Jürgen Jensen (ethnologist)
Jürgen Jensen (born January 3, 1938 in Berlin ) is a German ethnologist .
Life
From 1957 to 1965 studied at the Free University of Berlin . After graduation in 1965 Dr. phil. in Berlin he was a fellow of the German Research Foundation from 1966 to 1968 . From 1968 to 1979 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Ethnology (at that time a seminar for ethnology) in Hamburg . After completing his habilitation in 1978, he taught from 1979 to 2001 as a professor at the Institute for Ethnology in Hamburg.
His main research interests are ethnohistory, ethnohistorical methods, cultural change, ethnic processes and interethnic relationships, aspects of political and religious ethnology, ethno-theory, economic ethnology, Africa, especially East Africa; Afro America; Africans in Europe; Liguria and Italy.
Fonts (selection)
- Continuity and change in the division of labor among the Baganda . Berlin 1967, ISBN 978-3-642-99916-1 .
- Family-local ties and regional mobility among the Bavuma (Uganda) . Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-04604-8 .
- Africans in Europe. A bibliography . Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8258-6190-2 .
- Church rituals as weapons against demon work and sorcery. A contribution to a complex of protective and defense rituals in the Catholic Church of the 17th and 18th centuries in Italy with special consideration of systematic-ethnological aspects . Münster 2007, ISBN 3-8258-9306-5 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Jürgen Jensen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Univ.-Prof. em. Dr. Jürgen Jensen
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jensen, Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ethnologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 3, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |