Christoph Antweiler

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Christoph Ulrich Michael Antweiler (born May 23, 1956 in Cologne ) is a German ethnologist .

Antweiler studied geology and palaeontology in Cologne from 1975 to 1983 . He was awarded a dissertation on Kulturevolution Entwicklungsethnologie e. V. and was Deputy Chairman of the Center for East Asia-Pacific Studies at the University of Trier from 1998 to 2008. Since 2008 he has been teaching as a professor for Southeast Asian Studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . Since April 2008 he has been head of the department for Southeast Asian Studies at the Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. Antweiler is a member of the Advisory Board of the Giordano Bruno Foundation . In 2011 Antweiler was named a member of the Academia Europaea .

Fonts

  • Cultural evolution as transgenerational change. Problems of the more recent evolutionism and possible solutions presented with special consideration of the Anglo-American discussion about so-called cultural selection. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1988.
  • Urban rationality. An urban ethnology study on Ujung Pandang (Makassar) , Indonesia. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2000.
  • Read ethnology. A guide through the jungle of books. Lit Verlag, Münster / Hamburg / Berlin / London (3rd, significantly expanded edition, with CD-ROM) 2003.
  • Popular ethnology. A literary guide from understandable science to exotic novels. Dieter Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2005.
  • Basic positions in intercultural ethnology. Verlag Traugott Bautz, Nordhausen 2007, ISBN 978-3-88309-257-7 .
  • What do people have in common? About culture and cultures. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2007 (2nd, expanded and revised edition 2009).
  • Home man. What connects us all . Murmann Verlag, Hamburg 2009.
  • Man and world culture. For realistic cosmopolitanism in the age of globalization . Transcript, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-8376-1634-7 .
  • Inclusive humanism. Anthropological Basics for a Realistic Cosmopolitanism . V&R Unipress, Göttingen / National Taiwan University Press, Taipei 2012.
  • Our Common Denominator. Human Universals Revisited . Berghahn Books, New York / Oxford 2016.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Antweiler, Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Antweiler, Christoph Ulrich Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne