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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:

Lorenzo Sovera, 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

  • Insular Southeast Asia including Melanesian and Papuan border cultures
  • Anthropology of religion
  • Ritual theories
  • Research ethics and „ethical turn“
  • Multispecies Anthropology/ Anthropology of the Anthropocene/ Environmental Humanities
  • Green Revolution
  • Orality versus Scripturality
  • Interpretive Anthropology and its Postmodern crisis
  • Cultural Theories
  • Concepts of Subject, Person and dissociation (Trance-possession)
  • Philosophy and/in Anthropology (including comparative philosophy)
  • Theories of Embodiment
  • Anthropology of theatre and performativity 
  • Anthropology of art and comparative aesthetics
  • Political anthropology

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. Verena La Mela

  • Wirtschaftsanthropologie (Plurale Ökonomien, alternative Wirtschaftsformen, Feministische Ökonomie, Wachstum und Degrowth, soziale Reproduktion, globaler und lokaler Handel, informelle Wirtschaft, wirtschaftliche Integration, Logistik, Lieferketten, Containerökonomie, Unternehmer*innentum, Neue Institutionenökonomik, Märkte, wirtschaftliche Gerechtigkeit)
  • Infrastruktur (Belt and Road Initiative, mega Infrastruktur Projekte, Trocken- und Meereshäfen, Straßen, Eisenbahn, Transport, Mobilität, infrastrukturelle Gerechtigkeit)
  • Grenzen in Theorie und Empirie
  • Theorien von Zeit und Zeitlichkeit
  • Ethnizität und Identität
  • Konflikt und Integration
  • Solidarität und soziale Netzwerke
  • Ethnographie, Feldforschung und qualitative Forschungsmethoden
  • Zentralasien, insbesondere Kasachstan und Grenzregionen
  • Muslimisches China
  • Postsowjetischer Raum
  • Frauen in Zentralasien

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

Dr. Jonathan Krämer 

  • Insular Southeast Asia
  • Anthropology of migration, especially labour migration
  • Borders and border regimes
  • Medical anthropology
  • Anthropology of the body
  • Plantations and environmental change
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