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Spokesperson<\/h3>\n
Dr. Anita Galuschek,\u00a0anita@galuschek.com<\/a><\/p>\n Deputy Spokesperson<\/strong> [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Cognitive and Linguistic Anthropology” admin_label=”Cognitive and Linguistic Anthropology” _builder_version=”4.16″ use_border_color=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n How is cultural knowledge mentally and linguistically organised? How is it distributed within a community, how is it accessed and how transmitted? What is the relationship between language, cognition and culture? These are the interdisciplinary issues of cognitive and linguistic anthropology. Both sub-disciplines are closely linked, which becomes particularly obvious in the studies on perception and description of colours, space, numbers, etc. At this interface, cultural anthropologists cooperate with psychologists (cross-cultural psychology), linguists (anthropological linguistics, cognitive linguistics) and other scholars of the cognitive sciences network (e.g. neuroscientists). Based on its wide-ranging object of research, cultural anthropology can make a valuable contribution to the issue of universal versus culture-specific processes. To what extent does cultural context influence human cognition and language resulting in diverging forms and practices?<\/p>\n This workgroup provides a forum for the interdisciplinary dialogue in the field of Cognitive and Linguistic Anthropology, discussing not only content-related theoretical aspects but also methodological issues.<\/p>\n Dr. Svenja V\u00f6lkel (Johannes Gutenberg-Universit\u00e4t Mainz, Institut f\u00fcr Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft),\u00a0svenja.voelkel@uni-mainz.de<\/a> [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Culinary Anthropology” admin_label=”Culinary Anthropology” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ use_border_color=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Daniel Kofahl,\u00a0Kofahl@APEK-Consult.de<\/a> [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Development Anthropology” admin_label=”Development Anthropology” _builder_version=”4.16″ use_border_color=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Prof. Dr. Frank Bliss,\u00a0bliss.gaesing@t-online.de<\/a><\/p>\n Deputy Spokesperson<\/strong> www.ag-entwicklungsethnologie.de<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Economic Anthropology” admin_label=”Economic Anthropology” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ use_border_color=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Economic anthropology shows how economic practice is embedded in social, cultural and political configurations. It examines differences and similarities in production, exchange and consumption among different societies as well as global interconnections, current developments such as economic crises, and the practices of key economic actors.<\/p>\n The working group on economic anthropology seeks to foster an understanding of economic anthropological insights both within and beyond our discipline. It holds regular working group meetings, which usually take place in alternate years to the congress of the German Anthropological Association. Since the foundation of the working group in 2017, one meeting took place in Cologne on the topic of \u201cEconomy and Morals\u201d. The upcoming meeting on the topic of \u201cEconomy and Ecological Crisis\u201d will take place in Konstanz in the fall of 2020. Both current members and other researchers with an interest in the working group are invited to attend.<\/p>\n The working group has a mailing list for the circulation of Call for Papers, publication announcements, and the like. In order to be included in the mailing list, please contact one of the spokespersons of the working group.<\/p>\n Verena La Mela (Universit\u00e4t Heidelberg), verena.lamela@eth.uni-heidelberg.de<\/a><\/p>\n Deputy Spokesperson<\/strong> [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Environmental Anthropology” admin_label=”AG Environment” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The inaugural conference of the Environmental Anthropology Working Group takes place on 26 and 27 September 2016 at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich.<\/p>\n Desir\u00e9e Hetzel (Technische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen), desiree.hetzel@tum.de<\/a> [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Ethics” admin_label=”Ethics” _builder_version=”4.16″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Prof. Dr. Annette Hornbacher (Ruprechts-Karls-Universit\u00e4t Heidelberg, Institut f\u00fcr Ethnologie),\u00a0Annette.Hornbacher@eth.uni-heidelberg.de<\/a><\/p>\n Deputy Spokesperson<\/strong> [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Family in the field” admin_label=”Family in the field” _builder_version=”4.27.6″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Children and other family members who accompany anthropologists in the field are not only a challenge, but also an enrichment for research and the research environment. Family members travelling with the researcher raise methodological, theoretical and ethical questions for the discipline that have not yet been exhaustively examined and discussed and that can provide impulses for the entire discipline.<\/p>\n The working group \u201eFamily in the Field\u201c deals with questions of accompanied field research in terms of content and organisation and offers a permanent platform for anthropologists to exchange information and experiences. It offers space to discuss theoretical, methodological, ethical and organisational issues related to field research and the family. In addition, the working group intensifies and consolidates the dialogue with funding organisations.<\/p>\n Through continuous exchange, the working group aims to encourage funding organisations to adapt their instruments and improve their administrative guidelines according to the requirements and implications of accompanied long-term fieldwork.<\/p>\n Baktygul Shabdan (Goethe-Universit\u00e4t Frankfurt), shabdan@em.uni-frankfurt.de<\/a><\/p>\n Deputy Spokesperson<\/strong><\/p>\n Julia Ha\u00df (Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin), julia.hass@fu-berlin.de<\/a><\/p>\n Link<\/strong><\/p>\n https:\/\/familieimfeld.org<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Gender & Sexualities | Queer Anthropology” admin_label=”Gender & Sexualities | Queer Anthropology” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n We hope to initiate a vivid exchange between scholars of different academic ranks, which is also why we explicitly encourage students and early career scholars to come forward and contribute to this Working Group with their interests, ideas and concerns. By organizing regular meetings and panels, we wish to exchange and publicly debate our research outcomes and questions. Through social media, we seek to inform both a scholarly and a wider audience about the outcomes of our members\u2018 research projects, also engaging in public debates on the topic of gender and sexualities with empirical findings. Finally, we hope to consolidate the position of this relevant research field within the discipline of Social and Cultural Anthropology in the German-speaking context.