Alexa Färber
Alexa Färber (* 1968 ) is a European ethnologist .
Life
She studied Islamic Studies and European Ethnology in Hamburg , Toulouse and Berlin (1998 Magistra Artium in Islamic Studies, 2003 Dr. phil. Representation work as cultural practice: Ethnographic approaches to knowledge at the Expo 2000 Humboldt University in Berlin ). From 1999 to 2002 she was a DFG scholarship holder in the Graduate College Representation, Rhetoric, Knowledge at the European University Viadrina . From 2003 to 2007 she was a research assistant on the DFG research project Urban Culture and Ethnic Representation: Berlin and Moscow on the Way to a World City? at the Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. From 2006 to 2007 she received a postdoctoral research grant from the DAAD / Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (CMH), research group Enquêtes, Terrains, Théories (ETT), at ENS Paris . From 2007 to 2009 she was a research assistant in the seminar for European ethnology / folklore at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . From 2009 to 2010 she was junior professor at the Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. From 2010 to 2018 she taught as a professor for urban anthropology / urban ethnography and head of the study program Culture of the Metropolis at the HafenCity University Hamburg . Since September 2018 she has been professor for the historical dimensioning of everyday cultures at the Institute for European Ethnology at the University of Vienna .
Her main research interests are urban research in cultural sciences, visual cultures / practice, knowledge anthropology and work culture research.
Fonts (selection)
- as editor: Hotel Berlin. Forms of urban mobility and positioning . Münster 2005, ISBN 3-8258-8875-4 .
- World exhibition as a mode of knowledge. Ethnography of a representation work . Münster 2006, ISBN 3-8258-8139-3 .
- as editor with Riem Spielhaus : Islamic Community Life in Berlin . Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-938352-14-0 .
- as editor: Metabolism Berlin. urban presences and representations . Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-938714-12-6 .
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| SURNAME | Färber, Alexa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | European ethnologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1968 |