Bettina Beer

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Bettina Beer (born November 14, 1966 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German ethnologist and cultural and social anthropologist . She is Professor of Ethnology at the University of Lucerne and holds the “Leibniz Chair” at the ZMT Bremen .

Life

Beer studied ethnology, folklore and Spanish at the University of Hamburg from 1986 to 1992 . She wrote her master's thesis on ethnological work on interethnic marriages in pre-industrial societies and then researched marriage migration and interethnic marriages in the Filipino community in Hamburg until 1996. From 1993 to 1995 she was supported by a scholarship from the University of Hamburg for doctoral students. From 1993 onwards she went to the Philippines to do research on “Marriage Migration and Interethnic Marriages” ( DAAD- funded).

In 2001 she completed her habilitation in ethnology at the University of Hamburg with a thesis on body concepts, interethnic relationships and theories of racism . In 2006 she received a W-3 professorship for ethnology at the Institute for Ethnology at Heidelberg University . In 2008 she was appointed full professor for social anthropology at the seminar for cultural and social anthropology at the University of Lucerne . From 2011 to 2014 she was the Leibniz Chair at the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT Bremen).

Beer researches mainly on transcultural relations and migration , kinship and political ethnology, ethnology of the senses, psychological ethnology (especially cognitive ethnology) and the history of ethnology. With a focus on Wampar , a culture on the middle reaches of the Markham River in the Morobe Province of today's Papua New Guinea , she is continuing research that was started in 1958 by her husband Hans Fischer at the University of Hamburg.

Publications

  • German-Filipino marriages: interethnic marriages and migration of women , Reimer, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-496-02601-4 (dissertation Universität Hamburg 1996, 301 pages).
  • Mail from the Philippines. Ethnological research through letters , Lit, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 978-3-8258-3685-6 .
  • Joe's stories. Analyzes of Filipino narratives in their cultural context (= Kulturanalysen , Volume 2), Reimer, Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3-496-02673-0 .
  • Body concepts, interethnic relationships and theories of racism: a cross-cultural study (= cultural analyzes , volume 4). Reimer, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-496-02735-5 (habilitation thesis Universität Hamburg 2002, 453 pages).
  • (Ed.): Methods and techniques of field research , Reimer, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-496-02754-6 .
  • Women in German-speaking ethnology . A manual. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-11206-6 .
  • with Gabriele Alex and Bernhard Hadolt (eds.): Wa (h) re medicine: for the authenticity and commodification of health and healing (= Curare 1978, year 35 (2012) 3, ISSN  0344-8622 ). Published by AGEM - Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnomedizin eV VWB - Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86135-768-1 .
  • with Stephan Claassen: The Wampar String Figure Repertoire in Comparative Perspective. Social Change and Interethnic Relations in Papua New Guinea , In: Bulletin for the International String Figure Association 21, ISFA Press, Pasadena (California) 2014, pp. 15–141.
  • with Hans Fischer and Julia Pauli (eds.): Ethnology. Introduction to exploring cultural diversity , Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-496-01559-8 (expanded and updated new version).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official website of Bettina Beer, accessed March 30, 2018.
  2. ↑ http://www.unilu.ch/deu/publikationen_beerbettina_212798.html
  3. ↑ a b The Leibniz Chair. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 29, 2016 ; Retrieved June 24, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zmt-bremen.de
  4. ↑ Prof. Dr. Bettina Beer. unilu.ch, accessed on June 24, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Michael Schnegg, Julia Pauli, Bettina Beer, Erdmute Alber: Relatives Today: Positions, Results and Perspectives , Reimer, Berlin 2010, p. 30.
  6. ↑ Bettina Beer, Doris Bacalzo, Hans Fischer: Research focus Wampar , University of Lucerne
personal data
SURNAME Beer, Bettina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main