<\/p>\n \u200bStefan Binder, Universit\u00e4t Z\u00fcrich, stefan.binder@isek.uzh.ch<\/a> Mailing list:\u00a0queeranthro.dgska@gmail.com<\/a> [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”History of Anthropology” admin_label=”History of Anthropology” _builder_version=”4.25.1″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The Working Group \u201cHistory of Ethnology and Anthropology,\u201d in German: \u201cArbeitsgruppe Fachgeschichte (Geschichte der Ethnologie\/ History of Anthropology)\u201d was founded in 1993 and now has 66 members. Its aim is to promote exchanges and cooperation between individuals and institutions working on this subject. The Working Group researches all fields of anthropology, worldwide, since its origins \u2013 wherever and whenever they may be \u2013 and thus contributes to the theoretical and methodological development of anthropology as a whole.<\/p>\n Ethnology or\u00a0V\u00f6lkerkunde<\/em>\u00a0is the original name of the subject, which the\u00a0Gesellschaft f\u00fcr V\u00f6lkerkunde<\/em>\u00a0(Ethnological Society) adopted to designate itself in Leipzig on 1 October 1929; in 1938 this name was extended to:\u00a0Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr V\u00f6lkerkunde<\/em>\u00a0(DGV). At the general members\u2019 meeting in Berlin on 6 October 2017, the DGV became the\u00a0Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie<\/em>\u00a0(DGSKA) or German Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology, in short: German Anthropological Association (GAA).<\/p>\n The Working Group was founded as the AG \u201cHistory of Ethnology\u201d at the DGV Conference in Leipzig (1993). Its first speaker was Hans-J\u00fcrgen Hildebrandt (1992-1993). The foundation was prepared with a meeting on \u201eEthnology and National Socialism\u201c in the margins of the DGV Conference in Marburg (1989), organized by Thomas Hauschild (Cologne), and a symposium \u201eHistory of Ethnology\u201c at the DGV Conference in Munich (1991), organized by Han Vermeulen (Leiden). Since then, the AG has been led by Adam Jones (1993-1995), Bernhard Streck (1995-1997), Thomas Hauschild (1997-2001), Dieter Haller (2001-2007), Han Vermeulen and Udo Mischek (2007-2015), Peter Schweitzer and Han Vermeulen (2015-2017), Uwe Wolfradt and Han Vermeulen (2017-2019).<\/p>\n Topics thus far discussed at the AG Fachgeschichte include: 1. Discussing the questions \u201cHow and why should the history of anthropology be developed and who should write it?\u201d (continuation of discussions at the founding meeting in Leipzig 1993, the workshop in Mainz 2013 and the interim conference in Vienna 2016); 2. Ethnology and National Socialism; 3. Ethnology and colonialism; 4. Exile research and exile literature; 5. Ethnological museums, associations and magazines; 6. Relations between ethnology and anthropology in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries; 7. The development of ethnography. Other topics on the history of ethnology and anthropology are always welcome in the Working Group.<\/p>\n Dr. Katja Geisenhainer (Frobenius-Institut, Frankfurt a. M.; Universit\u00e4t Wien),<\/span>\u00a0katja.geisenhainer@univie.ac.at<\/a><\/p>\n Deputy Spokesperson<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr. Richard Kuba (Frobenius-Institut, Frankfurt a.M.), kuba@em.uni-frankfurt.de<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Material Culture” admin_label=”Material Culture” _builder_version=”4.16″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The term \u201ematerial culture\u201c represents a specific approach to culture. During the initial phase of cultural anthropology as a discipline, this term was coined as a counter-position to the then prevailing view, dominated by the intellectual approach to culture. Although culture never can be something simply \u201ematerial\u201c, the emphasis on things, artefacts and objects constitutes an autonomous anthropological perspective. Material culture is linked to everyday life, to the often unconscious aspects of culture and to the entanglements of life-worlds.<\/p>\n After a certain period in the history of anthropology, when of things played only a minor role, in recent decades dealing with things has experienced a boom. More and more anthropologists become aware that things constitute a relevant epistemological approach and a specific method of culture description. In the work of the AG, material culture in this broader sense is dealt with. Its topics cover a broad spectrum, ranging from everyday objects to ritual objects and from consumption to art.<\/p>\n Perceptions, ways of dealing and meanings of things are a central aspect of all cultures of the world. We can expect from these fields that they will provide evidence for the relevance of material culture, but also regarding the links toward about other fields of culture. In life-worlds things are intermingled with politics, religion and economy. Thus, material culture renders possible new perspectives on cultures as such.<\/p>\n Prof. Dr. Hans Peter Hahn (Goethe Universit\u00e4t Frankfurt am Main),\u00a0hans.hahn@em.uni-frankfurt.de<\/a><\/p>\n Deputy Spokesperson<\/strong><\/p>\n Gerhard B\u00f6ck,\u00a0gerhard.boeck@derewigestudent.de<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Media (Anthropology)” admin_label=”Media (Anthropology)” _builder_version=”4.25.0″ use_border_color=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Dr. Anja Dreschke, Universit\u00e4t Siegen,\u00a0mail@anjadreschke.de<\/a> Website: www.agmedien.de<\/a> [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Medical Anthropology” admin_label=”Medical Anthropology” _builder_version=”4.24.2″ use_border_color=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves (Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin), marcos.freire@fu-berlin.de<\/a> www.medicalanthropology.de<\/a> [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Mentoring Program for More Diversity in Professorships in Social and Cultural Anthropology” admin_label=”Mentoring” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ use_border_color=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Social and cultural anthropology is currently increasingly committed to decolonize the discipline. This concerns both the content represented by the discipline and the strengthening of diversity at German-speaking anthropological institutes.<\/p>\n Under the umbrella of the German Anthropological Association, this working group has set itself the goal of establishing a mentoring program. This program is intended to provide targeted support for academics with international or migration biographies \u2013 particularly, but not exclusively, from the \u201cGlobal South\u201d \u2013 on their path to a professorship. The mentoring program will offer both individual and group mentoring formats. In these sessions, central aspects of career planning on the path to a professorship will be discussed with a view to the specific experiences of the participants. In addition, participants will be prepared for taking on leadership roles in the German-speaking academic system and beyond.<\/p>\n Professors of social and cultural anthropology who are to be brought together with the mentees during the selection process and who are interested in working as mentors are welcome to contact us. We also look forward to hearing from possible and potentially interested mentees, as we would like to include their specific needs and concerns in the content and organizational framework of the program. The target group of the program are advanced doctoral candidates and postdocs who are interested in an academic career in German-speaking and international countries.<\/p>\n Prof. Dr. Hansj\u00f6rg Dilger, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, hansjoerg.dilger@berlin.de<\/a> [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Migration” admin_label=”Migration” _builder_version=”4.27.6″ hover_enabled=”0″ use_border_color=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n The Working Group Migration is a network of social and cultural anthropologists studying different forms of migration and mobility of people and the social-cultural phenomena related to it. Different forms of migration, mobility and diversity are studied through the investigation of social practices, places, identities, and socio-cultural networks situated in and between old and new places of residence and framed by specific \u201cmobility regimes\u201d. The research thereby provides insights into ongoing wider societal changes (local and global), often, although not solely, by taking a bottom-up approach.<\/p>\n If you wish to be informed about the working group\u2019s activities, please subscribe to the following mailing list:\u00a0https:\/\/lists.univie.ac.at\/mailman<\/a><\/p>\n Karim Zafer (Universit\u00e4t Trier), zafer@uni-trier.de<\/a> <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Museum” admin_label=”Museum” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ use_border_color=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The working group \u201aMuseum\u2018 covers the thematic fields of museums, collections and exhibitions in the German Anthropological Association. It offers a forum for everybody, who deals theoretically and practically with museological-ethnological questions, exhibition concepts, research on things\/objects and collections, the anthropology of art and related subjects and contents. The working group connects museum and university ethnology and serves as a platform for discussions about current developments in the ethnological museum landscape as well as in the museum & material culture studies. It takes up on-going political debates in the fields of culture and museums and therefore also invites interested persons from other disciplines to engage in its activities.<\/p>\n At the biannual conferences of the GAA the working group \u201aMuseum\u2018 hosts its own panel \u2013 beyond the GAA-conferences it organizes regular in-between-meetings. Both formats are equally open to members and non-members alike. The members meetings also take place at the conferences.<\/p>\n Membership in the working group \u201aMuseum\u2018 is free of charge. People interested in (ethnological) museum issues can also be included in the increasingly popular mailing list. Please send an informal message with the request for membership in the working group or inclusion in the mailing list to the speakers. Content-related suggestions for up-coming conferences and meetings are also very welcome.<\/p>\n Andrea Nicklisch (Roemer- und Pilizaeus- Museum Hildesheim), a.nicklisch@rpmuseum.de<\/a><\/p>\n Deputy Spokesperson<\/strong><\/p>\n Naomi Rattunde (Universit\u00e4t Bonn), naomi.rattunde@uni-bonn.de<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n ag-museum.de<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Political and Legal Anthropology” admin_label=”Political and Legal Anthropology” _builder_version=”4.19.4″ use_border_color=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The working group \u201cPolitik- und Rechtsanthropologie \u2013 Political and Legal Anthropology\u201d brings together political and legal anthropologists in and beyond Germany critically studying political and legal-normative processes and structures in their mutual interrelations. It focuses on social struggles for belonging and participation (especially for recognition and redistribution), contested constructions of individual and collective identities, physical, digital and symbolic forms of power and violence, the legitimacy of domination and inequality in their various dimensions and their intersections, as well as contestations over the power to define values, norms and collective objectives. Of particular interest are the normative evaluations and sanctioning of practices by reference to normativity, legality and existing rules, as well as the sometimes-contested coexistences, overlaps and interpenetrations of different political and legal-normative dynamics and orders of varying scales. The working group is thus concerned with the political and normative in their actual, utopian and dystopian modalities and, in the course of this, also with the analysis of the ambiguous relationship between “politics” and “law”. Regionally, such constellations are examined worldwide, with a particular focus on translocal interconnections and the unequal movements of people, ideas and artefacts in the context of globalising and deglobalising dynamics. One’s own positionality as a socio-culturally and historically situated researcher in a knowledge production shaped by power asymmetries is thereby reflected theoretically and recursively accounted for within one’s own research practice. The political critique of one’s own research practice thus aligns with an overall approach that wants to understand and analyse the objects of investigation in terms of political and legal anthropology as well as criticise and shape them politically and legally.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Prof. Dr. Olaf Zenker (Martin-Luther-Universit\u00e4t Halle-Wittenberg), olaf.zenker@ethnologie.uni-halle.de<\/a><\/p>\n Deputy Spokesperson<\/strong><\/p>\n Prof. Dr. Heike Drotbohm (Johannes- Gutenberg-Universit\u00e4t Mainz), drotbohm@uni-mainz.de<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Psychological Anthropology” admin_label=”Psychological Anthropology” _builder_version=”4.25.0″ use_border_color=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Psychological anthropology already played an important role in the early stages of our discipline. Both, the German \u201eV\u00f6lkerpsychologie\u201c and the North American Culture and Personality School gave important methodical, theoretical and transdisciplinary impulses in understanding humans in their sociocultural environment, during their development over the life course, as well as in their emotional-affective, cognitive and physical ways of relating to self and other. Since then, research foci, methodological, theoretical and conceptual approaches have moved into new fields and become more sophisticated. In the face of increasingly interconnected worlds and life experiences, contemporary psychological anthropology fosters important insights into changing human subjectivities, new forms of belonging and care, as well as psycho-social suffering, inequality and structural violence in local and global contexts.<\/p>\n Psychological anthropology assumes that psychological knowledge is not necessarily universally applicable. It discusses the historically and culturally specific concepts of self, personhood and what it means to be human, rather than postulating the \u2018psyche\u2019 as an a priori given. This critical perspective tends to conflict with some of mainstream psychology\u2019s key assumptions, according to which human beings are subjected to universal psychological patterns of feeling, thinking and interacting. Rather than simply refuting such perspectives, however, psychological anthropology aims to scrutinize, relativize and contextualize them and to enter into critical, but fruitful, dialogue and exchange with neighboring disciplines such as cultural psychology, transcultural psychiatry, neuroanthropology, developmental psychology, the sociology of emotions, or philosophy.<\/p>\n The aim of the DGSKA Psychological Anthropology Group is to establish a forum for recent psychological-anthropological research and related theoretical, methodological and empirical debates.<\/p>\n PD Dr. Julia Vorhoelter (MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle\/Saale), vorhoelter@eth.mpg.de<\/a><\/p>\n Deputy Spokesperson<\/strong> Mailing list:\u00a0psychological-anthropology-dgska@googlegroups.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Public Anthropology” admin_label=”Public Anthropology” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ use_border_color=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The Working Group Public Anthropology of the German Association of Social and Coultural Anthropology stands for a sociopolitically engaged anthropology committed to the usage of various communication media, including those close to everyday life. The aim is to increase the visibility of anthropology in public discourse and utilize the potential of direct forms of interaction with non-scientific public spheres towards integrating ethnographic research and anthropological perspectives within social debates and processes. Based on ethnographic research and engaging projects, Public Anthropology can have a transformative effect on social relations for the discipline to have a more pronounced public role in Germany.<\/p>\n Spokespersons:Judith Albrecht, Humboldt University, judithalbrecht@hotmail.com<\/a> Link: www.publicanthropology.de<\/a><\/p>\n Mailing list: publicanthro-dgska@googlegroups.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Religion” admin_label=”Religion” _builder_version=”4.16″ use_border_color=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Lena Rose (Oxford University), lena.rose@csls.ox.ac.uk<\/a> [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Urban Anthropology” admin_label=”Urban Anthro” _builder_version=”4.25.1″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Our working group is a meeting point for discussion and exchange on social and cultural anthropological analyses of urban life and the diverse and complex approaches of urban anthropology to global debates. Urban anthropology has a unique perspective that is in close dialogue with the latest research findings from other disciplines such as human geography, architecture or sociology. We want to emphasise the unique contributions we can make to issues that are of great importance to current debates among policy makers and academics.<\/p>\n On our website\u00a0https:\/\/www.stadtanthropologie.org\/<\/a>\u00a0you will find a list of our members, news, publications and more information about our activities.<\/p>\n Madlen Kobi (Universit\u00e4t Fribourg, Schweiz), madlen.kobi@unifr.ch<\/a> [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Visual Anthropology” admin_label=”Visual Anthropology” _builder_version=”4.16″ use_border_color=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Cathrine Bublatzky (Universit\u00e4t T\u00fcbingen), cathrine.bublatzky@uni-tuebingen.de<\/a><\/p>\n Deputy Spokesperson<\/strong><\/p>\n Thomas John (Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin),Thomas.John@fu-berlin.de<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Section” module_id=”regionalgruppen” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0)” transparent_background=”on” padding_mobile=”on” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”off” width_unit=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”HEADLINE Regionalgruppen” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” module_alignment=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_toggle title=”Africa” admin_label=”Africa” _builder_version=”4.16″ use_border_color=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Hauke-Peter Vehrs (Universit\u00e4t zu K\u00f6ln),hvehrs@uni-koeln.de<\/a><\/p>\n Deputy Spokesperson<\/strong><\/p>\n Lamine Doumbia, fakoly.doumbia@googlemail.com<\/a> https:\/\/rgafrika.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Afroamerica” admin_label=”Afroamerica” _builder_version=”4.27.3″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The term \u201cAfroamerica\u201d does not refer to a region in a geographical sense, but rather to the numerous entanglements mainly within the Atlantic world that originate in the enslavement and displacement of millions of Africans to the Americas. The RG Afroamerika was founded in 1997 by Bettina E. Schmidt (then Uni Marburg) and Lioba Rossbach de Olmos (Uni Marburg). From 2005 to 2015, Heike Drotbohm (then Uni Freiburg) has acted as speaker of the group with an interim by Ingrid Kummels (2009-2011). The group has published four conference volumes with Curupira, as well as the Special Issue Daniela Triml-Chifflard (Philipps-Universit\u00e4t Marburg), daniela.trimlchifflard@uni-marburg.de<\/a> Deputy spokespersons:<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr. Helmar Kurz (Westf\u00e4lische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnster), helmar.kurz@uni-muenster.de<\/a><\/p>\n \u200b<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Central Asia and the Caucasus” admin_label=”Central Asia and the Caucasus” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ use_border_color=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The regional group \u201cCentral Asia and the Caucasus\u201d was founded during the DGSKA-Conference in Konstanz in October 2019.<\/p>\n It wants to serve as a platform for the scientific exchange among Social\/Cultural Anthropologists and representatives of other disciplines working on the less established regional context of Central Asia and the Caucasus. The group also aims to consolidate the impulses and insights from this research area and contribute these to the wider national and international debate in Social\/Cultural Anthropology.<\/p>\n Furthermore, we are interested in joint activities with already existing regional and thematic groups within the DGSKA. Possible themes in this regard are: post-Socialist change and continuity, labour migration (with destination Russian Federation), trends in Muslim societies or regional integration projects such as China\u2019s initiative of a \u201cNew Silk Road\u201d.<\/p>\n The regional group advocates an inclusive understanding of territoriality and area, i.e. we also want to take into account those translocal entanglements that exist between former Soviet Republics and their neighbours such as Russia, Afghanistan, China, Iran, Mongolia or Turkey.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The group is currently inactive. If you are interested, please contact the previous spokespersons: Philipp Schr\u00f6der (Nazarbayev University, philipp.schroeder@nu.edu.kz<\/a>) und Susanne Fehlings (Goethe-Universit\u00e4t Frankfurt am Main, fehlings@em.uni-frankfurt.de<\/a>).<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”China(s)” admin_label=”China” _builder_version=”4.27.3″ use_border_color=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Lena Kaufmann (Universit\u00e4t Fribourg), lena.kaufmann@unifr.ch<\/a><\/p>\n Deputy Spokespersons https:\/\/ethnologiechinas.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Circumpolar and Siberia” admin_label=”Circumpolar and Siberia” _builder_version=”4.16″ use_border_color=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The main goal of the group is the strengthening of the Circumpolar and Siberian research field and to highlight contemporary problems and topics of the North by reaching out to an academic and public audience. National and international cooperation, as well as the recruitment of new members are hereby important aims.<\/p>\n Andreas Womelsdorf (Universit\u00e4t Heidelberg),\u00a0aawomelsdorf@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n Deputy Spokesperson<\/strong> [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Europe” admin_label=”Europe” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ use_border_color=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The Regional Group Europe was established in the members assembly 2009 in Frankfurt a. M. when members of the Working Group Social Anthropology of Europe decided to rename their network. At the moment, the RG has around 50 members. Past workshops at DGC conferences: For more information please contact the speakers of the Regional Group Europe.<\/p>\n Anne Dippel (HBK Braunschweig),\u00a0a.dippel@hbk-bs.de<\/a> <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Indigenous North America” admin_label=”Indigenous North America” _builder_version=”4.16″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Dr. Markus Lindner (Goethe-Universit\u00e4t Frankfurt), m.lindner@em.uni-frankfurt.de<\/a><\/p>\n Deputy spokesperson<\/strong><\/p>\n Michelle Thompson (Albert-Ludwigs-Universit\u00e4t Freiburg),\u00a0michelle.thompson@grk1767.uni-freiburg.de<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Mediterranean” admin_label=”Mediterranean” _builder_version=”4.16″ use_border_color=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The GAA regional group \u201eMediterranean area\u201c was founded in 2009 at the GAA conference in Frankfurt a. M. by Dieter Haller, Lale Yal\u00e7in-Heckmann, Thomas Hauschild, Michaela Sch\u00e4uble and Martin Zillinger.<\/p>\n Today, the regional group consists of a growing circle of active members who carry out fieldwork in, around and across the Mediterranean Sea. We understand the Mediterranean and the Mediterranean area primarily as a conceptual frame of reference, defined by a long common research tradition and a lively, sometimes controversial scientific exchange. Our approach does not consist in the attempt to grasp a closed region in its heterogeneity, but rather, we are interested in exploring the manifold social, political, economic and religious connections in and across the Mediterranean area. Accordingly, since the very beginning of the regional group, the contemporary and historical relations and interconnectedness between east and west coasts as well as south and north coasts have been among the central research interests.<\/p>\n In our future work, we would like to focus on collaborating with our colleagues from the neighbouring regional groups \u201cAfrica\u201d, \u201cEurope\u201d and \u201cNear & Middle East\u201d in order to strengthen scientific exchange and research cooperation and, therefore, be able to tackle current political challenges and entanglements in overarching projects.<\/p>\n The aim of this network is to promote communication between interested researchers from our and other disciplines and to stay informed about current research in the Mediterranean region.<\/p>\n For interested parties and members of the RG Mediterranean we now offer an email distribution list and newsletter, which can be subscribed to\u00a0here<\/a>. We kindly ask you to include your name as well.<\/p>\n Christoph Lange (Universit\u00e4t zu K\u00f6ln),\u00a0c.lange@uni-koeln.de<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Deputy Spokespersons<\/strong> [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Mesoamerica” admin_label=”Mesoamerica” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ use_border_color=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The regional focus group, starting in 2011, is dedicated to study the past and the present of human societies within the cultural area called \u2018Mesoamerica\u2019 \u2013 a concept defined by Paul Kirchhoff in 1943. Geographically it encompasses the modern states of Mexico and its neighbors to the south as Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, as far as Costa Rica, and characterizes this area as a region of cultural commonalities, recognizable in its archaeological and historical development as well as in wide spread common language families. However, as Kirchhoff already noticed, there can be no fixed geographical boundaries for the concept of \u2018Mesoamerica\u2019 because of its cultural dynamics in history. This is of much more importance in the present, since economically driven mobility forces people to migrate to North America, Europe and beyond, where they frequently form diaspora cultures with close relationships to their home countries.<\/p>\n The individual research topics of the group\u2018s members take those manifold spatial and temporal dynamics into account. Additionally, the common research area brings together different disciplinary approaches as archaeology, epigraphy, ethnohistory, ethnography, social and cultural anthropology, linguistics and more.<\/p>\n Group\u2019 members are students, post-graduates, academic staff and amateurs, working at universities, museums, research institutions as well as in adult education, funding agencies and international cooperative organizations.<\/p>\n During annual and academic meetings current research projects are discussed and the exchange is fostered. If you are interested in joining the group or in learning more about its current activities, please contact the spokeswomen.