Chris Hann

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Christopher Michael Hann (born August 4, 1953 in Cardiff ) is a British social anthropologist and ethnologist . Hann did field research mainly in socialist and post-socialist Eastern Europe (especially in Hungary and Poland) and in Turkish-speaking areas (Black Sea coast and Xinjiang in northwest China). His main areas of interest are economic anthropology, religion (especially Christianity in Eastern Europe) and the concept and history of the Eurasian land mass . After academic positions in Cambridge and Canterbury (UK), he has been one of the founding directors of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale) since 1999 .

Life

Hann grew up in Cwmbrân , where he attended the Croesyceiliog Grammar School. He studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University's Jesus College with a grant from the Welsh Foundation , where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in 1974 and a PhD in social anthropology at Cambridge University in 1979 , supervisor was Jack Goody . Hann stayed at Cambridge University, where he was a Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College , and later became a "Lecturer" at the Department of Social Anthropology there. Between 1992 and 1999, Chris Hann was Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Kent in Canterbury .

Research projects and International Max Planck Research School

In September 2013 Hann received an "Advanced Grant" from the European Research Council for the project "REALEURASIA - Realizing Eurasia: Civilization and Moral Economy in the 21st Century". The grant provides two million euros over five years. The project started in July 2014 with eight PhD students, and has its own blog. Since the end of 2012 Hann has been one of the three speakers of the "International Max Planck Research School for the Anthropology, Archeology and History of Eurasia" (IMPRS ANARCHIE), which is operated jointly with several institutes of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . Hann is one of the four founders and co-directors of the "Max Planck Cambridge Center for Ethics, Economy and Social Change", which started work in 2017.

Prizes and awards

  • Huxley Memorial Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (2019)

Publications (selection)

  • Chr. Hann, I. Beller-Hann: Turkish Region: State, market and social identities on the east Black Sea coast , Oxford: James Currey 2000, Turkish edition 2003
  • (Ed.): Post-Socialism , Campus: Frankfurt am Main 2002 (English edition Routledge, London 2002)
  • Hann, Magocsi, PR (Ed.): Galicia: a multicultured land , Toronto: University of Toronto Press
  • Chris Hann, Hermann Goltz : Eastern Christians in Anthropological Perspective , University of California Press 2010, ISBN 9780520260566 ,
  • Chris Hann, Keith Hart: Economic Anthropology , Polity, Cambridge 2011, ISBN 9780745644820
  • Aleksandar Bošković, Chris Hann (Eds.): The Anthropological Field on the Margins of Europe, 1945-1991 , Berlin: LIT 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-90507-9 .
  • A Concept of Eurasia , in: Current Anthropology 57 (2016), pp. 1-10, 20-27
  • with Jonathan Parry: Industrial labor on the margins of capitalism: precarity, class, and the neoliberal subject , Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy 4, New York; Oxford: Berghahn 2018, ISBN 978-1-78533-678-2 .
  • (Ed.) Together with Jóhann Arnason: Anthropology and civilizational analysis: Eurasian explorations , SUNY Series, Pangea II: Global / Local Studies. Albany, NY: SUNY Press 2018, ISBN 978-1-4384-6940-9 .
  • (Ed.) Realizing Eurasia. Empire and Connectivity during Three Millennia , Comparativ - Journal for Global History and Comparative Society Research, 28 (2018), 4.
  • Repatriating Polanyi: market society in the Visegrád states , Budapest; New York: Central European University Press 2019.

literature

  • Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science: Manual of Scientific Members , Munich 2006, page 85

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ERC Advanced Grant awarded to Chris Hann September 27, 2013, message on the homepage of the MPI for Social Anthropology, accessed December 22, 2016
  2. ^ Homepage of the Realizing Eurasia project, accessed December 22, 2016
  3. ↑ The REALEURASIA Blog, since September 2014, accessed December 22, 2016
  4. ↑ see homepage of the IMPRS Anarchy, accessed December 22, 2016
  5. ↑ see message New insights on the change in the economy and society, message about the center on www.mpg.de , accessed November 28, 2019
  6. ↑ see Chris Hann receives Huxley Memorial Medal, report on idw-online, December 6, 2019
  7. ↑ see introduction to the volume at http://www.eth.mpg.de/cms/en/people/d/hann/pdf/Eastern_Christians_in_Anthropological_Perspective_Intro.pdf ( Memento from January 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ see page about the book on the homepage of the MPI for Social Anthropology, English, accessed April 12, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Hann, Chris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hann, Christopher Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British social anthropologist and ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Cardiff