Max Matter
Max Matter (born March 8, 1945 in Zurich ) is a Swiss social anthropologist and folklorist .
Career
Matter completed his studies in folklore, journalism / communication science and social and economic history at the University of Zurich in 1975 with a doctorate . After working at the Universities of Münster , Bonn and Mainz , he completed his habilitation in 1983 at the University of Mainz with the habilitation thesis Dörflicher Hausbau und Hausbesitz heute . After teaching in the 1984 summer semester at the University of Marburg , he was Professor of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the University of Frankfurt am Main from 1985 to 1996 . In the 1993 summer semester, Max Matter taught as a guest at the University of Kiel . In 1996 he was appointed full professor of folklore at the University of Freiburg. From 1997 until his retirement in 2010 he was also director of the Institute for Folklore and the German Folk Song Archive .
Max Matter was chairman of the Hessian Association for Folklore from 1990 to 1998. He has been a member of the Migration Council since 1998 , of which he was a board member from 1998 to 2013. Max Matter is Scientific Advisory Board member of the Otto Benecke Foundation . He is a member of the European Academic Network on Romani Studies initiated by the Council of Europe and the EU . His research focuses on migration research, in particular the immigration of so-called guest workers and the subsequent generations, as well as the investigation of the migration of Roma minorities to the EU. In addition, he deals with interethnic relationships, dealing with foreignness , ethnological food research and age studies. He was co-editor of the Hessische Blätter für Volks- und Kulturforschung and the Jahrbuch für Volksliedforschung (since 2000 Lied und popular Kultur / Song and Popular Culture ).
Publications
- Value system and innovation behavior. Studies for the evaluation of innovation-theoretical approaches, carried out in Lötschental / Switzerland. Hohenschäftlarn near Munich 1978.
- Village house building and property today. A rural cultural pattern, its historical and ideological origin. Building and living in a construction workers' community in the eastern Hocheifel. Mainz 1983.
- Strange neighbors. Aspects of Turkish culture in Turkey and in the Federal Republic of Germany. Marburg 1992.
- The situation of the Roma and Sinti after the EU's eastward expansion. Göttingen 2005 ( contributions from the Academy for Migration and Integration. Issue 9).
- with Sabine Zinn-Thomas, Reinhard Johler : Mobilities - Europe on the move as a challenge for cultural analysis research. Münster 2011.
- with Anna Caroline Cöster: Foreignness and Migration. Cultural perspectives for Europe. Marburg 2011.
- Not wanted anywhere. Schwalbach / Ts. 2015 ( Council for Migration series ).
literature
- Strangeness - Migration - Music. Cultural studies essays for Max Matter. Festschrift for the 65th birthday. Munster 2005.
Web links
- Literature by and about Max Matter in the catalog of the German National Library
- Max Matter short vita and publications
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Matter, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss social anthropologist and folklorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |