Anna-Maria Walter has moved to TUM from the Rachel Carson Center (RCC) for Environment and Society, where she worked on various ways of engaging with and understanding the cryosphere in the Alps and the Himalayas. She received her PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from LMU in 2018 with a thesis on the anthropology of emotions, gender relations and mobile phones in the high mountains of Gilgit, northern Pakistan. Her monograph “Intimate Connections: Love and Marriage in Pakistan’s High Mountains” was published by Rutgers in 2022. Walter has written on the anthropology of emotions, conceptions of the self through social media use, digital anthropology and field methodologies. As a postdoctoral researcher for the University of Oulu, she has worked on socio-ecological dimensions of Alpine ski touring and perceptions of mountain landscapes over time.
South Asia, Himalayas, Alps, gender, cryosphere, environmental humanities, digital anthropology, affect & emotions, ethnographic methodologies
- "Remoteness on a Vertical Axis: Social Dynamics of Ski Touring in the German Alps." Ethnos (2026), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2026.2626394
- with Joonas Plaan and Jonathan Carruthers-Jones. “Nature-Based Winter Sports and Their Ephemeral Tracks: Interspecies (Non-)Encounters in Snow.” Landscape Research 49, no. 7 (2024): 946-59. https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2024.2386003
- with Tim Burger, Usman Mahar, and Pascale Schild, eds. The Multi-Sided Ethnographer: Living the Field Beyond Research. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2024. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839466773
- Intimate Connections: Love and Marriage in Pakistan's High Mountains. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2022. https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/intimate-connections/9781978820487/
- “Images of the Mountains: Touristic Consumption and Gendered Representations of Landscape and Heritage in Gilgit-Baltistan.” Visual Anthropology 35, no. 3 (2022): 225–47. https://doi.org/10.1080/08949468.2022.2094185
- “The Self in a Time of Constant Connectivity: Romantic Intimacy and the Ambiguous Promise of Mobile Phones for Young Women in Gilgit, Northern Pakistan.” American Ethnologist 48, no. 4 (2021): 446–61. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.13039
- Organizer of the Reading Evironments Group
- Contributing member of the Asian Mountain Academic Alliance (AMAA)