Polly Wiessner
Pauline “Polly” Wilson Wiessner (* 1947 ) is an American professor of anthropology at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University .
life and work
In 1969 she received her bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College . She graduated from the University of Michigan with her PhD in 1977 . From 1981 to 1996 she was a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Ethology and professor at the University of Utah from 1998 to 2016.
Polly Wiessner has over 40 years of field research with the social life of the Bushmen in the Kalahari busy, especially with as Hxaro designated barter . During this time she accompanied the patriarchal community in the transition from hacking to mixed farming, which was characterized by social tensions and made special security concepts necessary for their own safety. Another focus of her work can be summarized under the title Anthropology of the night , studies of conversations around the campfire about affiliations in social networks , family relationships or the importance of socially integrative institutions for cooperation in the community.
In the Enga Province in Papua New Guinea , she studied rituals, barter economics, and warfare. She is currently concerned with the collapse of traditional ways of life and cultural institutions due to the influence of modern technologies and rapid economic change. She has also contributed to the preservation of the culture by writing textbooks for school use in which she shows the local population an awareness of their own roots. It has thus enabled cultural history to be included in the curriculum since 2019. For this she received the Queen's Jubilee Medal of Papua New Guinea.
Wiessner has published numerous reports on her work as well as four books on these topics.
In 2014 Wiessner was elected to the National Academy of Sciences . In 1983 Wiessner co-organized the follow-up event to Man the Hunter , CHAGS 3, in Bad Homburg .
Web links
- Pauline Wiessner. Scientific Advisor. The Human Generosity Project
Individual evidence
- ^ Homepage of Pauline Wiessner
- ↑ Curriculum Vitae. Polly W. Wiessner , pages 10-12
- ↑ Polly Wiessner. In: nasonline.org. National Academy of Sciences , accessed March 5, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wiessner, Polly |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wiessner, Pauline Wilson (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American anthropologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1947 |