Gudrun Dahl


Gudrun Dahl is a Swedish social anthropologist. She grew up in Stockholm and Gothenburg. Since 1989 she has been a professor at Stockholm University, and is currently a professor emerita. Her current research interests lie in "oral arguments in environmental work."
Professor Dahl has published several books, including Having Herds: Pastoral Herd Growth and Household Economy and Suffering Grass: Subsistence and Society of Waso Borana.
She is the daughter of the Swedish geographer :sv:Sven Dahl|Sven Dahl, who himself was the son of the Swedish professor Carl G. Dahl, a pomologist, and Sven's wife, the genealogist :sv:Olga Dahl|Olga Dahl. Her brother, :sv:Östen Dahl|Östen, is also a professor emeritus at Stockholm University, where he teaches linguistics.