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Dieter
Haller, cultural and social anthropologist (the
anthropologist as art object)
1991 PhD (dissertation) University of Heidelberg
2000 PD (habilitation) University
of Frankfurt/Oder
2003 Adj Assoc Prof University of Texas/Austin
2005 Prof Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Born March 22, 1962
in 73061 Ebersbach/Fils (Baden-Württemberg, Germany). School until final exam
(Abitur) in 1982.
During
university studies, the main foci of interests were History of Theories,
Symbolic Anthropology, Mediterranean Anthropology, Discourse Analysis,
Interpretive Anthropology, Gender, Functionalism, Intercultural Communication
(in Cultural Anthropology); Literature of Spain (in Hispanic Studies); Social
Inequality, deviance, M.Weber, M.Foucault, power (in Sociology).
In
Dissertation
completed in 1990, in 1991 PhD after passing the final exam with summa cum
laude.
1991-2000, lecturing at various
universities on different topics.
In 1992 move from
1996-98 research director at the
Department of Comparative
Cultural & Social Anthropology at Europa University-Viadrina in
Frankfurt/Oder.
During this time, fieldwork
in Gibraltar
was carried out (some pictures of
1998 to 2000 working on habilitation (necessary pre-requisite for professorship in German
university system), which was completed in November 2000. This was followed by
a guest professorship in 2001
at the Institut
für Völkerkunde at
a guest professorship in 2002
at the Laboratorio de
Estudios Interculturales, Universidad de Granada/Spain and
a position as Theodor-Heuss-Lecturer at Gradudate Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
at New School University/
a position as Adjunct Associate Professor (as anthropologist with specialization
In Spring 2005 fieldwork
in
a position as Professor für Sozialanthropologie
at Ruhr-Universität Bochum
from Fall 2005 onwards
My regional focus
is on Mainstream American Culture, on the Iberian Peninsula (esp. Gibraltar),
the
I
cling to the old fashioned conviction that extended fieldwork is a sine qua
non of our
discipline; fieldwork is not everything, but without fieldwork, everything
is nothing. Jules Henry quite correctly remarked in 1964 that "(e)verywhere
the human disciplines run away from the humanity of human beings" -
the anthropological ethos is that we resist the temptation to do so - and much
to our professional advantage. The central benefit of participant observation,
often overlooked by other methods of data collection, lies in noting and
discovering informal connections, which can usually only be recognized through
long-lasting eyewitness. Fieldwork involves all senses and means living with
real people, listening to them carefully, discovering the discrepancies of
discourse and practice, focussing on everyday life, on informal knowledge and
embodied practices.
Moreover,
long term fieldwork is a central asset that secures our professional identity vis
á vis neighboring disciplines such as folklore studies, cultural studies,
history, psychology, and sociology. Nevertheless, the mutual benefit with these
disciplines and their mainly text based methodology is great (i.e. the
historical perspective, that sometimes is neglected in anthropological reasoning)
and therefore an interdisciplinary perspective should always be taken into
account.
I
am working mainly with approaches from Symbolic Anthropology, Practice
Theories, Political Economy, Performance Theory, Queer Theory, and approaches
that are based on Embodiment.
I
have been influenced by colleagues, scholars and writers both within and
outside the discipline. Most importantly figure Mary Douglas, Eric Wolf, James
Fernandez, Pierre Bourdieu,
Thomas Hauschild, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Clifford Geertz, Richard
Burghart, Hastings Donnan, and Jeanne Favret-Saada, but also by non-scientific
writers and artists such as Gore Vidal, Studs
Terkel, Dionne Warwick, Marianne Hoppe, Hildegard Knef, Elisabeth Flickenschildt, Pier
Paolo Pasolini, Manuel Vazquez-Montalbán, and, of course, Carl Barks and Erika Fuchs.
Fieldwork
1985/86
1995/96
2005 Central
Texas (Bush Ranch in
Crawford, Alamo in San Antonio, Southfork Ranch in Parker/Dallas, Luckenbach,
Johnson City and Austin)
1.1. Introductions into anthropology
·
World
Anthropologies Network
·
CULTURAL
ANTHROPOLOGY TUTORIALS
·
Anthropology
Institutes around the Globe
·
General Sources (WWW Virtual Library)
·
Social and
Cultural Anthropology (SocioSite)
·
Ethnographic Resources related to
Folklore, Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, and the Humanities
·
AnthroBase.com, Searchable database of anthropological texts
·
Conrad
Kottaks Cultural Anthropology Tutorial
·
German Anthropological
Journal kea
·
Anthromorphemics
(ethnological glossar)
·
Bibliography
on European Colonialism
·
Virtual Library Anthropology
·
Anthropological
Index Online (bibliographical service)
1.2.
History of anthropology, general history of theories, anthropology in the news
·
Anthropological
Theories: A Guide by Students for Students
·
Berufschancen von
Ethnologinnen und Ethnologen
·
Key concepts
in anthropology
·
short
biographies (anthropologists)
·
Short biographies
(anthropologists in Wikipedia)
·
short
biographies (sociologists)
·
WEDA - anthropologists
·
Dead Sociologists
homepage
·
anthropology in the news
1.3.
Fieldwork, ethnography, methodology
·
Bibliography of
fieldwork, research methods and ethnography in sociocultural anthropology
·
Anthropology
: Library Resources for Fieldwork & Research Techniques
·
Qualitative Methods Workbook
·
REFLECTIONS ON
DOING FIELDWORK
1.4. Professional Organizations
·
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde;
·
American Anthropological Association;
1.5. Volkskunde and Related Disciplines
·
Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Volkskunde;
·
Société
Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore
2.
Other anthropologies
2.1.
