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Examination
Examination committee
University Lecturers / Professors
- Prof. Dr. Guido Sprenger [Head]
- Prof. Dr. Annette Hornbacher [Deputy Head]
- Prof. Dr. Christiane Brosius
- Prof. Dr. William Sax [Deputy]
Academic Staff
- Dr. Benjamin Baumann
Students
[with a consulting voice]
- Igraine Keller
Examination Office
For all questions concerning the formal procedure of application for the final examination, please contact:
Andrea Crone, M.A.
Institut für Ethnologie, room 110.01.15
Phone: 06221 - 54 15107
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Authorized examiners
If you are in search of potential supervisors, please contact them in advance (via email or during consultation hours).
A list of authorized examiners is to be found here.
Please note: One of the two examiners of a BA or MA thesis has to be a University Lecturer / Professor or Associate Professor (Privatdozent*in).
Check out suitable supervisors / examiners by the listed topics below.
Examination subjects
Prof. Dr. Christiane Brosius
- Ethnicity and (Hindu)nationalism in India
- Diaspora
- Visual and Media-Anthropology
- Urban Anthropology: Megacities in India
- Writing Culture
- Theories of Performance and Ritual
- Anthropology of Tourism
- Anthropology of Consumption
Prof. Dr. Annette Hornbacher
- Ethnography of Indonesian Cultures including the Oceanian Border region
- Religious Transformation- and Migration Processes
- Theosophy, Transnational Fundamentalism, Revitalisation, Mission
- Migration, Tourism and Local Reconstruction of Knowledge and Techniques
- Globalisation (Political, Cultural and Economic Aspects)
- Political Anthropology
- Interpretive Anthropology / Intercultural Hermeneutics
- Theories of Culture
- Fundamental Epistemological Questions / Postmodern Anthropology
- Bourdieu / Foucault
- Habitus and Tacit Knowledge
- Comparative Theatre Anthropology
- Theories of Performativity
- Anthropology of Art / Intercultural Aesthetics / Global Art Market
- Comparative Ethics / Human Rights Debates in Intercultural Contexts
- Cultural Ecology / Anthropology of Global Change
- Green Revolutions and their Sociocultural Impacts
- Literacy / Orality
- Ritual Theories
- Anthropology of Religion
Prof. William S. Sax, Ph.D.
- Bourdieu and Practice Theory
- Classics in the Ethnography of South Asia
- Comparison of British Structural Functionalism and American Cultural Anthropology
- Critical Medical Anthropology
- Critique of Ethnographic Representation
- Dalit Culture and Society
- Dumont and his Critics
- Ethnomedicine
- McKim Marriott and Ethnosociology
- Ethnographic Fieldwork
- Theories of Caste
- Theories of Modernity
- Oral History
- Orality and Literacy
- Pilgrimage
- Postcolonial Science and Modernity
- Rationality and Relativism
- Ritual Healing
- Ritual Theory
- Sacrifice
- Victor Turner
- Weber and Durkheim
Prof. Dr. Guido Sprenger
- Ethnography of Mainland Southeast Asia
- Ethnography of Laos
- Zomia - Asian Highlands
- Nature-Culture-Relations
- Theories of Gift and Exchange
- Theories of Cultural Identity and Ethnicity
- Kinship and Social Structure
- Ritual and Religion
- Gender and Sexuality
- Concepts of Personhood
- Mythology
- History of Anthropology
- Structuralism
- Claude Lèvi-Strauss
- Louis Dumont and School
- Niklas Luhmann
- Anthropology of China
- Oceania
Dr. Benjamin Baumann
- Religion
- Kinship
- Animism
- Magic/Witchcraft
- Ritual
- Anthropological Theory
- Social Inequality
- Southeast Asia
- Pluriverse
- Ontology
- Social Phenomenology
- Ethnicity
- Ghost/Horror Films
Dr. Wikke Jansen
- Gender and sexuality
- Mobility
- Social media
- Lived religion
- Intersectionality
- Indonesia
- Islam in Europe
- Research ethics
- Digital/online ethnography
Dr. Pallabi Roy
- Medical Anthropology
- Anthropology of Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality
- Anthropology of Science and Technology
- Anthropology of the Body
- Anthropology of Death and Dying
- Digital Anthropology
- Qualitative Research Methods
- India
- South Asia
Dr. Sophie Strauß
- Environmental Anthropology
- Political Ecology
- Environmental conflicts
- Anthropology of Tourism
- Social Anthropology of Landscape and Space
- Ethnographic Fieldwork
- Insular Southeast Asia, esp. Indonesia
Dr. Philipp Zehmisch
- Political Anthropology
- Postcolonial and Subaltern Studies
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Critical Migration Research
- Borderland Studies
- Partition Studies
- Anthropology of Ethics
- Globalization
- Anthropology of Anarchy
- Human-Environment Relations
- Indigeneity
- India
- Pakistan
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Latest Revision:
2024-05-28
