Ina Rösing

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Ina Rösing (born February 4, 1942 in Breslau ; † December 7, 2018 ) was a German cultural anthropologist , ethnologist , psychologist , sociologist and thanatologist . She was professor and director of the Institute for Cultural Anthropology at Ulm University Hospital . She was also director of the Institute for Transcultural Research eV She was the daughter of the anthropologist Ilse Schwidetzky and sister of the anthropologist Friedrich W. Rösing .

Life

Rösing studied experimental psychology and anthropology at the Free University of Berlin , Harvard University and Duke University . She did her doctorate at the University of Bochum , was trained in psychotherapy and had completed her habilitation in the sociology of science at the University of Konstanz . Rösing had been a professor at Ulm University since 1975 and was given leave of absence for seven years in the interests of the service. She then took over the management of the Institute for Cultural Anthropology.

It has been funded by the German Research Foundation , the Robert Bosch Foundation , the Volkswagen Foundation and the German Old America Foundation since the 1980s . For her research in the Andes, she received the State Research Prize of Baden-Württemberg, the Research Prize of the City of Ulm and the Merckle Research Prize. In 1997 she became a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Lucerne in 2008 .

Act

Over a period of 25 years, Rösing conducted cultural anthropological field research in the Kallawaya region of the province of Bautista Saavedra in the Bolivian Andes, on Lake Titicaca and in southern Peru . The places where she carried out her comparative research are in the Himalayas , Ladakh / India and the Changpa plateau with the nomads in Changthang . They explored the ritual healing traditions and collective rituals of Kallawaya medicine men and shamans of Changpa Plateau. In addition, she examined the relationship between Andean religion and Christianity, shamanism and Buddhism, the social structures and the symbolic ten genders of Amarete in Bolivia.

In the transcultural comparative research between the Andes, the Himalayas and Western culture, she examined the values ​​and concepts of stupidity, intelligence, wisdom, burn-out and wounded healers. She published 30 scientific monographs on Andean and Himalayan cultural anthropology.

Publications (selection)

  • The love for my father Valentin Quispe . Fabri-Verlag, Ulm 2015. ISBN 978-3-931997-53-3 .
  • The ten genders of Amarete . Madrid and Frankfurt 2013. ISBN 978-3-86527-790-9 ,
  • They look at you - they look away. Indian portraits of the Andean Kallawaya region. Weishaupt Verlag, Gnas / Austria 2009, ISBN 978-3-7059-0286-2 .
  • Everyday life in the Andes. In the shadow of the UNESCO World Heritage designation of the Kallawaya culture. Weishaupt Verlag, Gnas / Austria 2008, ISBN 978-3-7059-0275-6 .
  • Religion, ritual and everyday life in the Andes. The ten sexes of Amarete, Bolivia. Second ANKARI cycle: collective rituals of the Kallawaya region in the Andes of Bolivia. MUNDO ANKARI Volume 6. 2nd edition: Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3-496-02706-1 .
  • Has Burnout Research Burned Out? Analysis and criticism of international burnout research. 2nd edition: Asanger Verlag, 2, Kröning 2008, ISBN 978-3-89334-409-3 .
  • The wounded healer. Critical analysis of a metaphor. Asanger Verlag, Kröning 2007, ISBN 978-3-89334-441-3 .
  • Wisdom: yard goods, bespoke tailoring, abuse. Asanger Verlag, Kröning 2006, ISBN 3-89334-442-X .
  • Trinity and Places of Power: The White Healing. Nocturnal healing rituals in the high Andes of Bolivia. MUNDO ANKARI Volume 2, Book I and II.4. Edition: Asanger Verlag, Kröning 2006, ISBN 3-89334-465-9 .
  • Defense and Perdition: The Black Healing. Nocturnal healing rituals in the high Andes of Bolivia. MUNDO ANKARI Volume 3. 3rd edition: Asanger Verlag, Kröning 2006, ISBN 3-89334-466-7 .
  • Closing the circle: from black healing to gray to white. Nocturnal healing rituals in the high Andes of Bolivia. MUNDO ANKARI Volume 4. 2nd edition: Asanger Verlag, Kröning 2006, ISBN 3-89334-467-5 .
  • Rituals to call the rain. Second ANKARI cycle: collective rituals of the Kallawaya region in the Andes of Bolivia. MUNDO ANKARI Volume 5. 2nd edition: Asanger Verlag, Kröning 2006, ISBN 3-89334-468-3 .
  • Intelligence and stupidity. Scientific concepts. Everyday concepts. Foreign cultural concepts. A work and thinking book. Asanger Verlag, Kröning 2004, ISBN 3-89334-426-8 .
  • Trance, obsession and amnesia. With the shamans of the Changpa nomads in Ladakhi Changthang. Weishaupt Verlag, Gnas / Austria 2003, ISBN 3-7059-0174-5 .
  • The pagan Catholics and the Lord's Prayer in reverse. On the relationship between Christianity and Andean religion. University Press C. Winter, Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 3-8253-1196-1 .
  • Sexual Time - Sexual Space. University Press C. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0916-9 .
  • Every place - a sacred place. Religion and ritual in the Andes. Benziger Verlag, Zurich / Düsseldorf 1997, ISBN 3-545-34144-5 .
  • Ulm Quechua Teachings I: Pronunciation and spelling: rules, examples, exercises. With minimal grammar and pronunciation cassette. (Bilingual). Ulm University, Center for Languages ​​and Philology, Ulm 1995, ISBN 3-930935-00-7 .
  • Dialogue with deities of mountains, lightning, springs and lakes: White Kallawaya prayers. (Ina Rösing, Marcos Apaza et al.) Asanger Verlag, Kröning 1994, ISBN 3-930983-00-1 .
  • The banishment of grief. (Llaki Wij'chuna.) Nocturnal healing rituals in the high Andes of Bolivia. MUNDO ANKARI Volume 1. 3rd edition: Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt 1992, ISBN 3-86150-251-8 . (First edition Greno-Verlag, ISBN 3-89190-109-7 )
  • The lightning bolt: threat and appeal. Belief and ritual in the Andes of Bolivia. Trickster, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-923804-40-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituaries: Ina Rösing. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. December 11, 2018, accessed December 19, 2018 .
  2. ^ Honorary doctorates - University of Lucerne. Retrieved May 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Rösing, Ina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ina Spiegel-Rösing
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural anthropologist and ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH 7th December 2018