Annemarie Fiedermutz-Laun

Annemarie Fiedermutz-Laun (* 1939 in Mainz ) is a German ethnologist .

Life

She grew up in Mainz. Her father was an architect, her mother was a housewife. She married a doctor from the Banat and had a son with him.

Annemarie Fiedermutz-Laun studied ethnology, sociology , economic geography and African studies in Mainz , Frankfurt am Main and Munich . In 1970 she did her doctorate with a thesis on Adolf Bastian , the founder of ethnology in German-speaking countries. After lecture tours and guest lectureships from 1972 to 1979, she worked as a research assistant at the Frobenius Institute in Frankfurt until 1986 . She carried out ethnological field research in Burkina Faso ( West Africa ) and completed her habilitation in 1990 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich on the subject of “Earth architecture and earth complex in West Africa”. From 1992 until her retirement in 2004, she held a C3 professorship at the Institute for Ethnology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .

The focus of her teaching and research were the history of ethnology, anthropology of religion , art and material culture , as well as medical anthropology , with a regional focus on Africa .

Annemarie Fiedermutz-Laun: The cultural-historical thought in Adolf Bastian. Systematisation and presentation of the theory and method with an attempt to evaluate the cultural-historical content on this basis. F. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1970, ISBN 3-515-00865-9 .
Annemarie Fiedermutz-Laun: Adolf Bastian and the founding of German ethnology in the 19th century . In: Reports on the history of science. Number 9, 1986, pp. 167-181.
Annemarie Fiedermutz-Laun et al .: Shaped from earth. Earth buildings in West and North Africa. Edited by the Fresenius Institute. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1990, ISBN 978-3-8053-1107-6 .
Annemarie Fiedermutz-Laun et al. (Ed.): On the acceptance of magic, religion and science. Lit-Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 978-3-8258-5211-5 .
Annemarie Fiedermutz-Laun: George Alexis Montadon (1879–1944) - life and work. In Memoriam László Vajda (1923-2010) . In: Munich contributions to ethnology. Yearbook of the State Museum of Ethnology in Munich. Volume 14, ISBN 978-3-927270-63-3 .