1 Postdoctoral Position Anthropology with Fieldwork in Central-Africa

From January 1st, 2019, the Center of Cultural Anthropology of the Université libre de Bruxelles will welcome the project  At a Crossroads of Bantu Expansions: Present and Past Riverside Communities in the Congo Basin, from an Integrated Linguistic, Anthropological and Archaeological Perspective (BANTURIVERS, ERC Starting Grant). The project will study a crossroads of different Bantu expansions in the very heart of the Central-African rainforest, namely the eastern part of the Congo Basin (the Congo River and its tributaries up- and downstream of Kisangani until Bumba and Kindu), with a special interest in the role of rivers in the settlement of these speech communities into the area, both as ways into the forest and as abundant source of animal protein (fish). The project is multidisciplinary and will apply an integrated linguistic, anthropological and archaeological approach to study both present and past riverside communities in the Congo Basin.