Bettina Beer recently returned from fieldwork on the island of Bohol, in the Philippines, where she did ethnographic research for her SNF-funded project entitled: Separation, Divorce, or Annulment of Marriages and the Reconfiguration of Kin Networks in the Philippines. This is part of a larger project on estrangement and separations in intimate relations, on which she works with Laura Preissler (topic: estrangement between parents and adult children in Switzerland) and Nora Lipp (topic: first parents and adopted children in Russia). Ideas and insights generated by Beer’s research will inform courses she teaches in the upcoming spring semester.

Die Ethnologinnen Bettina Beer und Laura Preissler forschen an der Universität Luzern über Familienkonflikte. Darüber, wenn Kinder die Beziehung zu den Eltern kappen oder Ehen auseinanderbrechen. Sie geben in einem Interview mit zentralplus Auskunft über ihr neuestes Forschungsprojekt.

Edited by: Prof. Dr. Bettina Beer, Dr. Tobias Schwoerer