Erika Bourguignon

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Erika Bourguignon , also Erika Eichhorn Bourguignon (born February 18, 1924 in Vienna , Austria ; † February 15, 2015 in Columbus , Ohio ), was an Austrian-American anthropologist who was recognized for her contributions in the fields of psychological , religious and feminist Anthropology is known. Her research dealt with trance , obsession and altered states of consciousness , among other things .

Life

Erika Bourguignon was born in Vienna in 1924 as the daughter of Leopold and Charlotte (née Rosenbaum) Eichhorn. Due to the annexation of Austria to the National Socialist German Reich, the Jewish family fled via Switzerland to New York in 1938 , where they attended Queens College . After completing her bachelor's degree, she continued her studies at Northwestern University and conducted field research with the Chippewa and in Haiti . In Haiti she met the Belgian artist Paul-Henri Bourguignon and the two married on September 29, 1950. In 1951, Bourguignon obtained her doctorate .

After her academic retirement in 1990, Bourguignon continued to write on anthropological and remembrance topics, continued teaching and caring for the works of art by her husband, who died in 2008. Bourguignon died in 2015 at the age of 90.

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Bourguignon taught as a professor of anthropology at Ohio State University for more than 40 years . There she was a founding member of the Anthropology Institute , the Council on Academic Excellence for Women, and was the first to teach anthropology to women. Together with her husband Paul-Henri Bourguignon, Erika Bourguignon designed a radio program on the subject of world music in the 1950s and co-founded the Women in Development seminar. In 1971, she was the first female chair of an institute in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Ohio State University . Bourguignon was Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Ohio State University. From 1971 to 1976 she was a professor at the Ohio State University Institute of Anthropology.

Erika Bourguignon published seven books and more than 80 specialist articles in her academic career. These deal primarily with psychological and religious anthropology, as well as the anthropology of women. Her work examines phenomena such as obsession, altered states of consciousness, religion , psychological anthropology and shamanism . Her focus was on trance states and dissociative and out of body experiences .

The influence of the Bourguignons at Ohio State University can be seen in the "Paul H. and Erika Bourguignon Lecture in Art and Anthropology" that has been taking place since 2004 . In 2009 a symposium in honor of Erika Bourguignon was also held there.

Publications (selection)

  • Religion Altered States of Consciousness and Social Change. Ohio State Univ. Press, Ohio 1973. ISBN 978-0-8142-0167-1 .
  • Diversity and Homogeneity in World Societies . Human Relations Area Files, New Haven 1973. ISBN 978-0-87536-330-1 .
  • Trance dance. Johnson Reprint Corp, Ney York 1973. ISBN 978-0-384-05308-3 .
  • Possession . Chandler & Sharp Publishers, Novato 1976. ISBN 978-0-88133-600-9 .
  • Psychological anthropology: An introduction to human nature and cultural differences. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York 1979. ISBN 978-0-03-034921-8 .
  • A World of Women. Anthropological Studies of Women in the Societies of the World. Praeger, Westport 1980. ISBN 978-0-275-90456-2 .

Awards

  • Ohio State's Alumni Distinguished Scholar Award (1986)
  • The Society for Psychological Anthropology's first Lifetime Achievement Award (1999)
  • Honorary doctorate at the Queens College (2000)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com , Glazier: Erika Bourguignon (1924–2015) OBITUARY. In: American Anthropologist , 2015, ISSN  0002-7294 , pp. 883-885.
  2. ↑ https://www.univie.ac.at/sowi-online Anthropologie der Frauen. In: Elke Mader, Wolfgang Kraus, Philipp Budka, Matthias Reitter: Introduction and Propaedeutic Culture and Social Anthropology. Retrieved December 16, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b c paulbourguignon.com: About Erika Bourguignon. Accessed January 20, 2020 (English).
  4. ↑ a b Lagacy.com: Erika Eichhorn Bourguignon. In: The Columbus Dispatch. February 22, 2015, accessed January 11, 2020 .
  5. ^ A b Department of Anthropology: Paul H. and Erika Bourguignon Lecture in Art and Anthropology. Accessed January 20, 2020 (English).
  6. ^ A b Center for Folklore Studies: Remembering Erika Bourguignon. February 20, 2015, accessed January 20, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Cuyamungue Institute: Erika Bourguignon 1924 - 2015. Retrieved January 11, 2020 (English).
  8. ↑ Melanie Mann: Mirrors and Compasses: An 85th Birthday Symposium for Erika Bourguignon . February 20, 2009 (English, osu.edu [accessed January 20, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Bourguignon, Erika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eichhorn Bourguignon, Erika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 2015
Place of death Columbus