Karl-Heinz Kohl

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Karl-Heinz Kohl (born November 24, 1948 in Fürth ) is a German ethnologist .

research

From 1968 to 1975 Karl-Heinz Kohl studied religious and intellectual history , history and philosophy , religious studies and ethnology at the University of Erlangen and at the Free University of Berlin . In 1975 a first research stay followed in Middle Flores and Western New Guinea . After working as a research assistant at the Universities of Utrecht and Berlin, he received his doctorate in Berlin in 1980 . The doctorate was followed by a position as a scientific director of an exhibition, as a scientific employee in Berlin and a longer research stay on Ostflores . In 1986 , Kohl completed his habilitation in religious studies at the Free University of Berlin . In 1988 he was appointed professor of general ethnology at the Institute for Ethnology and African Studies at the University of Mainz . From 1996 to 2016 Karl-Heinz Kohl was Professor of Culture and Ethnology at the Institute for Ethnology and Director of the Frobenius Institute at the University of Frankfurt .

From 2007 to 2011 he was chairman of the German Society for Ethnology and is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1980–1981: Myths of the New World. On the history of the discovery of Latin America , Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
  • 1996: The exotic thing. Stories from a Collection , University of Mainz
  • 2001–2002: New Heimat in the Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main

Publications (selection)

Monographs:

  • The exotic as a profession. On the concept of ethnographic experience in B. Malinowski, EE Evans-Pritchard and C. Lévi-Strauss (= Studies and Materials of Anthropological Research , Vol. 4, No. 1). Wiesbaden: Heymann, 1979, XVIII + 123 p .; New edition: Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York, 1986.
  • Disenchanted look. The image of the good savage and the experience of civilization. Berlin: Medusa, 1981; New edition: Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main, 1986.
  • Defense and desire. On the history of ethnology. Frankfurt am Main / New York: Campus Verlag / Edition Qumran, 1987.
  • Ethnology - the science of the culturally foreign. An introduction. Munich: CH Beck, 1993; 3rd edition 2012.
  • The death of the rice maiden. Myths, cults and alliances in an East Indonesian local culture. (= Religious ethnological studies of the Frobenius Institute Frankfurt am Main. Vol. 1). Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne: Kohlhammer, 1998.
  • The power of things. History and theory of sacred objects. Munich: Beck, 2003.

Editor:

  • Myths of the New World. On the history of the discovery of Latin America. Berlin: Fröhlich & Kaufmann, 1982.
  • with Hartmut Zinser and Friedrich Stentzler: Foedera naturai. Klaus Heinrich on his 60th birthday. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 1989.
  • with Heinzarnold Muszinski and Ivo Strecker : The diversity of culture. Ethnological aspects of kinship, art and worldview. Ernst Wilhelm Müller on his 65th birthday. Berlin: Reimer, 1990.
  • Myths in context. Ethnological Perspectives. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 1992.
  • with Hubert Cancik and Burkhard Gladigow : Law – Kult (= Handbook of Basic Concepts for Religious Studies. Vol. 3). Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne: Kohlhammer, 1993.
  • That exotic thing. Stories from a collection (exhibition catalog). Mainz: Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 1996.
  • with Hubert Cancik and Burkhard Gladigow: Kultbild-Rolle (= Handbook of Basic Concepts for Religious Studies. Vol. 4). Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne: Kohlhammer, 1998.
  • with Christian F. Feest : Hauptwerke der Ethnologie (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 380). Kröner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-520-38001-3 .
  • with Nicolaus Schafhausen : New Heimat (exhibition catalog Frankfurter Kunstverein). New York: Lukas & Sternberg, 2001.
  • with Hubert Cancik and Burkhard Gladigow: Secularization – Zwischenwesen (= Handbook of Basic Concepts for Religious Studies. Vol. 5). Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne: Kohlhammer, 2001.
  • with Editha Platte: Gestalter und Gestalten. One hundred years of ethnology in Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt am Main: Strömfeld, 2006.
  • with Holger Jebens: The End of Anthropology? Wantage: Sean Kingston 2011.
  • with Christoph Johannes Franzen and Marie-Luise Recker : The Kaiser and his researcher. The correspondence between Wilhelm II and Leo Frobenius (1924-1938). Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2012.
  • with Richard Kuba and Hélène Ivanoff: Art of the Past. Rock paintings from the Frobenius collection (exhibition catalog Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin) Munich, London, New York: Prestel, 2016.

literature

  • Volker Gottowik, Holger Jebens and Editha Platte (eds.), Between Appropriation and Alienation. Ethnographic tightrope walk: memorial for Karl-Heinz Kohl. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 2008.
  • Christian Geyer, A friend's guest from the world. Identity as a change: For the ethnologist Karl-Heinz Kohl for his seventieth. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 24, 2018, p. 13.

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personal data
SURNAME Kohl, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuerth