Darius J. Piwowarczyk

Darius J. Piwowarczyk SVD (* 1958 in Jawor ) is a Polish ethnologist .

Life

He was a missionary in Bolivia and Paraguay (1991–1995). He received his PhD in Social Anthropology from the Catholic University of America in 2002 . He taught ethnology at Divine Word College from 2002 to 2006 . Since 2008 he has been editor-in-chief of the anthropological journal Anthropos. International Journal of Ethnology and Linguistics . Since 2014 he has been a professor in the field of ethnology at the Philosophical-Theological University SVD St. Augustin and visiting professor at the Institute for Ethnology at the Jagiellonian University . At the University of Friborg , he was awarded the project in 2016 , the cultural and political role of the German Divine Word Missionaries in Togo (1892 to 1918) habilitation .

His focus is on political anthropology, especially relationships between holders of political and symbolic power, religious ethnology, especially the political and cultural role of Christian missions in the German protected areas (1884–1918) and in South America, American studies (indigenism; indigenous hunter and gatherer cultures in South America ; Modernization processes in Latin America) and social and cultural theory.

Publications (selection)

• Coming Out of the "Iron Cage." The Indigenists of the Society of the Divine Word in Paraguay, 1910-2000 (= Studia Instituti Anthropos , Volume 52). Neue Academic Press, Friborg 2008, ISBN 3727816201 (also dissertation, Catholic University of America 2002).

Web links

• Philosophical-Theological University SVD St. Augustin