Philosophical anthropology
·
Zum
Grundverständnis von Anthropologie
·
Philosophische
Anthropologie (Wikipedia)
·
Philosophische
Anthropologie II
2.2.
Historical Anthropology
·
Interdisziplinäres
Zentrum für Historische Anthropologie
·
Historische Anthropologie (ZS)
·
AG
Historische Anthropologie
2.3.
Sociobiological Anthropology
·
Overview
·
Soziobiologie (Wikipedia)
3.
Sources
3.1.
Libraries, search machines
·
Google
Search Machine
·
Google
Search Machine Pictures
·
Deutsch-Englisches
Wörterbuch
·
Subito
·
UT Databases and Indexes to
Articles
·
Zentrales
Verzeichnis Antiquarischer Bücher
·
RUB Mail
3.2.
Newspapers
·
SZ
·
taz
·
Le monde diplomatique
(dt.)
·
Le monde
diplomatique (engl.)
·
El Pais
·
NZZ
·
FR
·
WELT
·
Guardian
·
Al-Ahram
·
Times
·
The New York
Review of Books
·
The Times
Literary Supplement
·
Euronews
4.
The Mediterranean, Gibraltar
4.1.
The
·
Réseau thématique
des centres européens de recherche en sciences humaines sur l'ensemble
euro-méditerranéen - Mediterranean
Conundrums
·
Sabir
- A Glossary of Lingua Franca
·
Erzherzog Ludwig
Salvator - Forscher und Chronist des Mittelmeeres
·
Literary
·
Alexandria Preservation Trust
·
Belmonte
4.2. Gibraltar
·
Weekly journal Panorama
·
Live-Camera - pictures of the border
·
Official Site of Miss Gibraltar Beauty Pageant
·
Some of my pictures of
·
Friends of Gibraltar Heritage
Society
·
Gibraltar Heritage
online
4.3.
·
Spanish
Ethnography in English
·
Sevilla,
Paseando por Sevilla
5.
·
Die
USA und ihre Rolle in der Weltpolitik
·
A.
Kreyes Berichte aus Amerika
·
A.
Kreyes Popberichte aus Amerika
·
Amerika für Christus wiedergewinnen
·
Gore Vidal pages
·
Claudia Alta
(Ladybird) Johnson Site
·
Great
Society Speech, Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964
5.1.
·
Austin,
·
Ladybird
Johnson Wildflower Center
·
LBJ
National Historical Park
·
Daughters of the Republic of Texas
6.
Up, up, and away... with your body, or in your mind
· Adelberg
·
Texts about Berlin (by Uwe Rada), Berlin
Online Panorama, Westberlin, Schöneberg
and more about Berlin
·
Berliner Exklaven und Enklaven
·
Berlin
Natur-Park
Schöneberger Südgelände
·
Corteglia, Castel San Pietro Casa Wülser
·
Enklaven I, Enklaven II,
Enklaven III
·
Flaggen (World Statesman)
·
Ghadames
· Healdton/Oklahoma
·
Islands, islands, islands....
·
Mare
·
·
Das virtuelle Bistum Partenia
·
San Francisco, SF or, of course, Oz
·
Principato
di Seborga
7. Cartography, nations, and state symbols
·
1100 to 2000:
political maps of Europe
·
International
Boundaries Research Unit
·
Atlas
of Presidential Elections
·
Le
monde diplomatique (cartographie)
·
Regenten
der Welt - Könige, Präsidenten und Premierminister
·
GENEALOGICAL TABLES OF RULING AND NOBLE HOUSES
·
Généalogies
des Maisons Souveraines (actuelles ou éteintes), et des Maisons Princières et
Ducales
·
Royal
and Ruling Houses of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas
8.
Family and Friends Sites
·
Schoellkopf
Geological Museum
·
Tarantula Page of my nephew, Steffen Haller
·
Novel
written about one of my ancestors, The Sonnenwirt (used by Friedrich Schiller as model
·
Exhibition of paintings by
my great-uncle, Samuel
Wülser
·
Museum of my hometown, Ebersbach/Fils
·
Tarik
Dervishs pages
·
Uwe Radas Pages about Berlin
·
Peter Widmanns
page
9.
(Divine) heroines and heroes
·
Gore Vidal pages
·
Claudia Alta
(Ladybird) Johnson Site
·
Jane Elliotts Programme against
Racism
·
Cynthia
Karalla and Zeldaland
·
The
Seven Timmerman Sisters (Geronimo, Tx) and their Recipes
·
Atticus Finch: To Kill a Mockingbird
·
Marie-Luise
Haase von der Dr. Oetker Versuchsküche
10. Other links
·
Theyrule
· Verbotene Liebe, Falcon Crest, Tatort und Lindenstrasse
·
JibJab
·
Praising the Currywurst
·
Verbreitung von Familiennamen
·
Kulanu and Society For Crypto Judaic
Studies
1 Thanks to Steffen
Haller, Martin Gross and Paulo Coelho Ribeiro
1766 until 20.01.2003
2566 until 05.07.2003
2680 until 09.08.2003
3449 until 09.12.2003
3601 until 13.01.2004
4436 until 24.05.2004
4741 until 03.08.2004
6000 until 05.04.2005
6380 until 16.06.2005
6560 until 28.07.2005
6849 until 26.08.2005
7028 until 08.09.2005
7274 until 24.09.2005
8047 until 31.10.2005
8290 until 14.11.2005
8683 until 07.12.2005
9000 until
01.01.2006
9440 until
01.02.2006
10000 until 31.03.2006
10400 until 01.05.2006
10909 until
16.06.2006
11312 until
14.07.2006
12575 until 17.10.2006
13571 until 31.12.2006
14163 until 08.02.2007
18084 until 21.11.2007