2017-11-26.