Thomas Hauschild
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Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang
Thomas Hauschild is a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. He acted as full professor of cultural/social anthropology at the Eberhard-Karls-University at Tübingen (1992-2008) and at the Martin Luther-University at Halle (2008-2016). He served as a visiting professor at the universities of Hamburg, Aix-en-Provence, Princeton, Rome and Heidelberg. From 2004-2018 he served as a senior fellow in numerous institutions of excellency in research, among them the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute of Andvanced Studies, 2006-2008). Recently he was awarded the Hans-Blumenberg-professorship at the center of excellency in religious studies at the University at Muenster (2017).Thomas Hauschild’s main areas of interest are the social and cultural anthropology of religion in relation to politics and to geography, especially of the Mediterranean and of Europe in the process of failing globalization. He specialized also in museology and anthropological exhibitions (the art of flying, Berlin, 2011).Currently, Prof. Hauschild is writing a book on the anthropology and neurobiology of apparitions and ghosts.
Forschungsschwerpunkte
Thomas Hauschild’s main areas of interest are the social and cultural anthropology of religion in relation to politics and to geography, especially of the Mediterranean and of Europe in the process of failing globalization. He specialized also in museology and anthropological exhibitions (the art of flying, Berlin, 2011).
Publikationen
- Weihnachtsmann. Die wahre Geschichte, (Frankfurt am Main:Fischer) 2012 und folgende.
- Power and Magic in Italy, trans. by Jeremy Gaines, EASA Series, 13 (Oxford: Berghahn) 2011.
- (with Zillinger, Kottmann) ‘Syncretism in the Mediterranean. Universalism, Cultural Relativism, and the Issue of the Mediterranean as a Cultural Area’, History and Anthropology, Bd. 18, 2008, S. 309-332.
- Ritual und Gewalt : Ethnologische Studien an europäischen und mediterranen Gesellschaften(Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 2008).
- Ed. (with Warneken) Inspecting Germany. Internationale Deutschland-Ethnographie der Gegenwart, (Hamburg: LIT-Verlag), Forum Europäische Ethnologie, Band 1, 2002, 750 S.
- ‘Christians, Jews, and the Other in German Anthropology’, in: American Anthropologist, 4/1997, 746-753.-
- ed., Lebenslust und Fremdenfurcht: Ethnologie im Dritten Reich (Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 1995).