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Thomas Hauschild

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 Thomas Hauschild, born 1955, serves as a Professor of Social Anthropology since 1992.

He lived and worked as a fellow/co-researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) at Berlin, at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK) at Vienna, in the special research unit 511 (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) “Literature and Anthropology” and in the Excellence Cluster 16 “Cultural Fundaments of Integration”, both at the University of Konstanz.

Professor Hauschild is a corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and the co-editor of two peer-reviewed journals, “Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften” and “Historische Anthropologie.”

Currently he is teaching as a full professor of social/cultural anthropology and of the comparative sociology of cultures at Martin Luther University at Halle -Wittenberg (Germany).

Thomas Hauschild studied anthropology, folklore and history of religions at Hamburg 1973-1979, where he published his doctoral dissertation on “The Evil Eye” in 1979. From 1980 to 1982 he served as a museum assistant at the anthropological museum (Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz) at Berlin.

From 1982 to 1984 he did stationary fieldwork on religion and politics in the Basilicata Province of Southern Italy. Professor Hauschild continued this work through short terms until 2002. He passed his “Habilitation” at Cologne University in 1990, and he worked as a guest professor at Hamburg, Rome, and Heidelberg. In 1992 he received tenure at the University of Tübingen. Professor Hauschild spent short periods of fieldwork in Andalusia (Spain) between 2000 and 2003.

Thomas Hauschild is also active in the organization of field work in his own country and in 2002 he published, together with Bernd Juergen Warneken, the major textbook on anthropological research in Germany (”Inspecting Germany”, Berlin: LIT).

Thomas Hauschild’s main research areas are:

·        the social and cultural anthropology of Catholicism

·        religion, politics, and geography of the Mediterranean and of Europe

·        anthropological museology

·        historical approaches in anthropology, including world history and the evolutionary theory of culture

·        the history of anthropology, especially anthropology and fascism.

Professor Hauschild is the author of Macht und Magie in Italien (Gifkendorf: Merlin, 2002, to be published in English under the title Magic and Power in Southern Italy, London: Berghahn, 2010); together with Martin Zillinger and Sina Kottmann he published Syncretism in the Mediterranean. Universalism, Cultural Relativism and the Issue of the Mediterranean as a Cultural Area, History and Anthropology, Vol. 18, p. 309-332; recently he published Ritual und Gewalt: Ethnologische Studien an europäischen und mediterranen Gesellschaften (Ritual and Violence, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2008).

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