Antje Gunsenheimer

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Antje Gunsenheimer (* 1967 ) is a German ethnologist and ancient American scholar .

Life

Gunsenheimer studied ethnology and ancient American studies at the University of Bonn from 1987 to 1995 . Until her doctorate in July 2001, she worked as a research assistant at the University of Bonn in 1998 and became a lecturer at the State University of Albany in the same year . In 1999 and 2000 she took part in the Erasmus teaching exchange program at the University of Warsaw and also taught at the Free University of Berlin in the summer semesters 2000 and 2001 . Gunsenheimer started teaching at the University of Hamburg in the summer semester of 2003 , moved to the University of Hanover from the winter semester of 2003 to the summer semester of 2005 and also returned to the University of Bonn in 2007 as a lecturer. From 2002 to 2007 she also worked as a consultant for the Volkswagen Foundation in Hanover-Döhren .

Her main research interests include a. the indigenous living conditions in the colonial period in Mesoamerica and South America , the cultural appropriation and resistance processes of indigenous societies, especially the Yaqui and Maya , for example during the Caste War , or the literature of the Mexica and the Yucatec Maya during the colonial period and its analysis.

Between 1995 and 2013 Gunsenheimer carried out or participated in a total of nine linguistic , anthropological and historical field research and studies in Valladolid , Quintana Roo and Sonora .

She is a member of the interdisciplinary Latin America Center in Bonn and has been the spokesperson for the Mesoamerica regional group within the German Ethnological Society since February 2012 .

Works

  • The tradition of history in the Yucatec Chilam Balam books. An analysis of the origin and development of selected historical reports. Dissertation , Bonn 2002, PDF ( Memento from June 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ); 5.4 MB.
  • En contra del olvido y en pro de la continuidad: las crónicas de los Libros de Chilam Balam en su contexto colonial. In: Hanns J. Prem (ed.): Escondido en la selva, arqueología en el norte de Yucatán . México, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia 2003, ISBN 970-35-0052-8 , pp. 371-416
  • The “foreign” and the “own” research reports (1992–2006). transcript, Bielefeld 2006 (together with Michael Craanen )
  • Limits. Differences. Transitions. Areas of tension in inter- and transcultural communication. transcript, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89942-794-3
  • Text and context: Yucatec Maya literature in a diachronic perspective = Texto y Contexto. Ed .: Friends of Bonner American Studies, Achen 2009 (together with Tsubasa Okoshi Harada and John F. Chuchiak )
  • The Study of Human Sacrifice in Pre-Columbian Cultures: A Challenge for Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Research . In: On Cruelty. Ed .: Trutz von Trotha and Jakob Rösel , Cologne 2011, pp. 255–284
  • “We will dance our truth” by David Delgado Shorter (2009). In: Anthropos. Volume 106/1, 2011, pp. 304-306
  • “Sword and pen. The Chroniclers of His Majesty the King of Castile and the Legal Recognition of New World Historiography in the 16th Century ”by Aarón Grageda Bustamante (2010). In: Anthropos. Volume 106/2, 2011, pp. 669-670
  • “Archaeological cultural heritage, local culture of remembrance and youthful historical awareness among the Maya” by Lars Frühsorge (2010). In: Indiana. Volume 28, 2011, pp. 411-415
  • “The Ópatas. In Search of a Sonoran People ”by David A. Yetman (2010). In: Anthropos. 2012, volume 107/1
  • New Fischer world history . Volume 16: America before the European conquest. Frankfurt 2012 (together with Ute Schüren )
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SURNAME Gunsenheimer, Antje
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1967