Tagwerker, Edeltraud

Edeltraud Tagwerker was born in Musau (Austria). She has a master's degree in English and American Studies, as well as a doctorate in European Ethnology of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Humanities from Innsbruck University. Her interests focus on education, development, globalization, ethnic diversity, and cultural conservation. She has been teaching in Abu Dhabi, Maseru and Innsbruck, and lived over longer periods in Nepal, London, Curacao and Laos. There she was fascinated by the natural beauty and ethnic variety of this country, especially the unique Lao textiles that she set out to study...