Alina Berg

Alina S. Berg is a PhD student in Social and Cultural Anthropology at LMU Munich and part of the Beyond the nature/culture divide project. She holds a M.Sc. in Social Anthropology (University of Oxford), an M.A. in Religion and Culture (Humboldt University Berlin) and a B.Sc. in Psychology and Journalism. In recent years, she has been working as a project manager and data analyst in the fields of human resources and international development in Senegal, Tunisia, Germany and the UK. At the heart of her ethnographic research projects lies a continued interest in the connection between the material, the physical environment, and religion/spirituality. Her M.Sc. project followed the trajectories of pilgrims alongside the Camino and explored bottom-up approaches in cultural heritage-making. Alina's PhD research focuses on the multi-faceted significance of Pounamu (greenstone from Aotearoa New Zealand) and the potentialities of re-activating it for curatorial practice and collaborators within the larger Museum sphere.