Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin

Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin (* 1944 in Basel ) is a Swiss scientist and journalist. She is a professor emeritus for ethnology at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . Hauser-Schäublin's research focuses on the Indo-Pacific and state formation in Southeast Asia .

Life

Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin was born in Basel in 1944 and spent her childhood and youth in Riehen near Basel. Her father was a local politician and head of an international trading company.

As a young woman, she moved to Zurich and did an internship in digital recording with Swiss television. In addition to German, she speaks fluent English, Indonesian, Tok Pisin and French. After language stays in Lausanne and London, she began an internship at a local newspaper in Basel in 1963 to become a journalist. Hauser-Schäublin was strongly influenced by a trip to India and aroused her interest in ethnology. After her return she decided to catch up on the university entrance qualification [Matura] and worked as a journalist on the side.

In 1969 she began studying in Basel. For a short time she took a few courses in theology, but then concentrated on ethnology, sociology and folklore . Alfred Bühler and Meinhard Schuster were two of their teachers. After a semester abroad in Munich in 1971, she was appointed curator for public relations and museum education at the Museum der Kulturen Basel . A year later, she took part in a Schuster research project that focused on the Sepik region , Papua New Guinea . Hauser-Schäublin was part of a larger expedition to New Guinea . The data collected in the process flowed into her dissertation, published in 1977, entitled Women in Kararau. On the role of women in the Iatmul, Middle Sepik , Papua New Guinea ( Women in Kararau published in 2019 in English . Gendered lives, works, and knowledge in a Middle Sepik Society, Papua New Guinea ).

After completing her doctorate, she concentrated on her museum educational work in the museum and organized various exhibitions. Between 1978 and 1985 she conducted field studies with the Abelam in Papua New Guinea on the subject of cult houses. In 1989 she published her two-volume habilitation thesis entitled Cult Houses in Northeast New Guinea (Part 1 was published in English in 2016 Ceremonial Houses of the Abelam, Papua New Guinea. Architecture and Ritual - a Passage to the Ancestors ). Based on these studies, she and Jörg Hauser built a 16-meter-high Abelam cult house in the Basel Museum of Cultures true to scale. A substitute professorship in the department of social and cultural anthropology at the University of Cologne was followed by a call to the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , where she succeeded Erhard Schlesier as the professor for general ethnology and oceanistics.

From 1992 to 2009 she held a C4 professorship for ethnology in Göttingen. During her time as a professor, in addition to studies in Germany on the subject of reproductive medicine and organ transplantation, she carried out further field studies, from 1988 in Indonesia , mainly in Bali and Sumatra , and from 2008 in Cambodia . In 1993 she was visiting professor at Columbia University , and in the fall of 1994 she was the Theodor Heuss visiting professor at the New School for Social Research in New York City . In 1996 Hauser-Schäublin was visiting professor at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and in 2006 at the École des Hautes Ètudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris . At the end of her university career, she dealt more and more with theories and discourses, especially on cultural property and UNESCO World Heritage Sites . Hauser-Schäublin's research led to important findings, for example in the areas of gender research , political spatial organization and cultural policy . In 2009 she retired. From 2010 to 2016 she was research professor at the Institute for Social Anthropology in Göttingen (funding program of the State of Lower Saxony, "The Lower Saxony Professorship Research 65+").

Since her retirement, Hauser-Schäublin has been active again as a journalist and regularly publishes articles in various newspapers, including the Neue Zürcher Zeitung .

Fonts (selection)

• Gusts of memory. A search for traces in the realm of things. Paideuma 65: 7-30, 2019.
• with Vera Kalitzkus , Imme Petersen , Iris Schröder: The divided body. An ethnological study on reproductive medicine and organ transplantation in Germany. Campus, Frankfurt am Main: 2001
• with Lyndel V. Prott: Cultural Property and Contested Ownership. The Trafficking of Artefacts and the Quest for Restitution. London: Routledge 2017
• with David Harnish: Between Harmony and Discrimination. Negotiating Religious Identities within Majority-Minority Relationships in Bali and Lombok. Leiden: Brill 2014.
• Adat and Indigeneity in Indonesia. Culture and Entitlements between Heteronomy and Self-Ascription. Göttingen: University Press.

Web links

• Literature by and about Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Prof. Dr. Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin , Georg-August University of Göttingen
• Prof. Dr. Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin , on AcademiaNet

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Georg-August University of Göttingen - Public Relations: Scientific career - Georg August University of Göttingen. Retrieved November 17, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Georg-August University of Göttingen - Public Relations: Research Focus - Georg-August University of Göttingen. Retrieved November 17, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Prof. Dr. Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin - AcademiaNet. Retrieved November 18, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Interview with Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin. Retrieved November 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Georg-August University of Göttingen - Public Relations: Scientific career - Georg August University of Göttingen. Retrieved November 18, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin: "Gendersternchen" and the "enrichment" of the German language . March 14, 2019, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed November 18, 2019]).