Christian Sigrist

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Christian Sigrist (born March 25, 1935 in St. Blasien ; † February 14, 2015 in Münster ) was a German ethnologist and sociologist .

Life

In 1935 his father, who was banned from working after the closure of Salem because of “Jewish infiltration”, was employed as a philologist at the St. Blasien college . From September 1946 to December 1947 Christian Sigrist was a boarding school student there. In an interview, he described a climate of repression, prudery and violence. There was also an anti-Semitic mood. "We're not in a Jewish school here!" Was called to order.

career

Christian Sigrist received his doctorate in 1965 with his dissertation on segmental companies . From 1971 until his retirement at the end of the winter semester 1999/2000, Sigrist taught as a professor of sociology at the University of Münster .

During his scientific career he did field research in Afghanistan and Guinea-Bissau and published numerous articles and reports on problems in the Third World. According to his own statement, the focus of his work on social theory was the “criticism of power relations and their justification by liberal ideologues ( Dahrendorf ) and systems theorists ( Luhmann )”. He also researched transition societies, liberation movements , agricultural , legal and development sociology .

Since 1978 Christian Sigrist worked as an agricultural sociological advisor to the Cape Verdean Minister for Rural Development. In 1986 he was also an expert at the Afghanistan hearing of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag . He also worked as the organizer of an Israeli-Palestinian-German symposium on “Perspectives on Coexistence”.

Views

Sigrist defended Ulrike Meinhof against accusations of anti-Semitism after she agreed to the attack by Black September 1972 in Munich . He was involved in solidarity committees and published an article on the sympathy of the Third World with the militants in the First World in the journal Kursbuch under the title Torture in der FRG .

After September 11, 2001, Sigrist criticized American politics in the anarchist monthly Contraste :

"That is no justification, nor is it indifference to the suffering of the people, but the brutality that American imperialism is perpetrating around the world hits back on it."

In the same interview, he also called on the US government to use fewer Jewish and more Arab politicians in Middle East politics in order to build trust. Contraste distanced itself one issue later from the statements of Sigrist, since these contained "open anti-Semitic statements".

Publications

author

  • About the lack and emergence of central authorities in segmental societies . In: Journal of Ethnology , Volume XXXVII (37), No. 2, 1962.
  • Segmental companies . Dissertation. Freiburg i. Br. 1965.
  • Regulated anarchy. Investigations into the absence and development of political domination in segmented societies in Africa . (Texts and documents on sociology. Studies of the Institute for Sociology. Ed. By Heinrich Popitz .) Walter, Olten u. Freiburg i. Br. 1967 ISBN 3-434-46216-3
  • Imperialism . Provocation and repression . In: Kursbuch , No. 32, 1973, Torture in the FRG: On the situation of political prisoners .
  • Structural differences in the agrarian revolution in Russia and China . With Amano. In: P. Hennicke and Ernest Mandel (eds.): Problems of socialism and transition societies . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1973.
  • Problems of the democratic reconstruction in Guinea-Bissao and on the Cape Verde Islands . 1977.
  • Societies without a state and the discoveries of 'social anthropology' . In: Fritz W. Kramer u. Christian Sigrist (Ed.): Societies without a state , Volume 1, 1978, pp. 28ff.
  • Acephalous Political Systems and National Liberation . In: JH Grevemeyer (ed.): Traditional societies and European colonialism , Frankfurt am Main, 1981.
  • Science. Resistance and authority . Contradiction Verlag 1981.
  • Regulated anarchy. An anthropology of domination-free coexistence . In: Kindler's Encyclopedia: Man . Volume 8, Munich, 1984, pp. 108-125.
  • The Marquis de Custine's image of Russia . From criticism of civilization to hostility to Russia. Lang, Frankfurt 1990, ISBN 3-631-40576-6 .
  • Primary egalitarianism of horizontal societies and etatic socialism . In: Richard Faber (Ed.): Socialism in Past and Present , Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1994.
  • Ethnicity as self-organization . In: Reinhart Kößler and Tilman Schiel (eds.): Nationstaat und ethnicity . IKO publishing house for intercultural communication, Frankfurt am Main 1994, pp. 45–56.
  • Segmentary Societies . In: Bernhard Streck (Ed.): Segmentation and Complementarity , Orientwissenschaftliche Hefte , Volume 14, 2004.

editor

  • India. Peasant struggles: the story of a prevented development from 1757 to today . With Amalendu Guha, Gerhard Hauck a . Sarma V. Marla. Wagenbach, Berlin 1976.
  • Societies without a state . With Fritz W. Kramer .
    • Volume 1: Equality and Reciprocity . Syndicate, Frankfurt am Main 1978.
    • Volume 2: Genealogy and Solidarity . Syndicate, Frankfurt am Main 1978.
  • Ethnological texts on the Old Testament . With Rainer Neu.
    • Volume 1: Pre- and Early History of Israel . Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1989.
    • Volume 2: Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1997.
  • Power and domination . Ugarit, Münster 2004.
  • Prospects of Israeli-Palestinian Co-Existence. With U. Klein, Lit Verlag, 1996.

Festschriften

  • Christine Idems u. Matthias Schoormann (Ed.): Sociology in the minefield. For Christian Sigrist's 65th birthday. LIT-Verlag, Münster 2000 ISBN 3-8258-4676-8
  • Gunter Best and Reinhart Kossler (ed.): Subjects and systems. Sociological and Anthropological Approaches. Festschrift for Christian Sigrist on his 65th birthday. IKO publishing house for intercultural communication, Frankfurt am Main 2000 ISBN 3-88939-532-5 .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Sigrist, Neue Rheinische Zeitung , 2010 [1]
  2. ^ Names and messages from the University of Münster , accessed on May 24, 2015
  3. ↑ Christian Sigrist, Contraste , 2001 [2]
personal data
SURNAME Sigrist, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Blasien
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 2015
Place of death Muenster