<\/p>\n Eriko Yamasaki (Universit\u00e4t Marburg), eriko.yamasaki@uni-marburg.de<\/a> [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Near and Middle East and North Africa” admin_label=”Near and Middle East and North Africa” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ use_border_color=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n \u200b<\/a>Sana Chavoshian (Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin), Sana.Chavoshian@zmo.de<\/a><\/p>\n Deputy spokespersons<\/strong><\/p>\n Hilal Alkan Zeybek (Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin), Hilal.Alkan.Zeybek@zmo.de<\/a> <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Oceania” admin_label=”Oceania” _builder_version=”4.24.1″ use_border_color=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The RG Ozeanien is a sub-group of the German Anthropological Association (GAA). It is an open forum for anthropologists and scholars from neighbouring disciplines in the German-speaking world who specialize in the societies and cultures of Oceania. The RG Ozeanien aims to foster research dialogue and serves German-speaking Oceanists as a platform for international networking and collaboration. It also promotes museum exhibitions and discussions of contemporary issues relating to Oceania.<\/p>\n Currently the RG Ozeanien consists of 99 members (last update in June 2016). Please feel free to contact the representatives of the RG Ozeanien via email if you are interested in becoming a member.<\/p>\n Janne von Seggern (Martin-Luther-Universit\u00e4t Halle-Wittenberg), janne.von-seggern@ethnologie.uni-halle.de<\/a> <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”South America” admin_label=”South America” _builder_version=”4.27.3″ use_border_color=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The Regional Group South America (RG SA) of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie, DGSKA) was founded in 2007. It unites students, early carreer scholars and established scholars, who share a regional focus on South America, covering the thematic range that characterizes the field of Cultural and Social Anthropology. This includes research topics such as Indigenous Societies of the Amazon and the Andes, Women’s and Gender Studies, Identity Politics, Indigenous Modernities, Conflict Anthropology, Material Culture Studies, Media and Museum\u2018s Anthropology, Migration and Mobility Studies, Studies of Religion (myths and rituals), Political Anthropology, Environmental Anthropology\/Anthropology of Nature, Urban Anthropology, Visual Anthropology, the study of processes of transculturation and transnationalism, and much more.<\/p>\n The aim of the RG South America is to promote exchange and cooperation between institutions, ethnologists and all those interested in social and cultural anthropological topics related to South America. The regional group therefore organizes and supports events and conferences on various topics with a South American focus, such as the regular \u201cMeetings of German-speaking researchers on South America, Mesoamerica and the Caribbean\u201d. It also promotes the direct exchange of information and networking between members of the RG SA through an internal mailing list.<\/p>\n If you would like to become a member of the regional group, please just contact one of the speaker. It is also possible to become a member of the RG SA without being a member of the GASCA.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>Beatrix Hoffmann-Ihde (St\u00e4dtische Museen Freiburg), Hoffmann.Bea@gmx.de<\/a> [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”South Asia” admin_label=”South Asia” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ use_border_color=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n This and the increase in South Asia\u2019s economic, cultural and political sway over the past decades have boosted the importance of ethnographic and anthropological research on the region. South Asian anthropology has had an impact on wider theoretical debates in social anthropology, and major theoretical contributions have been made in the fields of caste and social inequality, indigeneity, kinship, labor, social movements, gender, everyday religion, media and films, agricultural change, nationalism, conflicts and migration, as well as human-animal relations. Social anthropological research on South Asia has particularly enriched key debates in our discipline engaging with postcolonial studies, neoliberalism, financialization, transculturality, globalization, climate change, and the Anthropocene.<\/p>\n Anyone with an interest in the social anthropology or ethnography of South Asia and its global diaspora is welcome to join the working group on South Asia. The network connects researchers and facilitates the exchange of research findings and information. Members of the working group regularly organize meetings and conduct a biennial workshop on the DGSKA (GAA) conference.<\/p>\n Thomas Herzmark (Universit\u00e4t G\u00f6ttingen), thomas.herzmark@uni-goettingen.de<\/a> <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Southeast Asia” admin_label=”Southeast Asia” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ use_border_color=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Sophia Hornbacher-Schoenleber (Goethe-Universit\u00e4t Frankfurt), Hornbacher-Schoenleber@em.uni-frankfurt.de<\/a> [\/et_pb_toggle][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Working GroupsThematic and Regional Working Groups of the German Anthropological Association offer a forum for a vital exchange on certain topics, aspects and regions.Thematic Working GroupsSpokesperson Dr. Anita Galuschek,\u00a0anita@galuschek.com Deputy SpokespersonVerena Schneewei\u00df,\u00a0verena.schneeweiss@com-mit.orgNora-Christine Braun,\u00a0nora.braun@posteo.deHow is cultural knowledge mentally and linguistically organised? 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Verena Schneewei\u00df,\u00a0verena.schneeweiss@com-mit.org<\/a>
Nora-Christine Braun,\u00a0nora.braun@posteo.de<\/a><\/p>\n
Research in cognitive anthropology focuses on mental processes such as the way of thinking and the modalities of perception. Cultural schemata, cultural models, decision making, ideas of causality, emotions, theory of mind and concepts of person are typical aspects of study. Linguistic anthropology is interested in the relationship between culture and linguistic forms or practices. In this field, topics such as linguistic classification or coding of ethnobotany (taxononies), kinship, person (honorifics, deixis), colour, time, space, numbers and items (classifiers) are examined, just as conversational behaviour, language socialisation, language change and language contact within the cultural context.<\/p>\nSpokesperson<\/h3>\n
Prof. Dr. Christoph Antweiler (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universit\u00e4t Bonn, Institut f\u00fcr Orient- und Asienwissenschaften),\u00a0christoph.antweiler@uni-bonn.de<\/a><\/p>\nSpokespersons<\/h3>\n
Benedikt Jahnke, jahnke@uni-kassel.de<\/a><\/p>\nSpokesperson<\/h3>\n
Prof. Dr. Christoph Antweiler,\u00a0christoph.antweiler@uni-bonn.de<\/a><\/p>\nLink<\/h3>\n
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Mechthild von Vacano (Albert-Ludwigs-Universit\u00e4t Freiburg),\u00a0mechthild.vacano@ethno.uni-freiburg.de<\/a>
Andreas Streinzer (Universit\u00e4t Wien), andreas.streinzer@univie.ac.at<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.dgska.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Foto-AG-Umwelt1-300x200.jpg\")
The Environmental Anthropology Working Group was founded in 2015, at the GAA\u2019s conference in Marburg. The working group engages in key debates in the vibrant and fast-growing field of environmental anthropology. This includes approaches from political ecology, multispecies studies, environmental history, STS and the anthropology of landscape, and their diverse engagements with issues such as climate change, species extinction, deforestation, industrial pollution, the food crisis, industrial agriculture or global water management. The Environmental Anthropology Working Group aims at strengthening the network of environmental anthropologists in Germany and beyond.<\/p>\nSpokespersons<\/h3>\n
Emilie K\u00f6hler (Universit\u00e4t zu K\u00f6ln), ekoehler@uni-koeln.de<\/a>
Elisabeth Luggauer (Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin), elisabeth.luggauer@hu-berlin.de<\/a>
Arno Pascht (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen), arno.pascht@ethnologie.lmu.de<\/a><\/p>\nSpokesperson<\/h3>\n
Dr. Arne Harms (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology), harms@eth.mpg.de<\/a><\/p>\nSpokesperson<\/h3>\n
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How do people live, love and desire in different social, political and cultural contexts? In addition to this thematic focus, Queer Anthropology has questioned normative assumptions in ethnographic research, which have resulted in collaborative fieldwork designs as well as innovative modes of representing anthropological knowledge. Queer anthropologists also initiated a debate about methodological and ethical issues regarding anthropologists\u2019 sexual desires and romantic relationships in the field. Even though discussions about sexuality and cross-cultural considerations of gender relationships form important aspects of anthropological inquiry, these areas of expertise are barely institutionalized in the German-speaking academy \u2013 neither in the form of Chairs in the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality nor in the Departments\u2019 syllabi. The Working Group \u201cGender & Sexualities | Queer Anthropology\u201d has been established in October 2019 to address anthropologists, who<\/p>\n\n
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Henrike Kraul, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, henrike.kraul@fu-berlin.de<\/a><\/p>\n
Facebook:\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AnthroDesires\/<\/a>
Twitter:\u00a0@AnthroDesires<\/a>
Blog:\u00a0https:\/\/anthrodes.hypotheses.org\/<\/a><\/p>\nSpokesperson<\/h3>\n
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Dr. Simone Pfeifer, Universit\u00e4t zu K\u00f6ln,\u00a0s.pfeifer@uni-koeln.de<\/a>
Prof. Dr. Anna Lisa Ramella, Leuphana Universit\u00e4t L\u00fcneburg,\u00a0anna.ramella@leuphana.de<\/a><\/p>\n
Mailing list:\u00a0https:\/\/lists.uni-koeln.de\/mailman\/listinfo\/ag-medien<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.dgska.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Foto_Medizine1-300x200.jpg\")
Since its foundation in 1997, the Work Group Medical Anthropology has been researching and discussing a wide variety of themes in relation to health, illness, healing, and the body from an anthropological perspective. The group is interested in the multiple social and cultural modalities that are shaping these areas of individual and collective human experience. It further explores how dynamics of medicalization and technologization as well as multilayered inequalities and power relations impinge on bodily and mental well-being in an interconnected world. The work wroup organizes 1-2 conference panels, workshops, or international conferences per year and appreciates the assistance and cooperation of everyone who is interested in medical anthropology. Aside from its own website (www.medicalanthropology.de), the group is running a blog (www.medizinethnologie.net), which publishes thematic contributions, but also individual research reports, which gives scholars \u2013 including students and junior researchers \u2013 the opportunity to provide the public with an insight into their current work.<\/p>\nSpokesperson<\/h3>\n
<\/a>Ursula Probst (Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin), ursula.probst@fu-berlin.de<\/a><\/p>\nLink<\/h3>\n
www.medizinethnologie.net<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/h3>\n
Spokespersons<\/h3>\n
Prof. Dr. Andrea Behrends, Universit\u00e4t Leipzig, andrea.behrends@uni-leipzig.de<\/a><\/p>\nSpokespersons<\/h3>\n
Souleymane Diallo (<\/span>Westf\u00e4lische Wilhelms-Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnster), sdiallo@uni-muenster.de<\/a>
<\/span>Friedemann Yi-Neumann (University of Helsinki), friedemann.yi-neumann@helsinki.fi<\/a><\/p>\nSpokesperson<\/h3>\n
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Dr. Victoria Kumala Sakti (MPI for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity), sakti@mmg.mpg.de<\/a>
\u200bEdda Willamowski (Martin-Luther-Universit\u00e4t Halle-Wittenberg\u200b), edda.willamowski@ethnologie.uni-halle.de<\/a><\/p>\n
Nasima Selim, University of Bayreuth, nasimaselim@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\nSpokespersons<\/h3>\n
Tobias K\u00f6llner (Universit\u00e4t Witten\/Herdecke), Tobias.Koellner@uni-wh.de<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.dgska.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Stadtethnologie-AG.jpg\")
\u2018Living in the city\u2019 is currently an experience shared by a large part of humanity. According to UN statistics, for the first time in history, more than half of the world’s population has been living in cities since 2018. It is estimated that the urban population will double by 2050, making urbanisation one of the most important developments of the twenty-first century. The importance of cities is not limited to the fact that they provide a home for millions of inhabitants and are densely populated. They are also centres of business, political power, creativity and exchange. At the same time, cities comprise the greatest challenges that humanity currently faces: Environmental problems, technologisation, intercultural coexistence and the accompanying changes in the world of work are just some of these issues.<\/p>\nSpokespersons<\/h3>\n
Ra\u00fal Acosta (Goethe Universit\u00e4t Frankfurt am Main), AcostaGarcia@hrz.uni-frankfurt.de<\/a><\/p>\nSpokesperson<\/h3>\n
Regional Working Groups<\/h2>\n
Spokesperson<\/h3>\n
Kathrin Sowa, ksowa1@uni-koeln.de<\/a><\/p>\nLink<\/h3>\n
In the context of slavery and colonial domination, social, religious, cultural, linguistic and culinary practices have developed on the basis of African origins and evolved into \u201cAfroamerican\u201d or \u201cAfroatlantic\u201d traditions. They are important in all parts of the Americas today \u2013 not only for Afroamerican populations, but transcending ethnic, religious and social boundaries.
Research on \u201cAfroamerica\u201d studies the historical and contemporary transformations of Afroamerican traditions, as well as social, legal and political struggles of Afrodescendants for recognition and against multiple forms of inequality.
We address the meaning, appropriation and constructions of \u201cAfrica\u201d in the realms of everyday practice, religion, artistic production, knowledge construction, identity politics and social movements and study the mutual interactions of actors, practices and ideas between the Americas, Africa and Europe under the premise of transatlantic entanglements.<\/p>\n
Since 2015, the group is led by Claudia Rauhut (FU Berlin) and Moritz Heck (Uni K\u00f6ln).
Since 1999 the group has organized workshops at all DGV conferences, at meetings of German-speaking scholars on South America and the Caribbean, and occasionally at the European Association of Social Anthropologists. We reach our members through a mailing list and a part of a variety of networks.<\/p>\n
\u201eAfroatlantische Allianzen\u201c in the Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Ethnologie. Vol. 136 (2011), Heft 2.<\/p>\nSpokesperson<\/h3>\n
Dr. Inga Scharf da Silva (Humboldt- Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin), inga.scharf.da.silva@hu-berlin.de<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.dgska.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/RG_China-21-300x200.jpg\")
We deal with Greater China, a region beyond the People\u2019s Republic of China and Taiwan, that includes Chinese societies elsewhere, and the Chinese diaspora. In the last few years more and more anthropologists in the german-speaking world have started working on China. The RG China(s) represents this regional interest in german-speaking anthropology, and offers a point of contact for students, researchers, and anyone else interested in the anthropology of China. Our research foci include moral change, ethnic minorities in the People\u2019s Republic, family and kinship, the differences between countryside and city, ecological questions, agriculture, and the Chinese diaspora. The RG was founded in autumn 2015.<\/p>\nSpokesperson<\/h3>\n
<\/strong>Charlotte Bruckermann (Universit\u00e4t K\u00f6ln), cbrucker@uni-koeln.de<\/a>
Verena La Mela (Universit\u00e4t Heidelberg), verena.lamela@eth.uni-heidelberg.de<\/a><\/p>\nLink<\/h3>\n
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The Circumpolar and Siberia group has been reinstated in 2009 and has by now grown to more than 40 members from a range of countries. This includes cultural and social anthropologists that view the DGV as an important professional representation, as well as numerous experts from museums, publishing houses, the media and various NGOs. This professional mix allows for a synergy of competence in the realization of current projects.<\/p>\nSpokesperson<\/h3>\n
Dr. Gertrude Saxinger (Universit\u00e4t Wien),\u00a0gertrude.eilmsteiner-saxinger@sub-arctic.ac.at<\/a>
Prof. Otto Habeck (Universit\u00e4t Hamburg),\u00a0fknv206@uni-hamburg.de<\/a><\/p>\n
The RG does not understand \u201eEurope\u201c as a territorial entity. Rather, we stress historical and economic relations between world regions and the manifold symbolic politics around \u201eEurope\u201c as idea and discourse in historical persepctive.<\/p>\n
2007: Minorities and their significance for the ethnology of Europe
2009: Honor and shame
2011: Wild Europe
2013: Borders and overstepping boundaries
2015: Socio\u2010economic and moral blueprints on the rise: Euro-Mediterranean comparisons<\/p>\nSpokespersons<\/h3>\n
<\/a>Dafina Gashi (Johannes Gutenberg-Universit\u00e4t Mainz), gashidaf@uni-mainz.de<\/a>
<\/a>Janine Hauer (Martin-Luther-Universit\u00e4t Halle-Wittenberg),\u00a0janine.hauer@ethnologie.uni-halle.de<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.dgska.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/DGV_RG_Indigenes-Nordamerika1-300x200.jpg\")
Spokesperson<\/h3>\nSpokesperson<\/h3>\n
Lene Faust (Universit\u00e4t Bern),\u00a0lene.faust@anthro.unibe.ch<\/a>
<\/span><\/span><\/span>Gerhild Perl (Universit\u00e4t Bern),\u00a0gerhild.perl@anthro.unibe.ch<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
As member of the German Anthropological Society (= DGV), the group aims at the integration of its regional research perspective into current anthropological discussions. Further aims are to strengthen the exchange between its members, museums and research institutions as well as to promote young academics in the DGV.<\/p>\nSpokespersons<\/h3>\n
Simon Hirzel (Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin), simon.hirzel@fu-berlin.de<\/a><\/p>\nSpokesperson<\/h3>\n
Robert Langer (Universit\u00e4t der Bundesweher M\u00fcnchen), robert.langer@unibw.de<\/a><\/p>\nSpokesperson<\/h3>\n
<\/a>Norbert P\u00f6tzsch (Georg-August-Universit\u00e4t G\u00f6ttingen), norbert.poetzsch@uni-goettingen.de<\/a><\/p>\nSpokesperson<\/h3>\n
Ingo Rohrer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen),\u00a0ingo.rohrer@ethnologie.lmu.de<\/a><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.dgska.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/DGV_RG-Suedasien1-300x200.jpg\")
The South Asia Working Group of the DGSKA (GAA, German Anthropological Association) brings together students and researchers who explore the different societies, histories, economies and media landscapes of the South Asian subcontinent. The region comprises the countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, as well as the population of South Asians across the global diaspora. Nearly two billion people live in South Asia, which holds an enormous diversity of cultures, religions and languages. In the recent era of transnational connections, the boundaries of the region must be regarded as fluent and dynamic, as well as the cause of numerous conflicts.<\/p>\nSpokespersons<\/h3>\n
Markus Schleiter (Universit\u00e4t T\u00fcbingen), mschleiter@posteo.de<\/a>
Jagat Sohail (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle\/Saale), jagatsohail@gmail.com<\/a>
Calvin L\u00f6w (Goethe-Universit\u00e4t Frankfurt\/M.), calvin.loew@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.dgska.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Bild_DGV_RG_SOA_prio1-21-300x200.jpg\")
The Southeast Asia regional group serves as a platform for the exchange information on current research and activities in Southeast Asian anthropology. Furthermore, we want to inform the public about topics and areas of concern in Southeast Asia through our activities. Most recently, joint projects initiated by group members have focused on religion, ritual and the environment.<\/p>\nSpokesperson<\/h3>\n
Oliver Tappe (Universit\u00e4t K\u00f6ln), oliver.tappe@uni-koeln.de<\/a><\/p>\n