Gudrun Dahl
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Gudrun Dahl | |
|---|---|
| Born | 3 April 1948 |
| Known for | Having Herds: Pastoral Herd Growth and Household Economy |
| Parent | Sven Dahl |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Anthropologist |
| Institutions | Stockholm 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.
