Hermann Mückler

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Hermann Mückler (2018)

Hermann N. Mückler (born March 8, 1964 in Vienna ) is an Austrian ethnologist , (ethno-) historian and political scientist.

biography

Coming from a Viennese family with Moravian roots, Hermann Mückler studied ethnology and political science at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1997 with a thesis on “Taukei and Vulagi: Causes of Political Instability in Fiji . Cultural change, ethnic conflicts and the importance of chiefdom; the Fijian perspective ”. He completed his habilitation in 2001 with a thesis on the topic: “Finis Tui Viti? Change and erosion of traditional power structures in Fiji as a consequence of internal and external dynamics. A contribution to the traditionalism discussion from an ethno-historical and political-ethnological point of view ”. Two books on the political developments in Fiji were published in 1998 and 2001. In the following years further books on ethnological, (colonial) historical and political science topics on the greater Oceania region were published . Since 1987 he has had field visits and field research in the Asia-Pacific region.

Since 1994 at the Institute for Ethnology, Cultural and Social Anthropology of the University of Vienna, initially as a university assistant, Hermann Mückler became associate professor in 2001 and vice dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences in 2004. In 1996 he founded the Austrian South Pacific Society (OSPG), to this day the only scientifically oriented institution on the Pacific region in Austria that sees itself as a multilateral institution on the Pacific island states, and in 2002, together with Erich Lehner from the Technical University Vienna, the Institute for Comparative Architectural Research and in 2005 the publishing house of the same name. Hermann Mückler is editor of the book series "Novara - Contributions to Pacific Research" as well as the book series "Oceania" and was head of the project Escape to the South Seas? Austrian migration to New Zealand and Oceania and co-leader of the three-year FWF project ASSIP - Architecture, Space, and Society in Post-disaster Built Environment in Indonesia . In 2010 he founded the Austrian-Fijian Society (ÖFiG). Since 2016 he has been President of the umbrella association of all Austrian-foreign companies PaN - partner of all nations.

Scientific functions and activities

  • Associate University Professor (since 2001)
  • President of the Anthropological Society in Vienna (since 2012)
  • President of the Austrian South Pacific Society (OSPG) (1996-2010)
  • Vice President of the Austrian South Pacific Society (OSPG) (since 2010)
  • Vice President of the Institute for Comparative Architectural Research (since 2002)
  • Vice Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Vienna (2004–2008)
  • Head of Studies in Cultural and Social Anthropology (2010–2012, 2014–2016)
  • President / Chairman of the European Society for Oceanists (ESfO) (1999–2002)
  • Editor of the "Wiener Ethnohistorischen Blätter" (2000–2004)
  • Editor of the series "Novara - Contributions to Pacific Research"
  • Editor of the book series "Oceania"
  • Co-editor of the "Journal of Comparative Cultural Studies" (JCCS)
  • Guest lectures and professorships etc. a. in Brunel, Mainz, Paris, Zurich, Bayreuth, Ljubljana, Bratislava, St. Andrews, Padua, Suva, Sydney, Bern, Copenhagen

Research priorities

Publications

Book publications (selection):

  • The Marshall Islands and Nauru in German colonial times. South Sea islanders, traders and colonial officials in old photographs . Frank & Timme, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-7329-0285-9 .
  • (Ed.): Walter Knoche. Easter Island. The Chilean Easter Island Expedition of 1911. Edited, initiated and commented on by Hermann Mückler . Wiesbaden 2015: Harrassowitz Verlag.
  • (Ed.): Traces in the foreign. Austrian initiatives and achievements overseas and their scientific reception . Austria, History, Literature, Geography (ÖGL), 58th year, issue 4 (381), Vienna 2014: Institute for Austrian Studies.
  • Missionaries in the South Seas. Pioneers, researchers, martyrs. A biographical reference work . Row B: Research on the South Seas. Wiesbaden 2014: Harrassowitz-Verlag.
  • together with Walter Feichtinger , Gerald Hainzl a. Predrag Jurekovic (ed.): Ways and wrong ways of crisis management. From Afghanistan to South Sudan . Vienna 2014: Böhlau-Verlag.
  • together with Gabriele Weichart u. Friedrich Edelmayer (Ed.): Australia. 18th to 21st centuries, history and society . Vienna 2013: Promedia.
  • Decolonization and Contemporary Conflicts in Oceania . Vienna 2013: Facultas.
  • (Ed.): Austrians in the South Seas. Researchers, travelers, emigrants . Vienna 2012: LIT-Verlag.
  • together with Walter Feichtinger, Gerald Hainzl a. Predrag Jurekovic (ed.): International crisis management. An inventory . Publication series of the National Defense Academy Vol. 8, Vienna 2012: National Defense Academy.
  • together with Gerald Faschingeder (Ed.): Tradition and Traditionalism. For the instrumentalization of an identity concept . Vienna 2013: promedia.
  • Colonialism in Oceania . Vienna 2012: Facultas.
  • together with Dvorak Johann (Ed.): State, Globalization, Migration . Vienna 2011: facultas.wuv.
  • Mission in Oceania . Vienna 2010: Facultas.
  • Introduction to the ethnology of Oceania . Vienna 2009: Facultas.
  • together with Erich Lehner u. Ulrike Herbig (Ed.): The architectural heritage of Samoa . Vienna 2007: New Scientific Publishing House.
  • together with Werner Zips a. Manfred Kremser (Ed.): Ethnohistory. Empiricism and practice . Vienna 2006: Wiener Universitätsverlag.
  • together with Erich Kolig (eds.): Politics of Indigeneity in the South Pacific. Recent Problems of Identity in Oceania . Hamburg 2002: LIT-Verlag.
  • together with Ferdinand Karl: Oases of the South Seas: The largest small states in the world. Eastern Micronesia: Marshall Islands, Gilbert Islands, Nauru . Gnas 2002: Weishaupt Verlag.
  • Fiji. The end of a South Seas paradise . Vienna 2001: Promedia.
  • Melanesia in crisis. Ethnic conflict, fragmentation and reorientation . Vienna 2000: Univ. Vienna.
  • Fiji. Between tradition and transformation . Frankfurt / Main 1998: IKO-Verlag.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ASSIP - Architecture, Space and Society in Post-disaster Built Environment in Indonesia
  2. ↑ OEFIG homepage
  3. ^ Website of the umbrella association of all Austrian-foreign companies, board of directors , accessed on February 9, 2017

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personal data
SURNAME Mückler, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mückler, Hermann N.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria