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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]

  • Felix Bregulla

 

 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
E-Mail E-Mail

 

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: 2023-10-05
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